Out Of System Resources on XP Pro/SP2

[drew1701d]

Hi
Heres the problem
Transferring backup files to an external 500GB eSATA drive on my workstation (XP Pro w/SP2)for off-site storage is failing with the message "Out Of System Resources", the backup files total in size of 400GB, currently stored on a SAN in our server room, copying the files over the network takes a while obviously but my workstation never finishes the copy procedure, I have a Dell Precision 610 with 4GB of RAM, my page file is statically set to double that at 8GB. and storage wise locally I have about 800GB free.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks

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[chipk]

How are you moving the files? Copy/Paste, NTBackup, xcopy? Whatever you're doing, have you tried another method?

 

[drew1701d]

I've tried copy/paste and xcopy, I have not tried NTBackup, which may be my next move. I also noticed under advanced properties performance that the Memory Usage field was set to system cache. I changed that to programs and rebooted and again am attempting to copy the files.

"I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

 

[chipk]

If you tried xcopy from the command line, you should be able to capture the errorlevel in your script after the xcopy command dies...if it ever does.

You would just do:

echo %errorlevel% > outfile.txt

errorlevel 4 is low memory.

 

[PRPhx]

Hmm. Very strange. I move gigs of data at a time, never had this problem. And I only have 2 gigs of ram. The files I move are generally zipped SQL Server backups.

The files come off my SQL Server, directly to my pc. How many files are you trying to move at one time? Would be interesting to know excatly which resources your running out of.

 

[chipk]

You have 400 GB SQL backups? I backup 30-40 GB files all the time, but 400 GB is a different ball game altogether.

 

[drew1701d]

xcopy just hangs and doesn't return an error level, so if my current tweak fails I may check for corruption in either data or on the drive

"I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

 

[drew1701d]

I'm moving 132 files which add up to 400Gigs, these are backups from various sources, some SQL, some Windows

 

[chipk]

That's a lot of data to move around without a commercial solution. Kudos to you for making it work. I'm sure that saves some $$.

 

[firewolfrl]

This may fix your problem
Third-party programs that require lots of memory do not run in Windows XP Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894472/en-us

this updates the Xpsp2res.dll file
the update you have to call for
is WindowsXP-KB894472-x86-ENU.exe

when there is a new service pack out this fix will be part of it.

This fix fixes alot of issues and also fixes some of those pesky copy issues.

 

[linney]

Cannot Copy or Save Files Larger than 150MB

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ources"+copy+xp&rnum=5&hl=en#d03bdc15585422a9

Copying Files from USB-HD to internal HD: Explorer Out of Memory !

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1183507&SiteID=1

Win XP Pro Delayed Write Failure Message

http://bermangraphics.com/problems/delayedwritefailure.htm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=problem+copying+gb+large+file+xp&btnG=Search

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...+xp&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg