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Thanx for the reply. It didn't even occur to me at the time that I was using FF at that moment. Good info though. Thanx!

Now that I have loaded b8 I decided to try using Retrospect again. I'm happy to report that it worked fine with no problems! That fix for the path lengths appears to have done the trick. Thanx!

I just wanted to report that I loaded b8 and have also seen a remarkable improvement in the write speed. I was getting ~10 to ~12 MB/sec and now I'm getting ~26 MB/sec. The rate appears to be more consistent as well. I have noticed one thing, the "Refresh" button on the http://unraid:8080/unraid_main (unMenu) page doesn't work for me. If I got to the original page, http://unraid/main.htm, it works fine. I did a fresh reboot and started and stopped unMenu with the same results. I have attached my syslog after a fresh reboot, so maybe there is something in there.

So I got my final retail version of Windows 7 Home Premium and it doesn't support backing up to a network share. So, I decided to look around for another option for backup software. I found Second Copy and it has all the features I was looking for. I cranked it up and it caused unRAID to crash hard on the first file it was trying to copy to unRAID. I tried this several times and each time unRAID crashed hard. The symptoms were very similar to what I experienced earlier in this thread regarding Retrospect. The way second copy operates by default is to copy the file with a temporary name and then rename it on the other end. I noticed by the size of the first file and just monitoring the copy that it was very near the end of the file size when it crashed, which is when it would be performing the rename operation. Second Copy provides a switch to turn this behavior off and just do a straight copy without a rename operation. It hasn't finished yet, but it is certainly running now. I bring this up as you may want to have a look at it because you can easily recreate the behavior and it may provide some clues as to what's going on with Retrospect or anything that performs similar functions.

Yes, I was writing to the disk1 share last night and yes, I still have the log, its attached. The error I received in Retrospect was "Can't create session, error -1100 (invalid handle)". It looks like it may have happened right when it was changing volumes. I was backing up drive D:\ and E:\. From the file count it looks like it got all the files from the D:\ drive and then choked when shifting to the E:\ drive, but the log doesn't clearly state this, I'm surmising to some degree here. Thanx,

I ran a powershell script against all the path lengths and the longest is 244. Not sure about the unicode directory/name components. My system is setup for english so I don't believe I have any of those animals. On a side note - I let the backup run through the night after I had gone to bed and it failed. It was a different error though. So, I tried the MS Backup again and it worked fine. I'm running Win7 and they have dramatically improved the backup system, so I may just stick with it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not diminishing the effort you have already put forth and I will continue to test things if you like for me to. In fact, as we metioned earlier, if the download won't allow you to run it as a "trial", I think we can arrange for you to borrow my license so you can run the issue to ground, if you like. I stand by to assist, just let me know... Thanx!

Actually, you'll find the version I'm using here. The exact title of it is "Retrospect 7.6.123 for Windows Installer". I'm not sure that it will allow you to try without a key however. The funny thing is the way I got it was because I was a part of a class action suit against Western Digital several years ago and this sotware was distributed as part of the settlement. I have been using it since. Try downloading it and let me know if it will let you run it or not. Also, if you get that far, you will need to run the updater within the app and get a driver update. The app takes care of it from there. Thanx,

I'm probably going to jinx myslef by saying this, but so far so good. It's been running about an hour now and that is certainly the longest it has gone yet. Is there really any difference between a user created share and the default created diskX shares? I appreciate the assistance! Thanx,

I have Retrospect accessing the share via a user share (ex., \\unRAID\Backup). I'm using the default protocol of SMB. Not sure that I would say I could do it at will, but I can definitely make it happen simply by trying the backup routine. I say I can't make it happen at will simply because I can't say when it will happen during the routine, but it has happened eventually each time I have tried it. Thanx,

This is an odd behavior and I'm not sure if I have enough information, but figured I'd post anyway. I'm using Retrospect 7.6 as my backup software and have for years. Since establishing my unRAID server I have attempted to backup to it several times using Retrospect and each attempt results in the unRAID server becoming completely unresponsive after roughly 30 minutes. The attached monitor won't even display anything, so I can't grab the syslog. I did attach the one from today after the lock and rebooting. My first thought was that it was HW related and was occurring after a load was on it for a while. So, I tried the built in Winblows backup to see if it behaved the same way. Well, it took longer but worked. Now, that doesn't necessarily rule out a HW issue, but is odd at best. Looking at the load and mem use on unRAID it appeard to be about the same between the two backup softwares. All other operations that I have been using unRAID for like simplying copying digital media like movies and musc have all worked flawlessly. I only recently stood the server up and installed three new WD 750 GB Green drives. At this point I have no reason to think there is anything wrong with them. The machine is a P4 2.8 Ghz with 1GB RAM. The machine has always ran well, so I don't know of any issues with it at this point. I'm going to try a few more operations with different software just to continue to stress the machine to see if I can make it happen again, but right now it just seems to be Retrospect. So, I'm just kind of fishing to see if anyone else has run across this kind of behavior. Thanx,

I just wanted everyone to know that I have become another devout unRAID beleiver! I had been looking for storage solutions for sometime and ran across this a few weeks ago. After studying the forums for a while I finally decided to put a server together and give it a try. I had an old P4 2.8GHz machine laying around and a 250GB, 15GB and a 4GB hdd that I initially used to try it out. I tried various experiments and I have to say that I really like the behavior of unRAID as compared to other RAID solutions especially given the cost I sunk in it initially, $0! So after a couple of weeks of kicking the tires I bought three new 750GB WD Green drives and installed them today. So far all has been smooth as silk. I rarely post anything anyware simply because most of the time I can't stand to read the mess that people post, but I have to say that I have enjoyed reading the majority of the material here as it normally stays on topic not to mention that everyone seems to be very pleasant. I'm looking forward to hopefully being able to contribute in one manner or another.