Hello all and thanks for any replies i may receive. My company has a HP server which hosts a sql2000 database for our in house application. Needless to say this server is everything to this company because a majority of the work done here is done on our in house application. The server has a raid 5 array with 4 HDs in the array and one hot swappable spare. Last week one of the HDs in the array crapped out, so i swapped out the bad one for the spare and no problems, everything went back to normal. I confirmed via the HP diagnostic utility the replaced drive was 100 percent in sync with the array. After the hard drive swap however, I have come across some alarming errors that occur during my backup job (backup-exec)on that server at night. This error occurs at the same point in the backup job every night, which is when the C drive is being backup up.
“The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume1”
I receive about ten of these errors within a minute or so. I do not receive these errors any other time and the server has been running quite fine before and after i started getting these errors.
I have looked around the internet and I have seen a lot people suggesting to never run chkdsk on a raid array because the utility is not raid aware and can cause some serious havoc in a raid environment. So i am submitting my question here to get some input on the situation if anyone has some. Is chkdsk safe for raid arrays? Is there another way to check for system integrity that is raid aware. Should i just ignore this error if no problems are occurring? I am going to run NT-backup tonight and see if it is backup-exec causing this error, it has been known to do some weird things in the past. Thanks for any input that is given.
