On 6/2/2010 10:04 PM, jsyve wrote:
> After being badly burned by a lengthy series of faulty backups this past
> winter, I am twice shy and wish to absolutely verify the fidelity of my
> multiple PCs' backups with my newly rebuilt home server. Very briefly, I
> had put together a home server with left over parts (2.6 GHz P4, 2 GB
> PC3200 DRAM and a pair of hard drives: an 80 GB + 750GB drive)
> Everything appeared to going swimmingly for about 10 months when the kid
> PC's drive irretrievably crashed. I figured NBD; replaced the drive and
> fired up WHS. Only then did I realize that the previous dozen or so
> b/u's all suffered from sector read errors so numerous that I couldn't
> spend the time (hours) "ignoring" them all. I finally gave up and was
> able to rescue the most critical files by retieving them subdirectory by
> subdirectory (sometimes, file by file). Needless to say I was completely
> BS at thispoint, given that I had no idea that every image was ____ and
> WHS didn't have the brains or courtesy built in to alert me to this fact.
>
> As a result, I am completely mistrustful of WHS now (even though I can
> rationalize that my spanning the images over two, way disparate drives
> may have been partly to blame) and would dearly love to not relive this
> experience again. The server has been rebuilt, this time with a single
> 750GB drive. In short, is there a way to evaluate the images I've
> painstakingly backed up to ensure that I do not go through this nonsense
> again?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JS
>
Hello JB,
One thing that I've done in the past was to view the most recent backup.
You can do this through the Connector software by clicking on the View
Backup for the computer in question, and then clicking on "Open". This
may prompt you to reboot your computer, but effectively it will create a
folder (mapped drive, if you will) to your backup. Follow the prompts
on the screen (as it tells you to decline any promts to restart your
computer).
When you are finished, you can close the mapped drive. If it appears
under your "Computer", you can unmap it by right clicking on it.
Hope this helps you, and have a great day:)
Patrick.
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