Hello.
My current desktop has a Pentium 4, 3.4GHZ CPU, running 4gb of RAM on a 2-year old Asus P5B-VM. I have 8 operating systems on 5 drives but the relevant system is Win XP32. My default browser in this partition is Google Chrome.

I am operating with administrator rights.

I currently am unable to do a full backup (system state) of my xp registry. I had been accustomed to using the guided help vpscript from Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756 but today I get the vpscript error regarding my drive not being accessible (see attached screen capture) When i try to do this manually using the advanced feature of XP Backup I get another error message. Log file below. Any assistance would be much appreciated.



Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "RegBack.bkf created 2009-09-27 at 18:31"


Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:Catastrophic failure


Aborting Backup.

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The operation did not successfully complete.

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I tried using the suggestions on this page which I probably should have realized was not relevant. I have since returned the settings to normal. http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/istco...rmissions+issue

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EDIT: The manual process seemed to work once I made sure that Volume Shadowing was turned on, but I'm not sure from the first part of this report if it's a good backup or not. The MS script still fails with the same VB Script message.

Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "RegBack.bkf created 2009-09-27 at 19:35"


Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:8004230f
Reverting to non-shadow copy backup mode.
Backup of "System State"
Backup set #1 on media #1
Backup description: "Set created 2009-09-27 at 19:35"
Media name: "RegBack.bkf created 2009-09-27 at 19:35"

Backup Type: Copy

Backup started on 2009-09-27 at 19:36.
Backup completed on 2009-09-27 at 19:38.
Directories: 173
Files: 2849
Bytes: 609,328,219
Time: 2 minutes and 4 seconds

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This post has been edited by computernut: Sep 27 2009, 04:14 PM

RPC = Remote Procedure Call (not Remote Procedure Call Locator)