I tried using Backup on Win2k to backup a few folders to another drive
and scheduled it to do a differential backup twice a week.

A couple of months later I checked the size of the bkf file in the
drive and it had grown to 4 gigs. What is going on? The size of the
folders I was backing up was around 350 megabytes.

I attempted to do a test restore and when checking off the folders to
restore I found dozens of folders with question marks in them.
I started the restore and it indicated it would need 24 hours to
complete.
Upon cancelling the restore and checking the restore folder there were
mostly folders which weren t on my restore file list.

Is there a decent third party backup software available that works?

When doing an unattended backup you need to ensure your
doing an overwrite not an append, that's why your file is
growing.



>-----Original Message-----
>I tried using Backup on Win2k to backup a few folders to
another drive
>and scheduled it to do a differential backup twice a week.
>
>A couple of months later I checked the size of the bkf
file in the
>drive and it had grown to 4 gigs. What is going on? The
size of the
>folders I was backing up was around 350 megabytes.
>
>I attempted to do a test restore and when checking off
the folders to
>restore I found dozens of folders with question marks in
them.
>I started the restore and it indicated it would need 24
hours to
>complete.
>Upon cancelling the restore and checking the restore
folder there were
>mostly folders which weren t on my restore file list.
>
>Is there a decent third party backup software available
that works?
>
>.
>

"JP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I tried using Backup on Win2k to backup a few folders to another drive
> and scheduled it to do a differential backup twice a week.
>
> A couple of months later I checked the size of the bkf file in the
> drive and it had grown to 4 gigs. What is going on? The size of the
> folders I was backing up was around 350 megabytes.
>
> I attempted to do a test restore and when checking off the folders to
> restore I found dozens of folders with question marks in them.
> I started the restore and it indicated it would need 24 hours to
> complete.
> Upon cancelling the restore and checking the restore folder there were
> mostly folders which weren t on my restore file list.
>
> Is there a decent third party backup software available that works?
>

Why use ntbackup.exe to back up your files to another disk when
you could use xcopy.exe? It its far easier to use than ntbackup,
and retrieving files from backup is a piece of cake!