'Ultimate' backup failures

[Gazza]

This is quite amazing. After 5 months of using the in-built backup facility,
Vista suddenly decides that it is not going to be helpful anymore. Everytime
I attempt a backup I am getting a a 0x80070005 error. This is stupid. I have
over 1Tb of storage available to me so I shouldn't be getting this error. I
have also attempted to backup to another external drive and the same problem.

Easy to solve I thought. I have spent the last 6 days on the Net trying to
find a solution and there isn't one. I have chkdsk the drives, run utility
programes and everything is saying the drives are ok.

MS don't have an answer. Does anyone know what to do?

 

[MICHAEL]

This is quite amazing. After 5 months of using the in-built backup facility,
Vista suddenly decides that it is not going to be helpful anymore. Everytime
I attempt a backup I am getting a a 0x80070005 error. This is stupid. I have
over 1Tb of storage available to me so I shouldn't be getting this error. I
have also attempted to backup to another external drive and the same problem.

Easy to solve I thought. I have spent the last 6 days on the Net trying to
find a solution and there isn't one. I have chkdsk the drives, run utility
programes and everything is saying the drives are ok.

MS don't have an answer. Does anyone know what to do?

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/pa...-restore-and-complete-pc-backup-problems.aspx

File Backup fails with the following error:
Access is denied. (0x80070005)

This error occurs because the recovery partition is enabled for File Backup or System Restore
and is almost full. To work around this, do not select D:\ as a backup source. Also, go to
System Protection in Control Panel and make sure that D:\ is not enabled for restore points.


-Michael

 

[Tinribs]

Gazza,
I am having a similar problem with B/U on Vista.

For the last 8 weeks or so, I have my computer set for an automatic backup
every Sunday evening at 7pm. It was successful for the first 4 weeks and
then I get the message:
"Backup did not complete successfully. Incorrect function: 0x80070001"
This is the 4th week I receive this error message. Do you understand what
this error number means. It is similar to your error except for the last
digit.
Edward kelly

 

[Gazza]

What I find strange is that I can run a Complete PC backup (60gb+) without a
single problem and with 2 hours so there is no reason why the regular backup
has started to fail.

 

[AlexB]

The error message 0x80070005 simply means "Access is denied." What you will
have to check why it is being denied. It may be that some of the updates
unintentionally changed the folder/drive permission. Recheck them.
Everything should be find when your access authority is properly restored.

 

[Gazza]

There isn't a fault with the back-up drive so I will change the permissions
and give it another go.

 

[Gazza]

Well I think I may have sorted it out after all.

Changes the permissions - nothing.

Then I noticed that there were no thumbnails for my WMV's. Little things
started too disappear, or disable.

Finally, I backed up the whole of the C drive, and reinstalled Vista, as an
upgrade. This repalces all the master files, but leaves your settings.

Everything back to normal.

 

[AliMcJ]

Just read through all responses. I'm in the throes of this too.

I'm backing everything up because I recently had problems with starting up
the computer; I have to hit F12 quickly after power on in order to get my
Vista open screen to come up, otherwise it gets stuck on verifying DMI Pool
Data.

The problem, then, is that the solutions I have found so far for the problem
of the 0x80060001 error msg (I know the number by heart now) all involve
shutting down the computer, and the reason a backup is imperative is that
turning it on again is problematical.

The "try again" option on back up failure yielded the same error number with
"wrong parameters."

I have no idea what any of it is. I did partition my hard drive early on
after getting this computer; I have not used the partitioned part and don't
know how to delete the partition.

I also don't want to shut down the computer until it's backed up (and if I
have to do it manually for safety's sake, I don't care). I can right now
heartily recommend Google's Picasa program for backing up Image files (double
check to make sure it backs up file folders within file folders): it saved my
life a couple of years ago in a viral attack that locked me out of Windows.
By some miracle, I was able to access Picasa, which backed up my Image files
without Windows operational (though I lost contents of folders within
folders) and I was able to reload Windows and restore the files Picasa had
saved for me. I also manually saved a number of my Word Perfect files
through the DOS C: prompt. Don't remember all how it worked -- I was just
sleeping on decisions day by day before reloading Windows (XP).

Right now, it looks like the backup is working on my first alternate disc I
put in.

I had put in a DVD-R disc for its security; I switched to a DVD-RW disc for
this third try. Since I enabled auto backup and then the "start first full
backup now," I thought it would prefer a rewritable DVD.

Keep your fingers crossed for me, please.

Gazza -- check which kind of DVD you are using (I'm still learning about the
different formats; I learned a lot at Pic'n'Save, where I found smaller
packages of each of four formats, and some of them had good info charts on
the back).