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Ted Toal, Sierra Video Systems
I have set Windows Backup in my Vista Home Premium for daily backups at 7
a.m. to an external hard drive. It has been working just fine six months.
Suddenly it began failing with the error:
Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. (0x8007000E)
The listed backup location, E:, is correct that is the external hard drive.
It is 279GB in size, of which 178GB are free. The drive being backed up,
C:, is a 372GB drive with 216GB free. The backups have always been
incremental and used anywhere from several KB to half a GB each time. There
is plenty of storage available.
The same error happens now each time Windows Backup runs. The event log
shows the error, and looking back in time, I see that it started on Jan. 9,
2008. Two things happened on this date that may be related:
1. I just happened to do a restore on that date, from the backup drive,
using Windows Backup, of two files. The restore worked just fine and I see
no reason why this would cause the backup to stop working.
2. (Much more suspicious). Six automatic updates were installed, all
successfully, according to the update history. However, the event log shows
MANY entries relating to the installation of these updates, including early
ones that were ERROR entries and later ones that were just warnings.
Interestingly, the first such ERROR occurred only 15 minutes BEFORE my last
successful backup completed, and said this:
Windows Servicing failed to complete the process of changing update
943411-112_RTM_neutral_PACKAGE from package KB943411(Security Update) into
Staging(Staging) state
It appears that the auto-update system failed the first time it tried,
perhaps because WinBackup was running, and tried again later and succeeded,
causing WinBackup to begin failing.
Any ideas?
a.m. to an external hard drive. It has been working just fine six months.
Suddenly it began failing with the error:
Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. (0x8007000E)
The listed backup location, E:, is correct that is the external hard drive.
It is 279GB in size, of which 178GB are free. The drive being backed up,
C:, is a 372GB drive with 216GB free. The backups have always been
incremental and used anywhere from several KB to half a GB each time. There
is plenty of storage available.
The same error happens now each time Windows Backup runs. The event log
shows the error, and looking back in time, I see that it started on Jan. 9,
2008. Two things happened on this date that may be related:
1. I just happened to do a restore on that date, from the backup drive,
using Windows Backup, of two files. The restore worked just fine and I see
no reason why this would cause the backup to stop working.
2. (Much more suspicious). Six automatic updates were installed, all
successfully, according to the update history. However, the event log shows
MANY entries relating to the installation of these updates, including early
ones that were ERROR entries and later ones that were just warnings.
Interestingly, the first such ERROR occurred only 15 minutes BEFORE my last
successful backup completed, and said this:
Windows Servicing failed to complete the process of changing update
943411-112_RTM_neutral_PACKAGE from package KB943411(Security Update) into
Staging(Staging) state
It appears that the auto-update system failed the first time it tried,
perhaps because WinBackup was running, and tried again later and succeeded,
causing WinBackup to begin failing.
Any ideas?