Re: NTBackup / VSS Problem, not backing up everything
- From: marios <marios.2c496p@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:23:30 +0100
Dear Mike,
Thank you very much for your post -- it's so nice to know one is not
alone! (Although I suspect Pop is having the same problem, from the
info in his post). That's one of the files I can't backup too.
All of my disks are NTFS, however, I have a new theory, well,
observation at least....
All of the files not being backed up appear to have a corresponding
copy in \windows\system32\dllcache.
I haven't verified this exhaustively (as you say, there's a heap of
files not getting backed up) but it's certainly true of every one I've
looked at, and I haven't found a counter example yet.
If this is indeed the case, then I wonder if the behaviour is by
design. The files in \dllcache ARE getting saved, so possibly NTBackup
is figuring that there's no point in also saving the "live" copies
outside of \dllcache, as the Windows File Protection system will
restore them from \dllcache if they're missing.
I can't find any references to this behaviour anywhere, and I'm not
willing to zap my system disk and restore from backups to test the
theory, however, it sounds like you are in a position to do so (I'm
assuming by "swap out" you mean you'll still have the original hard
disk, which you can put back in if it all goes belly up....)
Cheers
Marios
mike swell Wrote:
Marios,
From the other posts on this page it looks like I am the only person
who has
experienced your problem. And I have exactly your problem so I don't
think
its anything unique to your setup.
I only figured out that some files weren't getting backed up when I
checked
my backup in detail as I am about to swap out the hard disk on my
laptop.
(Like they say. You don't really have a backup until you have checked
that
you can actually restore from that backup. I'm afraid I'm guilty of not
actually checking that until now.)
And so I have even been doing the same as you, i.e. backing up just one
file
that I know isn't being backed up. e.g. \windows\system32\cscui.dll.
No joy.
One thing I noticed at first was that you need to have at least one
NTFS
drive on your machine to use the VSS. But I assume you have otherwise
you
would be getting something "Can't use shadow copy reverting to normal
mode"
which is what I noticed I was getting before I added an NTFS partition.
Doh!
I thought that might fix my problem but it does still seem that a heap
of
files aren't getting backed.
So the search goes on. Be nice if someone from microsoft got on here
and
cleared this up. Maybe we aren't using the right forum here. Keep you
posted
if I come across anything.
Mike
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marios
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