dutzi Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 I have three external FireWire hard drives: an EZQuest Cobra, An OWC Mercury and an OWC Mercury on the Go 60 GB. I use Retrospect 6.0.204 All my drives have two or more partitions that I use either to back up with Retrospect or to Clone to with Carbon Copy Cloner. I have no problem making incremental Backups to partitions on the Cobra or the Mercury and initially didn't with the Mercury on the Go. Recently, however whenever I want to back up I receive a message that there is insufficient room. It wants to back up ALL my user folder again and there is only room for it once. I am backing up as a File with the catalog on the partition. I erased the back up and backed everything up from scratch but now when I want to make an incremental backup I face the same problem again. So far this has not happened when using partitions on the other drives. The only difference is that I have a small folder containing other things on the same partition. Retrospect wasn't initially bothered by this set up. I removed all drives from my daisy chain and mounted the Mercury on the Go alone directly to the Firewire drive of by Tibook. No success I run OSX 10.3.9 on a Titanium Powerbook G4 667 mhz Any help would be very welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Check the script you're using to back up to the On the Go drive to be sure that in Options> Matching>, both "Match source files to catalog" and "Don't add duplicates to backup set" are selected (this is the default). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutzi Posted July 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 I am doing an inmediate backup and have changed no settings. I just rechecked and both "match Source Files to catalogue" and "don't add duplicates to backup set" were and are selected. I tried to backup and am told 13.9 GB need to be backed up and there is no room on my partition (11 GB are free). Last night I backed up to an earlier backup and had 700MB to back up (on another drive and partition). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 When you first back up to a partition, does the log show any errors during backup or compare? Does the catalog for the problematic file backup set show the proper file sizes and dates/times, compared to what you see on the source in Finder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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