Aller au contenu principal

Differential Question

Thread needs solution

I have my plan set to run a full backup weekly and differential daily. I've seen after a few days that my full backup is quite large as expected and the differentials are much smaller, as expected. I know that the differential is only supposed to backup those files which have changed since the last full backup - why is it that when I open one of the differentials in explorer, however, I see all the contents of my drive, not just the changed files?
Thanks,
Russ

0 Users found this helpful

Russ,

This is an artifact of the method. You will always see all the files, including all the non-changed ones, that you would get back on your disk if you were to restore it. There is not easy way to comprehensively use ATI to look for or list the files that have been backed up, but you can use ATI itself to browse for a specific file in a backup version (use "explore versions").