I loaded WHS 2011 onto my HP MSS-EX490 (E7500 & 4GB) over the weekend. My OS is on a Samsung 830 - 120GB SSD, that I extended to the full 120GB. Installed StableBit DrivePool and planned pooling my two WD Red NAS 3TB HDD with it, initially. After I pooled them, I attempted to make a backup of the server. When I ran the server backup wizard and selected the pooled drive, it said was going to format this drive, so I stopped.
Why does it need to format an already formatted drive, to make a backup? I am definitely not understanding something here.
I was intending on adding additional HDDs (3 WD Black - 2TB HDD) to the pool, once I had transferred the data off of them.
How would you recommend I set this system up?
Thanks!