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My questions are at the end, so the rest is background info.
I managed to corrupt my server backup and now several services are not able to start, including server backup and windows server essentials managment server.
I probably should just not have bothered to back up the server, but it kept nagging me.
I believe I under configured the backup space for the server, but am not sure.
Everything was default for the installation.
240 GB SSD boot drive, UEFI boot process
4 - 3TB drives which WSE configured as a 16TB 2 way mirror storage pool, shadow copies enabled, which it setup as drive F, with 2.6 TB of files on it, including computer backups.
2 - 2 TB drives added after initial install first one then the other, trying to get dedicated drive space for an attempt at a virtual machine setup for fun. It also automatically configured these as a 16TB two way mirror storage pool, but without shadow copies enabled.
4 TB drive for server backup, and I tried to turn off backing up anything except the OS and the computer backups, as I have duplicates of music, etc. Figured 4 TB should be fine to backup 2.6 TB of data.
After I added the 4TB drive, it was not able to complete a backup and I got an insufficient memory or disk space as the error (you would think it would know which...).
After a few days of that is when I added the second 2TB drive (already included in the summary above) and combined it into a storage pool with the other 2TB (which had been a simple space, but which the server refused to use because it was not a storage pool). Maybe this caused issues with drive letters changing?
Then I had an automatic update of the server OS, with reboot.
Now I get an error that the WSE management Services will not start, and I cannot start it manually.
I can no longer get into server backup setup, it terminates with an error.
I figure backup configuration is corrupt, so I am snooping around for how to recover, vs reinstall.
QUESTIONS
I saw somewhere else that you need 1.5 x space for backup, is that based on used space or size of the physicial drives?
Should the backup drive be setup as a storage pool?
Anyone know how to delete corrupt server backup setup information?
Thanks,
Ross