Insufficient System Resources Code 1450 while copying many files

Question

Hi,

we are trying to copy a very large amount of files (> 1,5 Mio) from a networkshare to a local disk by using ROBOCOPY. The files are organized in a complex folder-structure and have moderate filesize (about 100-200kbyte). After copying around 20Gbyte, ROBOCOPY throws an error 1450: "Insufficient System Resources to complete...", and copy operation is stalled.

There are no problems regarding the free storage place on the local disc, and the networkshare is alive (checked on another PC, because the stalled PC has no longer connection to any networkshare). We have also tried RichCopy and even the XP-Explorer, giving the same result. The same error appears when we use ROBOCOPY sequentially, that is copying one special folder with moderate size, terminating ROBOCOPY and restart with the next folder. Only after a complete restart of the PC it is workable again.

As it is very cumbersome to do the copywork in this way, a solution for this problem would be very appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to tell robocopy to fix their bug.  I ran into the same issue with GoodSync, trying to copy a 71GB file.  I tried the explorer, I tried xcopy, and got the same result.  I wrote a java program to copy the file that gracefully handles the 1450 and retries, RoboCopy could too...

Answer 2

in my case, I was copying production data to our pre-prod environment sql servers. issue was there was a sql job that was hogging resources. Check your task manager. could be as simple as killing a runaway process. reboot will most definitely do that but might be an extreme case scenario

Answer 3

The error states --- Insufficient System Resources --- I would try rebooting the system? It appears there's a resource contention on the server and you can either stop those task that are running if you know that you can stop them, or you can reboot to ensure you cleanup all of the cached processes running as well, I would try this before diving into something deeper.