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John Hanley
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      06-11-2007
I am running Vista Home Premium. I have turned on Automatic File Backup. I
am using DVD as my backup location. I did the first backup on June 6th, and
it saved approximately 9GB of information. It came time for the next
automatic backup, and it saved about the same amount of information, 9GB
more or less. I had thought it would do an incremental backup, per this
information in the help files:

"Windows keeps track of the files that have been added or modified since
your last backup so you only have to update the existing backup, which saves
disk space."

But it sure seems like the new backup did all of it again. Is this normal
behavior? Is there a setting I have missed? Thanks.



 
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Jill Zoeller [MSFT]
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      06-11-2007
See our blog at
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...-expected.aspx
for an explanation. Some customers have reported success using SyncToy for
keeping copies of music and similar files.

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"John Hanley" <> wrote in message
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>I am running Vista Home Premium. I have turned on Automatic File Backup.
>I am using DVD as my backup location. I did the first backup on June 6th,
>and it saved approximately 9GB of information. It came time for the next
>automatic backup, and it saved about the same amount of information, 9GB
>more or less. I had thought it would do an incremental backup, per this
>information in the help files:
>
> "Windows keeps track of the files that have been added or modified since
> your last backup so you only have to update the existing backup, which
> saves disk space."
>
> But it sure seems like the new backup did all of it again. Is this normal
> behavior? Is there a setting I have missed? Thanks.
>
>
>


 
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