For some reason I have yet to identify the workstations connected to my WHS report that they have not been backed up in 9 days. The server has been up for 12 days. The first 3 days the backups ran as expected. Now they don't run.
I have no reported storage errors, no "backup service is not running errors", nothing that I can see that can explain why what appears to be a properly functioning system isn't backing up. Any ideas on what I should be looking at to figure this out.
I have one obvious idea but I'm not sure if it's viable. All client PCs have BitDefender firewall running on them. Is there a local program or port that needs to be allowed in the firewall? The client connector software was flagged by BitDefender
on all PCs and allowed.
Edit> I logged in to my server using remote access to confirm that the PCs were now listed as Available for remote access. They weren't yesterday and I went around enabling remote desktop on them so I was looking to see if it works. Instead
what I found is that their statuses were Offline or Sleeping. I think this explains why backups aren't getting done but now I'm curious as to why a system that is supposed to wake the computers to perform backups isn't.
To that point, I have Advanced Admin Console installed which also shows that all of the PCs are offline. I sent a WOL packet to one of the PCs and it didn't wake. I'm not surprised - I've never ever once sent a WOL packet to any machine and had
it actually wake up (not through AAC, Spiceworks, VNCScan, or a WOL program I found on the web). Not the point though I guess. Why won't these PCs wake up? What should I be looking for? Can they be awaken from Hibernation, Standby,
both?
Thanks for the help and ideas,
MJ
