Here is the scenario I am faced with. I haven't found a similar issue on any of the boards.
Scenario:
I had a 1 TB external hard drive connected to my home laptop. Overnight I left both my home computer (with the external hard drive) and WHS on, transferring about 150GB of data into my WHS videos directory.
When I checked on this in the morning, my home computer was off, and only about half of the data had transferred. My power settings on my home computer were to leave the computer on indefinitely when plugged into power.
Upon trying to boot my home computer, it took me to the Windows Boot/Recovery wizard (or similarly named), as it said there was a problem booting windows. I ran this wizard 5 times, and each time this embedded windows tool could not resolve the problem.
Therefore, I popped in my WHS client restore CD, and tried to restore from my last successful backup. I have tried this multiple times now, and WHS will not restore my last successful backup. I can find the backup to restore, it starts up just
fine, but each time the progress bar freezes on '3 minutes remaining', and the restore will not finish. I have left my computer on for up to 3 hours at this status, and it never finishes. This computer only has a 128GB SSD, and usually takes 45
minutes to restore.
What I have tried so far:
1) Restoring the last successful backup -- always gets stuck on 3 minutes remaining
2) Performing a clean Windows 7 restore, then restoring the backup - gets stuck on 3 minutes remaining
Notes: The problem may be due to I started transferring the 150GB of data at 10pm, and during that time WHS triggered an automatic backup of the computer. So a few things were going on here: an external HD that WHS didn't recognize was connected,
and data was being actively transferred as the backup was running. That backup failed, so I have been using a backup from the previous night to restore.
In summary, as it stands now my WHS seems to be running fine, but I can't successfully restore to my home computer. Any thoughts? My next step will be to leave the restore process on overnight, and try an even earlier backup to make sure it isn't a
backup problem. Does WHS keep an active log on why the backup may be pausing with only 3 minutes left? For a 128 GB HD 3 hours stuck at 3 minutes remaining sounds like a problem to me.
