Re: Backup Error 0x800423F0

So much for recommending that the database and log files be on separate
drives.
How do you manually add a text file on a different drive to an ASR backup?

Thanks for the update,

Bernie.

"SCJ23" <SCJ23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EE1BF16F-30AB-48D9-9EA4-4B721A6734A9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have got a resolution from microsoft Product support.
>
> It is a bug with SP1. The resolution is as follows.
>
> Option 1 or Option 2. I found option 2 easier as option 1 requires a
> server
> restart and will mean AD DB & Log are both on C: drive.
>
> 1. Moving the AD log files back to the default location ("C:").
>
> 2. Select "D:" (or a file in that volume) to force a shadow copy on it.
> This, in turn will suppress the NTDS writer error. (I created a dummy
> text
> file on the drive where my NTDS Log files were and included in the backup
> set.)
>
> The likely reason behind those error messages is that AD is configured
> such
> that it keeps the databases and the logs on separate volumes.
> The AD writer (NTDS) will report an error if you try to create a shadow
> copy
> set that has one of the volumes but not the other.
> The problem is that in this configuration (AD databases and logs are on a
> different volume) NTBackup doesn't pick up the correct set of volumes.
> By selecting system state, NTBackup requests for a shadow copy to be
> created
> on the boot volume.
> By the time NTBackup requests for the location of the AD database and
> logs,
> the shadow copy has already been created.
> Thus, NTBackup will not create a snapshot on "D:".
> This throws the NTDS writer off, thinking that NTBackup is not going to
> pick
> up all its data on D: thus causing an error.
>
> Derek Nathan
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>
> "Bernie Walker" wrote:
>
>> After using an ASR set to recover Domain Controller which went into
>> eternal
>> blue screen after Server 2003 SP1 was applied. I decided to refresh all
>> our
>> ASR sets. Now a machine that succesfully completed a ASR set backup prior
>> to
>> SP1 is giving me an error and will not complete the backup at all.
>>
>> Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1.
>> "NTDS" has reported an error 0x800423f0. This is part of System State.
>> The
>> backup cannot continue.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bernie Walker.
>>
>>
>>


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