Re: Newbie has two SBS2003 issues

Hi Ricky,

SUS may have downloaded WS2k3 SP1, and it may be approved because 'auto
approve updates' is configured. This by itself isn't a problem, allthough I
personally prefer to manually approve updates in SUS.

Whether your servers or even workstations see these updates in SUS would
depend on the specifics of your SUS configuration. Generally, it's accepted
good practice that SUS policy would be applied differently for servers
versus workstations, in that updates to servers would be manually applied so
that the restart process could be controlled.

There was a brief period a few weeks ago where an SBS 2k3 server, configured
to automatically download *and* apply updates, may have installed Windows
Server 2k3 SP1. But if that was the case, it would have broken some
functionality on your SBS - I think you'd have noticed. A windows 2k3 member
server may have the SP1 applied, that shouldn't be a problem.

So far as the backups go, you'd have to inspect the backup logs themselves
to see what's going on (or, post one here). Generally, if you use SBSbackup
(which I don't think you are), the troubleshooting follows a fairly
predictable path, as does disaster recovery, as the backup configuration is
known.

If you use the native NTbackup, then the configuration cannot be known
unless you spell it out in some detail. BTW, SBSbackup doesn't need to
complete prior to the maintenance tasks starting .... the VSS technology
enables a type of 'snapshot', which completes in a very few minutes - and
this 'snapshot' is what is backed up.

--
Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
-----------------------------------------------------------
SBS Rocks !


"Ricky Coales" <Ricky.Coales.1pjn7g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Ricky.Coales.1pjn7g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Firstly hello to everyone, I'm new to the forum.
>
> I work as a trainer computer technician and our client has two problems
> with Microsofts SBS2003.
>
> Firstly both SUS and Windows update say that SBS2003 has downloaded and
> approved SP1. And although its on the list it doesn't show up in control
> panel>system. That still says its on the original installation, although
> they do have a backup server that seems to have this and installed it.
>
> And the second issue they have is their backups. I know theres been
> alot of stuff in here about the Iomega Rev drive and SBS2003. Well my
> problem is a little stranger....... The server backs up about 25 to 30
> GB of data every night. A full backup taken at the weekend and
> differential ones taken daily after that. This system is all working
> fine, but one things confusing me. For the last 3 weeks the backups
> have taken just over 5 hours with the exception of tuesdays? Every
> tuesday the backup is done in just over an hour and a half. The client
> does nothing different on a tuesday than any other day and the size of
> the files is still the same (give or take a few MB). Ideally i'd like
> all their backups to be taken within the hour so they don't interfere
> with the checks SBS2003 is supposed to run between 1 and 5 am every
> day. Although this isn't crucial as the backups are being taken and the
> data is definatly still on the tapes meaning the backups could be
> restored if need be :/
>
> The client is running 1 server (and 1 test/backup server, when i say
> backup i don't mean it has anything to do with backups themselves just
> a complete backup server in case its needed), the rest of the machines
> range from a couple of windows 95 pcs and Xp pcs. The rest of them are
> still on Windows 98.
>
> Well I'd better thank you lot in advance for any help you can give me.
>
> Ricky
>
>
> --
> Ricky Coales
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