Automated System Recovery: Catastrophic failure!??

From: Trond Ruud (troruud_at_tiscali.no)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:35:12 +0100

Several attempts at generating an Automated System Recovery set all show a
"Catastrophic failure" message in the log file (I have copied the first log
file messages, below)
Does anyone know what the reason for the failure message might be, and if it
means that the generated Recovery set, is useless?
Trond Ruud,
Norway
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Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Automated_System_Recovery-set.bkf created 31/1/2004 at 16:57"

Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:Catastrophic failure

Reverting to non-shadow copy backup mode.
Backup of "C: WinXP"
Backup set #1 on media #1
Backup description: ""
Media name: "Automated_System_Recovery-set.bkf created 31/1/2004 at 16:57"

Backup Type: Copy

Backup started on 31/1/2004 at 16:57.
Warning: Unable to open "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
Settings\Temp\Perflib_Perfdata_714.dat" - skipped.
Reason: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process.

Warning: Unable to open "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF999C.tmp" - skipped.
Reason: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process.

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