I have seen 2 occasions when a windows directory was "emptied" by
some windows function. First in win 95 and then again in Win2000.

Both of those occasions was accross a reboot, and both times the directories
were on the path list.

rcb


Cavanagh, Kevin B wrote:

> We are having a rather strange problem with a Windows 2000 client 
> we?re backing up.
>
> Our master server is a Sunfire 280R running Solaris 9 and NBU 
> Datacentre V4.5 FP5. The backup for this particular server has worked 
> fine for several months but on 2 occasions recently, the backup has 
> failed with:
>
> Subject: Backup on server_a - 57
>
> Backup on client server_a by root failed.
>
> Status = client connection refused.
>
> File list
>
> ---------
>
> C:\
>
> We check to make sure the NetBackup service is running on the client. 
> It?s stopped. Attempts to restart fail with:
>
> Unable to start service ?NetBackup INET Daemon?. The system cannot 
> find the file specified.
>
> When we check the the client to see if the NetBackup files are there 
> (in ?Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\Bin?), all files are gone. The 
> first time it happened, we thought it was odd but simply reinstalled 
> the NBU client software and things worked fine for a few days but it 
> happened again last night.
>
> Has anyone seen this behaviour before???
>
> TIA!
>
> Kevin Cavanagh
>