My ATI 2009 behaves weirdly and starts creating strange files very large in size.
I was very concerned about using up too much disk space after backing up the files for too long.
Hence on jan 18th this yr i created a new differential back up and limited the back ups to 10 and since i wanted my back up to be able to pass validation, i created a limit of 10 back ups which i assume the program would automatically del once it passes 10 back ups. Simple enough right?
Well last night it was the 11th back up. The program had stopped being able to automatically name the new back up file always saying the last backup file is part of the archive. Thus i always manually name the new file.
Anyway last night was the 11th back up file so i named it 11 and expected the program to automatically del one of the files so as not to exceed 10 back up files but what happened the next day shocked me.
It turned out the program kept on creating many new files with many long words behind them each of them 4 GB in size. It kept on creating so many files until my entire disk drive is almost used up.
It reminded me of a dvd program i had in the past that would create a log file so huge that it totally took up all the space on the disk drive and that disk drive has like 100GB of space.
I for the life of me have no idea what this is and am pretty tired. I just want something that works. Creates back ups and then clears the space when back ups take up too much space and then restores everything properly.
Yet new problems like this keep on cropping up.
I hope i don't have to actually create a new back up from scratch again.
Eugene,
My guess is ATI's database, scripts and scheduled tasks are not in sync any longer. In more recent versions of ATI, this happens when you tweak a task too much as you finalize your settings.
My suggestion is to copy the backup archives you want to keep to another directory, delete our backup and all your archives from within ATI, use schedmgr to zap all your tasks, and recreate your backup task to start a new backup chain.
i see okay i guess that's the best way to rectify this.
Yes, if you manually rename some files or delete manually some files, ATI's database will lose track of them.
It also happens that it can lose track of them if you delete some incremental/differential within a chain in certain cases (delete a version, for example).