Re: Problems with backing up security database. Intrusion? by Roger
Roger
Tue Feb 14 19:14:34 CST 2006
Did you shut off / disable VSS, the volume shadow copy service ??
"AllenM" <allen.miyake@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> OK I do backup the System State. Perhaps I will exclude the file from the
> C:\ backup session. There is nothing I have done with CA. This file has
> always been backed up and until I recently posted this issue everything
> has been fine. So if this file is part of the System State then it should
> be ok to remove from the C: backup schedule?
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> "karl levinson, mvp" <levinson_k@despammed.com> wrote in message
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>> I'm not surprised. I agree with Roger that we'd have to know how your
>> backup software is supposed to handle such in use files that are part of
>> the system state. This might be the way things are designed to work.
>> You shouldn't need that file unless you wanted to try to restore your
>> Windows installation, and if you wanted to do that, I'm not sure you'd
>> want to restore it from the CA backup you're doing now.
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>> For backup solutions that aren't designed to capture system state files
>> like this one successfully, you can install and run the Backup utility
>> that comes with Windows, schedule it to run a system state backup before
>> your CA backup, and have CA back up the backup file created.
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>> "AllenM" <allen.miyake@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:e6jllMMMGHA.740@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> Well maybe I spoke too soon. I just reviewed my backup log and it
>>> occured again over the weekend.
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>>> "AllenM" <allen.miyake@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:OOE9elLMGHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>> Thanks Roger and Karl. It appers the problem did correct itself after a
>>>> fresh reboot. Not sure why it required that but again rule of thumb
>>>> "when in doubt, reboot" seems to have resolved the issue. Thanks for
>>>> the explainations and suggestions.
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>>>> "AllenM" <allen.miyake@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:%23AJEftmLGHA.1192@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>>> The last two days I have been receiving a failure when my backup
>>>>> program (CA BrightStor ArcServe) attempts to backup
>>>>> c:\windows\security\database\secedit.sbd. The error I get in the logs
>>>>> is "Unable to open file" and code EC=sharing violation. This file has
>>>>> always been on the backup schedule and and I reviewed the logs from
>>>>> the 3 days ago and it had no problems. What is this log used for and
>>>>> why am I now getting these errors and unable to backup this file. Do I
>>>>> have a security issue here?
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