Well then, Good luck tomorrow morning. I suspect, and hope, that this will all have a happy, uneventful ending.
RS On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Mike Leone <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/29/2011 11:11 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > > Don't hate me, don't kill me, don't blame me, and definitely don't quote > > me, but... > > > > Restart your server. If it's only a problem on the SAN LUN, then your > > boot volume should be OK. > > That is what I(and my boss, and others on this list) think. I will do > that. Tomorrow. Planning on getting to the office by 7. > > If the CHKDSK isn't finished by then, I will power down this server. > Tell the SAN not to present the drive to this server (i.e., so this > server doesn't see it at all). And then reboot this server. Since the > drive doesn't exist to this server (anymore), it *should* just boot > directly into Windows, normally. > > I hope ... :-) > > Means I'll have to recreate the SAN drive, and present it again. And > then tell Windows to rescan and re-format the new drive, of course. > If the backup problem was with the drive, hopefully, this will fix it. > > > I don't have any experience with Networker, but does the backup service > > run on the same physical server we're talking about? > > No, the Networker server is a different machine. But this server is a > client of that server. So the NW server initiates the job. There are > services running on this machine, that communicate with the NW server. > > > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Mike Leone <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 3/29/2011 10:50 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > > > Who knows how long a chkdsk of a SAN (or any) volume might take? > If > > > someone tells you before it ends, and they're right, please ask > > them if > > > VCU will make it to the championship game next Monday. (I don't > > want to > > > know if they're going to win it all. I want to watch that much > live.) > > > > Yeah, I figured as much. :-) > > > > > I'm a bit late to this party. Did you ever state what the > conditions > > > were that led to running chkdsk in the first place? > > > > My backup program is EMC Networker, and it writes the backup to this > > drive, and then clones to tape. The write to disk part has been > failing. > > EMC Tech Support suggested running CHKDSK on the target volume, to > see > > if the problem is a corrupt drive. > > > > So this volume is just a target for the backup software; it's not the > > boot volume, nor has any programs installed to it. It's just storage > of > > the backup, so that if we need to restore, it's available from disk > > immediately, rather than waiting for tapes. And a daily script > deletes > > the backups from previous days, so the drive doesn't fill up. > > > > We do this with a dozen other servers, including nodes in clusters. > It's > > just this one server that has started having problems in the last > week. > > > > Backing up directly to tape works fine. So the problem seems to be > with > > the drive. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
