Windows Vista Ultimate Backup Files Failed (0x81000014)

[Guest]

I just got a Gateway CX210X notebook preinstalled with Windows Vista Ultimate
Edition. I've been trying to use the Vista Backup and Restore Center's Back
Up Files setting to backup my files, after I realized that having a Complete
PC Backup won't let me recover individual files from that image. However, no
matter what I try, the backup fails, usually several hours into the process,
and I get this message:

The backup did not complete successfully.

An error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the
error:

There is not enough space on your Windows disk to prepare for backing up
your
files. At least 400 MB of free space is required to continue. (0x81000014)

The 100GB SATA drive that came with my system was setup by Gateway with 2
partitions, (C:, 83.5GB currently with 35GB free, and D:, 9.65GB currently
with 3.19 GB free).

After several attempts to backup to DVD-R and DVD-RW failed (each time about
7 DVDs into the backup), I attempted to backup to a 152GB external Firewire
drive (with 152GB free, G:, in my system), but received the same error as
when I attempted to backup to the optical media (E.

Anyone know why this is happening, and how I can successfully backup my files?

 

[Guest]

I received the same error on a dell 9200 with Vista ultimate. I removed the
pictures from the data set and it completed successfully.

 

[Guest]

Yikes, Thyroid22. I hope that's not the ONLY solution to my woes. The files
I'm MOST interested in backing up are the graphic files.

Did you decide not to include the entire folder(s) where your pictures
resided, or just individual files?

 

[PotsOn]

I've been using Vista 64 for a few months now and backing up to a ½TB
eSATA drive. I backup using Vista Backup and Restore. I have a 500GB
target drive and two 500GB eSATA external drives. I have around 270MB
used on C: including all system & program files.

I have serviced computers for the past 8 years and I (at least used to)
think I was good at it most of the time. The backup has worked alright
except I have two problems.

First, after installing SP1 I get this error every time it backs up.

'File backup failed. The error is: There is not enough space on your
Windows disk to prepare for backing up your files. At least 400 MB of
free space is required to continue. (0x81000014).'

The target drive is empty and can be written to. I've dumped the
partition and formatted. There certainly is 400MB of space available.

I haven't uninstalled SP1 yet and intend to troubleshoot this a bit
using a VM with and without SP1.

Second, when it was working I couldn't control how many days to keep in
the backup set. It would just keep backing up incrementally until the
target drive is full, then complain of space issues. I haven't found
where to control that and so I would just format the drive and manually
launch the backup to create the file structure on the target. I kept
two 500GB eSATA drives on rotation for that reason and for redundancy.
(For the paranoid types like myself I also do a continuous backup using
IDrive)

I guess my real question is twofold. Is there a backup product
available that creates indexed, incremental backups to 200MB zip files
in a dated folder structure where I can select how many days to retain.
I know, BackupExec will do something similar but I would like _not_ to
spend $600.

Otherwise, is there a fix for my Vista backup issues?

Checkout a FREE Open Source enterprise backup solution ...

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Cheers.


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