> I have several W2K servers that can't back up the system=20 > files, causing > the nightly backups to fail and the scheduler service to stop (even if > it is set to restart on failure). If the backup window hasn't expired > it sometimes, but not always, keeps trying to run the backup over and > over again until the window has expired, but never completes > successfully. The status shows up as a ?. I can manually=20 > backup all of > the local drives, and all system objects except for system files. =20
The Windows Client manual stipulates that you should exclude System Files, and a sample exclude list is provided with the install.