Since building a new WHS 2011 server last week, I have not been able to successfully back up any of my client computers. When I attempt to run a backup, the
server completes as much as 90% of the backup, but then it appears to crash. I don’t know exactly what that failure consists of, but the Launchpad displays a warning in the lower left-hand corner to the effect that the server is offline. I have
to do a hard reboot to get it up and running again, at which point I can see that the backup has failed. After the failure, I can still hear the fan running inside the server box, so I don't believe it's a power supply issue--rather it appears that the
software is crashing.
I should mention that I installed Drive Bender, because I needed more than 2 TB for client computer backup. Drive Bender supposedly successfully created a pooled disk,
but as I said, backups to it fail just before completing.
I've also installed the UR2 update, but backups continue to fail.
The only successful backup I had was immediately after installing WHS 2011, and before I installed Drive Bender and ran the OS update. However, that backup,
from a single computer, used nearly an entire 2TB disk, which is why I installed Drive Bender. Since then, no luck.
Does this sound like a hardware problem, or a software problem? Any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot, or what to try next? If all else fails, I might have to
go back to V1.
Thanks!
Saul
