I've been using an HP X510 with 2 1Tb drives in it (one came from HP) for about 18 months. Recently it stopped working, after some prodding and work with HP support the conclusion was that the system drive was dead. They were happy when I got an error running Seatools on the drive. HP has shipped me a replacement drive which should arrive shortly. I'm trying to figure out the process...
The tech I worked with told me that I could place my second drive, the one that didn't fail, in a USB case/dock and I should be able to pull back files from that drive to my local PC. Most of those files are already backups of my local PC, I'm not too worried, but there are a few things I'd like to check. Is he correct, that I can just turn on hidden/system folders and follow the structure? I know on the failed drive I could see the 20Gb system partition, but my Win7 box claimed the rest of the drive was partitioned but was RAW...
I tried the restore from the server recovery disk, using TFTP, enough times that I'm pretty sure I've got the procedure down pat. But this will essentially be a clean server, won't it? Do I recover with the second drive in the system too, or pull it and install it later? It would be nice if WHS recognizes that it needs to duplicate the data from that drive instead of my having to shovel it through a network port.
My PC backups were not duplicated, although everything else was. However, every week I backed up the PC backup database to an external e-SATA drive using WHS BDBB 1.0.3.3. I'm trying to figure out the order to do things in. I assume first is to recover the server as I mentioned in the paragraph above. I'll have to uninstall/re-install the WHS connector on each machine. At what time do I restore the PC backup database, do I need to do anything to prepare for doing that (like have WHS BDBB delete the PC backup database)? Will my re-installed PCs connect up with their backup databases and continue on as the same PCs that they were before?
Anyway, I was hoping that someone who's gone through this whole process, including restoring the PC Backup databases would be able to fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge...
Thanks in advance,
Gary Berg
The tech I worked with told me that I could place my second drive, the one that didn't fail, in a USB case/dock and I should be able to pull back files from that drive to my local PC. Most of those files are already backups of my local PC, I'm not too worried, but there are a few things I'd like to check. Is he correct, that I can just turn on hidden/system folders and follow the structure? I know on the failed drive I could see the 20Gb system partition, but my Win7 box claimed the rest of the drive was partitioned but was RAW...
I tried the restore from the server recovery disk, using TFTP, enough times that I'm pretty sure I've got the procedure down pat. But this will essentially be a clean server, won't it? Do I recover with the second drive in the system too, or pull it and install it later? It would be nice if WHS recognizes that it needs to duplicate the data from that drive instead of my having to shovel it through a network port.
My PC backups were not duplicated, although everything else was. However, every week I backed up the PC backup database to an external e-SATA drive using WHS BDBB 1.0.3.3. I'm trying to figure out the order to do things in. I assume first is to recover the server as I mentioned in the paragraph above. I'll have to uninstall/re-install the WHS connector on each machine. At what time do I restore the PC backup database, do I need to do anything to prepare for doing that (like have WHS BDBB delete the PC backup database)? Will my re-installed PCs connect up with their backup databases and continue on as the same PCs that they were before?
Anyway, I was hoping that someone who's gone through this whole process, including restoring the PC Backup databases would be able to fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge...
Thanks in advance,
Gary Berg