wrong HD size

[micha33]

Hello,

 

when closing retrospect and getting the message for the next schedule script, retrospect shows a worng size left in my backup HD. I have 30 gig left and it says 11gig.

 

any clue?

 

thanks

 

Mic

[kaikow]

Look at the properties of the back up set.

You have to tell retrospect how much of the drive to use.

retrospect does not automatically set this to the full drive.

[micha33]

this is odd.

 

there is about 25 gig free space and still it shows zero. even if I specify 10 gigs.

 

I thought retrospect "Pro" can make this small calculation.

 

Mic

[natew]

Hi

 

In Retrospect 1 gigabyte = 1 073 741 824 bytes. Other programs will say a gigabyte =1 000 000 000 bytes. On a big drive that is enough to cause the disparity you are seeing.

 

Thanks

Nate

[micha33]

but it's not only the display. retrospect wont continue to backup and will ask me for a new member or location although I have 20-30 gig of free space! the amount my daily backup is about 200MB so I have enough.

 

I do not understand why retro doesn't "see" the amount of free space like windows or any other crapy software.

 

Mic

[kaikow]

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but it's not only the display. retrospect wont continue to backup and will ask me for a new member or location although I have 20-30 gig of free space! the amount my daily backup is about 200MB so I have enough.

 

I do not understand why retro doesn't "see" the amount of free space like windows or any other crapy software.

 

Mic

 

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I stated this before, but I'll repeat here.

Have you checked the properties of the backup set?

you must tell retrospect how much of the disk drive to use.

[micha33]

yes i did check the properties. and if I say use 20G when I have about 25G left, retrospect shows ZERO space left.

to work around it I specified 90% and it showed like 60G free space when again I have only 25G left...

I really do not understand how RP calculates HD space. but now I have a deferent problem that I posted on another thread.

when RP couldn't find space on the HD it added a new member to the backup set. after i fixed the first member disk space I was left with member number 2 which can not delete and which causes many problems each day.

this morning RP started automatically and hanged (I neede to shot down the computer manualy). RP showed about 4 windows saying that there is another instance of the same set running...when I tried to quit, RP hanged. so now what. do I need to rebuild a backup set?

thanks

Mic