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Scheduled Task for the Shadow Copies of Shared Folders Feature May Not Run on a Windows Server 2003 Cluster


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Symptoms

On a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 cluster, the scheduled tasks for the Shadow Copies of Shared Folders feature may not run.

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Cause

This behavior occurs after failover from one node to another node in a cluster if the %systemroot% variable is different on the nodes in the cluster. For example, if the %systemroot% variable on node 1 points to C:\Windows, and if the %systemroot% variable on node 2 points to C:\Winnt, the scheduled task does not run after a failover from node 1 to node 2.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section of this article.

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More information

The Shadow Copies of Shared Folders feature uses scheduled tasks to create shadow copies on a user-defined schedule. The Shadow Copies of Shared Folders feature also supports clusters, and the scheduled tasks will failover from node to node as necessary.

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Keywords: KB828259, kbbug, kbstoragemgmt, kbwinservsetup, kbwinserv2003presp1fix

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Article Info
Article ID : 828259
Revision : 7
Created on : 10/30/2006
Published on : 10/30/2006
Exists online : False
Views : 258