Vista Complete PC Backup (0x80780048) Not Enough Space?

vista file backup are placed under x:\<your-machine-name> folder
vista complete pc backup are placed under x:\windowsimagebackup folder

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"bullred" <guest.TakeThisOut@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> yup---i noticed this to this past week. i get a little taskbar message
> saying "did not backup today" something to that effect.(i'm at work on
> XP so I don't remember the exact quote from my Vista).
>
> i have a 200 gig internal storage fat32 drive i use between vista and
> linux. i knew it was half full but was not aware it was backing up that
> much stuff. which was only my documents,pics, and some mp3's. it has 70
> megs of space left---thats megs,not gigs!:geek:
>
> problem is, since this is just a storage drive, i can't find where the
> backups are---yet it's full. anybody know what file i'd be looking
> for---like .bu or something? i can't find'em. prolly just haveing a bald
> moment week. anyway---where are my backups on this full drive? thx yall
>
>
>
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> bullred

thanks sushil....

yes, i finally found the backups under the PC name on the Fat32 drive.
i guess i wasen't aware the PC name would appear on my backup drives as
well. i was looking on the C drive. DOh! yea -and i had like weekly
22gig backups for the last 5 or 6 weeks. that'll fill it up. i deleted
all except the latest. like in another thread here, i wish Vista would
automatically delete older backups.;)


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bullred

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.

bullred;752913 Wrote:
> thanks sushil....
>
> yes, i finally found the backups under the PC name on the Fat32 drive.
> i guess i wasen't aware the PC name would appear on my backup drives as
> well. i was looking on the C drive. DOh! yea -and i had like weekly
> 22gig backups for the last 5 or 6 weeks. that'll fill it up. i deleted
> all except the latest. like in another thread here, i wish Vista would
> automatically delete older backups.;)

Thanks for the offer, but I don't need to do a full backup now. But,
this is a common problem. It wants the whole space of the volume (C:/).
But only uses a much smaller amount. For example, I have folders out
side of my C drive that windows does not back up. Also the MC dvr-ms
files are not backup either. I can have many GB of dvr-ms files. Last
time I had the problem. Complete backup wanted about 350GBs and used
something like 74. Before I deleted what I had on my backup destination
drive, I received an error that the volume had not enough space. But
like I said, many many other people have the same problem because it is
on every Vista OS with complete backup. I don't use the command prompt.
I am using the Complete Backup GUI.

You could help me with one thing. My power plan keeps changing back to
" Turn Display off in 20 minutes". I set it back to " Turn Display off
display never" and turn off the hard drives. And it goes back to 20
minutes again and again. On 3 computers I have Vista on. It may take a
few days, but it happens again and again. Is there a regedit fix to
force my custom settings?


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chuckbam

Tanks Sushil !
Nice to see you on the board. I think the 20 min power reset is when
you install new update, do a system restore or maybe even install
DirecX. I just thought it is MS trying to keep the OS green. That is
fine with me. There are other things I don't like about Vista, but,
accept them and try to work around or disable etc. Like UAC and
Indexing. But, if there is a way to edit my custom setting to a default-
that would be great. Overall- I am a big fan of Vista.

One more thing, I have Vista Ultimate 64-bit with 8 GBs of memory. I
know the OS is rated to use this amount of memory. But, I think it never
addresses all the memory. On some test, I believe it started page filing
before it used 2/3 of my 8GBs. Any tweaks for memory management to
address all 8 GBs. My motherboard and the OS see all 8 GBs so it is
nothing dumb like that. I have been looking at this for many months.


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chuckbam

delete backup funtionality is planned in window7 UI. it will provide user
option to delete older backups. but will not auto delete older backups. will
that work for you?

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"bullred" <guest RemoveThis @unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> thanks sushil....
>
> yes, i finally found the backups under the PC name on the Fat32 drive.
> i guess i wasen't aware the PC name would appear on my backup drives as
> well. i was looking on the C drive. DOh! yea -and i had like weekly
> 22gig backups for the last 5 or 6 weeks. that'll fill it up. i deleted
> all except the latest. like in another thread here, i wish Vista would
> automatically delete older backups.
>
>
> --
> bullred
>
> Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.

hello,

i wanted to make sure that you are using complete pc backup, and not basic
file backup. are you using backup UI and using "complete pc backup" flow?

why i am asking this is because
complete pc backup does not exclude any files on a volume except
hiberfile.sys/pagefile.sys and at times - vss diff area areas files. hence,
backup should contain all the files on the c:. only reason - you should
disparity between estimate and actual backup size - is order of size of the
above files. but order of disparity mentioned by you below is huge. hence, i
am trying to get few details like i mentioned in my previous reply. can you
pl provide those details?

ps/ complete pc backups are placed in "windowsimagebackup" folder on the
backup drive.
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this information is provided as-is without any warranties, implicit or
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"chuckbam" <guest DeleteThis @unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> bullred;752913 Wrote:
>> thanks sushil....
>>
>> yes, i finally found the backups under the PC name on the Fat32 drive.
>> i guess i wasen't aware the PC name would appear on my backup drives as
>> well. i was looking on the C drive. DOh! yea -and i had like weekly
>> 22gig backups for the last 5 or 6 weeks. that'll fill it up. i deleted
>> all except the latest. like in another thread here, i wish Vista would
>> automatically delete older backups.
>
> Thanks for the offer, but I don't need to do a full backup now. But,
> this is a common problem. It wants the whole space of the volume (C:/).
> But only uses a much smaller amount. For example, I have folders out
> side of my C drive that windows does not back up. Also the MC dvr-ms
> files are not backup either. I can have many GB of dvr-ms files. Last
> time I had the problem. Complete backup wanted about 350GBs and used
> something like 74. Before I deleted what I had on my backup destination
> drive, I received an error that the volume had not enough space. But
> like I said, many many other people have the same problem because it is
> on every Vista OS with complete backup. I don't use the command prompt.
> I am using the Complete Backup GUI.
>
> You could help me with one thing. My power plan keeps changing back to
> " Turn Display off in 20 minutes". I set it back to " Turn Display off
> display never" and turn off the hard drives. And it goes back to 20
> minutes again and again. On 3 computers I have Vista on. It may take a
> few days, but it happens again and again. Is there a regedit fix to
> force my custom settings?
>
>
> --
> chuckbam