Consoidation slow?

Hi,

I have a full backup of ~300GB and an incremental one of ~5GB.
Upon consolidation start it reports that it will take from 20hrs - 6 days.
This is a SATAII 750GB disk fully dedicated to TI backups. And, no other operation is using the same disk at this time.
I am not sure how much time it will take (since estimation is fluctuating) but it seems a rather long period of time. I need to make it less then a day since I am doing daily incremental backups.

 

If it's really taking that long it's probably because it doesn't have enough room on the hard drive.

As far as I know, when TI consolidates it has to incorporate the incremental/differential into the original full backup. This is a very large file in your case and is probably taking up close to half of the drive's capacity.

Since your backups are so large, you may want to consider getting another large drive (500GB+) so you can alternate between them and not have to consolidate.

 

Yeah, it is probably running out of space.
It would be better if the consolidation wouldn't have to eat that much space though.

 

Hello mihies,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

Please see this thread for some details on the consolidation in Acronis Backup Locations.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov

 

Hi Marat,

I'll check the exact disk space available and size of my backups. However, it is very expensive to have empty space for another full+incremental backup when consolidating.
It could be done on original full backup file directly I presume?

 

Does consolidation occur automatically or manually?
It depends on disk space, huh?
I wouild like to move my old, consolidated back ups to anoher folder so I can keep the for a couple of months.
Right now I am running one full backup with 10 incementals. The full backup is only 17 GB and the incermentals are about 1200 MB.
Bill