Comments on: Files that are compressed by NTFS compression may not be backed up correctly by WHS

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:51:57 +0000

WHS is trustworthy for me. I did a full restore of a Vista machine a few weeks ago simply to upgrade my hard drive. I’ve also recovered several Exchange email files. WHS has been well worth the money for me. And there are countless other stories just like mine. No data corruption for me, and likewise for more than 99% of WHS users in general.

Anyway, t-minus one month until you guys run out of things to say. Because as you know (and apparently you keep forgetting to mention), 946676 will be fixed publicly in June.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:29:33 +0000

@Dave

Microsoft KN 946676 has no resolution, despite having been reported since last year! Just how many design flaws should be in WHS that customers need and want to purchase data corruption design flaws?

Do you wear your seatbeats because it’s rare to have an accident or would you expect customers to just live with data corruption even if, as you seem to think, how rare it happens, despiting it happening, as it has been to WHS customers?

There shouldn’t be data corruption in a server product, especially two of them… That really speaks to how untested, unproven and untrustworthy WHS is all about. Especially, since it KB 946676 has been around since last year and remains to be unresolved.

What is being done to provide WHS customer relief for the serious data corruption design flaw here?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:46:51 +0000

Bleh, another corruption issue, which I’m sure will be milked by our trolling friends to no end. At least this one would be very, extremely rare, and a fix is already out.

By: Bob Crook

Bob Crook — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:04:09 +0000

What is not very clear is that this refers only to WHS backups made of computers that are already using NTFS compression on its drive or drives. These computers need this fix.