I'm having severe problems backing up my own machine to a share on ourFILE-SERVER as \\FILE-SERVER\Backup\
I have already backed up another PC successfully using exactly the same settings I have used on my own PC. So I presume it is nothing to do with theFILE-SERVER or the Backup settings. It has to be something to do with what I'm trying to backup from my machine.
First some background. This exercise all began when the Windows Server 2008 r2O/S fell over on one of our Servers. I tried reinstalling the O/S several times, without success. In the end I grabbed another drive and re-built the O/S. I then had problems promoting it to a Domain Controller on the network. In the end I renamed the Server from FILESERVER to FILE-SERVER.
We routinely share four folders on what is nowFILE-SERVER:
\\FILE-SERVER\Backup- a Folder where backups from all other machines are written, so that they will be backed up with the Server
\\FILE-SERVER\Company- holds all our Company data
\\FILE-SERVER\GEM- this is the application folder for our own database
\\FILE-SERVER\Install- holds all Install files for the software we use
These are all held on a RAID 1 Array that is separate from the System Disk that fell over.
Prior to the Server falling over, I had Backup working fine on my machine.
On my Notebook PC I had made these shared folders 'Available Offline', so that I still had everything available to me when I was out of the office. They were of course shared as \\FILESERVER\... not \\FILE-SERVER\...
Having got the Server up and going again, I began to get the Backups from the Windows 7 Client PC's going again. I started with a Desktop, which of course did not have any Offline Files. That proved relatively straight-forward.
I then started with my machine. Initially I did not make the above shared folders 'Available Offline'. I set up my Backup using exactly the same settings that had worked OK on the desktop machine. But when I ran the backup I got:
The System cannot find the path specified, Error Code 0x80070003
I tried all sorts of things to get it to work:
- I restored the system to the earliest point possible,
- I ran chkdsk,
- I defragged the drive
All to no avail, so I tried backing up:
- with and without a system image,
- reducing the backup to a single folder,
- a single Folder with only one .txt file in it,
- making the Folders 'Available Offline' again.
Nothing made any difference. In the end I looked in the Sync Center to look at the Offline Files Folder. Under Mapped Network Drives I discovered I still had the Files and Folders from\\FILESERVER. In their Shortcut Menu 'Always Available Offline' was greyed out. So I deleted the Offline Copies. This deleted the Files in the Folders but not the Folders.
Since I could find no way of deleting the old Mapped Network Drives, I decided I'd painted myself into a corner by renaming the Server. So I bit the bullet and re-installed my Notebook too. This did get rid of the unwanted old Mapped Network Drives - BUT NOT THE ERROR!!
I’ve been through all the troubleshooting procedures in:
Method 1
It had none of the symptoms reported in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973455 but I scanned for ‘reparse’ points anyway. Found several “Junction Points” but none that were “Mounted Volumes”, just ordinary ‘File Folders’.
Method 2
Check a drive for errors. Looked at:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Check-a-drive-for-errors
Checkedboth boxes. I closed machine down, to check for errors when it re-started.
It didn’t seem to find anything. I say seem, because I did not actually see it finishing checking the empty space, but stages 1-4 found no problems and Windows 7 restarted normally.
It did detect 66 ‘Reparse’ Points, which is more than it found when I scanned for them earlier.
Method 3
Yes, I am an administrator or my own machine and, as such, I have ‘Full Access’.
I downloaded an ran the Process Monitor, filtering for Process Name “Wbengine.exe”, but did dot get a single event. So I’m not sure what’s going on.
HELP - I'm out of ideas!
I have a WORD Document that documents all the Settings I've used on both the Server and the Clients, together with the reasoning behind those settings, but I cannot find a way of uploading it.