robvil Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 Hi, I am currently trying out the Multi Server edt. v. 7.5.325 - hotfix 7.5.6.106. When doing a backup on a WinXP SP2 machice at the System State with Retrospect the backup file is around 77Mb. But when I do the same System State backup with NTBackup it is 430Mb. I have check the backup set properties for the specific snapshot and system state settings is listet, but why the big difference on the backup file size? Regards Robert Vilhelmsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonaldL Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 It looks like Retrospect's definition of System State slightly differs from NTBackup's definition. I ran a System State backup with NTBackup and like you, the resulting file was a little over 400 megs. I restored these files to a new folder to see what was taking up so much space. NTBackup grabs a lot more files from the Windows folder (about 370 for me) including a lot of .exe and .dll files. Retrospect backs many of these files up as regular files rather than as part of the system state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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