Ok... so it feels like Murphy's law over the past weekend. I run a Server 2008 R2 box with 3 VM's currently one being WHS 2011. I had a drive failure in my pool... Ok not too bad... most my folders have duplication turned on. (I didn't have duplication on the client backup folder because I also back my PC's up with Crashplan). I also have Crashplan backing up my important folders to an external hard drive for the server. I told it to remove the drive and it it starts to check the duplication, but after leaving it overnight and returning to see only 6% I checked the drivepool task and no I/O bytes were increasing any longer. I resarted the full server and it starts again, but kept dieing around 3.5%-6%. So I turned all folders to no duplications and after and hour I had to pool back to 100%. I thought I would turn duplication back on folder by folder, but this still kept freezing at a low percentage. In the mean time my main PC gives a BSOD and my SDD drive dies. So since my client backups was not duplicated my full backups are now incomplete. Crashplan saved me for the User folder. I still have a hope of rebuilding my client database. I am going to try and image the failed hard drive and pull files off, but I am not crossing my fingers.
So throughout this ordeal with this slowness and the drive not duplicating I thought I would move it over to the host since Drivepool is supported on server 2008. I did this and it found the pool and quickly loaded checked the pool and went to 100%. Now trying to save my client backup I wanted to offload them to my wife laptop temporairly. About 170GB total. I started the copy and soon realized now it kept slowing down to nothing being copied. It would not give an error message, but on the drivepool and laptop nothing was being copied, but if I restarted the service it would start again. It got me thinking. I have an addon SYBA SY-PCI40010 PCI SATA II card. Currently only one 500Gb hard drive is connected that is in the drivepool. The rest are connected through the mother board. I moved the 500Gb over to a motherboard connector since I had an open slow from the failure. Now it has been copying flawlessly. I am very frustrated at this point... Is this Syba card not stable??? I mean Server 2008 R2 is not giving any errors from the SATA card. With all this happening it is making me want to buy a whole new Intel mobo... maybe my AMD isn't compatible... Any ideas.. sorry I have been such long winded.
Hardware:
AMD Phenom II X4 840 Processor
Mobo: GA-880GM-UD2H
16GB memory
2 x WD 320GB raid 1 for OS and VM's
Samsung 2TB - drivepool
Seagate 1TB - drivepool
Samsung 500GB - drivepool
Seagate 2TB - external crashplan storage
WD Red 3TB (on order to replace failed drive for drivepool)
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eagleknight
Ok... so it feels like Murphy's law over the past weekend. I run a Server 2008 R2 box with 3 VM's currently one being WHS 2011. I had a drive failure in my pool... Ok not too bad... most my folders have duplication turned on. (I didn't have duplication on the client backup folder because I also back my PC's up with Crashplan). I also have Crashplan backing up my important folders to an external hard drive for the server. I told it to remove the drive and it it starts to check the duplication, but after leaving it overnight and returning to see only 6% I checked the drivepool task and no I/O bytes were increasing any longer. I resarted the full server and it starts again, but kept dieing around 3.5%-6%. So I turned all folders to no duplications and after and hour I had to pool back to 100%. I thought I would turn duplication back on folder by folder, but this still kept freezing at a low percentage. In the mean time my main PC gives a BSOD and my SDD drive dies. So since my client backups was not duplicated my full backups are now incomplete. Crashplan saved me for the User folder. I still have a hope of rebuilding my client database. I am going to try and image the failed hard drive and pull files off, but I am not crossing my fingers.
So throughout this ordeal with this slowness and the drive not duplicating I thought I would move it over to the host since Drivepool is supported on server 2008. I did this and it found the pool and quickly loaded checked the pool and went to 100%. Now trying to save my client backup I wanted to offload them to my wife laptop temporairly. About 170GB total. I started the copy and soon realized now it kept slowing down to nothing being copied. It would not give an error message, but on the drivepool and laptop nothing was being copied, but if I restarted the service it would start again. It got me thinking. I have an addon SYBA SY-PCI40010 PCI SATA II card. Currently only one 500Gb hard drive is connected that is in the drivepool. The rest are connected through the mother board. I moved the 500Gb over to a motherboard connector since I had an open slow from the failure. Now it has been copying flawlessly. I am very frustrated at this point... Is this Syba card not stable??? I mean Server 2008 R2 is not giving any errors from the SATA card. With all this happening it is making me want to buy a whole new Intel mobo... maybe my AMD isn't compatible... Any ideas.. sorry I have been such long winded.
Hardware:
AMD Phenom II X4 840 Processor
Mobo: GA-880GM-UD2H
16GB memory
2 x WD 320GB raid 1 for OS and VM's
Samsung 2TB - drivepool
Seagate 1TB - drivepool
Samsung 500GB - drivepool
Seagate 2TB - external crashplan storage
WD Red 3TB (on order to replace failed drive for drivepool)
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