Vista - File backup (not complete) and error 0x80070035

Hi,

I've been struggling with this for ages. I have a Thecus N5200 5GB
RAID5 NAS attached to my network which I have set up into an iSCSI drive
(2GB) and a network share (2GB). I bought this rather than other NAS's
because of the iSCSI ability, so that I could run the Complete PC Backup
feature of Vista Ultimate because it requires "direct" access to a hard
drive rather than a network share. Indeed, the Complete PC Backup works
fine.

The Back Up Files backup however doesn't work well at all. It runs for
about 6-7 hours, gets only half way, and then bombs out saying "The
network path was not found (0x80070035)".

On my laptop, also running Vista Ultimate, it works fine. The only
difference between the machines is that my desktop has a 1.5TB RAID0
drive which is about half full, whereas the laptop only has a 150GB
drive which is 80% full. So the amount to backup is pretty much 6 times
as large on the desktop as the laptop and I'm wondering if that is
causing the problem.

Other weird symptoms are:

1. In the root directory of the backup share on the Thecus, there are
currently 4168 files all of zero size, labelled SDTxxxx.tmp. Their
timestamps are sequential in minutes from when the backup started to
when it bombed out.
2. Something IS being written to the Thecus, because it's using up more
and more space. Indeed, the 2TB share only has 550GB free now, so it's
like it gets half way through the backup then "forgets" it has managed
to do anything.

I have bought Retrospect 7.5 which works fine and is now backing up all
my files, but I was rather hoping to use the inbuilt system instead. I
am told however that the Complete PC Backup system isn't as "complete"
as it sounds because it has to restore to the same PC, which doesn't
seem particularly clever at all. Can someone verify that? Also, one
can't schedule a Complete PC Backup although you do get a reminder once
a month, whereas you can (and I have) scheduled the Backup Files backup
whenever you want.

The whole backup system within Vista seems to be a bit of a mess to me.

All help greatly appreciated!

Jeremy


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