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jtsnow

2005-03-17, 2:52 am

My Ghost 9 backup software wont do incrementals. No matter what I try it
will only do a baseline backup. If I leave the PC on overnight however, it
WILL do a
incremental (in other words PC not turned off between backups).
I have updated, reloaded, rescheduled, tried different schedules etc. I
also do not do defrag or schedule a defrag (which I read in a FAQ on will
cause this).

Does the fact that if I dont power off between backups provide a clues as to
what I can do to correct this? Does windows somehow scamble the disk so it
looks likes its defragged when I power it up again?

thanks






JohnA

2005-03-17, 2:52 am

My guess is that your system shutdown might not be clean causing Ghost to
perform a baseline backup because it can't trust the incremental... I do
know if the system crashes, the next backup will always be a baseline. A
normal shutdown doesn't seem to have this behavior, however.

"jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:SV7_d.34007$Az.9301@lakeread02...
> My Ghost 9 backup software wont do incrementals. No matter what I try it
> will only do a baseline backup. If I leave the PC on overnight however,
> it
> WILL do a
> incremental (in other words PC not turned off between backups).
> I have updated, reloaded, rescheduled, tried different schedules etc. I
> also do not do defrag or schedule a defrag (which I read in a FAQ on will
> cause this).
>
> Does the fact that if I dont power off between backups provide a clues as
> to
> what I can do to correct this? Does windows somehow scamble the disk so
> it
> looks likes its defragged when I power it up again?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>



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