needed disk space for incremental backups
Hi,
I am new here and not very familiar with acronis true image.
I have sucessfully made a full image backup of my partitions (system, picture and documents) as a basis which
needed about 680 GB of disk space and needed 2 hours to complete. Now the backup-disk has about 180 GB free space left. Every day when starting my computer there should be created a backup of only changed or new data automatically. After 7 days a new full backup should be made.
The problems are
1. the task does not start automatically
2. the duration is unacceptable. After 1 hour it had completed only 8% and I have purged the task therefor.
What could be the reasons? Can someone help?
Regards
Manfred
The full backup needed 2 hours to complete, so I expect that the incremental backup would only last a few minutes. There were only marginal changes in the requested partitions. So again, why does it takes more than 1 hour before I cancelled the task AND why is so much disk space needed?
Another question was why the task did not start automatically.
My suggestion was to see what size the inc was and how long it actually took. You might not have added any files to the disk, but Vista and W7 add files all the time as part of it's restore/backup feature. EVentually your system disk will about double in the amount of used capacity the OS has, depending on the limits on restore/backup capacity.
I was guessing that the task started but didn't run because it didn't find enough room. Youmight be alble to check this by looking in the ATI log. I'd delete the Task and recreate, going over each step to ensure that it's being created correctly. I don't mean to sound patronizing but that's probably the first thing any tech guy is going to suggest so you might as well get it out of the way. Then the focus can go to size and schedule manager issues.
I deleted all the files not needed on the target. So there were 806 GB free space.
Then I deleted the task and created a new one.
After rebooting the task started but 15 minutes later there was a message telling that the space of the target disk is coming short
and the system will terminate in 10 minutes.
I have attached the log.
If ATI is going to consolidate, it will need a bit more than double the size of the full backup since it makes the new file before deleting anything old. I think in your case you'd need a drive that holds about 1.5TB or so.
The target drive holds 1,5 TB !
618.734.850 KB are used by the full backup and 865.969.214 KB are unused.
Okay, this is out of my league. You can wait and see if an Acronis rep respsonds on the forums or you can start a service request by contacting Tech Support. I recommend doing the later in any case.