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[pcdoc]

Despite the terrible performance, at least it works and you got it restored. I still have 6.5 hours to go for my RAID array rebuild and will try a restore to see what happens. 1.07T in 12 hours, Firming my belief that images for small OS drives and file syncing for large data pools is the best way to go.

[JediTim]

Mike...glad you got it to work. I need to test my WHS to ensure my backups are there. This worked better on WHS V1.

[ikon]

Obviously I'm going to have to try some restores pretty soon. The issues around WHS2011 restores are becoming frightening, given that backup is it's primary purpose for me.

[geek-accountant]

pcdoc, that is what I am going to do with my new system (have all the parts, just need the time to build). I have a 120GB SSD drive for the system and even though I had problems with it, I am going back to RAID 0 for the data drive. This time, in addition to the WHS backup, I am going to be backing up to unRAID.

Tim, now I can start on the last podcast. While the actual audio and video feeds were fine and stored in multiple locations, the program I use to edit the video was on that data drive.

[dvn]

Mike, I tried the 'open backup and restore files' thing. It is dog slow here, too. And this is from a backup sitting on a 4-drive RAID 5 array.

Good news! Woke up this morning and the restore had completed! A few stats:

• 678,125 files
• 1.07TB
• Around 12 hours to complete.

pcdoc, the method I used was to full restore of a data drive using the method Tim posted on his site. I copied the client restore directory to my PC and restored the data drive. Not exactly like you mentioned above since this is on the same PC where the data drive will live.



Also, when you test later, can you try the file/folder restore and not the full restore? I would be interested to see if you get the extremely slow speeds many of us are reporting.

Link to Tim's method? Never mind. I found it. I'm running it now, watching the restore of a small games partition coming across the network at ~60% of the rated speed. Very nice. This is a nice little trick to have in my bag of tricks. Thank you. Kind of makes you wonder why this isn't part of a main menu in LaunchPad or Dashboard.