Ghost 9 Problems

[a12vman]

I currently have 2 200GB Seagate Drives. Drive one has the OS, Program
Files and some data on it. Drive 2 is my backup drive. I have Ghost 9
running a Full Backup on Monday and Incremental Backups every other day. I
keep 2 Full Versions of Backups and use Medium Compression. My Primary
drive is using 40GB of space.

I started running into problems with disk space on the backup drive. My
ghost backups were failing stating that the target disk was full. When I
went in to windows explorer and looked at the disk it said I only had 533 MB
Free. Again, only backups on this Drive no other data. For one reason or
another I was unable to reclaim that disk space on that Drive. I would
delete the older backup and ensure it went out of the recycle bin yet no
space was gained. So with no other option I stopped the Ghost service,
copied the last good backup set to another OC on the network, and Formatted
the backup drive. The drive space was now reclaimed and I was able to
resume my backup schedule.

My Source drive always stays in the 30-40 GB Range. Why am I having these
issues with Ghost running out of space while running backups?

Thanks in Advance,
-12vman

 

[Michael Kimmer]

I currently have 2 200GB Seagate Drives. Drive one has the OS,
Program Files and some data on it. Drive 2 is my backup drive. I
have Ghost 9 running a Full Backup on Monday and Incremental Backups
every other day. I keep 2 Full Versions of Backups and use Medium
Compression. My Primary drive is using 40GB of space.

I started running into problems with disk space on the backup drive.
My ghost backups were failing stating that the target disk was full.
When I went in to windows explorer and looked at the disk it said I
only had 533 MB Free. Again, only backups on this Drive no other
data. For one reason or another I was unable to reclaim that disk
space on that Drive. I would delete the older backup and ensure it
went out of the recycle bin yet no space was gained. So with no
other option I stopped the Ghost service, copied the last good backup
set to another OC on the network, and Formatted the backup drive.
The drive space was now reclaimed and I was able to resume my backup
schedule.

My Source drive always stays in the 30-40 GB Range. Why am I having
these issues with Ghost running out of space while running backups?

Thanks in Advance,
-12vman

Make sure to limit the number of baseline backups (main backups) to one (1)
or two (2) in the options section (after setting up a time schedule).
If you don't do that each time that the size of an incremental exceeds the
size of a baseline backup a new baseline backup is created instead! This is
a security option otherwise you may risk a severe loss of data. This is
likely to happen when you start making incremental backups of an active
system partition (Windows)...

--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"

 

[John .]

You didn't mention if both Seagate drives are NTFS format.

I know that Maxtor external drives come preformatted as FAT32. First
thing I did was a quick format of the Maxtor to NTFS.

FAT32 is limited to maximum of 2gb file size I believe.

Also you may need a BIOS update on your motherboard if it doesn't
recognize the full size of the Seagate.

 

[a12vman]

Yes both drives are formatted NTFS.

This is very frustrating to me! I have 120GB on backup drive free yet I
still get an error from Ghost saying "Target Disk Full", what gives?
C-drive is currently using 48GB of 200GB.

 

[Peter]

Yes both drives are formatted NTFS.

This is very frustrating to me! I have 120GB on backup drive free yet I
still get an error from Ghost saying "Target Disk Full", what gives?
C-drive is currently using 48GB of 200GB.

What version and servicepack of Windows do you run?
Did you try to run chkdsk on the target disk?

 

[a12vman]

XP SP2

What version and servicepack of Windows do you run?
Did you try to run chkdsk on the target disk?