multiple copies of same backup file
When I do an incremental back up, I get multiple copies of the same file, all the same size. This rapidly fills up my back up disk. How can I eliminate this problem? Thanks for any assistance.
My last back up was intended to be a full back up. There are 12 items with 4,194,304 KB each and one with 390,844.
Are you positive this is exactly the same file?
Most likely you are backing up to a FAT32 partition (file size limited) or you have archive splitting set up to split the archive.
Yes. when I open the files each of them contains C:\ with the same drive contents. Also it takes about 45 minutes to back up when previously it took 10 minutes.
As I noted above, I did a full back up. Then I did an incremental back up today. Today it seemed to work properly taking 10 minutes with two files, one 4,194,304 KB and one 626, 662KB. At the moment it seems to be working properly. I will see when I do my next back up.
That you open the file and see the same content is normal: ATI displays the entire content. This is still one archive.
Aren't you backup to a partition that is formatted FAT32?
Based on the information you have submitted so far, it appears that your backup storage disk is formatted as a FAT32 file system (4GB size limit) and the only way to get it to accept your backup as one file is to reformat the backup storage disk as NTFS. Again, I am referring to the backup storage disk--not your main system.
The backup of 13 files would seem to indicate that your backup size for a full backup is approximately 49GB in size. You also have your task set to create x number of incremental before a new full backup is recreated. You scan simulate editing the backup task and look at backup scheme you have in effect.
While you can edit this number of backups (any change would take while for it to become current), most of us would recommend you create a new task with a new backup name and new storage folder with the new storage rules.
To change the storage disk from FAT32 to NTFS can be done in either of two ways.
1. YOu can reformat the disk and all existing data on this disk will be destroyed.
2. or, Maintain the existing data and use the convert command.
http://www.techjunkeez.com/archive/general/file_systems_exposed_3.htm
To determine whether the storage disk is FAT32, in Explorer, right click on the drive letter and look at disk properties or another way is to look in windows disk managment feature.