error creating archive of just 1 particular snapshot

hey guys, i have right now 5 or 6 snapshots with archives on a seperate disk, and everything runs fine, except one problem: 1 of my snapshots refuses to allow itself to be archived. i am not trying to archive it from within the snapshot, but from another snapshot. i have no idea what the trouble could be, anyone have thoughts? thanks in advance.

edit:note that the snapshot allows itself to be copied to another new snapshot, but just not an archive

 

Re: error creating archive of just 1 paticular snapshot

I have no idea either, this is certainly not normal.
Did you run "chkdsk /f" on your harddisk, maybe it has bad clusters.

 

i got it working guys, i renamed the snapshot, and then i could make an archive of it- i have no idea what was up with it

 

chrome,
Do you remember the name ?

 

the name was "game/movie snap"-you think the slash had anything to do with it?

 

Thanks man, I'm going to try it and report later.

 

I guess that settles it then- thanks again as always for the help men ;-)

 

So I did some testing :

1. Copy/Update FROM "one of my snapshots" TO "game/movie snap" (new snapshot) - all NORMAL.
2. Then I booted in snapshot "game/movie snap"
3. Copy/Update FROM "game/movie snap" TO "Archive of game/movie snap"
The copy was quickly finished, because it stopped right after scanning the folders.

Processing screen : No files copied or deleted. Errors 1; 12 seconds + this popup screen :
FirstDefense-ISR Error : Cannot create archive file: "Archive of game/movie snap"

04/11/2007 16:43:45 Copying snapshot "game/movie snap" to "Archive of game/movie snap"
04/11/2007 16:43:45 Starting Open File Technology (OFT) service for drive C:
04/11/2007 16:43:45 Preparing to copy
04/11/2007 16:43:58 Error - Archive of game/movie snap: The system cannot find the path specified.
04/11/2007 16:43:58 Windows error number 0x3
04/11/2007 16:43:58 No files copied or deleted; Errors 1; 00:00:12.625

So it didn't work, even after trying again. I was stupified.
So I continued my testing

1. Renamed the snapshot into "game movie snap" (replacing the "/" with a space)
2. Copy/Update FROM "game movie snap" TO "Archive of game movie snap"
This time everything was NORMAL and it created the archived snapshot with the right name.

Congrats SIR chrome_sturmen, you found a bug.
FDISR should not allow a "/" in a snapshot name, but it DOES and that is unacceptable.

EDIT :
I reported this bug to Raxco. I'm looking forward to their answer (they never replied to any of my emails).
Maybe I will see the difference between the American way of programming and the Belgian way of programming.

 

Latest update on the "/"-issue :
I received an email from Raxco :

 

wow good work eric, and to think i discovered that bug while posting on and off in between doing yard work ;-)

thanks again to everyone for the help

 

Thanks. It was a small bug, but I don't like bugs in software, I work daily with. So you did a good job.
Peter discovered more important bugs in FDISR, which have also been corrected in the past.

Raxco gave me also the latest build 202 of FDISR and I don't know what to do with it, because I thought build 202 was still in BETA or is this a final version ?

 

ErikAlbert:

actually i just checked out the site, and it looks like build 202 is official at this point, thanks for the heads up, i just updated ;-)

link:http://67.106.184.139.ptr.us.xo.net/support/windows/updates.cfm