Backup

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I have a 666Gb backup file on a 1TB hdd,,
all I want to do is write-over/add files that have changed or been added.
The drive I want to backup has 450odd GB
I have Acronis 2014 Premium.

On "incremental" its telling me I dont have the space,, These are basically the same files,, just 3 months down the road-- There are not that many different files!

Any ideas?

more-
the backup IS a tib file,
do I place the new file inside the old tib?

[Landy Smurf]

If you go to place the new file in the old one does it say you cant due to size?
If it doesnt than it should have a popup saying to delete copies.
Can you search by date and just add the new files?

PS I suck at computers so my suggestions are probably pointless....

[theresanothersteve]

What software are you using to create the backup?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

um,:angel: Acronis

[incisor]

karen's replicator

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp

[theresanothersteve]

I seem to recall some software that makes incremental backups will make a new copy of changed files each time you create a backup (as opposed to making a consolidated incremental backup of each file changed since the last complete backup).

If one (or more) of the files changes for each backup, and it is fairly large, and you backup frequently (don't we all?) it can create a large backup file. In addition, backups are usually compressed files, that need to be uncompressed to add new backups.

Although I can't be certain, I'd be thinking these two issues could be causing you grief.

I'd suggest doing a new complete backup or differential backup to update the existing fileset and see if that makes a difference.

[theresanothersteve]

Sorry, not familiar with Acronis so missed its significance in your original post.

If you are using a Windows system I'd look carefully at the native backup utilities. They allow easy restores from within Windows Explorer, and if you backup to an external devaice another windows PC can access the files as if they are normal files; drag, drop, copy, paste etc.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

convoluted or what,,
karens wont touch a tib file,,
so I converted the 666 tib to windows VHD. (theres 8 hours I wont get back-)
but to do that I had to add my two old 500gb drives and span them,, then I had to format (gulp) the drive where the tib was,, then use karens to transfer from the spanned drives back over.
now i should be able to use karens (or windows?) to do an incremental backup.

simple huh.