10-24-2012 09:20 AM
While running an incremental backup of the Backup Exec server DB and System State, it failed with the following error:
The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, has a bad block.
This to me sounds like it's indicating a hard drive failure. Any thoughts?
10-24-2012 09:36 AM
I found the below thread on the Microsoft Forum
10-24-2012 10:07 AM
Thanks for the response. Based on that thread, it's indicating a drive is about to fail. If that's the case, can we identify which drive specifically it is? Will this be sufficient to proactively replace the drive in warranty?
10-24-2012 11:42 AM
If you have a brand-name server like HP, Dell etc, they have hardware monitoring platforms. HP has System Management Homepage for instance. These built-in monitoring platforms can tell you which drive is failing/in pre-failure.
Thanks!
10-25-2012 06:56 AM
Thanks Craig. To clarify, this is a Symantec Backup Exec 3600 Appliance. So access to the OS is disabled.