AdrenalineSeed Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 I checked the log this morning and it has this error: Scanning Incomplete: error -1100 invalid handle I am not sure what this is telling me? Does it mean that our backup could not be correct and needs to be done over? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 My guess is that you have a disk directory problem and you need to run CHKDSK on that volume. Yes, you need to run the backup again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrenalineSeed Posted February 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 I can't take down the server that has the volume, it is a very commonly used drive share on the network, so much so that the share name is "common". Is it possible that the software just can't handle the sheer amount of files on the drive, there is something in the millions of files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) I can't take down the server that has the volume, it is a very commonly used drive share on the network, so much so that the share name is "common". Is it possible that the software just can't handle the sheer amount of files on the drive, there is something in the millions of files. You could test that theory by defining a Retrospect "subvolume" (see page 284 of the User's Guide) for part of the share, and another subvolume for the rest of the share. See if the smaller source size helps. If it's a disk corruption issue, then it might help you locate where the problem is (by narrowing the size of the subvolume). Retrospect 7.5 User's Guide While it could be a pathname length problem (but I think you would have gotten a different error for that), sure sounds to me like a filesystem problem that chkdsk should spot. If it is a filesystem problem, continued use of that filesystem could be a bad thing until it has been repaired. Your gamble. Good luck. Russ Edited February 6, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 I can't take down the server that has the volume, it is a very commonly used drive share on the network, so much so that the share name is "common". Is it possible that the software just can't handle the sheer amount of files on the drive, there is something in the millions of files. Your weekend is saved. You need to go to work and run CHKDSK. What is "millions"? 100 "millions"? 2 "millions"? We have about 1.2 million files on more than one cumputer. No problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrenalineSeed Posted February 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 It did not give me an invalid handle on the backup this weekend. I am going to run a program called HDDScan that can do low level scans on SCSI arrays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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