Hi There,
I have a Dell PowerEdge server that I've taken over for a small company. It has a Perc 6/i and SBS 2008 SP2 is installed on a RAID mirror. I'm wondering if I will need to rebuild the sever or not and whether a system state backup would be adequate to restore this server with file-system errors.
A bit of background:
When I took over management of the system, no backup existed for the SBS server. When I tried to create backups, they would always fail at 99% with the error "Incorrect Function". The Windows Backup event log showed the error '2147942401'.
After a little bit of digging, I happened to run a chkdsk on the RAID mirror. It reported the following:
The master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute is incorrect.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
244054015 KB total disk space.
56633628 KB in 125553 files.
58160 KB in 22488 indexes.
523308 KB in bad sectors.
767287 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
186071632 KB available on disk.I attempted to run a chkdsk /f at the next reboot, but once the server came back online the chkdsk still showed the same problems. I then got on the phone with dell support and they had me run diagnostics on the drives. There is no apparent problem with the hardware.
Yesterday, I tried to create a system state backup which completed successfully with no errors.
Am I correct in assuming that I will need to re-install SBS 2008. Will a system state backup recover Sharepoint, Exchange, IIS or are there additional steps to get the server working in order?