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WHS OS got currupted at the same time a backed up PC drive failed - need help recovering backup

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This is gonna be kind of long and complicated, sorry. The OS on my WHS got corrupted within an hour of when the PC drive where I store my photos failed. WHS had previously made a backup of the failed PC drive. To save the WHS backup of the failed PC drive, instead of rebuilding WHS on the drive with the corrupt OS, I bought a new drive and rebuilt WHS from scratch (it's an HP LX195 if it matters). I then bought a hard drive enclosure to connect the original WHS drive to the fresh install via USB. I wiped the SYS partition on the old WHS drive that contained the corrupted files so it only has the DATA partition with all of the original subfolders and files. When I look at the hard drives on WHS via the remote console it shows C:SYS, D:DATA, and F:DATA the latter being the files from the old WHS drive now connected via USB.
I thought saving the backup would be as simple as copying the files in the {00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4} folder from F: to D: but not so much. I'm getting the error "Cannot copy XPS730X-1.C.VolumeClusterLatest3.4096: The file cannot be accessed by the system." I played around with the permissions but that's not it. I did a search and it appears the cure is to reset the tags via the CMD prompt but that wouldn't solve my problem.
There's got to be some way to save my backup. If it was just PC files and docs I would just chalk it up to experience. I lost my significant other in March and there's years of pictures in that backup that can't be replaced. Somebody help.Monday, October 12, 2009 2:12 AM
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This is gonna be kind of long and complicated, sorry. The OS on my WHS got corrupted within an hour of when the PC drive where I store my photos failed. WHS had previously made a backup of the failed PC drive. To save the WHS backup of the failed PC drive, instead of rebuilding WHS on the drive with the corrupt OS, I bought a new drive and rebuilt WHS from scratch (it's an HP LX195 if it matters). I then bought a hard drive enclosure to connect the original WHS drive to the fresh install via USB. I wiped the SYS partition on the old WHS drive that contained the corrupted files so it only has the DATA partition with all of the original subfolders and files. When I look at the hard drives on WHS via the remote console it shows C:SYS, D:DATA, and F:DATA the latter being the files from the old WHS drive now connected via USB.
I thought saving the backup would be as simple as copying the files in the {00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4} folder from F: to D: but not so much. I'm getting the error "Cannot copy XPS730X-1.C.VolumeClusterLatest3.4096: The file cannot be accessed by the system." I played around with the permissions but that's not it. I did a search and it appears the cure is to reset the tags via the CMD prompt but that wouldn't solve my problem.
There's got to be some way to save my backup. If it was just PC files and docs I would just chalk it up to experience. I lost my significant other in March and there's years of pictures in that backup that can't be replaced. Somebody help.Monday, October 12, 2009 5:29 AMModerator -
Try copying from F:\DE\folders\{00008086-..., as opposed to F:\folders\{00008086-...
Monday, October 12, 2009 7:08 AMAnswerer -
The Home Computer Backup and Restore technical brief includes information about how to back up and restore the backup database. You should probably start there. BulatS's tip below is also a good one, as the actual files will have been in D:\DE\Folders\etc if you had multiple disks in your server.Note: it's remotely possible that whatever happened to your server affected the backup database. In that case, it's pretty likely that your backups are lost.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Monday, October 12, 2009 3:26 PMModerator