{"id":129603,"date":"2009-12-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652419620964346731.post-5338178264247602133"},"modified":"2009-12-10T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:00:00","slug":"backup-exec-v-79-57344-33928-access-is-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/129603","title":{"rendered":"Backup Exec – V-79-57344-33928 – Access is denied"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have been reading the blog regularly for the last three of four months, you know that I recently had the pleasure of setting up a Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 server. I did the best I could, but I frankly was not that familiar with the product.<\/p>\n

Well, I just got a new boss who is a wizard with Backup Exec and showed me a really good way of setting it up. Now I am in the process of tweaking some of the selection lists, and troubleshooting some errors here and there.<\/p>\n

One error I came across was the following:<\/p>\n

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Backup- \\\\<servername>\\C: <\/b>
V-79-57344-33928 – Access is denied<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Access denied? WTF? The account I was using was a local administrator. I looked at the permissions of C: and administrators had full control. What could it be? I tried to edit the security of C: but I got an access denied for that too. I tried taking ownership, but got an access denied for that as well. WTF?<\/p>\n

Did any of you guess UAC<\/a>? If so, you just won a pat on the back! UAC was on, and was denying access for Backup Exec. I went to control panel, and opened up User Accounts to turn off UAC, but when I clicked the Turn User Account Control On or Off<\/strong> link nothing happened. <\/p>\n

I had to use an alternative method of turning off UAC. What I did was:<\/p>\n