averynelson Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Hello, I am using Retrospect 7.5.387 on my Desktop to backup a Notebook Client that I am building. Both are Win XP SP2 I wanted to create a backup of everything currently on disk (11GB). However, when I run my backup, it does not select all files and I only get an initial backup of 5.5 GB. I must be misunderstanding how the product or selectors works. I have created a baseline backup set for the computer. Source: "Local Disk (C:) on" the target notebook computer Destination: The backup set I created for the baseline Selecting: All Files Preview: 5.4GB! Options: Media verification on, Software data compression, Back up open files So, what am I doing wrong. If I select 'All Files', and everything on the computer is a file -- then, how am I not getting everyting? Thanks in advance, Avery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abakadabra Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 I'm not sure this is necessary or if will fix the problem, but you might check to see that all the files you are trying to back up are shared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
averynelson Posted September 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Alright -- I get it now. Two files exist at c:\ hiberfil.sys (hibernation) pagefile.sys (Paging file) Together, these total the remaining 6GB of space. Since they are on c:\ as a FILE, I imagined they would get picked up (not explicitly excluded in the selector). Apparently, Retrospect makes some decisiona, as to files to not include -- though they're note excluded in the selector. So, false alarm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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