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by jj__27

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I have a Windows 2000 Server which gets backed up every night at 10PM via Veritas Backup Exec 8.5. Every night it creates ~50-100MB of temp files in the C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Local Settings/Temp folder. We have moved the backup to a later time and the temp files are then created at that time. Uninstall and Reinstall??? Any better ideas?

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by ntoz

If your using the open file agent, it creates the temp files as its designed to first batch the files together and then send them in a complete stream. The open file and remote agents have a configuration as to where to create these files and how large they can be. The reason its putting the files in that directory is because the settings for your service account, which in this case seems to be administrator, says its temp file location should be the default location. As Windows 2000 is multi-user, it uses a temp folder under each individual user separately.

Pete

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