Need too much room for backup. ?workaround
I do a full backup of a 500 gig drive every 2 weeks. It is supposed to overwrite the last backup. It won't do that unless there is 500 EXTRA gb free in addition to the file being overwritten. If there isn't that extra 500 gb free space, the backup fails. It needs it for a temp file. This is ridiculous... and wasn't the case in past versions. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a workaround?
You could create a batch file that deletes the backup before the new one start, and run this batch as a pre-command. Of course, there is a risk you would be without a backup for a while.
how would one do that?
The simplest approach is to delete any TIB file in the directory before ATI creates the new file:
del F:\*.tib /q
where you have to replace F: with the right letter.
You can use this command to be the pre-commend, in advanced options of the backup settings
what about the working directory and arguments lines.. just keep those blank?
You have to try
The command is del, or del F:\*.tib
The arguments are F:\*.tib /q, or /q respectively
Working directory could be c:\Windows\System32, but I am not sure this one is required
If this doesn't work, launch notepad, type del F:\*.tib /q, save as clean.cmd in DirectoryX , this becomes your command and working directory, no argument