Hoping to pick your brains on this stumper. Customer has a server with an external USB drive used for backups. We run a backup job (Acronis) at 1am every morning to backup about 10G of data to this drive. Approximately once a week on a random day, our backup software reports a write error when trying to backup to this drive. The drive has over 200G of free space and chkdsk reports no problems. There are no error messages in the server's event logs. The unit is not on a UPS, but other workstations on the same line (without UPS's) do not show evidence of a reboot due to power loss.
We do a lot of reading and writing to this backup drive during the day and have never encountered a write problem. This leads me to believe that we don't have a bad drive (not sure if this is a rational conclusion or not<g>). We're researching the problem with Acronis, but I'm skeptical they are going to be of any help. Any ideas on diagnosing this problem? Thanks! Malcolm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
