Daily Incremental Backups used to be small, now massive
Hi - I have been doing daily TI-2017 incremental backups of my PC's main hard drive for years.
I recently had to restore my hard drive after a disk corruption issue. The restore mostly came out fine - I needed to mark my main partition as "Active", and then my system was operating OK again.
One bad thing that has occurred after the restore which is causing me a lot of grief, though.
Previously, my nightly backups were about 2 GB or less of data (until the next full backup every 14 days on my settings). This worked out fine - I also do PC image backups to the "cloud" every night.
After my restore, my nightly backups are now 25 to 35 GB each ... which means that I will blow through my monthly ISP data allotment well before the end of my cycle.
Is there a fix for this? How can I identify why my incremental backups started getting so huge?
Thanks,
Alan


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Just a thought, but I have resolved occassional backup runaway file sizes by running chkdsk c: /f /r
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In risposta a Just a thought, but I have… di truwrikodrorow…

Thanks for the suggestion, satwar - I suspect you are right. I did find multiple errors when I ran a chkdsk. That's the good news.
The bad news is that I found so many drive errors, I can't trust the integrity of my SSD drive any more (though it seems to work fine).
I think I will go back to a previous TI-2017 backup, and try to restore, and bring all my current documents over from last night's image.
I will let you know how it goes!
Alan
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Alan, please check with your SSD drive makers support website for any diagnostic utlities for checking the drive, i.e. such as the Samsung Magician program for their SSD drives.
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