Hi. I'm running 2011 sp1 on a recently purchased hardware (no OS)
I'm running a pair of disks in software raid and backing up the server to a USB drive.
I have no drive utility running and I'm don't have remote access enabled.
Mostly I just use it to back up a few PCs for disaster recovery and as a vault for pics, videos and music.
This is the second time this has happened and I happened to have the share folders copied to my local desktop PC both times although I may have lost some files uploaded since the clone. I noticed that all folders in the music share were gone if the name started with a 'T' or later. Weird.
Multiple sub-folders in my Picture share are missing and a server backup doesn't restore anything new. In fact, the earliest date I could go back was several months ago, despite having this run without (alerted) errors for maybe 6 months.
I took the external usb drive off of backup duty, then ran checkdisk on all of the server drives, no issues found.
I compared the dashboard-reported used-space on my data drive against the main os report of the drive and they are close, although pictures don't neccesarily take up a lot of space and I'm not sure
I also tried to do a particular file search on the entire data drive in case they somehow got copied elsewhere, no luck.
I had some issues with access in the past before discovering the horrible conflict (and lack of information thereof) between Homegroup and native permissions. (HG is now turned off and access no problem since)
I also attempted to index the server shares on my desktop and jumped through a few hoops like mapping a share first then attempting to index that. I can't remember how that turned out, but maybe that was bad bad bad!
I checked the clock and my desktop and server are in sync.
Anyway, this is disastrous. I have all my old drives from past PCs and laptops so some are recoverable, but at this point I'm hot even sure if there are other folders in other shares also missing. I have no record of what I'm supposed to have or the size.
I'm going to take WHS down and find another solution. (I bailed on my NAS because it runs on Linux and accounts/permissions weren't translating very well)