WHS dies

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   Found the server recovery disk and got it to see the server on the network, it's now doing something, hopefully not wiping out everything....

No, I had data backed up but don't have everything backed up.
We'll see....

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Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Topic: WHS dies Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 11:20am
	Found the server recovery disk and got it to see the server on the network, it's now doing something, hopefully not wiping out everything.... No, I had data backed up but don't have everything backed up. We'll see....

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 11:30am
	Server is rebooting and installing software. Please wait.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 11:42am
	Rats, had removed the disc to do some other stuff and it wanted it and died when I tried to swap it out. Back to square one.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 12:01pm
	Back to please wait.... Why do computers involve so much waiting?

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 12:14pm
	Installing the WHS client connector FROM the server! That's some progress.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 12:21pm
	Installing updates. This should take a while....the recovery disk is over a year old.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 1:06pm
	40 minutes later.....53% complete. Ouch.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 1:59pm
	Finally finished. All the data was still there with the exception of my programs and their data. Reinstalled the software and am doing a database restore right now. I'd forgotten how much junk came installed, have had to delete a lot of stuff and McAfee is proving to be difficult to get rid of.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 5:15pm
	It worked! Not much pain all things considered. I'm not at all displeased with the recovery process, worked pretty good. I was also lucky that I had a backup of my database as of 9/22 so I didn't even lose any data.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29280	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 6:52pm
	Well....congrats. Amazing isn't it when things go right. Almost scary.

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15255	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 8:15pm
	Excellent! And all done in one day, including the data. Very nice.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Sep 2010 at 4:15am
	Yeah, it was hit and miss there for a bit. If I'd lost data or the database it'd of been very, very ugly.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29280	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Sep 2010 at 4:33am
	Yeah...it can get ugly to see a grown man cry... Done that a few times myself...though not to the extent of having a server die.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22212	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Sep 2010 at 4:45am
	Yup, I would have seriously cried. The data is spread out over four drives (3 external, 1 internal) and the transfer time alone would have been brutal.