Newby question
I just started with Cyber Protect. I have 4 internal drives, the largest is 14 TB. I've done a full backup of the entire system that took a couple of days to complete and used up about 6 TB on my backup drive . I've specified that I just want a differential backup daily, but when that runs, it takes 5 or 6 hours to complete and runs the computer most or all of the night. I'm only making changes daily to maybe 200 MB, so just backing up those changes should be pretty fast. So how do I get around this? I've added a second backup for just the three drives that may have daily changes, but when I start that it appears it's going to duplicate the full system backup that I already have and take another full day or more and double the amount of space used on the backup drive. Help. I know there's some simple solution, but I'm not finding it in the documentation.
Ok, that's more or less what I've done. I have yet to test how long the differential backup will run, but at least that gives me an approach to the problem. Thanks.
Ray, also consider more targeted backup tasks.
A full Disk/Partition backup of the system drive is worthwhile. But for the other drives, if you are not changing much you could consider multiple targeted Disk or Files/Folder style backups and schedule them accordingly.
I had the second backup set to the data drives, D, E, F. OS and system is on C:, a 500 GB SSD, not included in this backup. D has 193 GB on a 4TB capacity; E, a 1 TB SSD drive with 489 GB data; and F, a 14 TB drive with 4.74 TB data. I'm backing up to an external USB drive that has a 14 TB capacity. I set the backup scheme to Custom and the backup method to Incremental. The initial backup took roughly 8 hours. The amount of data that changed between the initial backup and the second-day backup could not have been more than a couple hundred MB, mostly on the F: drive. But the second-day backup started at 2 PM and ran all day and all night, finishing the next morning at about 8 AM. So I tried to change the backup scheme to incremental, but the system will not let me do that. The Save and Save As buttons are disabled if I choose anything other than Custom. And if I click OK to return to the main backups page then click Options, the scheme has gone back to the initial settings of Custom. So what am I missing?
Ray, I can only suggest that you change any existing tasks to be not scheduled, then try creating new tasks, but limiting these to a single disk at a time and setting the backup scheme to Incremental at the start.
Once you get the first one or two disk backup tasks going, then you can consider removing the original task that included those disks and freeing the space on your storage drive.