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I can't seem to get a backup created at all.

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So, I'm trying to create my first backup. I didn't change any settings, created a rescue kit thingy and pressed the button to back up my system. Everything went fine until about 25 GB in; thats when I get an error. There's some text under a grey bar (which is located just under the text that says "last backup: today at 6:19PM") that says "no information about the file content". I can't seem to upload a picture, it says the file isn't supported despite being a PNG (also tried it with a JPEG, no dice.) Here's a link to the image with all of the info I have: https://imgur.com/a/BI70wBa Anyways, here's the disks I'm using: - a 265 GB SSD, 50GB remaining, no errors found with checkdisk and reported as "good" in crystaldiskinfo. - a 4TB HDD, with about 3.5TB remaining. No errors found with checkdisk BUT it's reported as "caution" in CDI. The HDD has 116 reallocated sectors, 537 "current pending" sectors and 299 uncorrectable sectors. Despite this, I can access all of the drive's content and to my knowledge, nothing is corrupt. (also I realize this is pretty bad, it has 34802 Power On Hours... got it second hand from somebody so idk what its been through. It's been holding up pretty well for the past year, though.) - a 1TB HDD with about 350 remaining, no errors found with checkdisk and marked as "good" in CDI. The SSD has my OS on it. The drive I'm using to back up is a 2TB external hard drive with nothing on it. Brand new, but I checked with checkdisk and CDI, which returned no errors. Any idea what's causing this issue? How should I go about resolving this?

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Bryan, welcome to these public User Forums.

My first recommendation is to split your backup task into separate tasks for each individual disk drive you have installed.

Start by making a backup of only your 250GB SSD drive and verify that this completes successfully.  Assuming that this is your main Windows OS boot drive, then this is important and best to keep separate to make any future recovery as simple as possible.

Next, make a backup of your 1TB HDD drive and again verify that this is successful.

Doing the above will confirm that the file system errors being reported come from your 4TB HDD drive that you already know has such problems with pending and uncorrectable sectors.

Personally, I would recommend doing a Files & Folders backup of that drive, not a Disks & Partitions backup.  Files & Folders should be more tollerant of the sector issues as is reading the files rather than blocks of data from the disk surface.

Next, I would strongly recommend looking for a replacement drive given the degree of issues being reported for the drive.

To create separate backups, click through on the Source panel which will reveal further options for selecting the source by Disks & Partitions, or by Files & Folders.  Change the task name before you attempt to run the backup task for the first time, and make each task name unique and descriptive.