Backup and replication is setup. Backup disk failed. How to restore the backup disk?
The backup disk is bad, but I have it replicating. Once I replace the backup disk, how do I get all the data on it to continue with the normal backup process?
The setup is one external drive is the backup disk. Then there are 2 other external drives that are swapped out and are set as the replication locations. The one external drive as the backup disk is dead. So I wonder what I should do to replace this one backup disk and still use the replication disks. This way I don't restart the backup and have no retention period.
Hi,
In this case you can plug the new disk to the system and assign it with the same drive letter as it was on the old disk (+ re-create folders structure which was used as target for backup). When the backup plan starts next time, it will produce a new full backup to this replaced disk and it will also be able to replicate the new recovery point from the replaced disk over to one of the "replication" disks, e.g. update existing archives on the "replication" disk - the old recovery points stored on the "replication" disk won't be touched unless they expire in accordance with the retention rules.
Thank you.
That has been working well except now it replicates to the 1st location fine and fails replicating to the second location which is the same replication vault. I can only see a setting for replicate to a second location but I see no setting for the first location. If I modify the job and remove the copy to a second location option, there is nothing indicating it copies to the first location.
Also to be clear, it has only replicated to one location in the past so I am not sure why it has first and second for this.
Hi,
Can you please attach some screen shots showing the setup of the backup plan + the error message you get? There could be multiple replication locations specified in the backup plan, but they should be different ones. The logics there is that the backups are first replicated to the 1st additional location and then are replicated to the 2nd additional location while data for replication is always read from the primary backup location.
Thank you.
Attached. What I see is just second replication location. I don't see a configuration for the first replication location.
Hi William,
The activity you see in the log are about applying retention rules to the 1st location which is the primary one (completes successfully), whereas the cleanup or replication fails for the 2nd location only. To understand what might be wrong I'll need to check the actual log from the operation failure - check the details of the "replicating backups/cleaning up archives (2nd location)" activity (shown on your screen shot) - there will be details (log) on the reason for failure. Also to speed up the resolution it makes sense to contact our support team for assistance with the issue - likely it would be faster than trying to solve the problem via forum.
Thank you.
But where would this first location be configured? I don't see it anywhere. I went ahead and removed the second location setting and will let it run tonight on schedule to see what happens.
Hi,
The 1st location is the primary location which you define when creating the backup plan in "Where to backup" section. See below screen shot:
Thank you.
That doesn't really make sense though. It completes the backup and I see it on the backup disk, and it completes the replication and says so as the first location. The failure then shows it failed to that failed second location. I'll let you know the result of the backup tonight where I removed the second location.
I cleared out the replication vault and everything is working now. I copied them to another location to retain until they are old. So it seems if the primary backup disk fails, it isn't so easy to get everything up and running very smoothly.