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I have a client with a SBS 2003 server. &nbsp;Recently the backups have been failing periodically with the following error message...<br />
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&quot;Error: Could not access portions of directory System State\Registry.<br />
You may not have permission to open the file, or the directory may be missing or damaged.<br />
Please contact the owner or administrator.&quot;<br />
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and then...<br />
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&quot;NTBackup finished the backup with errors.&quot;<br />
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This error has started occuring about 50% of the time and does NOT seem to occur only when a paritcular external hard drive is hooked up for that nights backup.<br />
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Any help is appreciated. &nbsp;Thank you.
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I have a client with a SBS 2003 server.  Recently the backups have been failing periodically with the following error message...

"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."

and then...

"NTBackup finished the backup with errors."

This error has started occuring about 50% of the time and does NOT seem to occur only when a paritcular external hard drive is hooked up for that nights backup.

Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

SBS 2003 Backup Failing Periodically

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).