SBS 2003 backup

From: Mainland Office Supplies <Mainland Office Supplies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:44:03 -0700

I have 2 different customers at different locations using Microsoft Small
Business Server 2003 Premium Edition, single partition on mirrored hard
drives running the SBS backup to a file that later is copied to Iomega Rev
drives. One Rev is internal connected via Atapi interface and the other is an
external connect via USB.

Periodically the backup fails, but both fail with the same error:

Error: Could not access portions of directory System State\COM+ Class
Registration Database.
You may not have permission to open the file, or the directory may be
missing or damaged.
Please contact the owner or administrator.

Error: Could not access portions of directory System State\Registry.
You may not have permission to open the file, or the directory may be
missing or damaged.
Please contact the owner or administrator.

The only articles that I have found relating to these errors are due to
BackupAssist or Volume shadowcopy. Neither uses BackupAssist and when I run
“VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS” each item displays no errors.

I am at a loss as to where to look next.

Mainland Office Supplies

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