Out of space on NTFS USB drive with tons od space

[kaikow]

I was doing a Normal backup when I suddenly got a message that 31GB had been used, there was no space left, and I had to add another drive to add to the disk backup set.

 

Well, the drive has 44.4GB free.

So I terminated the backup job and replaced the drive with another USB drive that had a different backup set. Backup completed with no problem.

 

I then went back to the original USB drive and when asked to add a new member, I tried to tell Retrospect to put a new member on the same drive (N:\).

 

Got a message that the drive was already a member of the backup set.

 

Note that the backup set is actually in:

 

N:\Retrospect\JAllMicron-1\1-JAllMicron-1

 

So I created a directory

N:\Retrospect\JAllMicron-1\2-JAllMicron-1

 

I then told Retrospect to put the new stuff there.

 

Happily, Retrospect continued merrily along with the backup.

However, I then noticed that Retrospect had created

 

N:\Retrospect\JAllMicron-1\2-JAllMicron-1\Retrospect\JAllMicron-1\2-JAllMicron-1

 

Which is not what I intended.

 

1. How can I get Retrospect to put the members where I say, e.g., in:

 

N:\Retrospect\JAllMicron-1\1-JAllMicron-1

and

N:\Retrospect\JAllMicron-1\2-JAllMicron-1

 

2. I also wondered where the 31GB limit came from. I never set that.

Other than the backup set for my system, the only files on the drive are the usual NTFS stuff and a small (less than 1GB) backup set for a bunch of networked drives that have not changed in over 4 months).

 

There needs to be a way to tell Retrospect that it can use whatever space is left, without locking out other use of the drive, if I choose to do so.

 

Where's the documentation for this.

 

My birthday is Monday, but events like this make me age a lot faster.