Virtual Disk copy - abort- still copying - HELP

I started a virtual disk copy from one repository to another.
This particular disk is 2 terabytes, so very sizeable.
I decided about 200 Gigs through to stop and do something else so I clicked Abort in the Jobs.
I then check the jobs and yes it has a finish time of 235pm yesterday afternoon.
Today I check my repository and the file is still building. Like the file copy did not stop even though the job is confirmed that it was aborted.
I really don't want it to place this 2Gb file on my repository.
Its about 550Gigs through now.
Any ideas on how to stop this thing?

I suspect the job has been aborted, so that no further tasks will be run. However, the in-progress copy is not aborted. This is possibly a bug, but I suspect it's not because we don't abort in-flight processes when you hit that button. Just the job itself. You could just kill the copy process yourself now that the job has been aborted.

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Ever since I down loaded iTunes update this computer has gone down hill. I personally believe they do this on purpose!
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Just try a search for "Disk Copy helper unexpectedly quit" and work your way around the links you get. A few I found include...
http://www.macosx.com/content/faq.php/q2528/Disc-Copy-Helper.html
But this one directly from Apple talks about your problem...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25818
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Hello Carole:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
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Server 2012 RC. I'm using Storage Spaces, with two virtual disks across 23 underlying physical disks.
* First virtual disk is fixed provisioning, parity across 23 physical disks: 10,024GB capacity
* Second virtual disk is fixed provisioning, parity across the remaining space on 6 of the same physical disks: 652GB capacity
These have been configured as dynamic disks, with an NTFS volume spanned across the two (larger virtual disk first). Total volume size 10,676GB. For more details of the hardware, and why the configuration is like this, see: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver8gen/thread/c35ff156-01a8-456a-9190-04c7bcfc048e
I'm copying several TB from a network share to this volume. It is very slow at ~12MB/sec, but works. However, three times so far, several hours in to the file copy and with plenty of free space remaining, the 10,024GB virtual disk is suddenly taken offline.
This obviously then fails the spanned volume and stops the file copy.
The second time, I took screenshots, below. The disk (Disk27) is marked offline due to "This disk is offline because it is out of capacity". And the disk in the spanned volume is marked as missing (which is what you would expect when one of its member disks
is offline).
I can then mark the disk (Disk27) back online again, and this restores the spanned volume. I can then re-start the file copy from where it failed. There doesn't appear to be any data loss, but it does cause an outage that requires manual attention. As you
can see, there is plenty of space left on the spanned volume.
Each time this has happened, there are a few event 150 errors in the System event log: "Disk 27 has reached a logical block provisioning permanent resource exhaustion condition.". Source: Disk.
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="disk" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">150</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-06-07T11:24:53.572101500Z" />
<EventRecordID>14476</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Trounce-Server2.trounce.corp</Computer>
<Security />
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<Data>\Device\Harddisk27\DR27</Data>
<Data>27</Data>
<Binary>000000000200300000000000960004C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
This error seems to be related to thin provisioning of disks. I found this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848068(v=vs.85).aspx. But both these Virtual Disks are configured as Fixed, not Thin provisioning, so it shouldn't apply.
My thoughts: the virtual disk should not spuriously go offline during a file copy, even if it was out of space. And in any case, there is plenty of free space remaining. Also, I don't understand the reason for why it is marked as offline ("This disk is offline
because it is out of capacity"). Why would a disk go offline because it was out of thin capacity, rather than just returning an "out of disk space" error while keeping it online.

Interesting Thread, I've been having the same issue. I had a failed hardware RAID that was impossible to recover in place, so after being forced to do a 1:1 backup, I find myself with 5 2TB hard drives to play with. Storage Spaces seemed like an interesting
way to go until I started facing the issues we share.
So my configuration is A VM Running Windows Server 2012 RC with 5 Virtualized Physical drives using a SCSI interface, 2TB in size that make up my storage pool. A Single Thinly provisioned Disk of 18 TB (using 1 disk for parity)
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Of note to me is this error in my event log 13 minutes before the drive disappeared:
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Regards,
Steven Blom

How do you create a disk image using Disk Copy?

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Thanks Niel for the info about creating a Disk Image with the Disk Copy utility in OS 10.1.5
That worked however when I insert a blank DVD-R, the disk image still has to be copied to the DVD-R buffer and then it can be burned. And so this doesn't really save any steps - the "copying into the buffer" step still has to occur whether or not you have created a disk image of your files. So creating a disk image doesn't really shorten the process of burning multiple copies of a DVD.
I will try to describe the steps more clearly:
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Ha HA!
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Really, damn
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