Hi everyone,
For anyone experiencing the following problem, please respond to this thread.
Symptom: Incremental backup is unusually large or near the same size as the last full backup.
If you have been seeing this problem only during about the last month or so, please let me know via responding to this post. I am working with Symantec on this topic and need to get a consensus on how many are seeing this.
Note that large incremental can also be caused by perfectly normal things such as:
Lots of data really has changed since last backup.
Defragmentation has run between the time of your last backup and the current incremental.
Computer crashes.
If either of the above are true then the large incremental is not a problem and would be considered normal.
A problem would be something defined as a controlled backup test performed when you know definitively that not many changes actually took place on the drive in question.
Thanks very much
Allen