Full disk backup failure.........

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I am trying to backup a 250gb system drive to a 20gb usb drive. The system drive has about 17gb of OS/data after I exclude a folder of old "tib" files. This is the log from the failed process.

Create Full Backup Archive From:Disk 1 To file:"E: \Mybackup.tib" Compression:Normal Pending operation 128 started: "Saving partition structure" Pending operation 131 started: "Creating partition image" Locking partition C:... Disk is full. Disk is full. You must free additional disk space to continue. You can either empty the Recycle Bin or delete old data files. Please press Retry to try again or press Cancel to cancel the operation and stop.: Retry/Cancel

It errors out about 89% of the way through "Creating Partition image" even though the tib file size estimate is less than the available space on drive E:

What am I missing

jeu 20/01/2011 - 03:46
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Are you sure the size being backed up is actually small enough to fit on the 20GB drive? Are you getting the total used space value from Disk Management? What is the total size of the old TIB folder contents?

How much RAM is in the computer and what version of Windows are you using? Did you include the page file and hibernation file sizes in your 17GB size?

Do you have any old System Restore points you could delete?

Estimated sizes in TI can sometimes be off by quite a bit. It depends greatly on the type and quantity of the files being backed up.

jeu 20/01/2011 - 17:47
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Win XP service pack 3.
2gb of ram in this system
The old tib folder is 10 gb in size, 27 gb used on the C: drive
As far as the page file and hibernation files are concerned, I did not consider those (might be the issue)........

Looks like I'll just back up the "user" data for the time being until I can get a larger drive cleared off..........

ven 21/01/2011 - 20:33
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The page and hibernation files should be excluded by default. This should make the image even smaller. For example, if the page file is 2GB and the hibernation file is 2GB, you should take off 4GB from the 27GB and end up with 23GB (and this assumes no compression). Removing the 10GB TIB should make it small enough to fit.

Do you have a complete log from the failed backup?

Have you run chkdsk /f on the partition to check for any file system errors (chkdsk c: /f

ven 21/01/2011 - 20:41