I did a full backup two weeks ago and removed the backup directory after shutting down Windows 10.
Today, both Incremental and Differential Task attempts keep doing a full backup, even when saving to the directory from the previous full backup.
Create new separated backups turned off after initial attempts.
Use archive attributes turned off after initial attempts.
Clear attribute archive left on.
Checked files on tower, none of random sample, whether part of aborted new backup or not, were marked as ready for archiving
Behaviour:
Original full backup was of Desktop (displays blue monitor icon to left) and Documents folders (displays vertical opened folder icon)
Reflector keeps creating a new directory named Desktop with vertical opened folder icon and starts full backup to the dew directory. Initially it stated that it was changing Incremental to Full Backup for some forgotten reason, now it does not make that statement but still merrily does a full backup, which I stop.
When I switch the destination to the pre-existing Desktop folder, it resumes where it left off saving to the new Desktop folder. When I moved files out of the new Desktop folder to the pre-existing one, it did not save the moved folders again.
Log from the last attempt:
2022-08-31 12:29:36 Backing up some selected tasks.
2022-08-31 12:29:37 A backup has started...
2022-08-31 12:29:37 Calculating the number of files. This could take a while...
2022-08-31 12:30:30 Backing up the task "Incremental"
2022-08-31 12:30:30 Applying the parameters to the task "Incremental" (if any).
2022-08-31 12:30:30 Requesting the creation of a Volume Shadow Copy image for the source...
2022-08-31 12:31:42 The Volume Shadow Copy image has been successfully created.
2022-08-31 12:31:42 Starting the copy. The user running the task is: Timothy
2022-08-31 12:31:42 The destination directory "D:\Desktop 2022-08-17 13;44;19\Desktop" has been successfully created.
2022-08-31 12:31:42 Backing up the directory "C:\Users\Timothy\Desktop" to "D:\Desktop 2022-08-17 13;44;19\Desktop"...
2022-08-31 12:33:35 Canceling the operation...
2022-08-31 12:33:35 Deleting the Volume Shadow Copy image...
2022-08-31 12:33:36 The Volume Shadow Copy image has been successfully deleted.
2022-08-31 12:33:36 The backup has ended without errors.
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Original attempts today created D:\Desktop 2022-08-31 [whatever time stamp]\Desktop
Is this just a confusing interface issue of some sort or is it really trying to waste another fourteen hours of my time doing a full backup of my tower? The software is useless to me if it requires doing a full backup every single time.
Today, both Incremental and Differential Task attempts keep doing a full backup, even when saving to the directory from the previous full backup.
Create new separated backups turned off after initial attempts.
Use archive attributes turned off after initial attempts.
Clear attribute archive left on.
Checked files on tower, none of random sample, whether part of aborted new backup or not, were marked as ready for archiving
Behaviour:
Original full backup was of Desktop (displays blue monitor icon to left) and Documents folders (displays vertical opened folder icon)
Reflector keeps creating a new directory named Desktop with vertical opened folder icon and starts full backup to the dew directory. Initially it stated that it was changing Incremental to Full Backup for some forgotten reason, now it does not make that statement but still merrily does a full backup, which I stop.
When I switch the destination to the pre-existing Desktop folder, it resumes where it left off saving to the new Desktop folder. When I moved files out of the new Desktop folder to the pre-existing one, it did not save the moved folders again.
Log from the last attempt:
2022-08-31 12:29:36 Backing up some selected tasks.
2022-08-31 12:29:37 A backup has started...
2022-08-31 12:29:37 Calculating the number of files. This could take a while...
2022-08-31 12:30:30 Backing up the task "Incremental"
2022-08-31 12:30:30 Applying the parameters to the task "Incremental" (if any).
2022-08-31 12:30:30 Requesting the creation of a Volume Shadow Copy image for the source...
2022-08-31 12:31:42 The Volume Shadow Copy image has been successfully created.
2022-08-31 12:31:42 Starting the copy. The user running the task is: Timothy
2022-08-31 12:31:42 The destination directory "D:\Desktop 2022-08-17 13;44;19\Desktop" has been successfully created.
2022-08-31 12:31:42 Backing up the directory "C:\Users\Timothy\Desktop" to "D:\Desktop 2022-08-17 13;44;19\Desktop"...
2022-08-31 12:33:35 Canceling the operation...
2022-08-31 12:33:35 Deleting the Volume Shadow Copy image...
2022-08-31 12:33:36 The Volume Shadow Copy image has been successfully deleted.
2022-08-31 12:33:36 The backup has ended without errors.
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Original attempts today created D:\Desktop 2022-08-31 [whatever time stamp]\Desktop
Is this just a confusing interface issue of some sort or is it really trying to waste another fourteen hours of my time doing a full backup of my tower? The software is useless to me if it requires doing a full backup every single time.
Statistics: Posted by OilCanHarry — 31 Aug 2022, 17:53 — Replies 3 — Views 45