Backing up System Reserved (SYSVOL) partition failed

I am trying to complete a full image backup for a client machine and i have been unable to do so with this 1 particular machine. There were instances where the backup would begin and get to 4% before just freezing and sitting there until i stopped and restart the Urbackup service. I have uninstalled the Urbackup client from the user’s machine and reinstalled the new version v2.0.30 and I have run the batch files on the server to clean up and repair the database. Now when i go to run the full image backup the backup begins and gets to about 5% of the SYSVOL and then all of sudden errors out with the below error. I have run a defrag on the users machine before reinstalling the Urbackup client but still no fix. Any ideas?

What are your logs server-side?

Assuming you’re on a Windows Server: C:\Program Files\UrBackupServer\urbackup.log – I highly recommend you view this with Notepad++ or something equivalent that way it is actually legible.

This is what the server side debug looks like after trying to run the full image backup 3 times. The machine name is KWWARRSPEC.

2016-08-16 11:47:37: ERROR: Connecting to ClientService of “KWWARRSPEC” failed: Getting MBR for drive SYSVOL failed
2016-08-16 11:49:37: ERROR: Client disconnected and image is not persistent (Timeout: true).
2016-08-16 11:49:38: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWKevin\160713-0328_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160713-0328.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:49:38: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWAPAR\160802-0420_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160802-0420.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:49:38: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWSTAFFACCT\160802-2214_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160802-2214.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:49:38: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWSTAFFACCT\160805-0224_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160805-0224.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:49:38: ERROR: Backing up System Reserved (SYSVOL) partition failed. Image backup failed
2016-08-16 11:49:38: ERROR: Backup failed
2016-08-16 11:49:39: WARNING: Exponential backoff: Waiting at least 40m before next image backup
2016-08-16 11:53:07: ERROR: Connecting to ClientService of “KWWARRSPEC” failed: Getting MBR for drive SYSVOL failed
2016-08-16 11:55:20: ERROR: Client disconnected and image is not persistent (Timeout: true).
2016-08-16 11:55:20: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWKevin\160713-0328_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160713-0328.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:55:20: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWAPAR\160802-0420_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160802-0420.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:55:20: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWSTAFFACCT\160802-2214_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160802-2214.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:55:20: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWSTAFFACCT\160805-0224_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160805-0224.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:55:20: ERROR: Backing up System Reserved (SYSVOL) partition failed. Image backup failed
2016-08-16 11:55:20: ERROR: Backup failed
2016-08-16 11:56:36: WARNING: Exponential backoff: Waiting at least 1h 20m before next image backup
2016-08-16 11:56:46: WARNING: Connecting to ClientService of “KWWARRSPEC” failed: Sending logdata to client failed
2016-08-16 11:59:13: ERROR: Client disconnected and image is not persistent (Timeout: true).
2016-08-16 11:59:13: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWKevin\160713-0328_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160713-0328.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:59:13: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWAPAR\160802-0420_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160802-0420.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:59:13: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWSTAFFACCT\160802-2214_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160802-2214.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:59:13: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWSTAFFACCT\160805-0224_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160805-0224.vhd’
2016-08-16 11:59:14: ERROR: Backing up System Reserved (SYSVOL) partition failed. Image backup failed
2016-08-16 11:59:14: ERROR: Backup failed
2016-08-16 12:04:15: WARNING: Exponential backoff: Waiting at least 2h 40m before next image backup
2016-08-16 12:04:25: WARNING: Connecting to ClientService of “KWWARRSPEC” failed: Sending logdata to client failed
2016-08-16 12:38:52: ERROR: Connecting to ClientService of “KWWARRSPEC” failed: Getting MBR for drive SYSVOL failed
2016-08-16 12:40:55: ERROR: Client disconnected and image is not persistent (Timeout: true).
2016-08-16 12:40:55: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWKevin\160713-0328_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160713-0328.vhd’
2016-08-16 12:40:55: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWAPAR\160802-0420_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160802-0420.vhd’
2016-08-16 12:40:55: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWSTAFFACCT\160802-2214_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160802-2214.vhd’
2016-08-16 12:40:55: ERROR: Error opening file ‘U:\KWSTAFFACCT\160805-0224_Image_SYSVOL\Image_SYSVOL_160805-0224.vhd’
2016-08-16 12:40:55: ERROR: Backing up System Reserved (SYSVOL) partition failed. Image backup failed
2016-08-16 12:40:55: ERROR: Backup failed
2016-08-16 12:40:56: WARNING: Exponential backoff: Waiting at least 5h 20m before next image backup

I got about one guess:[quote=“uroni, post:11, topic:2189, full:true”]
ttrammell sent me some more info and the issue is probably caused by 8.3 names (DOS names). One course of action would be to mangle all 8.3 names on the server, the other to advise people to turn off 8.3 name generation.

Let’s go with the second first: See here for how to do this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/121007 . It has performance benefits as well.

I’ll add that link to the manual as setup step. The problematic pair of file names also should be rare such that it is improbable that many other people have this kind of problem, if they have not turned off 8.3 names.
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Not sure if that is right in the slightest, but it’s the only guess I got.

anybody got any fix for this ?

11:13:10: WARNING: Request of SYSVOL failed. Reason: Opening filesystem on device failed. Stopping.
2019-01-15 11:13:11: ERROR: Backing up System Reserved (SYSVOL) partition failed. Image backup failed
2019-01-15 11:13:11: ERROR: Backup failed
this is the error i am getting

Has anyone found a solution to this problem? Currently what is happening to me are the following problems:

  1. List item
    Error on client occurred: Error while reading from shadow copy device (1). The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

  2. List item
    Backing up System Reserved (SYSVOL) partition failed. Image backup failed

  3. List item
    Error on client occurred: Error while reading from shadow copy device (1). Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

please help :worried:

all 3 stations are affected. 3 Stations use Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 32-bit & Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit