Windows Backup nearly completes but fails with 0x81000001 error

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I've been trying for a long while to backup to a 1.5TB hard drive. I have my documents on my E: drive and my Windows 7 installation on my C: drive. Windows backup is set to backup my E: drive and also a system image to my backup I: drive. There's plenty of space on it - it's completely blank.

Every time I try to run Windows Backup, it almost completes, then at the last moment I'm told it's failed with error 0x81000001 - "an internal error", which isn't very informative.

I've run error checks on the backup hard drive and haven't found any problems. Also run sfc - no problems found.

Has anyone any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Anonymous

2010-09-19T13:50:07+00:00

Try either of these two product and see if you still have a backup issue.

Norton Ghost version 15 - has a 30 day trial available

http://www.symantec.com/norton/ghost

Supports: CDR/RW, DVD+-R/RW, Blu-Ray devices,USB and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices,Iomega® Zip® and Jaz® drives

(Trial does not allow you to create a Bootable Restore CD)

http://www.symantec.com/norton/downloads/trialsoftware/register.jsp?pvid=ghost15

User's Guide: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/15/manuals/ngh_15_user_guide.pdf

Acronis True Image 2011 - has a 30 day trial version available,

(Install Acronis and then create a Restore/Rescue Media CD before you start creating an image backup)

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

Version Comparison: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/comparison.html

True Image User Guides and documentation:

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/

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Anonymous

2010-09-26T08:26:02+00:00

I've made an interesting discovery with Windows Backup. By specifying specific folders for it to back up, I gradually narrowed it down all the way to one particular file that's 160GB in size. If I exclude this file from the backup, it completes successfully.

It's on an NTFS volume so I expected that it would be able to handle it. Is there a known problem with Windows Backup and very large files?
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Anonymous

2010-09-26T14:21:16+00:00

Can you do a copy and paste of this file 160GB from source location to the backup and restore destination?

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Anonymous

2010-09-27T14:40:19+00:00

Well, I can, but I'm really not satisfied with that as a solution - I really want Windows Backup to operate as the fire-and-forget strategy that it claims to be. Therefore, I would like to know if there are known problems with Windows Backup backing up large files.
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Anonymous

2010-09-27T14:50:44+00:00

Well I've never had to backup a single file that large. What I can tell you is that if the file is located somewhere in your 'Documents' folder it is Zipped and stored in a destination folder who's name is the same as your computer named. A second copy is stored in the System Image file.

Have you tried just a simple 'System Image' backup (option is located in upper left of Backup and Restore.

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