Re: ntbackup problem with BITS

From: XP User (xpusr_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: 16 Jul 2004 08:16:13 -0700

BITS newsgroup is microsoft.public.windows.backgroundtransfer

"Michael Meyers-Jouan" <Michael@Meyers-*nospam*-Jouan.name> wrote in message news:<2e4f901c46aa7$1fbdc670$a301280a@phx.gbl>...
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> Recently, Windows Update installed a fix that affected
> the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). At
> that point, ntbackup.exe stopped finding files to back up.
>
> When I looked at the list of excluded files (Tools,
> Options, Excluded Files tab), the first entry on the list
> specified all files ("*") in the root folder ("C:\"), and
> all sub-folders. This entry was labeled "BITS_metadata".
> Attempts to delete the entry from within ntbackup failed.
> While this entry was present, of course, any attempt to
> run ntbackup caused the program to run and exit almost
> immediately, generating a log file indicating that it
> successfully backed up 0 files.
>
> Somewhere along the lines, my attempts to fix this caused
> something to change, and that exclude entry disappeared.
> It was replaced by an entry that specified all files
> ("*") in one specific folder ("C:\Documents and
> Settings\All Users\Application
> Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\"). Once this change
> showed up, ntbackup resumed normal operation.
>
> A search of the Microsoft Knowledge Base turned up 839090:
> You receive a "The process cannot access the file" error
> message when you open a report file of a backup that was
> completed while the Background Intelligent Service (BITS)
> runs
>
> This article describes a problem that occurs when there
> is NO "BITS_metadata" entry in the exclude files for
> ntbackup. However, I couldn't find anything in the
> Knowledge Base that describes a situation in which the
> entry excludes ALL files.
>
> Has anybody else encountered this? Does anybody have any
> idea what might have caused it?

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