SBS2003 NTBackup and external HDD

[dellboy]

I have a SBS2003 OS and am trying to create backups onto a external HDD. The problem is that whenever I run the backups, utilising the SBS console or NTBackup - I think they are one and the same thing - I get timeouts errors and so the backup fails

Source Disk
Catagory None
Event ID 51

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1 during a paging operation.

On looking into this I have tried (unsuccessfully) to disable write cache on the ext HDD - it seems to make no difference if the write cache is on or off.

I have reviewed technet articles
Q305547 Q834910 and they all seem a little overkill, or pointless. If I backup to another internal HDD then the backup works so it must be something related to the ext disk, basically through put speed I believe, its not quick enough, is timing out and therefore bombing.

If anyone has any generic advice for backing up to a external HDD can you please let me know.

Cheers

 

[dellboy]

I have tried the same process with the same ext HDD and utilised NTBackup on a Windows2000 workstation and the backup completed 500mb before I cancelled it. I imagine it would have completed the whole 6GB

I have then gone back to the Win2003 Server with the said HDD and attempted another backup,this time with shadow copy disabled. I wondered whether trying to access open files was causing a problem. It proved to be irrelevant as the backup failed with and without shadow copy enabled.

This leads me to believe it is therefore one of 2 things, Operating system or hardware speed. The laptop running Win2000 Pro is an old PIII 700 256mb, the server running SBS2003 is a Xeon 2.8Ghz processor with 1Gb RAM. Could it be that the server processes information more quickly and therefore delivers it to the ext HDD to quickly, meaning the ext HDD crashes. Each time the backup fails the ext HDD is unrecognised and I have to replug it for the OS to see the ext HDD.

Or is it down to the OS, SBS2003 or is it down to hardware.

If anyone has any suggestions I would be most greatful.

Cheers

 

[dellboy]

I am still working on this and thought I would add a link into the following discussion, just incase anyone else ever comes across this sort of problem. The link below perfectly describes the problems I and many others are experiencing by the sounds of things

http://forums.viaarena.com/messagev...d=50468&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

Cheers

 

[dellboy]

http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=2

3&threadid=50468&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear