The issue is that backing up "Documents" in Vista does not just back up your
personal "My Documents" folder or all "My Documents" folders. It goes on a
promiscuous, file extension based, sweep of the entire machine. It backs up,
for instance, .HTM files in \Program Files that are dropped by application
installations. You don't have any explicit control over what it includes in
that bucket by folder, file, or file extension. If you haven't played around
with Vista Backup, you probably don't appreciate that it doesn't allow you
to pick specific files and folders to backup. FWIW, one gets 73,000 hits in
google for 'vista backup what were they thinking?'.
By inspecting the failed backup, I observed that the backup had files and
folders from the \$WINDOWS.~Q\ folder and not much of anyplace else. So I
guessed that the offending file(s) that were getting Access Denied were
somewhere in that branch. A little research revealed that this folder is a
useless leftover remnant from an in-place upgrade from the Vista Business my
laptop was shipped with to Vista Ultimate. Deleting that folder removed
whatever it was (who knows? apparently no easy way to find out) that stopped
Vista Backup from working on "Documents".
'vista backup what were they thinking?'
"niemiro" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> You could try taking ownership of your Documents folder and then giving
> Everyone Full Control. In your first post, you did not make it clear
> whether you knew the file was in your Documents folder or not. If it is
> because the file is open, then this will not help. It may also be a
> problem with trying to back up a System file such as ntuser.dat.
>
> I do not know how good the Backup logs are, but have a look at these
> logs (you may have to enable logging first)
>
>
> - Event Viewer\Applications and Services Logs\Microsoft\Windows\Backup
> - %SystemRoot%\System32\Winevt\Logs\Microsoft-Windows-Backup.evtx
> - %windir%\Windows\Logs\WindowsBackup\*.etl
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