haggis999 Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 I am confused. One of my daily backup jobs in Retrospect Desktop 9 has just failed with the error "Can't save Snapshot in Backup Set NAS1, error -1115 ( disk full)". The backup set is stored on a NAS box, which has 425GB free space. The member properties of the backup set are set to use up to 686GB of the NAS, while the current size of the backup set is only 267GB. I have also specified the option 'Groom to Retrospect defined policy'. As there seems to be plenty of space available, the 'disk full' error does not appear to make much sense. Can anyone offer an explanation? David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 How much free space on C: on the Retro server? How many files are we talking about? How much RAM on the Retro server? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggis999 Posted August 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 My Windows 7 PC has 6GB of RAM installed. I only have 1.5GB free on my C: drive but Retrospect is actually installed on my G: drive, which has 198GB free. This particular backup is of everything stored under 'My Documents' (that is 87.337 files and takes up 47.4GB). David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Retrospect uses the C: drive's "Temp" folder regardless of where Retrospect EXE is installed. 1.5GB free??? Yikes!!! I would be worried if I only got 15GB free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggis999 Posted August 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 My C: drive is a 160GB SSD, so does not have plenty of spare storage space. I also have two 1TB drives installed on my PC. Is there no way to tell Retrospect to use a different location for its Temp folder? However, is this relevant to my original problem? David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 It's not Retrospect's Temp folder, it's the Windows' Temp folder. The only disk that can get full is the C: drive and Retrospect uses the C: drive when building the snapshot. So, yes, it is very much relevant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggis999 Posted August 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Thanks for that useful information, Lennart. I've just realised that I still have the Adobe CS4 Suite installed on the C: drive (I'm currently using CS6, which is installed on my G: drive). Uninstalling CS4 should therefore release a fair bit of free space. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggis999 Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Lennart,Uninstalling Adobe CS4 resulted in the free space on my C: drive increasing to over 9GB. That appears to have fixed my problem, as the relevant Retrospect backup job ran without error this afternoon. Thanks for your help on this . David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 You are welcome. But I would not trust any computer with just 9GB free on the boot drive, 20GB is my minimum, 30GB if you have 12-16 GB of RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggis999 Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 I will try to fix that problem by moving some applications from my C: drive to one of my bigger drives. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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