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Please help! I'm getting only 1 error when I backup but I get this error on every server. The error is referring to the local account on each machine of "ASPNET". The error is:

 

Can't access registry for "S-1-5-21-448539723-884357618-839522115-1003", error -1101 (file/directory not found)

 

What do I need to do for this error to go away? Thanks so much!

 

Sean Stevens

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One possible cause is that the customer deleted a user previously. The above S-xxxxxxx could be any routine of numbers.

Here are the steps to fix this error so that Retrospect will not report these errors on these missing registry files.

 

1) Note the user number or a large part of it out of the log.

(Example: "1275210071-1682526488-1343024091-1003").

 

2) Open regedit.

 

3) Navigate to:

 

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows

NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\

 

4) Click on the user ID. Note the name of the user that this entry refers to

in the info on the right in regedit.

 

5) If indeed this user is not currently on this computer, then delete the

item under ProfileList.

 

Retrospect will no longer complain about the missing registry files.

 

If you can confirm that the user has been deleted from the

computer, then deleting the item is the correct step to ta k e. Confirm this

by doing the following:

 

1) Check the registry, as detailed above, then see the name which this

profile refers to.

 

2) If the Admin thinks this user shouldn't exist on the computer, then close

RegEdit.

 

3) Open the User Manager and make sure they don't exist there; if they do,

delete them.

 

4) Go back to RegEdit, and see if that profile still exists. If it does,

then delete it.

 

Thanks.

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I've found that I get this message when backing up machines that have been migrated from a dead Domain Controller to a whole new domain and PDC. It is those abandoned accounts and registry entries that need to be deleted after a migration to make Retrospect not complain, at least in my case. I'm sure there are other things that can cause this, but this has been my experience. I don't get this kind of message for local user accounts or accounts associated with the current PDC.

 

I'm not sure why Retrospect chokes on these accounts, I just know that even though it complains it seems like the backups are still completing successfully.

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Hi

 

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I'm not sure why Retrospect chokes on these accounts, I just know that even though it complains it seems like the backups are still completing successfully.

 


 

This happens because portions of the user accounts are referenced in the registry. Retrospect follows those references to try to backup user information but the information has already been deleted. Hence the file not found error.

 

Thanks

Nate

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