Backup Problem, Windows Reserves too Much Space, 800GB?


  1. webmanoffesto
    Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Enterprise
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    Backup Problem, Windows Reserves too Much Space, 800GB?


    I’m using “Windows Backup and Restore” in Windows 7.
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    I'm using SpaceSniffer to evaluate a backup problem.
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    One of my scheduled backups failed. I thought this was because of lack of space. So I opened up SpaceSniffer and saw something surprising:
    C, System Folder, 55.5 GB
    D, Data Folder, 167.5 GB
    I, My 1TB External Drive
    _ 14GB used
    _ 52GB free space
    _ 864GB Unknown (not yet scanned)
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    I thought that the 864GB was “set aside” or used for the backups. But why is it so huge, when “C” and “D” are relatively small? That doesn’t make any sense.
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    What do you recommend I do?
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    Earlier problem resolved: A backup of my system files and my data files to my 1TB external drive did not succeed because “Scheduled backup of system images is not allowed on removable devices.”
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  3. biggles1000
    Posts : 664
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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    Odd, it should be allowed to backup to external devices. I backup my system all the time to a 500GB external Seagate :/
    Is the external drive a standard data holding one or a specialist backup one?
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