Uninstalling PP1 brings nothing good, unless you reinstall it immediatly. Since whsbackup relies on the transport service, it is no wonder that it does not run.
The last thing you can attempt besides a server reinstall is to delete the backup database (all client backups) by doing following procedure:
Either try to get and install the old Windows Home Server Toolkit 1.0 and select Reset database, or you can try to delete all files in D:\folders\{00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4} via Windows Explorer from the servers desktop.
If you cannot delete all files in that folder, there may be invalid reparse points. In this case open a command prompt and enter following commands:
net stop pdl
net stop whsbackup
d:
cd \folders\{00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4}
for %i in (*) do fsutil reparsepoint delete %i
Check also, if there are more files in
d:\DE\folders\{00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4}\
c:\fs\<volumemountpoint>\DE\folders\{00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4}\
and delete the files as well. You need to enable Show hidden files and folders in folder options to see those folders.
After finishing this perform a reboot on the server.
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf
Olaf thanks again - I tried this and then restarted the transport service and the TRansport service started to cycle between started. stopped and starting the event viewer showed the same Faulting application TransportService.exe, in the application log and the Home Server viewed show the two errors "Unexpected error 0x57 from AddKey:" and "Process TransportService failed at d:\wssg_src\whs_pp1\qhs\src\transport\shared\transportlib\reghelper.cpp(446)."
THe transport service kept cycling and I had disble it.
I am wondering what AddKey does and or if there is something ammis in the registrt?
