Re: SBS 2003 SP2 Premium Backup Unreliable Result

Jim,

What seems to happen is it produces the "nomal backup file" under a folder
called Backup files but when it fails it dumps a HUGE file in the directory
above this one. Is this somethng to do with shadow copy?

Is my script right for excluding all of f Drive? RIght now the backup is in
progress and it estimates 50 GB actually 50,052,896,799 Bytes - its been
going for 7.75 hour and there is 4 to go.



"Jim Behning SBS MVP" wrote:

So what do the backups that succeed say for the byte count of the 4
backups it does do on successful nights?

Check for free space on the external drive every night before you
leave?


On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:50:01 -0700, Bucklebery
<Bucklebery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The baclup script says:

SystemState
C:\
D:\
F:\ /Exclude
JET DUNAMIS\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group\







SBS backup exclude drive

"Bucklebery" wrote:

Hi Steve,

I just checked but it says:

F:\ Not calcuulated - Excluded

F is my USB drive.
I tried doing F:\*.* - is there any other symtax to excluded it? IT looks
like it is excluded. I appreciate any further thoughts!


"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" wrote:

Bucklebery wrote:

I am backing up to External 400 GB USB drive. (There is no hardware issue)
Out of 10 backup reports - the pattern is 2 fail then 2 good, repeating.
C dirve is 21 Gigs
D Drive is 34 Gigs
Theroetcially totaling 55 Gigs.

Question: Why if I only keep 2 backups is it blowing out 400 GB every 2nd
back up? The file size seems HUGE ?

You haven't excluded the external USB drive letter from the backup set, so
it's backing up itself.

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