[Pc_Support] Disabled Exchange 2000 account bombing Veritas BackupExec 9.1?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:00 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> Here's the story.  On Monday I disabled two accounts in the Active
> Directory tree and moved them out of their original OU into an OU for
> disabled accounts.  Immediately after this the daily Veritas BackupExec
> 9.1 backup started giving the following error:
> Backup - \\SRV001\Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes 
> Directory not found. Can not backup directory John Doe [johndoe] and its
> subdirectories.
> I searched online and there were somewhat cryptic instructions about
> missing attributes in the active directory entry for that user.  Thing
> is, it was working just fine before the backup, so why would changing
> what I presume is one flag change anything?  And, also, there are about
> a dozen other disabled accounts in that disabled-accounts OU none of
> which give any problems.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I know I've seen that before, but I can't remember.  I want to say it
has to do with the fact that not all the attributes were moved, and some
attributes still remain in the original OU like you have an entry in
each (but you can't see the original anymore).

But I could be totally off the mark.  I can't remember where I saw this
before.  It wasn't an error I got in backup, but I had an issue where a
move of an object from one OU to another actually ended up being
incomplete and the object was in both -- some attributes still in the
original, the others in the new.

I know my solution was to down the server and repair the ADS tree off-
line.


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