I recently rebuilt my WHS server. Since backups for two Vista machines commenced, I have been able to access backups from one Vista machine, but not the other, my primary one. Struggled with connector software, discovery software, backup database
repair, Zone Alarm, Anti-virus software, firewall settings ... nothing got me past the 81% and subsequent "Cannot mount the backup" failure.
I ran across someone posting a log file (thank goodness) that I couldnt find on my own machine. The topic of Vista Volume Automount settings popped up. My main machine had automount set to "disabled". Once I set it to enable,
voila, the backups instantly mounted. I had previously disconnected any Z: mapped drives, so Im not sure if that would have posed any additional hurdles.
To set the enable the automount in Vista, I used the following steps from the Vista Cmd window.
>diskpart
DISKPART> automount enable
DISKPART> exit
The settings persisted after a log-off and log-on. We see if the settings are permanent and I will investigate ways to toggle this setting with a desktop script. Its probably smart to disable this for security reasons, and Im pretty paranoid
about security.
Hope this sheds some light. I think there are a number of reasons out there that are making restores challenging on WHS. Good luck.
