I have a client with a problem running backup on his SMS 2003 (R1, SP2) server.
The normal routine is this:
Complete system backup is each weeknight at 11:00 to an external, USB attached hard drive. Two hard drives are rotated for the backups, one for even days, one for odd days. The hard drive with the previous backup is taken off-site each day.
For about a week and a half now, we get an alert from the server with the following message: "Windows Small Business Server Backup failed (Event ID: 5634) Alert on servername"
Once the automatic backup fails, we can log into the server and run the backup manually and it completes without any error.
The backup log for the failed backup shows no details for actual backup activity, just states that the backup failed with errors.
I've checked permissions to the drive and folder and those look OK
The backup completes successfully on even days
One thing that had changed is the original odd-day hard drive failed, and we had to replace it, but the new one worked successfully for more than a week before this started.
Any ideas?
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