Execution Errors

[mpf]

I'm running Express 5.15 on WinMe backing up to CD-Rs. In the last Normal backup, It did 5 Gb in 33,025 files and reported 33,050 execution errors, in various parts of the Windows directory, all with the error code -1101 (couldn't find directory). In starting a new backup (to see what happens), it started off with the full, original 5 Gb, and I stopped it.

 

 

 

Do I now have a valid backup set or do I need to do it (something different) all over again?

 

 

 

Thanks.

[lv2ski]

The backup set that got all the errors, is not valid.

 

 

 

The new one that you created....if it didn't have any errors when you stopped it, then it should be valid. You just need to continue the backup so that it will finish.

[mpf]

Many thanks - but I was hoping you wouldn't say that. It takes hours to do, and in the Operations Log most if not all of the errors occured for files in Windows subdirectories that seem relatively unimportant (temp files of various sorts, cookies, etc.). I'm also afraid that I'll get the same result!

 

 

 

Do you know what might be causing this? I've used Retrospect for Macs and PCs since it first came out without this happening.

[lv2ski]

Well "IF" the files are Unimportant that got the errors, then great! That backupset is fine.

 

 

 

But make sure they are unimportant files.

 

 

 

If they are tmp files and log files than this make sense on the errors as they are constantly being written, created, moved, deleted etc, all automatically. This can cause the errors that they weren't there at the time of backup or they were in use at the time of backup. Or even a compare error because they were being written to after backup.