Re: Disk backup causes reboot

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
"Philip" <me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:GNidnUtZtftPbS3anZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have been trying to back up my XP home desktop to a network server/drive.

I have tried ntbackup.exe and NasBackup. However, in both cases, they get a good deal into backing up 5-10 GB when the system spontaneously reboots (just like a "reboot now" command when installing software).

When the system recovers, and I re-log in, I get the send error dialog which follows with a serious hardware failure web page ironically advising me to back up my disk.

I ran a disk check diagnostic (C: Properties, Tools tab, Check Now) and had no problems. Everything seems fine. Never any problem like this before.

Any thoughts as to track down the cause of this.

I can think of a couple of possible causes:
- You have a memory leak. Observing the Task Manager when the backup
process approaches the critical time would reveal this.
- There is a conflict with some third-party program. Disconnect your
network from the Internet, then use msconfig.exe to kill all non-essential
programs ***and services*** before running the backup process.
Firewalls and virus scanners can do this sort of thing.

I ran the back up with just task manager running, nothing else. Memory utilization stayed constant at 30%. I did not see anything that looked like a leak. The cpu load never got over 40%.

It always seems to fail when backing up my directory tree of jpeg photographs. It never fails when other directories are backed up. It almost sees like whenever a particular disk area is accessed it triggers the fault. I say this because every back up mechanism I try always fails: NasBackup, NTbackup.exe, Nero BackItUp ...
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