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    Happy Holidays all.

    Up to a few weks ago WHS backup was fine. I am running Windows XP, with the SP 1 update of WHS. My backups go to 35 % then freeze and maybe after 24 hrs it will make it to 47 %. MY Hard disk is about 320 GB but it always backed it up in only a few hourse. I tried several tips on here (i.e. several NICS on;cleaning out backups also added all ports to my Mcafee firewall.


    Very frustrated and PC has not been backed up fully in weeks. Any help app4eciated.

    Mark
    Saturday, December 27, 2008 5:36 PM

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    Thanks again I fixed the problem. For future reference I reloaded the Motherboard drivers and it backed up in maybe 35 minutes. I also think I was toying with overclocking and somehow that may have also came into play.

    Happy New Year
    Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:29 PM

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    Is this happening for only one PC, or for all PCs joined to your server? You may have a failing disk drive. If it's just the one PC, you should run chkdsk for each disk in that PC. If it's all your PCs, you should run it for all of your server's disks, following the instructions in the FAQ post about running chkdsk in the FAQ section of this forum.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Saturday, December 27, 2008 6:11 PM
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    Its just one PC and I will try the chkdsk. Let you know. Thanks for response.
    Saturday, December 27, 2008 8:07 PM
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    Tried chkdsk twice backup taking 2 days now probably going to take 3. Used to back up 320 GB HDD in maybe 3-4 hours, incremental backups way less.

    Any other suggestions appreciated. The percent scale of the backup maybe moved 10-15 % in 24 hours, way too slow, something is wrong.

    Thanks
    Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:20 AM
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    compy22 said:

    Tried chkdsk twice backup taking 2 days now probably going to take 3. Used to back up 320 GB HDD in maybe 3-4 hours, incremental backups way less.

    Any other suggestions appreciated. The percent scale of the backup maybe moved 10-15 % in 24 hours, way too slow, something is wrong.

    Thanks


    If it's not the hard drive, perhaps there is a problem with the NIC on your client.
    Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:33 AM
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    Played with the NIC settings, made it steady 100 MBPS changed from auto. Still same. Also checked all settings on NIC and permissions on Mcafee firewall all accepting and added WHS. Taking 3 days now and at 77%. I am wondering if for some reason WHS is taking a full backup instead of incremental for some odd reason.

    Thanks again
    Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:33 PM
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    I have seen an onboard NVidia network card degrade to a real transfer speed of 500 KByte per minute while copying files to and from WHS after having it work perfectly before, without ever being able to discover the reason behind. The second onboard adapter (RealTek) of my mainboard did show up with full speed on the same cable and network switch port. So even if the interface shows 100 MBit or GBit, it may still be much slower, if something is broken (driver, NIC).
    Of course, any 3rd party security software like your McAfee can also take a lot of network performance away by trying to check what is transfered there etc.
    Best greetings from Germany
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    Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:17 PM
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    Thanks for your response. I have read up on a seperate NIC and 100 MB is not compatible with WHS. Would there be a difference with a seperate NIC as opposed to the current onboard one? I ran some Broadband tweak tests also came back good. This only started happening a few weeks ago, prior to that WHS would backup my 300 GB drive in a few hours tops.

    Thanks again Happy New year
    Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:11 PM
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    Thanks again I fixed the problem. For future reference I reloaded the Motherboard drivers and it backed up in maybe 35 minutes. I also think I was toying with overclocking and somehow that may have also came into play.

    Happy New Year
    Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:29 PM