No address for SFCAPI:SfcIsFileProtected 1

[wmg]

Yesterday, we began initial testing of 6.1.1 clients (backing up to a 6.0.2 server for now) on Windows NT.

Our lab machine is getting the above error reported for EVERY single save set on each subsequent backup performed since the upgrade to 6.1.1.

Any ideas guys?

Thanks
wmg

 

[seasi]

You get this information only because NT4 don't have SFCAPI.
You can read about it on Microsoft.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q222473

 

[wmg]

Thanks for that Hoob - I just heard back from our vendor who said that it looks like it is because we are running NT4 and not Windows 2000 - that we can just ignore the message.

Seems funny that the Legato client doesn't check to see what version of NT it is being run on before looking for that API eh? Rather easy thing to do really....

Oh well..

Regards
wmg

 

[wmg]

For anyone who's interested.....

Legato has said: "It's a Microsoft problem - Legato sees from the registry that SFC is installed and tries to call it" They quote a TID that refers only to Win2k servers.

Reality: The Legato client doesn't look in the registry but on the environment path and finds a file called sfc.dll (in the SQL\BINN directory. It then assumes that the SFCAPI is installed (bit of a quantum leap there) and tries to make SFCAPI calls - which obviously fail.

Fix: Remove the SQL\BINN directory from the path and the error goes away. Not sure of the impact to the SQL server though.....one would assume that the path is there for a reason???