I am quite frustrated with backup exec!!! I am running version 10d in a windows 2000 domain. For the most part it runs fine, but i am having continual problems backing up the “wmi repository data directory” on multiple machines. This directory is located in \WINNT\system32\wbem.(windows 2000) its not even every night, randomly a few computers will not backup that directory and i get a failed job. Sometimes a job will stop in that directory on the file regevent.mof file and will freeze the job and not be cancelable until i reboot my backup server. Ive checked into the symantec forums and i am finding that this is a huge problem for alot of people, and the troubleshooting process for the problem is extravagant and does not fix the problem in the long run. A lot of people seem to think its a bug in veritas software. I am at the point where im ready to exclude the directory, but im not sure what the hell it is, or if its important. It has something to do with driver integration from what i can tell from the long winded Microsoft site. I was just interested if anyone else has these problems at all and if so, what actions you took. For now I’m going to exclude this directory on every computer, but the last thing i want to find out is that my restores will all fail if i skip this directory. The annoying part is that ntbackup has no problem with this at all (no surprise). Please do not post any solutions involving corrupted directories or ways to fix it from the symantec website. Ive been on the syamntec site and have also had them on the phone and there solutions DO NOT work. I have tried them, they work for a couple days and the problem comes back. I am more interested in skipping this directory at this point, because i am told that it may be backed up by system state anyways.(ive also heard skipping the directory may not solve the problem because of this) Anyone have the same problem?
