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External Back up problem
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External Back up problemI have a couple of Buffalo 2 TB externals for back up that I rotate. I formatted the external to do a complete backup of my D drive. The D drive has 416 GB of free space of 1.81 TB. The external after formatting shows 1.81 TB of space. The back up failed due to insufficient space on the external. The external now shows 1.38 TB of free space of the 1.81 TB space. There is a file from the backup, but is empty.
aka Cheryl
Intel i7 3770, Windows 7 Pro w/SP1, 64 bit, Intel 520 Series SSD, 32G RAM, 2 – 2T RAID, (1T external), GTX 550 Ti graphics
Re: External Back up problemIs your drive formatted NTFS (rather than FAT32)?
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Re: External Back up probleminfo:
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Intel i7 3770, Windows 7 Pro w/SP1, 64 bit, Intel 520 Series SSD, 32G RAM, 2 – 2T RAID, (1T external), GTX 550 Ti graphics
Re: External Back up problemYou can run an Error Check on the drive and see if it finds any issues, what back up software are you using?
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Re: External Back up problemUsing EaseUS for the backup.
aka Cheryl
Intel i7 3770, Windows 7 Pro w/SP1, 64 bit, Intel 520 Series SSD, 32G RAM, 2 – 2T RAID, (1T external), GTX 550 Ti graphics
Re: External Back up problemThat's what I use also, don't remember ever having that problem unless the drive really didn't have the space. Can you try creating a new backup with just a few files and see if that works? Make sure that the destination drive is the correct one (I'm sure you have but never hurts to double check).
1. Thinkpad W530 Laptop, Core i7-3820QM Processor 8M Cache 3.70 GHz, 16 GB DDR3, NVIDIA Quadro K1000M 2GB Memory.
2. Cybertron PC - Liquid Cooled AMD FX6300, 6 cores, 3.50ghz - 32GB DDR3 - MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming 4G, 4GB Video Ram, 1024 Cuda Cores.
Re: External Back up problemUPDATE: Success on the 2nd attempt of back up. I formatted the drive again and then ran a Disc Clean. Not sure if that did the trick, but a stab in the dark. I also unchecked a few unneeded folders such as my Cache files. I don't know if this makes a difference: first time I just selected "D" drive. The 2nd time I checked folders on the D drive.
aka Cheryl
Intel i7 3770, Windows 7 Pro w/SP1, 64 bit, Intel 520 Series SSD, 32G RAM, 2 – 2T RAID, (1T external), GTX 550 Ti graphics
Re: External Back up problem1. Thinkpad W530 Laptop, Core i7-3820QM Processor 8M Cache 3.70 GHz, 16 GB DDR3, NVIDIA Quadro K1000M 2GB Memory.
2. Cybertron PC - Liquid Cooled AMD FX6300, 6 cores, 3.50ghz - 32GB DDR3 - MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming 4G, 4GB Video Ram, 1024 Cuda Cores.
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