Server Backup Issues

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      Just migrated my old WHS Server to WHS 2011. I have to say I was hesitant until I read about Drivepool, so thanks in advance add-in is awesome thus-far.  The only issue I have may or may not be related to drivepool. My issue  is related to backing up the server itself.
    I have 5 Drives in the pool of misc. sizes, most around 1.5Tb,  I have three other drives that together exceed the total pool by around 800gb.  When I attempt to backup the server it fails with "not enough space...." and it only seems to be utilizing one of the three disks I have selected as backup drives.  Is this just the way it is for now? I guess I can just use ACRONIS but would love if everything was handled within WHS.

Any help would be appreciated. Sorry if there is a thread about this I did use the search button just didn't find anything.

Thanks,
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Shane

It's been covered before, but yes, the backup wizard that comes with WHS 2011 can only use one target disk and can only handle up to 2TB of source disk(s).

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Thanks.  Does anyone else have issues with drive duplication as well? It tells me I have un-duplicated files detected and when i click repair it says I don't have enough storage, I have close to 10TB of storage and only about 8 of data.

letho

There is a workaround for backup issues. you can divide the backup to more parts, if you are using the command line tool wbadmin.exe. see a german discription at http://www.zistolo.de/archives/528/whs-2011-serverbackup-auf-mehrere-festplatten-verteilen/ or take a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754015%28WS.10%29.aspx. The backup wizard for whs is based on wbadmin.exe.

wbadmin.exe can backup only 2 TB of data in one backup job, but you can make more then one backup job.