ERROR 1450 Insufficient system resources exist to complete the req

[Guest]

I tried to backup about 55 directories that contain about 300,000 files each.
The files average about 15-30 bytes each. Each directory is about 10 MB or
less, but the properties list them at over 1 GB each, on disk (I only have a
40 MB hard drive so I guess they don't really take that much space). I was
backing them up to an 80 GB drive with over 60 GB free space.

Xcopy and Robocopy gave me an "Insufficient system resources exist to
complete the request" error after copying about four directories. Robocopy
tried again every 30 seconds and was able to copy a few dozen more files at a
time before the same error would occurred.

The closest solution I found was
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304101/en-us but it doesn't mention XP. It
covers NT 4.0 though. Would it apply to XP? In my registry I was able to find
the registry subkey that's mentioned in the NT instructions, so I'm hopeful
it will work, but I figured I should ask first.

 

[John John]

I would say yes. Use the Windows 2000/Server 2003 solution. To
alleviate the problem you might want to copy the files in several
smaller operations instead of all at once. 16.5 million files is a lot
of file entries to deal with, even if the files are small.

John

 

[Guest]

I would say yes. Use the Windows 2000/Server 2003 solution

Ok, I did. Then I found the same registry edit suggested for XP in solution
2 at
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=62001&view=findpost&p=429020
but it's listed with other registry tweeks and says "these need to be made as
a set" so I'm thinking about making every change in solution 2 before I
reboot and try my download again.

 

[John John]

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Ok, I did. Then I found the same registry edit suggested for XP in solution
2 at
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=62001&view=findpost&p=429020
but it's listed with other registry tweeks and says "these need to be made as
a set" so I'm thinking about making every change in solution 2 before I
reboot and try my download again.

The Microsoft article that you referred to earlier (kb304101) says as much:

"You may have to change two registry settings. You must always change
the first setting. Depending on the configuration of your system, you
may also have to change the second setting."

Although the error message appears to be the same, the problem that the
poster is having on the msfn board is a bit different than yours, he is
having difficulties saving to network drives, from what I can see the
workstations conk out saving to the server, similar but not the same
problem as you are experiencing. Be careful changing some of these
values, you may end up with a whole new set of problems. Try the
solution proposed by Microsoft and see what happens. Take it easy,
don't go changing Memory Management values unless you are absolutely
certain of the consequences! Backup (export) the registry key(s) before
you do these changes and do the change one at a time and then test the
changes. I don't see what the lanmanserver values would have to do with
your problems, I wouldn't change these.

John