I have WinXP Pro connected to a workgroup. Everyone is setup to backup their data to a mapped network drive. My network drive stays connected OK until I run NTBACKUP. After about 30 minutes into the backup process it fails with the following error:
Windows – Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to save all of the data… The data has been lost.
The network drives are all disconnected. I can double-click on them and they reconnect. A small backup file exists. I can write to the drive and I can delete it. I have full control admin privileges.
I have done some research and have found many people have a problem with XP autodisconnect. I tried the following:
quoted from http://www25.brinkster.com/ChicagoTech
Why some mapped network drives show a red x
“SYMPTOMS: You find that the network drive mapping may be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity and Windows Explorer may display a red “X” on the icon of the mapped drive. However, if you double-click it reconnects quickly.
RESOLUTION: by default, idle connections will be dropped after 15 minutes. To modify idle time, at a command prompt using net config server /autodisconnect: minutes. For example, to set the Autodisconnect value to 30 minutes, you would run the following command line: net config server /autodisconnect:30. If you would like to turn autodisconnect off, do net config server /autodisconnect:-1.”
OK So I went to my command prompt and successfully ran
net config server /autodisconnect:-1
but it did not help. NTBACKUP will not complete manually or scheduled.
All mapped network drives disconnect.
Any help on this is greatly appreciated.