Restoring a backup of a backup

[Shirley]

I backed up a backup file because it seemed a nice easy
way of moving the .bkf to another drive. However it now
won't restore.
The file shows up as 15kb but clearly all the original
stuff is there because when I tried to delete it, it was
too big for the Recycle Bin.
All kinds of very useful stuff is in this file so any help
would be much appreciated.

Shirley

 

[AllStreamIt]

Shirley,

Did you try to run scandisk and defrag on your drive? It seems that
the OS is reporting an incorrect size.

Also, can you open the file using Backup?

AS

 

[Shirley]

Scandisk runs with no problems. Defrag was not necessary
according to the Analysis screen so I didn't run it.

Windows Explorer shows about 21GB free on the drive where
I keep my backups. I have two backed-up backups and their
original contents would have been about 19GB which would
leave 21 GB free. So I think the system is reading file
sizes correctly. The 15Kb size of one file must be the
size of the "cover" that backup puts on it.

Backup doesn't open these backed-up backups. I get a grey
out screen with Abort being the only option available.
Another message suggests that Backup is not able to
catalog the files. This makes some kind of sense because
there is nothing there to catalog except the original .bkf.

I have no idea how Backup really works, but I have an
idea, just on intuition, that the Backup program bundles
all the files into a "cover". So my backed-up backups have
two covers outside the original files. If this reflects in
any way what really happens, then what I need is some way
of removing the outer cover first, before proceeding to
restore using backup.

Is there some way around this?

Thanking you in anticipation.

Shirley

PS I haven't replied before because I couldn't see the
Send button on the Post Reply dialog box. My latest
posting suggests a solution for this accessibility problem.