Hi: Server crashed and AD is corrupted in the backup. Evidently AD broke, and the backup ran. Not so bad if I could access the shadow copy previous versions. We had close to 120 days of incremental backups we could roll back to. The plot thickens. The power supply busted and let through overvoltage and blew out two hard drives in our 6 drive RAID 10 array. Yes. of course they were on the same stripe, so the array is toast. I used WBAdmin to query our ISCSI backup drive I: , and there is only one version. The version that corrupted before the array dropped. Luckily, we have a weekly and monthly USB drive created with one-off WBADmin backups for offsite storage and everything is okay.
Are the shadow copy "previous versions" stored in the same location as the "previous version" for shared folders that can be found with Windows Explorer? If so, I am assuming that the location set on each drive for "previous versions" controls where Windows Backup stores its snapshots? EGADS. Its not in the documentation. Our shadow copy folder shares for the end abusers are on the same drive as the data.
How can I have confidence with disaster recovery with Windows Server Backup, since the server crashed and only have the single corrupted AD backup on hand, when prior to the crash I had 120+ versions to roll back to. Where did my previous versions go? Its not a shared folder backup, it is a dedicated NAS device accessed as a drive letter.
Thanks!