Continual full back of external drive

[kutski]

Hi there! I'm a new user of Veeam, having come over to Windows recently after being a long time mac user, so I've been looking for an alternative to Time Machine, and Veeam seems like the best option

I'm currently backing up 3 internal HD's, and 1 external USB drive (H:) and using another external drive (G:) as the back up destination.

The first back up take a long time as expected and does exactly what I wanted. My issue is on the subsequent iterative back up, it seems to make a full back up of the H: drive every time which is taking hours (7+ hours). All the other drives do the iterative backup as expected and only take a few minute to back up the data which has changed but it seems to want to copy over the entire contents of the external one every time.

I've tried not including external drives and each iterative back ups takes minutes to complete.

Is there any way to make it only update the changes on the H: external drive?

The only issue why I can think why it may be doing this is that is the only drive which is FAT formatted not NTFS. I do need this drive to be FAT for compatibility between Mac and PC. If this is the issue would making the drive XFAT help at all?

Thanks,

John

[Mildur]

Hi John

Have you registered the second drive as a backup target (rotated drives)?
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agent ... tml?ver=60

Best,
Fabian

[kutski]

Hi Fabian, thanks for the reply. I'm not actually looking to rotate the back up, I'm looking to include one external hard drive (H:) on my system back up to the other external drive (G:). I have got this to work, but instead of just backing up the incremental changes from H: it always backs up the entire contents of the H: drive so it makes every back up take like 7+ hrs.

Thanks, John