So, I'm finding that if my backup media is ever disconnected, WHS2011 freaks out and doesn't recover well. I have a backup set up to go to an external 2GB USB drive. Backups have been working flawlessly. I accidentally disconnected the USB drive (not
during a backup or anything crazy like that). When I reconnected the drive, soon the server tells me that one or more services are not running. The referenced services are Windows Server Addins Infrastructure Service, Windows Server Identity Management
Service, and Windows Server Server Backup Service. I can manually start the first two. But as soon as I attempt to start the Windows Server Server Backup Service, all three die right away.
I've done the standard chkdsk /f/r stuff and no errors show up on that disconnected drive.
I found this KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981851) titled "The
backup operation fails and the Wbengine.exe service stops in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 if one of the volumes in the operation does not exists any longer ". Certainly sounds like my issue. But this is an old patch and seems to refer to older versions
of the WBEngine.exe (6.1.7600.20674) than the ones currently in WHS2011 (6.1.7601.17514). I almost think I need to clean out the current backup config and re-build it. But you can't get to it (I've tried going through both the WHS dashboard
or from the WBAdmin powershell commands) unless the WBEngine.exe is running.
Anyone have ideas for how to get my server backups running again???