Windows 7 Ultimate Backup

So i have my backups scheduled to run every week. They do run, however, the problem I am having is that after 2 or 3 runs of the backup, my 500gb external drive is full. My system drive is a 250gb drive with about 180gbs used. My backups are only set to backup user folders and it does not create drive images. I dont change a lot of things in between backups, so I am trying to figure out why it seems like it does full backups each time. I thought the backups were block level incremental? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

b00st3d said:

So i have my backups scheduled to run every week. They do run, however, the problem I am having is that after 2 or 3 runs of the backup, my 500gb external drive is full. My system drive is a 250gb drive with about 180gbs used. My backups are only set to backup user folders and it does not create drive images. I dont change a lot of things in between backups, so I am trying to figure out why it seems like it does full backups each time. I thought the backups were block level incremental? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi and welcome

Are you using the built in backup and restore? I seem to remember some one sayinf even if you selected user folders that it still backs up the entiere drive. What is the size of the backup? about the same size as the OS partition?

Ken

i have 2 user folders, one is 92gbs and the other is 23gbs. My OS partition is 232gbs. Somehow my first backup was 220gbs, even though my total user folders is only 115gbs.

Here is a screen cap of my settings:

apparently, after skimming through this thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...2-41edaed1e2f9, this is a common issue and MS is working on it...

if anyone has suggestions as to other backup software, id be willing to give it a try. i was thinking about using a online backup service like mozy or carbonite, but i have been reading too many horror stories about both.

b00st3d said:

apparently, after skimming through this thread: Windows7 Backup not doing incremental, this is a common issue and MS is working on it...

if anyone has suggestions as to other backup software, id be willing to give it a try. i was thinking about using a online backup service like mozy or carbonite, but i have been reading too many horror stories about both.

I love Bart backup and sync tool fully configurable and you can set safe modes to not delete and only replace anything that's changed etc .....

Anyone know how to backup Windows 7 to a Linux server with Ext3 file system (Samba share)??