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VSS Doctor shows not enough space on Recovery Drive, but there is.

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Recently upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10.

Installed True Image 2020.

Attempting a system backup fails, hanging on 'calculating remaining time'.

Please see attached screenshots which show VSS Doctor's scan report and my Disc Management partitions on C (System) drive.

A solution would be most welcome!

Seamus

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Seamus, all I can say is that the free space report from VSS Doctor for the System Reserved & Recovery partitions is normal and occurs on my own systems too without causing any issue with my backup tasks.

ATI 2020 does spend longer than earlier versions showing 'Calculating time remaining' as does more preparation and checking during that stage, but the overall backup time should not be significantly longer (unless you are including validation at the end of the backup process and have multiple version chains!).

I would recommend starting your backup task then leaving it to run to a conclusion then review how things went at that point.

Hi Steve,

Thanks for getting back.  I'll try what you suggest and let you know how it goes.

Seamus

That's brilliant, Steve.  With a bit more patience, yes indeed it is backing up!  Thank goodness.

Just another question...

In trying to get it to work (faster!), I was uninstalling and reinstalling ATI 2020, which it didn't like - sometimes it would hang.  But it seems to be working fine now.

If it's able to create Bootable Media, I guess I should leave well enough alone and just trust all is okay?

Seamus

Seamus, good to hear that the backups are working successfully if left to get on with it!

I would recommend enabling the email Notifications for your backup tasks and then have a quick browse through the emails when received to confirm that all was good.  Besides that, then take a couple of minutes to go into Explorer and double-click on your backup .tib or .tibx files and have a browse around the contents.  This will help show that the contents are accessible without going to the extra steps of doing an actual recovery.

For the bootable rescue media, it is always a good idea to create and test this long before you ever may need to use it in a true recovery situation.

I would recommend enabling the email Notifications for your backup tasks and then have a quick browse through the emails when received to confirm that all was good.

Okay, I'll do that.

...take a couple of minutes to go into Explorer and double-click on your backup .tib or .tibx files and have a browse around the contents.

Another good idea.

For the bootable rescue media, it is always a good idea to create and test this long before you ever may need to use it in a true recovery situation.

Half afraid to do that!  But better to find out early on and lose nothing!

Again, many thanks!!

Seamus