This is normal when you're doing your first pass and backing up "the box". You should either ignore those errors or exclude them from the backup. Depending on how you've optimised the Exchange you could exclude the entire folder. Only do this if the log files, which also sit in an MDBDATA directory, are in a different directory than the directory that the pub and priv files sit in. -----Original Message----- From: Denise Dorrance [mailto:denisedorrance@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:04 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Arcserve backup - clear up this confusion http://www.MSExchange.org/ I'm using Arcserve 2000 to backup my Exchange 5.5 server. When I attempt to backup the priv and pub .edb it won't backup. It tells me that there is a sharing violation. I do have the agent. When I look at my backup job I'm backing up D$\exchsrvr\MDBDATA\PUB.EDB and D$\exchsrvr\MDBDATA\PRIV.EDB and C:\exchsrvr\dsadata\temp.edb and c:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\tmp.edb. All I see is (SHARING VIOLATION). I don't know if this is normal because down below I see that I am backing up dbaexch\Information Store. If I am backing up the Information Store then do I really have to back up these others? I'm really confused at this point... Thanks!! _________________________________________________________________ <b>Get MSN 8</b> and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: marnold@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')