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Backup always creating new backup period?
I went through google search and much trial and error and I can't quite find an answer for this problem I'm having.
Since May 2nd, 2013, I've been using Windows Backup to backup my main drive and all my user settings, and set up an incremental backup every single day since then. Usually I miss the schedule, but just plug in my external harddrive and run the backup manually, and it will do the incremental backup properly.
Last night, I missed the schedule in its entirety, and had to run the backup around midnight (today, July 13th). Usually incremental backups take between 15-45 minutes for me, but this one ran for three hours before I examined it, and realized it was backing up old files that had been backed up before.
I did some research and found that it was creating a new Backup Period, with the first one being from May 2nd - July 11th.
I've tried again and again, but every time I manually backup now, it creates a new backup period and it's still doing it even now.
I've been able to click "Backup Now" and with the settings in place, it does an incremental backup. My external harddrive is only 1TB and the first backup period is 630 GB, so I don't have enough room on the drive to handle multiple backup periods at once, and I don't want to have backup running all day to backup files that should already be on the drive, backed up.
What is going on here and why?