.BKF file is nearly twice the size of backed-up data

Hi all,

I just performed an ASR backup of my computer using NTBackup.ese and I have
a strange problem that I haven't encountered before. According to Windows
Explorer, there is 77 GB of data on my C: drive. However, the .bkf file
created by the backup is 151 GB - almost twice the size. Now my external
drive is full and I can't do any more backups!

I've extensively explored my hard drive, including looking at System and
Hidden files, but I am unable to explain this discrepency. Does anyone know
what happened?

Thanks,
- Steve

Gerry
Sun May 04 16:58:51 PDT 2008

Steve

How is the external drive formatted? NTFS or FAT32?

Have you verified the backup?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/maintain/featusability/11wntpcb.mspx?mfr=true

I searched for information comparitive sizes. If you back up the
Registry it is much larger using NT BackUp. Beyond that I hit a brick
wall.
http://winonline.blogspot.com/2005/11/registry-size-discrepancies.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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R. Steven Kadish wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just performed an ASR backup of my computer using NTBackup.ese and
> I have a strange problem that I haven't encountered before.
> According to Windows Explorer, there is 77 GB of data on my C: drive.
> However, the .bkf file created by the backup is 151 GB - almost twice
> the size. Now my external drive is full and I can't do any more
> backups!
>
> I've extensively explored my hard drive, including looking at System
> and Hidden files, but I am unable to explain this discrepency. Does
> anyone know what happened?
>
> Thanks,
> - Steve

Patrick
Tue May 06 08:10:20 PDT 2008

"R. Steven Kadish" <RStevenKadish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:F642E15D-B19D-4D3D-9649-3490E1684732@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I just performed an ASR backup of my computer using NTBackup.ese and I
> have
> a strange problem that I haven't encountered before. According to Windows
> Explorer, there is 77 GB of data on my C: drive. However, the .bkf file
> created by the backup is 151 GB - almost twice the size. Now my external
> drive is full and I can't do any more backups!
>
> I've extensively explored my hard drive, including looking at System and
> Hidden files, but I am unable to explain this discrepency. Does anyone
> know
> what happened?
>
> Thanks,
> - Steve

Had you previously done a full backup to the C drive?

HTH
-pk

RStevenKadish
Fri May 09 19:58:03 PDT 2008

Hi all,

So - I found out what is going on here.

I have an old version of PGP Desktop installed (version 9) and I recently
created an encrypted volume to hold sensitive files. The volume mounts as a
folder inside My Documents (it's called "Private.") When the volume is
dismounted, "Private" appears to Explorer as an empty folder.

The volume was dismounted when I did the backup. On a hunch, I took a look
at the folder in the backup catalog. Nested inside "Private" was - strange!
- my entire C: drive folder structure, backed up a second time!

I guess my next posting will be to the PGP forums!

Thanks,
- Steve


"R. Steven Kadish" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just performed an ASR backup of my computer using NTBackup.ese and I have
> a strange problem that I haven't encountered before. According to Windows
> Explorer, there is 77 GB of data on my C: drive. However, the .bkf file
> created by the backup is 151 GB - almost twice the size. Now my external
> drive is full and I can't do any more backups!
>
> I've extensively explored my hard drive, including looking at System and
> Hidden files, but I am unable to explain this discrepency. Does anyone know
> what happened?
>
> Thanks,
> - Steve
>