#Wd my book 3tb support troubleshooting full#

WD tells me those drives might work, but that Windows Server 2012 is My next step is to go to the locations and try to run firmware updates on the drives, but I haven't found any documentation as to whether this is really a fix for what is happening. I've remoted to each server and made sure the USB hubs in device manager have the box unchecked that allows the OS to turn off the device to save power as I thought that might be the problem. This has happened to all of them but not at the same I then drive across town to the location and have to disconnect power & usb to the drive, wait a little bit, then reconnect and it will come up and be recognized again and work for a few days. 'Windows Backup cannot find any of the backup storage locations' and the drive does not show in Disk Management. All was OK, then one randomly failed & continued to fail because the drive was unavailable. Main office each morning after backups ran to be certain that they backups completed (which they did initially). I started remotely connecting to these machines from the

#Wd my book 3tb support troubleshooting full#

Also included is the advanced VSS Full Backup option. The backup jobs are identical on each machine.

We have the data being backed up on our network using another solution as well. We have set up Windows Server Backup to do a dailyīackup to these drives which initially works on all of them. We also purchased several Western Digital 3TB My Book Essentials external hard drives with one connected to each server via usb (these are usb 3.0 capable, but the servers don't have 3.0 ports). Each is at a different physical location, but sites are connected via VPN to our network. Our agency recently installed six new Dell PowerEdge T110 II servers running Windows Server 2012 Standard.