You tried to do Exchange Information Store backup onto a Samba share. It failed, because you didn't have enough disk space. You engage ‚Replace‘ instead of ‚Append‘ as you intended in the first place. And NTBackup fails with this error message, right after first information store log file. You fiddle three hours with Samba settings, shutdown all bridged virtual machines on server hosting the share, and finally you close the f*cking NTBackup window and start it over… and suddenly you can go to sleep :) Thanks to experts-exchange. Did you notice they no longer ROT13 the solution, instead, plain text is situated some 7 pages below? Just read the problem description and press End… ;) Or update your greasemonkey script.
The network disk drive has stopped responding. Backup set aborted.
February 5th, 2008 00:58
Frank
May 25th, 2008 08:36
That just saved me some frustration at 3:30am, thanks!
- Frank
terry
September 17th, 2008 03:28
hey budy this just happened to me …sounds crazy but just googled and found your page :) its 3.26 am uk time as well lol
Don
September 30th, 2009 13:31
First, It worked.
Second, I laughed my a** off.
Thank you for both!
February 3rd, 2010 10:28
Wow; saved me probably hours!
Incidentally this happened to me not with samba but when backing up to a share served using the solaris kernel implementation of CIFS on a sun unified storage 7000 series machine.
Lexa
April 7th, 2010 11:43
Thank you! My sleep for tonight is saved :)
NZNS
April 21st, 2010 19:54
Thanks a lot – another of Microsoft's stupid quirks – saved me a lot of time
TeeC
October 24th, 2011 14:36
Sometimes if you are getting „The network disk drive has stopped
responding. Backup set aborted“ in NTBackup on Exchange, you simply need to
restart NTBackup.
Please do not delete your log files as a first option. You need to ensure they
have been committed to the database before they can be removed.
October 24th, 2011 15:03
You're of course right, I did not mention that deleting exchange logs is an option at all :)