The status of the drives are shown in the bitmaps posted below. In having Norton set to make one base set and incrementals every 2 weeks, I thought had more than enough space to do this. C takes up 213Gb (yes, there are years of accumulated files, music, video's etc. on there) and that is one big chunk out of E. But I have not added another 84.5 gb or more of new files in 2 weeks, so I don't understand why an incremental backup would be trying to consume more that 93Gb (free space available on the backup drive e)
You mentioned that "Instead often during the week, you will see Ghost take another full image backup." This has not occured, but is this something that you are seening in Ghost 14??
I guess a more basic question that would help me get onto the right track here would be does one usually need to have double or triple the drive capacity than the amount of data they are backing up??
Info 6C8F1C2F: A recovery point operation on drive Drive Backup of Win_XP (C:\) was cancelled by the user. Error E0BB0083: Unable to create incremental image. Error E7D1001F: Unable to write to file. Error E7D1003C: There is not enough space. Error ED800013: Operation cancelled by user.
Details: The operation was canceled by the user.
Source: Norton Ghost
In theory, I could delete the recovery point set every 2 weeks and create a new one with the existing amount of space I have on my computer. But then I would be missing the point of having a program do this for me automatically. Seems to me i should be able to have a current backup copy of my drive given that i have like 98 more GB than i'm trying to back up. Maybe Norton 14 is not the product me me??
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by: Expert4XPPosted on 2008-03-19 at 01:50:56ID: 21159418
The basic answer is that even though you ask Norton Ghost 14 to take an incremental backup, *if* enough or too many sectors have changed, Ghost (on it's own) decides that it must take a full image backup. If you take incremental backups for example every night, and a weekly base backup, you would expect to have 6 small increments and 1 large on for any given time. No.
Instead often during the week, you will see Ghost take another full image backup.
So, since you have to have room to successfully complete the backup operation before deleting an older generation, you must have enough room on your target (E in your case) for at least 2 full images.
How much USED spac is on c? Using normal compression, the output should be about 50-60% of that. Maybe you made a mistake or told Ghost to not use any compression, or disabled smart sector copying or something else.
Don't be confused by creating a backup-image-file of your partition vs. data cloning (one time operation when replacing a hard drive).
You must have large databases or videos, music, etc because you c drive used seems way too big for normal operating system.