The specified network name is no longer available!

[mark]

Error 64 <0x00000040> copying file "filename" The specified network name is no longer available

This is the error message I get when trying to run a simple robocopy command to backup my user home areas to a remote server.

i'm using robocopy with switch /MIR

'tho when it runs it lists the options as: /S /E /COPYAT /PURGE /MIRROR

Strange cos I thought /E and /S did different things - no files in subdirectories and files in subdirectories.

This has run fine for a couple of weeks. I've checked no-one has the files open and permissions on the source are fine. Only certain files are causing the error - or the link is up and down like a yoyo - seems to halt on different files each time.

help anyone?

[sahmeepee]

The 2 posts with that error on google groups both mention large files and suggest some sort of network timeout.

Possible ideas:

Are you running it at the same PC?
Is there anything else affecting the speed of your network?
Are there any multi-gigabyte files knocking about in there?

[mark]

Yes - i'm running it from the same server
No - don't think so - not at this time! - but seems like this is the chief suspect
No - the files aren't big