I've read quite a number of articles on the backup failures associated with permissions, etc. associated with files in the \windows\winsxs\FileMaps directory. After trying them (including recommended patches) and finally locating a good troubleshooting email thread I moved all of the contents to a temp directory and then copied them back until the backup failed again. After a process of elimination I determined the single file creating the failure of the backup (failed starting 'System Writer') was due to the presence or error in the file:
C:\Windows\winsxs\FileMaps\programdata_microsoft_user_account_pictures_default_pictures_e70ab2484087f163.cdf-ms
Now I have successfully moved the user and programdata directories to my D: drive since I have a 120GB SSD and wish to keep C: storage to minimum. There are junction points to from C:\user and C:\programdata over to the D: directories physical paths and everything works perfectly with the exception of the backup. When I simply remove the file name shown above from the FileMaps directory the backup completes just fine. But I am worried that the absence of the file from the FileMaps directory could have an impact on the recovery of the backup image and just uncomfortable with the need to manually remove and replace this file for a backup to succeed.
The error info is shown:
Cryptographic Services failed while processing the OnIdentity() call in the System Writer Object.
Details:
AddCoreCsiFiles : RtlConvertNtFilePathToWin32Path() failed.
System Error:
0xC0000039 (unresolvable).
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2
[ Guid] {5bbca4a8-b209-48dc-a8c7-b23d3e5216fb}
[ EventSourceName] Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2
- EventID 513
[ Qualifiers] 0
Version 0
Level 2
Task 0
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8080000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2013-08-01T00:47:59.646937600Z
EventRecordID 1868
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 1092
[ ThreadID] 3152
Any help would be appreciated. Even if it is to say that removing and replacing the file for backups is OK.
-Scott