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Hi everybody,

I found Incremental Images, that were made on Saturday night, ~500MB in size. Even though no one was at work that day, i.e. since the Friday evening increment.

Is there any way or tool to find out which files are responsible for an Incremental Image? 

TIA

Bernie

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No, but here are the things that generally matter. The backup is made by streaming any sectors that have been written to since the last full/inc backup in the set, so moving a file from one directory to another while cause all it's sectors to be in the next inc. If you defrag, every "moved" sector will be picked up. If you have Vista, the volume shadow copy Vista uses for Restore creates a copy of most of the disk and this can add lots of bytes to an inc, depending on when it's made. And of course, any files you actually open for writing with any of your programs, sa opening a Doc with Word, is going to mark all its sectors and they'll be picked up in the next inc.

bernhard stumpf wrote:

Hi everybody,

I found Incremental Images, that were made on Saturday night, ~500MB in size. Even though no one was at work that day, i.e. since the Friday evening increment.

Is there any way or tool to find out which files are responsible for an Incremental Image? 

TIA

Bernie

If its not a defrag issue then you could use a tool such as Agent Ransack, which is a file search program, and do a search for source files that were modified between certain dates/times.