Yep, bummer

 

When I was using a Windows File Server with a couple TB of data mozy worked like a charm.  I knew this would happen when I moved to a nas; I may just end up dumping mozy if it is too hard to work around.

yea i am not big into spending a bunch of time hacking windows into thinking the nas is a fixed disk just to get it to upload to mozy.  if it were a really simple hack then fine.  i am trying to keep my backup solution as simple as possible because its te sort of thing that i will set up and then just let it run for a while.  it may be months before i revisit it and when i do, if there is somethgin highly customized/hacked, then it will take me a while to figure out how i set it up.

 

for now i think i will just skip the offsite thing, and use acronis.

 

i will have acronis do a full image each week of each of my workstations to a drive on my unraid.  each weeks image image will overwrite the previous weeks image.

 

in adition i will have acrionis do a file backup of my critical files on unraid to another drive on unraid.  the trick with that is that i just have to be sure i have enough drive space avilable for my backups.  the workstatiosn images wont be a problem but i do kind of have a lot of files on unraid to backup so we'll have to see how that goes.

Bump...

 

I am still unable to use the built-in Microsoft Backup tool with Vista and Unraid server.  Has anyone discovered a fix for this issue?  I really don't want to resort to a USB drive for my backup solution.

 

Thanks in advance to anyone who has cracked this ongoing issue.

Good news, Guys...

 

After bumping this post again today I figured I would go ahead and upgrade from UnRaid 4.0 to 4.2.  Since the Vista backup was always hung up on the password, I enabled a password under the "USERS" page of UnRaid.  For the default "root" user, I applied a password.

 

Using Vista Ultimate x64 and running the backup utility again, I am now able to specify my UnRaid path with the new user (root) and password settings and it works flawlessly!

 

This is a very good thing, since I have been running (2) 150GB Raptors in RAID 0 and 1TB of Seagate Drives in RAID 0 since January without an updated backup!  I was reawakened to this issue when my buddy emailed me earlier this week to tell me his (non-striped) hard drive crashed and he lost all of his data.  It is easy (and dangerous) to become complacent about good backups after 10 years without a hard drive issue.

 

I have to say, however, that i am concerned about the MS Backup in Vista.  It "dumbs down" the backup process to the point where your only option is a series of checkboxes to backup these types of files "Pictures, Documents, Movies, TV Shows, etc, etc".  But doesn't allow you to explicitely backup all files in a particular path.  I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not overly confident that this is going to backup all of my personal files.  What if I have an obscure file type that Microsoft doesn't recognize? 

 

 

I too am having the same problem.  Using \\TOWER\backup share as my target backup device, I tried to run Vista Backup utility and getting the following error:

 

The network share could not be accessed for the following reason:

Cannot create a file when that file already exists. (0x800700B7)

 

Please ensure that the network location is valid.

 

So it seems that the Samba incompatibillity problem is still there.

 

I have user level security enabled on my UnRAID.  I thought UnRAID v. 4.4.2 came with the proper SAMBA version.  I guess not?

Any help appreciated considering I purchased this mainly for backing up multiple desktops.

 

Thanks

It looks like turning OFF (Disabling) User Security got me past this issue.  Will run a full backup of Windows Vista workstation tomorrow night and let you know results...so far it got past this error.

 

I'm running 4.3.1 and disabling users shares fixed this issue for me as well.

[Edit] So I went ahead and upgraded to 4.5-beta2 and I'm able to get past this issue without disabling user shares.

Hmmm. I'm running 4.5-beta3 and cannot get this to work. I enabled user security and created a user. I get the following error:

"The network share could not be accessed for the following reason: Cannot create a file when that file already exists (0x800700B7). Please ensure that the network location is valid."

 

I'm tying to backup to \\tower\Backups

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong, or what I need to do to get this to work?