> I have several W2K servers that can't back up the system=20
> files, causing
> the nightly backups to fail and the scheduler service to stop (even if
> it is set to restart on failure).  If the backup window hasn't expired
> it sometimes, but not always, keeps trying to run the backup over and
> over again until the window has expired, but never completes
> successfully.  The status shows up as a ?.  I can manually=20
> backup all of
> the local drives, and all system objects except for system files. =20

The Windows Client manual stipulates that you should exclude System Files,
and a sample exclude list is provided with the install.