Help WITH A FILE SERVER

I was investigating why I have lost so much space on the system drive (c I found a file called "_BEVspCacheFile_24.TMP" it is in the root. I cant find anything about it!!! The sucker is 12 GIG!!! HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!

 

its a .TMP file... so should be safe to delete it. Windows 2003 Server is it? or XP? Do you have Shadow Copy service running by any chance?

Please provide OS version, basic hardware specs and any roles youve set it up to have, if youre into the whole roles thing, and a list of running services would be nice too.

Also the properties of the file would be good

 

It is running on 2000 sevrer. I am the admin on the box. I cant delete it! I will look at it some more and get back to you.

 

Oh, and also what servers do you have running on this? you just using it as a file server only? i dont think smb shares (which is what i think youre using) generate any tmp files... make sure youve got no extra services you dont need running on the box, in other words lock it down. Try a restart, see if whatever process thats trying to access that file leaves go of it.

 

You can always boot into safe mode.

If it's in the root directory, you can even boot to the Recovery Console and delete it.

A quick google on the first part of the filename came up with this:

As near I can tell, it's a temp file for Advanced Open File Option from VERITAS Backup Exec.

 

How on earth did you manage to find that! I googled it (with wildcards and everthing) and i got nothing! Google skillz in action!

 

I googled "_BEVspCacheFile". It got one hit.

I mean, I'm a mad haxx0r! Ph33r my ub3r-l33t skillz!

 

You are da man!!! TY. I am not going into the office today due to the passing of my grandmother last week, but I will attempt to fix it VIA Terminal Services. More to come later..... Thanks a lot dude!!!

 

No, he's "da chicken"

IF that file proves to be too stubborn even for the recovery console (doubt it), you can use DelLater to nuke it. If not it's still a nice little proggie to have in your toolbox.