Having a drive in my Raid 5 array with an imminent failure.
Dell says that it is "punching" (??) and creating data issues for the other drives for the future.
They sent me the replacement drive, but recommend I clear out and rebuild the array.The maching is my PDC, hosting VMs also (Including Exchange)
I was planning to do a Bare Metal Backup/Restore.
I have all my data backed up, but did not want to have to reinstall the Domain, etc.
System State is NOT backing up, either using GUI or Command Line.
Errors:
The backup of the system state failed [9/25/2014 4:18 PM].
Log of files successfully backed up:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-25-09-2014_16-12-58.log
Log of files for which backup failed:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-25-09-2014_16-12-5
The operation ended before completion.
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
Any ideas?
Tried a MS Hotfix that was posted as applicable, but turns out it was not.
Deadline is tomorrow.
I have another machine (Server 2003) that I could transfer the Domain roles to, but hate to, unless I must.
Thanks in advance for any help/ideas.