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ConfigMgr Backup failure - Error 145
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:38 AM

We had backup failure on two of our Primaries, the root cause of which seemed to stem from file locks being present on the files in the backup folder while the backup is running. I scheduled a job to run just before the backup to collect any file handles and dump to a log file (handles.exe) but none showed up. No process had file locks in the backup location... Read More...

by Rob - MVP | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Backup, WMI, WBEMTEST

ConfigMgr: Site backup task failing due to VSS - SMS Writer issue
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:09 AM

Had a problem pop up on a down-level ConfigMgr Primary site server yesterday ... the backup was failing to complete successfully. To drill in to this problem, first I got SMSBKUP.LOG in to trace and tracked through the most recent backup until I could see the failure point: Error: Failed to backup \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy21\SMS\BackupTemp... Read More...

by Rob - MVP | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, VSS, Backup