Big backups all the time (>2.5GB), is that normal?

[Mike Resseler]

Juan,

It could be but every 6 hours that amount of changes seems a lot. I even see an incremental of 30 gig in the list also.
Before we dive deeper on finding the root cause: You don't install that much on your computer, that is one thing. But are you certain there are specific files that are not changing / downloading / ... all the time? Maybe some large save files from a game or so? Or music / video's that you are editing / compiling / something?

Could you look at your D: drive (to start with) and see what is changed the last couple of hours (modified)

Thanks
Mike

[Damman]

Have pretty much the same problem here...

But on reflection, I think it's due to my .pst files. No ?

[Mike Resseler]

I would assume no... Unless your PST files actually have that amount of churn so frequently... When it is volume backup (not file level backup, other story) we do the based on block changes so it won't backup the entire PST again when there are only small changes... Only the block changes are protected.

[Dima P.]

Juan,

I guess the best place to investigate why you increments are growing is task manager with disk I/O output. It should show what applications are writing to disk and affecting your incremental job runs.

[Mike Resseler]

I don't believe we have such a tool available. At this point in time, I feel that it is best to log a support call through the UI (free, but without SLA, on a best effort basis) to figure out what is causing these big changes...

Please post your case ID here and what support has advised. It would be helpful for other users also.

Thanks
Mike

[Damman]

Hi,

If it's not my .PST (pst that I don't touch), I have same issue.

Like JChris, I run 2 backups one after the other and the 2 backups have pretty much the same size (2GB).

[Dima P.]

Damman,

Can you please clarify where you actually keep your backup files? Thanks.

[Damman]

On a file server why ?

http://imgur.com/a/bwC2W

Yesterday, 3GB each time. I use File Level Backup.
Just save Documents, Download, Favorites and Desktop. All of this data take +- 6Gb.

The only big file is the pst (4,5 gb).



Again, sorry for my bad English...

[Dima P.]

The backup destination is configured as a Shared folder, is that correct?

I use File Level Backup.

Have you tried volume level backup instead? File level backup is slower and may create a bigger increment than expected.

[Damman]

Didn't try because we don't want volume backup.

It's a share backup yes.

We will wait the version 2.0

[hoFFy]

If doing file-level backup you could disable every folder and enable it one by one to check from where the mass of the "new" data comes.
"Operating System" could be a good candidate. You also spoke about Spotify... A few days ago Spotify was on the news tickers because of their constant high writing rate on disk, which made some SDD users become a headache

[chaycock]

I think this issue is exactly why people (including myself) have been asking (for a long time) for a feature that lets you get a list of files included in each incremental backup so we can figure out what is going on when this type of issue arises.

[Gostev]

Dima, let's do this! Just dump the list of changed files to debug log?