New full backup created? Why?...
I've got my settings to not create subsequent full backups:
but last night it created a giant, seemingly new full backup.
But why?...


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Was wird denn im "Aktivität" Tab angezeigt?
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What is shown in the "Activity" tab?
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No, no defragmenting or major changes at all. Since it's set to differential, will each subsequent week from now on be huge like that? (If so, I'd probably just opt to start a new full backup again to avoid giant, long-running backups. But I don't get it.)
Here's what the activity tab shows:
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The activity page is confirming the large new file is a differential so further backups will be of equal or larger size as it is always a comparison based on the initial full backup image.
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That's exactly what happened to me with my 2 HDD.
Both backups started doing a "-0001" version of them.
They were full versions, they took over 2 hours to make the backup, and they both were over 550GB size.
After a couple of weeks my 4TB HDDs have around 2.5TB left with, supposedly", one 550GB backup.
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Here the backup options page
Backup Scheme:
Fist activity:
Later activity
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Is this "new bug" (?!) due to some kind of update?
I've got ATI 2020, Build 38530
Harold Daniel Moreno Urbina wrote:That's exactly what happened to me with my 2 HDD.
Both backups started doing a "-0001" version of them.
They were full versions, they took over 2 hours to make the backup, and they both were over 550GB size.After a couple of weeks my 4TB HDDs have around 2.5TB left with, supposedly", one 550GB backup.
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Hello,
I do not know, because I just bought those HDDs 3 weeks ago.
I just want to have full backup of my laptop, with incremental changes because sometimes I need old files that I have changed.
The old WD Backup tool made a 2.5TB backup with incremental changes in 2-3 years. I would like more or less the same with this tool.
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Harold, this confirms what I suspected from your post in the ACPHO forum. You have set for 5 increments so after those are created it will produce a new Full backup with a new number on the file name.
Your cleanup rules are now set to delete versions over 183 days. Since you will have one new Full created every 6 days, you could potentially have 31 chains which would take a whole lot of space. I suggest changing the cleanup rules to store no more than X recent version chains... X being some number you are comfortable with.
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Thanks Bruno,
I understood those "5 increment versions" were for the individual files not the entire backup. So I will try with the "Create only incremental..."
Thanks.
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I agree, way t o many chains in your scheme. Further, you should probably change from an Incremental Backup scheme to a Custom Backup scheme leaving the Incremental Method intact but changing the chains to something more reasonable. I myself only keep a maximum of 3 chains.
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