The same would apply to any program that uses Volume Shadow Services

See also How Volume Shadow Copy Service Works

Until now, I have always used Partition Magic to create new drives and partitions, but with the current set of problems with WHS, I no longer trust it to create NTFS drive. Normally, Partition Magic would have created a large secondary partition, and allow me to create logical drives within that. However, since the latest drive was set up with Acronis, I now have a secondary partition only big enough to hold the existing logical drives.

Windows XP Computer Management will not let me change the size of that partition, so I have no place for it to create a new drive.

I can however, use Acronis to create a couple of new drives and it will then extend the secondary partition size, then I can delete the drives, leaving space so that I can then use XP Computer Management to create and format logical drives there (because this week I fell much safer having XP create and format). However, today, I used XP to delete the logical drives with an intent to recreate them. Something went really bad, and it ended up deleting the second drive in the partition and then the whole physical drive disappeared. Some of it seemed to be accessable from My Computer. Rebooted and used Acronis to try and recover the lost drive, no luck, but not a serious problem right now, since that drive was just part of the WHS rebuild process. But the fact that it happened is disconcerting.

So I chose Cancel cleanups and then started them and it now starts and shows in the bottom bar.

It would seem this is a minor bug.

The strange thing is that the missing files are all in second level sub-directories of the same sub-directory and there some kind of pattern to the missing files. However, it makes no sense in that most of these files are stable and have not changed for some time, nothing was accessing them during the backups and testing a couple of them shows that the original files are readable.

Just to be sure, erased the .tlb and the restored files and did the process again, same results, same missing files.

And one final precaution, ran a chkdsk against the original logical drive and it’s fine.

(Added - this may not be an Acronis problem - but may show an underlying problem with the directory or structures - to be continued….)

Basic install took about 10 minutes, and another 5 minutes to set up the workstation and start backing up.

The only thing that bothers me is that it seems I cannot customize the backup time for different machines. This is kind of limiting, since different machines are used at different times and it’s better to have the backup running when the workstation is not in use.

Annoying, I need to get a better backup system in place.

This is the product I was looking for earlier this year - some form of network attached disk drive that would allow an installation in a separate location from my development computer and provide an increased level of security from disasters such as small fires which might destroy USB attached drives stores in the same room as the computers. If two drives are installed, then the system provides the same redundancy benefits as a two drive RAID, but not handled by software mirroring.

It provide a whole bunch of other features, such as photo sharing, iPod libray sharing and remote access. The first two are cute but nothing I would pay for. Remote access would appears to be very useful, possibly allowing access to my home system when at a a client site and not having to worry about cloning needed files to my laptop.

For a nice review and coverage - see HP MediaSmart Server Review

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