Backup files

[Guest]

I am backing up 8 folders from my hard disk that contain customer files. We do this approx. 3 - 4 times per year.
I recently upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 on this machine.

The old W98 backup files were .QIC files. Now, using Windows 2000, they have a .BKF extension. What is strange is that although the original files are approx. the same size as in the past, the backup files have almost tripled in size.

For the first folder, the W98 .QIC file is 278 MB while under W2000, the .BKF file is 830MB.

Any ideas why Windows 2000 backups are so huge?

 

[S.J.Haribabu]

Hi,

I think you backed up along with "system state data". When you backup,
uncheck the system state data and select the only user files.
When you take backup, go to advanced mode and make sure that you have
unchecked the system state data.

Thanks,

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