Norm Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Curious to know if others see any increase in the size of Copy runs in similar situations compared to Duplicate. Since moving from R6 on a Leopard Mac to R8 on a SL Mac my Duplicate/Copy has increased from about 1GB to 6 to 7GB each overnight. I have it set to "Overwrite Entire Volume" which I was told by Tech Support would replace changed files and add new ones so that the Copy was an exact clone. My files consume about 22GB in total. So these Copies are almost one-third of the total. Perhaps there is some difference in the number of System files that change in SL compared to Leopard. Other than that I can't come up with a reason for this difference. That combined with the backup of our other Mac that has about 31GB and Copies about 2GB but is a Leopard Mac. Bottom line is I'm curious as to the reason for these much longer runs and finding out if Retrospect is performing as "advertised." Thanks for any info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 There's also the possibility that system files are being expanded as they are being backed up. Without any specifics as to your selectors (um, rules) and how they differ from your R6 selectors, it's not possible to speculate. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted December 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 In both cases I was copying (Duplicating in R6) the whole drive. The only setting was the "Overwrite Entire Volume" in R8 and in R6 it was called "Replace Entire Contents." HTH. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Then I would expect it might be expansion of the compressed Snow Leopard files, which R8 does not handle properly on backup. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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