Windows 7 “Backup completed but some files were skipped”

Question

I set up Windows 7 Pro to backup my files to a network path (woohoo!) and chose to backup "data for newly created users, libraries", and my user folder (no system image).

All went fine (although the first backup took ~12 hours for some ridiculous reason), but at the end it gave me a message that "Your backup completed, but some files were skipped. Click to see which files."

I checked and the "files" skipped were my 3 network-mapped drives, which is perfectly fine and reasonable behavior (I certainly don't need it to back up my network-mapped drives as part of my local PC backup), but in the Backup and Restore center it warns me that my Last backup was "Never" and the Action Center now has a permanent "Check your backup results" issue. Is there any way to set up the backup to exclude the network-mapped drives or tell it that I really don't mind that it skipped drives I never asked it to back up?

Answer 1

Turns out it wasn't the network-mapped drives, but additional Library locations. When WHS installed, it added its shares to the appropriate libraries. Removing those from the libraries solved the problem. If you wanted to keep any network locations in the libraries, it looks like you'd have to put up with this error message.