back up

[George Mortimore]

Running WXPPro + Office 2003 +AVG
I am seeking the logic for the malfunction of the MS backup that for some
unknown reason is not working as it should. In the past backing up the
mydocs folder has taken say about 10/15 mins. everything working as it is
planned to work !!! now there has been a change,instead of the time
outstanding window working in sympathy with the time elapsed window its
going ballistic changing inconsistently between 6 hours and 1hr 10 mins, the
progress bar stays on screen even though its not changing, the visual
indicator of flying files returning to where they started has gone, and in
the window that shows the files references being copied there is a phrase
that starts ...es hardlinkdata followed by a constantly changing set of
numerals and numbers. And it takes 30+ mines to closing. As There has been
no need !!!to test the integrity of the my docs folder I do not know what
has copied or wether it did a good job.
any thoughts on whats gone wrong and how to get it right would be
appreciated.
GM

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Running WXPPro + Office 2003 +AVG
I am seeking the logic for the malfunction of the MS backup that for some
unknown reason is not working as it should. In the past backing up the
mydocs folder has taken say about 10/15 mins. everything working as it is
planned to work !!! now there has been a change,instead of the time
outstanding window working in sympathy with the time elapsed window its
going ballistic changing inconsistently between 6 hours and 1hr 10 mins, the
progress bar stays on screen even though its not changing, the visual
indicator of flying files returning to where they started has gone, and in
the window that shows the files references being copied there is a phrase
that starts ...es hardlinkdata followed by a constantly changing set of
numerals and numbers. And it takes 30+ mines to closing. As There has been
no need !!!to test the integrity of the my docs folder I do not know what
has copied or wether it did a good job.
any thoughts on whats gone wrong and how to get it right would be
appreciated.
GM

Either your source or your target medium appears to have
developed a problem, preventing the backup process from
doing its job. The estimated times depend on the amount of
data to be copied and the current data transfer rate. If your
transfer rate fluctuates wildly because you have a bad medium
then the ETA will fluctuate just as wildly. It's like you staggering
home after an extended pub crawl: Your ETA will be very
hard to predict because after running a few steps, you keep
falling flat on your face . . .

Check the integrity of your media!