Hi all,
I have the FOLLOWING setup with my drives.
OS and programs - C:\ 240GB SSD
Games - D:\ 2x 500GB HDD in RAID 0
Backups - Z:\ 2TB HDD
As you can tell, this is a gaming machine that I've made.

The idea is that windows backup makes an image of both C and D drives, especially important with the RAID 0.
The PROBLEM is that it fails every time. It runs for a little while then just gives up. I've attached a screen shot of the error and it's code. I've tried a google search on the error code and couldn't really make sense of it.
Can someone give me a hand with this, please?
Thanks a lot,
Luke


[recovering disk space, attachment DELETED by admin]Some people have got that message if they are running antivirus REALTIME protection. If you are running any, as an experiment try stopping it and see if the backup now works. If so, you probably have some malware files on your system, possibly cached, which are getting picked up by the realtime protection as they are being copied, halting the volume shadow copy.


I've disabled and uninstalled Microsoft Security Essentials as I have Malware Bytes installed already, which I have cleared the quarantine folder, and temporarily disabled.
We'll see how it goes OK. It just failed again. I sat staring at it for over 40 minutes to see if I can see what it is failing on, but at the last second it shoots off with loads of directories on screen, then fails.
It seems as though removing Security Essentials didn't help. I've CHANGED the files that it needs to backup, removing the vast majority of Program Files from that checklist, and also gone into 'Services' and forced 'Shadow Copy Service' to start.
Now, we shall see if that helps at all..
*Fingers crossed*It is apparent that what you want is not what you get.
Did you already search Microsoft support? The backup software of windows does not correctly backup RAID drive. Nor can it restore it properly. This is mentioned in the Microsoft forums and other places.
Here is a post that mentions the issue.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/92cc38a7-88f5-4b79-8ae0-8d209b4eae86/whs-backup-requirements
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...Unfortunately, backing up an arbitrarily large collection of data is a very difficult problem to solve at a price point that consumers will accept. Best practice is probably to maintain several (3+) sets of drives which offer as much storage as your main array....