incremental backups?

[tbhudson]

Just getting started with this software and have made a full backup of my main drive-"C". I scheduled the software to make Incremental backups each Saturday. My main drive is 120 gigs with only 31 used. The backup showed that it used all 120 gig on the new 250 gig drive.
When I have the computer make incremental backups, will it over write the existing files on the computer or will it take more hard drive space and create more files? Don't want to run out of hard drive space on my backup hard drive.

[MerlinAZ]

Did you make an image?
The .tib file should have been less than 31GB if that's what is used.
It shouldn't have been 120GB.
Where are you putting the backups?

[tbhudson]

Installed a new hard drive and told the program to make an copy of the existing drive(C) on the new drive and off it went. After it was done, I could pull up any file I wanted on either drive. Hope I did that right.
The next day, I set up the program to make incremental backups on Saturdays at 3pm. As I was doing so it mentioned the .tib file you talked about. Still relatively new with computers but it has been drilled into me to make backups by all the tech shows I listen to.
Appreciate any help you can give me.
Bill

[tbhudson]

Further note---I just did a "Belarc" profile on my computer and the extra hard drive has 214 gigs left of its 250 gigs so it didn't take up all the space I thought.
Bill

[Lonnie]

-{ Quote: "Installed a new hard drive and told the program to make an copy of the existing drive(C) on the new drive and off it went. After it was done, I could pull up any file I wanted on either drive. Hope I did that right." }-

At this point, if I read your post right, all you did was make a clone of your existing C drive (not really backed it up and put the tib file on another drive for safe keeping). This would explain why it used the same amount of GB's, it just made and exact duplicate of the C drive onto your backup drive.


-{ Quote: "The next day, I set up the program to make incremental backups on Saturdays at 3pm. As I was doing so it mentioned the .tib file you talked about. Still relatively new with computers but it has been drilled into me to make backups by all the tech shows I listen to.
Appreciate any help you can give me.
Bill" }-


At this point you have no full back up so you cannot successfully do an incremental back up because if I remember right, you need to point the software to the last FULL backup .tib file. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but what you need to do is go back to the beginning and make a real FULL backup of your drive (just do what you did to get to the incremental part you described above, only make it a full back up instead of an incremental), then when you go back to schedule your incrementals, be sure to point the software to your full backup .tib file, and you should be set.

Lonnie :thumb:

[tbhudson]

Appreciate the help!!! I did as you said and made a "Backup" of the C drive on my new G drive to a .tib file and it went off without a hitch. Have now scheduled the incremental backups to go to the new "Mybackup.tib file on the G drive for next Saturday.
I was told by the tech people at Micro Center to get this program over "Ghost" and this is why. Nice to get help when one gets lost.
Thanks again.
Bill