$MFT / Error / Vertas

[nick heppinstall]

Just been asked to sort this out. We have a NAS with a couple of single drives and a RAID 5 of about 340gb.

While I've been away its developed an error. When Veritas runs the backup it's complaining that certain files are either corrupt or damaged.

When you find the files in explorer and click on them you get a message that they are not there.

Windows 2000 is reporting that $MFT something or other ( not seen the message yet ) has a problem and to run checkdisk.

One of my collegues has run checkdisk with and without the F option but the errors are still their.

It would be easy to ignore if it was not causing Backup Exec to fail.

Any ideas ?

[_dobbo_]

haven't ever had to do it on a 2000 system, but on NT you often have to run checkdisk at boot time to fix these kind of errors - have you tried this?

[BliarOut]

I wouldn't ignore it.... Master File Table is in doubt. Not a relaxing position to be in...

Copy your data somewhere safe just in case! and then fix it.

Might be a good time to look out a copy of knoppix, just in case

[nick heppinstall]

Mmm. I have an identical server that I'm going to copy the data to this weekend. dobbo. Yes he ran the check at boot time but it did not fix the problem. blairout. Whats knoppix not heard of that one ?

[puggit]

3 years backline support for Veritas Backup Exec here - send me a private email and we'll get going on this one.

I'll be needing the backup logs and bediag if possible!

[BliarOut]

Knoppix is a bootable CD that allows you to boot to and access pretty much any HDD regardless of the state of the parent OS. Damn useful in a disaster.

[zumbruk]

BliarOut said:

Knoppix is a bootable CD that allows you to boot to and access pretty much any HDD regardless of the state of the parent OS. Damn useful in a disaster.

And it is, of course, Linux...