Server 2012 - File Server Failover cluster - VSS
Hi,We are in the process of setting up a new fail over cluster file server running on Server 2012. The cluster is setup and the storage added.We are trying to enable shadow copies on the volumes. We've...
View ArticleHow will migrating disk array to new server in new domain effect DFS
HiAs part of an internal restructure we have introduced a new W2k8 domain. We have already migrated users across using Quest and we want to move servers across now. The old domain is W2K3 R2 based and...
View ArticleDFS after server failure
We had setup DFS between a Server 2003 and Serve 2012 server. The server 2012 was offline was it was moved to a new location. The server 2003 had an array failure and we did a restore. Our fiber is...
View ArticleScale Out File Server & Networking
HiI am in the process of creating a SOFS and all is going swimmingly but am getting confused on the networking side of things.I have my CSVs & SMB Cluster running fine on two servers and have...
View Article[2008R2sp1] Slow performance on Failover Cluster fileshare
We have several HP DL360G6 machines of which some are management servers, some are Hyper-V 2012 cluster, and some are Exchange / File / SQL cluster. The File cluster role is normally running on one...
View ArticleCheck folder permissions for all subfolders
Hi, We have WS2008 domain and one big file server (on windows machine) with a lot of data and a lot of folders, subfolders, and subfolder. I'd like to get list of of subfolders listed under main root...
View Articleopen file problem still
started with this thread open file problem and thought creating shadowstorage will fix my problem. looks like i spoke too soon.i'm back to square one, still having the same open file errors,7/8/2013...
View ArticleLocate where new files are beeing put on fileserver
Hi I have large drives that everyone in company can put files onto. I would verymuch like to know where files are put as I sometimes "lose" 40-50 Gigs a day (and will run out of disk space...
View ArticleVSS Volume Shadow Copy keeps failing on Windows 2008 Server
Get this error on a 2008 32bit server seems like every morning. We run Backup Exec 2010 R3 which I assume this comes from. ThanksLog Name: ApplicationSource: Application ErrorDate:...
View ArticleDynamic Memory and Data Deduplication
Hi,I'm currently testing W2K12 Deduplication feature on some servers, and I was wondering if I could enable "Dynamic Memory" on the VM in Hyper-V? Because the job only uses percentage of memory for the...
View ArticleVolume Shadow Copy - Older Copies Can Only Be Seen by Administrator
A regular user reported she could only see the previous versions of a file going back to 6/25. Looking at the same file the domain administrator could see previous versions going back to 5/15. I...
View ArticleHowto do a mirror spaces rebuild: parallelized recovery
Hi there,i got a 4 drive SS with one virtual disk (2 way mirrored, 2Tb thin prov) on Server 2012R2 Datacenter Preview. The drives are 2x3Tb and 2x500Gb.I would like to know how to start the new...
View ArticleSmall Storage Server setup suggestions, please
I am building a new small [primarily] storage server, to try out all the new Windows Server 2012 (and R2) features (Storage Spaces, ReFS, Deduplication etc). The motherboard has 6 SATA ports and the...
View ArticleExternal Hard Drives (and some flash drives) Not Recognized by Server2003
I recently purchased a new computer (Dell T100 server) and old Server2003 disk (OEM disk on eBay). Installed Server2003 and added File Server role only. My data is located on a Western Digital Passport...
View ArticleDistributed File System Replication (DFSR) STATIC RPC PORT
I would like to set the static RPC port that DFSR uses via registry; I do not wish to use the command line option dfsrdiag staticRPC /port:. Anyone know if this can be done via registry? (Server...
View ArticleError using ntbackup
I have downloaded some patches and restarted the server as on post here suggests but I'm still getting this error. I'm using a Windows 2003 SBSBackup Status Operation: Backup Active backup destination:...
View ArticleDeduplication and restore from NT backup from windows server 2003
Funny thing.Our setup:San, hypver-v Cluster (2 servers). One of the servers on the hyper-v cluster is hosting a share which is deduplicated. Every day we make a full backup to tape robot which is...
View ArticleFolder names not displayed correctly
Hi All,We have a very strange issue on our Windows 2008R2 file servers. Our users have home directories on a few different shares. Most of the folder names are displayed correctly, but a lot aren't,...
View ArticleDFSR Conflict and deleted
HI ALLhope you can helpI have a client where we have set up DFS replication groups to replicate from 6 site servers to one master server which is then backed up.Everything has been working fine for the...
View ArticleThe limitation of the partition in the Disc Management Server2012
Recently,I find that i can just shrink half size of my disc even though there is still some free space in my disic ,i am wonder how i can allocate all my free space in the other space into one space so...
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