BleepingComputer.com: Cobian 10 problems

Hi,

I'm stuck at the very beginning of this process. I know it said not to post logs of things, but I didn't know whether that rule applied to backing up your files.

Cobian 10 for Windows 7 keeps running into an error that shuts it down. I made up a drive Z:\ and then I tried to run it on a drive J:\

2012-01-12 22:28 This might be only a fragment of the log file. To see the whole log file, select Log-Open log files
2012-01-12 22:28 *** A new backup has begun. Number of tasks in queue: 1 ***
2012-01-12 22:29 Preventing the system from entering Sleep mode
2012-01-12 22:29 Applying parameters to the task "0112 2 12"
2012-01-12 22:29 ** Starting backup for the task "0112 2 12" **
2012-01-12 22:29 Calculating the number of files to backup for the task "0112 2 12"
2012-01-12 22:29 If your unpacker cannot handle the zip archives created by Cobian Backup 10, see the FAQ
2012-01-12 22:29 Starting the Volume Shadow Copy snapshot for the drives: C:\
2012-01-12 22:29 The Volume Shadow Copy snapshot set has been created successfully
2012-01-12 22:29 Creating the destination directory "J:\"
2012-01-12 22:29 The destination directory "J:\" was successfully created
ERR 2012-01-12 22:36 An error occurred when creating or refreshing the archive "J:\C 2012-01-12 22;29;28.zip": Cannot create file "\\?\J:\C 2012-01-12 22;29;28.zip". The system cannot find the path specified
2012-01-12 22:36 The history file for "0112 2 12" will not be saved because the result of the backup is empty
2012-01-12 22:36 Deleting the Volume Shadow Copy snapshot "67333b70-c023-4547-9442-b46d78ce2d0a"
2012-01-12 22:36 The Volume Shadow Copy snapshot set has been successfully deleted
2012-01-12 22:36 *** Task "0112 2 12" finished. Processed files: 253518. Backed up files: 0. Errors: 1 ***
2012-01-12 22:36 ** The backup of "0112 2 12" has ended. Elapsed time for the task: 0 hour(s), 7 minute(s), 4 second(s) **
2012-01-12 22:36
2012-01-12 22:36 The system can now enter Sleep mode
2012-01-12 22:36 Total elapsed time for all the backed up tasks: Hours: 0, Minutes: 7, Seconds: 8
2012-01-12 22:36 *** Backup finished. Processed files: 253518. Backed up files: 0. Errors: 1 ***
2012-01-12 22:46 The task "0112 2 12" has been deleted
2012-01-12 22:46 The task list has been reloaded: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cobian Backup 10\DB\MainList.lst"
2012-01-12 22:47 The general settings have been changed
2012-01-12 22:47 The settings have been reloaded

Any suggestions, please?

(Moderator edit: post moved to more appropriate forum.jgw)

This post has been edited by jgweed: 13 January 2012 - 03:39 AM

And it looks like I posted the same question twice, sorry. Firefox hung up when I tried to post it the first time and I didn't think it had gone through. I switched to Chrome and am not having problems now.

If Chrome would let me put the menu bar up there, I'd use it more often. =)

I removed the other duplicate post, and moved this into the Windows7 Forum, where help might be more forthcoming.
Cheers,
John

Thank you!

http://www.cobiansoft.com/forum/yaf_postst10_Network-source-or-destination-not-found.aspx

This article details several different reasons why cobian fails in the way yours is.

This post has been edited by LucheLibre: 13 January 2012 - 06:09 PM

LucheLibre, on 13 January 2012 - 06:08 PM, said:

Thank you. Cobian was running as an application and I started it with administrator privileges. There is a box under Tools, then Options, to "Automatically convert to UNC paths," which was already selected, but I tried \\server\J:\ anyway. I also started a program to wake up the server, just in case.

[...]
2012-01-14 04:31 Executing the Pre-backup events
2012-01-14 04:31 Executing "C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe"...
2012-01-14 04:31 The program will wait for the process to terminate
2012-01-14 04:31 The program or batch file "C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe" has been correctly executed
2012-01-14 04:31 Executing a "Pause" event. Pausing for "20" seconds
2012-01-14 04:31 If your unpacker cannot handle the zip archives created by Cobian Backup 10, see the FAQ
2012-01-14 04:31 Starting the Volume Shadow Copy snapshot for the drives: C:\
2012-01-14 04:32 The Volume Shadow Copy snapshot set has been created successfully
2012-01-14 04:32 Creating the destination directory "\\Server\J:\"
2012-01-14 04:32 The destination directory "\\Server\J:\" was successfully created
ERR 2012-01-14 04:48 An error occurred when creating or refreshing the archive "\\Server\J:\C 2012-01-14 04;32;47.zip": Cannot create file "\\?\UNC\Server\J:\C 2012-01-14 04;32;47.zip". The network path was not found
2012-01-14 04:48 The history file for "New task" will not be saved because the result of the backup is empty
2012-01-14 04:48 Deleting the Volume Shadow Copy snapshot "ee62637c-0c3a-4269-aeac-ddbf11cb5d06"
2012-01-14 04:48 The Volume Shadow Copy snapshot set has been successfully deleted
2012-01-14 04:48 *** Task "New task" finished. Processed files: 266136. Backed up files: 0. Errors: 1 ***
2012-01-14 04:48 ** The backup of "New task" has ended. Elapsed time for the task: 0 hour(s), 17 minute(s), 20 second(s) **
2012-01-14 04:48
2012-01-14 04:48 The system can now enter Sleep mode
2012-01-14 04:48 Total elapsed time for all the backed up tasks: Hours: 0, Minutes: 17, Seconds: 24
2012-01-14 04:48 *** Backup finished. Processed files: 266136. Backed up files: 0. Errors: 1 ***

I tried it again using J:\ to see if starting a program first was what the problem was. Apparently it wasn't. I got the same error:

ERR 2012-01-14 05:18 An error occurred when creating or refreshing the archive "J:\C 2012-01-14 05;13;14.zip": Cannot create file "\\?\J:\C 2012-01-14 05;13;14.zip". The system cannot find the path specified

I'll try asking in the forum on the Cobian site. Thank you for the pointers.