Hello.
I'm having a problem with Ghost 14.0.5.34587, running Window XP with SP3 applied. The problem is that sometimes an incremental backup pauses at 1% for a very long time, and when it finally resumes, it seems to make an incremental backup that's the same size as a full backup. My backups are set to start a new recovery point set Monthly, and I backup, usually, every three or four days and never less often than weekly. It's almost like Ghost can't figure out that it already has a full backup. This has happened on my working drive, which I'd expect to change, and on another drive whose content almost never changes - indeed, on other occasions Ghost finishes backing it up in literally under a minute and the backup is very, very small.
My question is: why is Ghost getting "stupid" about the incremental backups and what can I do to correct it?
In case this is helpful, here's the configuration for my main drive backup that just did this yesterday:
Drives and backup destinations:
$Main (C:\) to Z:\C\C_Drive015.v2i
Start a new recovery point set (base):
The first time the backup is run in a new month
Scheduled backup time:
No schedule
Event triggers:
[ ] Any user logs on to the computer
[ ] Any user logs off from the computer (Not at Shutdown or Restart)
[ ] Application is installed
[ ] Application is launched
[ ] Data added to the drive exceeds:
Options:
Backup name: 01 - DBak $Main (C:\)
Compression level: None
[X] Verify recovery points after creation
Recovery point set limit: 5
[ ] Search engine support
[X] Prepend computer name to backup data file names
[ ] Save backup files to a unique subfolder
Description: Main drive with system info
Advanced options:
[ ] Use password
Encryption level: None
Max file size: None
[ ] Ignore bad sectors during copy
[ ] Disable SmartSector copying
[ ] Perform full VSS backup
Command files:
Before data capture: None
After data capture: None
After recovery point creation: None
Offsite Copy:
Disabled
Restore Anyware is not enabled for this recovery point.
(P.S. I turned compression off because I backup to an external hard drive connected via eSATA, and Norton's compression makes backups take an extremely long time relative to uncompressed backups - as much as twice the time.)
The drive in question has about 110GiB on it. Another drive as around 250GiB and a third around 7GiB. Each has had this problem at one time or another. Are these sizes too large for Ghost?)
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.