Roaming profiles .pst local settings folder not backing up.

[Marshall]

My question is regarding backing up the a sub folder
within the localsettings folder. The Roaming profiles are
in place in Active Directory. The entire user profile
will back up except the local settings folder. The goal
is to bring across the
Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE folder
without the temp folder and files. Any help would...help

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

My question is regarding backing up the a sub folder
within the localsettings folder. The Roaming profiles are
in place in Active Directory. The entire user profile
will back up except the local settings folder. The goal
is to bring across the
Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE folder
without the temp folder and files. Any help would...help

What are the NTFS permissions on the profile folder(s)?
Can you open these folders/see them on the server?

What errors do you get in your backup job?

 

[Steve Ireland]

Used to be that Local Settings is not supposed to roam, 'cos it holds all
the rubbish stuff and temp files etc. Possibly whatever is ignoring Local
Settings is also ignoring all attempts to copy sub folders.

 

[Brendon]

Let me first make sure I understand the problem properly -
You are backing up the roaming profile on the file server, not the profile
files on the actual PC.
The Local Settings folder in the user profile is excluded from roaming -
this is by design. Typical data written here are PST files - do you want a
<large>MB file copying off the PC to the server at log off and vice versa?
So when you backup the profiles on the server you are not getting all the
files which are in the profile on the PC.
Right?

There is a Group Policy item (User Configuration > Administrative Templates

System > Logon/Logoff > Exclude directories in roaming profile) which you

can use to restrict additional directories in the user's profile from
roaming.

However, see
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200.../windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/222.asp

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By default, the History, Local Settings, Temp, and Temporary Internet Files
folders are excluded from the user's roaming profile.

Note

You cannot use this policy to include the default folders in a roaming user
profile.
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So - I don't believe there is an easy way to do this. You could investigate
using a logoff script. Or since you are dealing with PST files you are
better off putting these onto a network drive and configuring Outlook to
open the PST file off the drive - no copying backwards and forwards each
time when the user logs on or off.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Let me first make sure I understand the problem properly -
You are backing up the roaming profile on the file server, not the
profile files on the actual PC.
The Local Settings folder in the user profile is excluded from
roaming - this is by design.

<totally missed that part....duh>

Typical data written here are PST files