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dmcmillen
Posts: 7
Registered: ‎06-19-2011

Norton Ghost 15.0 Monthy Backup Issue

I backup a drive on the 1st of every month (custom monthly backup).  That works just great, but Ghost begins generating an error as soon as the there has been no backup on the drive for 30 days.  That means that Ghost begins reporting an error with that drives backup on months with more than 30 days.  Status reporting is set for Full Status Reporting. 

 

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

Thanks!  David

 

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redk9258
Posts: 2,337
Registered: ‎02-22-2010

Re: Norton Ghost 15.0 Monthly Backup Issue

Ghost GUI > Advanced tab > Drives tab > right click the drive that is Ghost is complaining about > Customize status reporting > Check No status reporting.

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dmcmillen
Posts: 7
Registered: ‎06-19-2011

Re: Norton Ghost 15.0 Monthly Backup Issue

I don't want to turn off all reporting on the drive.

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redk9258
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Registered: ‎02-22-2010

Re: Norton Ghost 15.0 Monthly Backup Issue

Sounds lake a bug in Ghost. If you are just doing a monthly backup, why choose custom monthly? The default is the 1st of the month same as you have chosen. That's what I use with an incremental daily and have never seen that problem.

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dmcmillen
Posts: 7
Registered: ‎06-19-2011

Re: Norton Ghost 15.0 Monthly Backup Issue

I'll change to a regular monthly backup and see what happens.  I thought there might be a registry setting to set.

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andreash_utah
Posts: 402
Registered: ‎07-27-2009

Re: Norton Ghost 15.0 Monthly Backup Issue

Hope this resolved your issue. If not, please reply and let us know. Ghost will report no backups if more than 30 days have gone by. Best practice is to backup your drives more often than that in case of a system crash.

-Andy