Folder redirection and backup issues

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Fred B. - 10 Jul 2008 09:48 GMT

I am studying the pitfalls of moving from SBS2000 to SBS 2003.

We have folder redirection enabled for the my doucments folder to the user's
shared folder.

We know that certain file types are excluded from offline use
synchronisation like .PST and .MDB. However I ran into unexpected behaviour
trying to restore a backup of SBS2K "Users shared folders" to SBS2003 "Users
shared folders". During the backup I received errors that the disk size was
not big enough for the files .PST and .MDB to be restored.

Now this is a 12GB backup file to a disk with 28GB free! If I click ignore
it takes ages to finish but it finishes eventually. Never exceeding the
12GB. The backup and restore is done with Windows Backup.

These files are placed in the location of the redirected my documents,
meaning the servers share for backup reasons. They are not corrupt at the
SBS2000 share, opening and compacting in Outlook or Access gives no errors
or problems.

What is going on here? Can this be safely ignored?

TIA,

Fred

Some info on Offline use of mentioned file types:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30583168/sync-warning-when-loggin.aspx

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] - 10 Jul 2008 12:13 GMT

Disk Quota (per user) on the SBS 2003 drive?

How do I. Manage disk quotas on Windows server operating systems
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6117811.html

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> I am studying the pitfalls of moving from SBS2000 to SBS 2003.
>
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> Some info on Offline use of mentioned file types:
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30583168/sync-warning-when-loggin.aspx

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Fred B. - 10 Jul 2008 15:04 GMT

Hi Merv,

I checked quota management and it is indeed enabled. The users effected
where still below there warning and disk limit. I changed their settings and
will try again latter restoring the backup to see if there is different
behavior.

Thanks,

Fred

> Disk Quota (per user) on the SBS 2003 drive?
>
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>> Some info on Offline use of mentioned file types:
>> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30583168/sync-warning-when-loggin.aspx

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Fred B. - 11 Jul 2008 08:16 GMT

I changed their disk quota and now the backup was restored without a
warning.

The error message was misleading.

Thanks!

Fred

> Hi Merv,
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>>> Some info on Offline use of mentioned file types:
>>> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30583168/sync-warning-when-loggin.aspx

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