Deployment Solution

File Preservation Folder Name with Spaces Causes Deploy Image Task Failure

Symptoms:

1. Generic Failure with error code 1

        2. GhostErr.txt file displays the following information

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Date   : Mon Feb 20 10:10:11 2012
Error Number: 19010
Message: Arguments must be preceded with a '-' or a '/'
Version: (Jun 28 2011, Build=4112
OS Version: Professional Service Pack 1 (Build 6001)
Command line arguments: -preserveifexists=C:\File Preservation=\File Preservation -preservedest=1 -batch -sure -clone,mode=restore,dst=1,src=\\<Site Server Name>\deployment\task handler\image\19c0bd26-b742-4e58-acb1-6455cebbb87e\hiiwin7.gho
Active Switches :
       AutoName
Thread #1316 Call Stack
ProcessArgumentsToPass

Solution:

A File Preservation Source Path and/or Destination Path with spaces in it corrupts the Ghost command line parameters and causes the failure. Remove the spaces in these fields in order to correct the issue.