ATI 2011 Losing Track of Backups
I have a problem where I think ATI 2011 is losing track of the backups during incremental backing up. The backups are using way too much disk space on my drive containing the backups. I am being told that I am running out of disk space on the backup drive, and it does not compute. I try consolidation, and I don't get any feeling that files are being merged or consolidated. I think ATI 2011 has a backup file management problem, or I need to know how to tell it to do see all these backups and do something about them.
My backup approach is about as simple as you can get: I just to do Partition backups, incrementally usually every 4 weeks. (I keep only one special backup, which is an image of the partitions when the system was clean-installed back in October.)
The partitions getting backed up are on my laptop, where I have two physical drives: a 320 GB and 100 GB. The 320 GB is partitioned into two logicals, which Windows Vista (Home Prem 32-bit) sees as C: (name=OS) and Z: (name=DATA2). The 100 GB drive Windows sees as one logical partition D: (name=DATA). All are NTFS.
The drive containing the backups is a single physical drive, 1000 GB in size, externally connected to a USB for the purpose. It has about 5 partitions, 3 of which are used to run a Linux (emergency OS), and one large one (805 GB) used basically as an archive. Windows see this 805 GB NTFS partitiion as F: (name=Massive Archive). I keep all Acronis backups in the path F:\__Backups\Acronis\. The listing looks like this:
F:\___Backups\Acronis\
| Name | Size (KB) | Last Modified |
|---|---|---|
| D-Drive2011-03-03.tib | 70671 | 03-Mar-2011 06:48:44 |
| D-Drive2011-03-02.tib | 2427882 | 03-Mar-2011 06:48:33 |
| D-Drive2011-03-0.tib | 2427882 | 03-Mar-2011 06:44:40 |
| ZDrive2011-03-032.tib | 16394942 | 03-Mar-2011 02:58:44 |
| ZDrive2011-03-03.tib | 63934960 | 03-Mar-2011 02:37:27 |
| ZDrive2011-03-02.tib | 3231775 | 02-Mar-2011 16:41:48 |
| D-Drive2011-01-30.tib | 1254257 | 30-Jan-2011 19:29:00 |
| C-Drive(1).tib | 47576581 | 30-Jan-2011 19:03:34 |
| C-Drive.tib | 42591879 | 29-Jan-2011 21:56:33 |
| ZDrive2010-12-28.tib | 60532230 | 28-Dec-2010 16:53:18 |
| Partition_backup_OSC_DATA2Z(1).tib | 59617787 | 17-Oct-2010 21:47:22 |
| System State_14 Oct 2010.tib | 4709192 | 14-Oct-2010 11:02:46 |
Note all the TIB files in the table above are sorted by Last Modified date, the newest date at the top.
The ATI Home 2011 interface sees FIVE backup files as follows:
1. D-Drive total 5.04 GB Updated 3 Mar 2011 00:20
2. ZDrive total 134.34 GB Updated 3 Mar 2011 00:04
3. C-Drive total 40.62 GB Updated 3 Mar 2011 00:21
* last backup canceled by user: i did not cancel...log shows it running out of disk space!
4. System State_14 Oct 2010 total 4.49 GB
5. Partition backup (OSC) (DATA2Z) total 56.86 GB
So I see 12 items in the F:\__Backups\Acronis in the table above, and ATI Home 2011 shows it is managing 5 total backups, despite my attempts at consolidation so that I can see what TIB files are under ATI control and which are not!
also, you probalby need to plug inthe USB to the same port each time or it may get a diff drive letter assignment, and ATI will think it's a new location with backup files.