Non-Stop Backup TIH 2013 - Initial Backup Size

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I've been playing around with TIH 2013 Non-Stop Backup. I initially did a partition type backup of all my drives. At the time of the backup I had a number of Bluray rips stored on my computer which I deleted a few days later. The initial backup was double the size than it would have been without the bluray rips. A month and multiple clean-ups later, the size of the backup was the same size even though the bluray rips were no longer on my system. I decided to delete the backup and start again. This time, the initial size of the backup was 269GB when it should have been 950GB based on the space used on all of the drives included in the backup. When I enter recover to view what has been backed up, I find that all of the directories on my one drive are listed, but none of the data in them has been backed up.

What am I missing? Is the backup going to expand over time to include the missing data?

Ven, 03/07/2014 - 23:33
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As no one has stepped in I'll offer a couple of thoughts...

I suspect your original backup was still large because the option to restore right back to the beginning is still available. Although you deleted the files the timeline back to day one is still (correctly) available.

On a more serious note, I would urge you to do a conventional full backup of your system and then test the non stop recovery operation actually works. Just over a week ago I tried the non stop backup and was pleased at how seamlessly it seemed to work (creating the files). After a few days I tried a restore back to a point created some 30 minutes before. Although the restored image seemed OK at first, there were problems. IE11 would not open correctly. Instead of my normal 3 tabs I got one blank screen. Task manager showed multiple instances of IE running.

I abandoned the non stop backup and went back to my daily manually run incrementals which I have used extensively over time and never once had a single problem with.

Lun, 03/10/2014 - 12:27
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Thanks for the response Mooly. The backup archive slowly started to increase in size each time I restarted my computer, and files that were not originally backed up were added to the archive. But eventually the archive would stop growing until the next time I rebooted. When I reviewed my event log I noticed multiple entries identifying that the non-stop service had experienced an error and stopped working. The next time I booted I kept an eye on my event-log. Eventually an error event occurred where the non-stop service stopped working and the archive stopped expanding. The TIH notification tray icon still indicated that non-stop backup was started and the non-stop service was still identified as running. Entries in the TIH log file also identified that incremental backups were still happening every five minutes. I'm not sure what TIH was doing though as over 50percent of the content on my one drive was still not captured in the back-up and the archive was not growing.

I'm wasn't looking to replace my conventional backups with a non-stop backup. I had a spare drive lying around and I was curious as to how well it worked. Now I know.

Mar, 03/11/2014 - 17:30