Question about Incremental Backup
I have a backup of my photos that consumes 720+ GB of space as a full backup. I have a 2TB disk that I also use for backing up other files that are much smaller. The Photo backup is set as Incremental, which means I want a full backup (which takes about 8 hours) on the disk and then Incrementals with the daily additons, which only take a few minutes. I schedule the photo backup for 2:00 AM. I set up the Photo backup and initiated it Saturday night at about 7:00 and it completed Sunday AM at 3:09. Looking at the Photo backup, it then performed another full backup this morning, which just ended. As a result, my disk only has about 224GB of space left. This is actually enough for what I need, but the Photo backup has a cautionary notice that "There is not enough free space."
Thus it will not do another Photo backup until I free up some space. If I try to delete the latest "version", It will delete both full backups.
Why didn't the Incremental just do an Incremental (1 to 2 GB) instead of the full backup this AM? Do I need to start the Incremental on schedule for it to recognize that a full has occurred?
I believe that it won't back up at all now; is there some way that I can force it to do an incremental, since I know that there is sufficient room?
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Erwin,
When you did the first manual backup, did you use the "backup now" option on the scheduled task?
It is always a good safety measure to have some redundancy in backup coverage. Hopefully, you have other copies of your photos on another drive. As photo's are already compressed, even a plain copy to another disk or DVD can provide some safety if your disk or backup should fail.
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