Vertigo 2 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Hi, Ok so I took the plunge and ditched WHS2011 for WS2012R2E, for a variety of reasons. All is well so far. I've done an initial, complete backup from two client machines, which took quite a while, but is now done. Now however, I've noticed that there's a load of disk activity. The WSSBackup.exe service is constantly reading from files in the Client Computer Backups folder and I don't know why. There are no backups in progress, nor is there a cleanup operation running, so I presumed it was perhaps some kind of indexing of the newly added data but the weird thing is that it's not writing any data at all, just reading it. It's running at a constant speed of around 60MB/s, usually accessing two files at once, an Index... file and a Data... file. Does anyone have any idea what it's doing or whether I should be concerned? Link to post Share on other sites
Vertigo 2 Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 It seems to be reading every "Data.4096.xxx.dat" file in sequence but writing no data at all. Can't fathom what it's achieving by simply reading every data file but, at this rate, it's going to take another 5 hours to complete. Would love to know why it's doing this and whether it's going to be a regular occurrence. Link to post Share on other sites
Drashna Jaelre 159 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 This is on the weekend, right? If so, then it may be doing a cleanup pass. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 This is on the weekend, right? If so, then it may be doing a cleanup pass. That would be my guess too. And, since the backups are all new, and since none of them need to be archived or deleted at this time, it has no need to write. Link to post Share on other sites
Drashna Jaelre 159 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 That would be my guess too. And, since the backups are all new, and since none of them need to be archived or deleted at this time, it has no need to write. Exactly. It's checking the integrity (usually happens on sundays, IIRC), and pruning older backups. Assuming that nothing is wrong, it won't need to write at all. Link to post Share on other sites
Vertigo 2 Posted October 4, 2014 Author Share Posted October 4, 2014 Thanks guys. The Cleanup task in the scheduler wasn't running but I guess it could have been doing one anyway. When it finally finished all was well and it's been fine since. WSE2012R2 and DrivePool 2.X are working very well for me indeed 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Good news indeed. Link to post Share on other sites
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