Re: .BKF file is nearly twice the size of backed-up data

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Steve

How is the external drive formatted? NTFS or FAT32?

Have you verified the backup?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/maintain/featusability/11wntpcb.mspx?mfr=true

I searched for information comparitive sizes. If you back up the
Registry it is much larger using NT BackUp. Beyond that I hit a brick
wall.
http://winonline.blogspot.com/2005/11/registry-size-discrepancies.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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R. Steven Kadish wrote:
Hi all,

I just performed an ASR backup of my computer using NTBackup.ese and
I have a strange problem that I haven't encountered before.
According to Windows Explorer, there is 77 GB of data on my C: drive.
However, the .bkf file created by the backup is 151 GB - almost twice
the size. Now my external drive is full and I can't do any more
backups!

I've extensively explored my hard drive, including looking at System
and Hidden files, but I am unable to explain this discrepency. Does
anyone know what happened?

Thanks,
- Steve


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