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After a Windows "Patch Tuesday" update, if I start FBackup normally (or let a job start) it'll pop-up a message asking if I want to re-start a service (don't recall if mentions Fbackup service or IPC service) but it just sticks in a loop repeatedly asking that. If you choose to to restart ...

I usually find that after a Windows update that I need to run FBackup with "Run as Admin" once, otherwise the IPC Service won't start. After that it works fine until the next Windows update.

This issue is reported to be fixed in build 221 [change log]. Build 223 is now available and I'm installing that now...

I've been advised that this has been ticketed to be fixed, but understandably no timetable on that.

OK, a third job has produced these same warnings. This time the resulting files are small enough to zip and email. Sent now.

I can add further, for information, that second backup job using 9.0.198, a little smaller, also generated a similar set of warnings during the test phase about missing folders despite having already logged that the contents of folder were saved. However, a third, much smaller job has just completed...

I'll add a "me too" on this topic - I've also just upgraded from v8 to v9, migrated across my jobs and the first one I run reports 2911 Warnings for folders reported as missing from the backup zip during test (it's only ever entire folders that are reported missing, not files). Checking th...

I had the same issue after updating from 7.4 to 8.0.122 - backup jobs taking 3x-6x longer than normal and with many files skipped with the "TLFNFileStream.CreateFile failed (srFileOpenError)" warning. Updating to 8.0.129 seemed to help a bit - backup jobs seemed a little quicker and there ...