Ghost 9 Problems

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I currently have 2 200GB Seagate Drives. Drive one has the OS, Program
Files and some data on it. Drive 2 is my backup drive. I have Ghost 9
running a Full Backup on Monday and Incremental Backups every other day. I
keep 2 Full Versions of Backups and use Medium Compression. My Primary
drive is using 40GB of space.

I started running into problems with disk space on the backup drive. My
ghost backups were failing stating that the target disk was full. When I
went in to windows explorer and looked at the disk it said I only had 533 MB
Free. Again, only backups on this Drive no other data. For one reason or
another I was unable to reclaim that disk space on that Drive. I would
delete the older backup and ensure it went out of the recycle bin yet no
space was gained. So with no other option I stopped the Ghost service,
copied the last good backup set to another OC on the network, and Formatted
the backup drive. The drive space was now reclaimed and I was able to
resume my backup schedule.

My Source drive always stays in the 30-40 GB Range. Why am I having these
issues with Ghost running out of space while running backups?

Thanks in Advance,
-12vman
 
a12vman said:
I currently have 2 200GB Seagate Drives. Drive one has the OS,
Program Files and some data on it. Drive 2 is my backup drive. I
have Ghost 9 running a Full Backup on Monday and Incremental Backups
every other day. I keep 2 Full Versions of Backups and use Medium
Compression. My Primary drive is using 40GB of space.

I started running into problems with disk space on the backup drive.
My ghost backups were failing stating that the target disk was full.
When I went in to windows explorer and looked at the disk it said I
only had 533 MB Free. Again, only backups on this Drive no other
data. For one reason or another I was unable to reclaim that disk
space on that Drive. I would delete the older backup and ensure it
went out of the recycle bin yet no space was gained. So with no
other option I stopped the Ghost service, copied the last good backup
set to another OC on the network, and Formatted the backup drive.
The drive space was now reclaimed and I was able to resume my backup
schedule.

My Source drive always stays in the 30-40 GB Range. Why am I having
these issues with Ghost running out of space while running backups?

Thanks in Advance,
-12vman
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Make sure to limit the number of baseline backups (main backups) to one (1)
or two (2) in the options section (after setting up a time schedule).
If you don't do that each time that the size of an incremental exceeds the
size of a baseline backup a new baseline backup is created instead! This is
a security option otherwise you may risk a severe loss of data. This is
likely to happen when you start making incremental backups of an active
system partition (Windows)...

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M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"
 
You didn't mention if both Seagate drives are NTFS format.

I know that Maxtor external drives come preformatted as FAT32. First
thing I did was a quick format of the Maxtor to NTFS.

FAT32 is limited to maximum of 2gb file size I believe.

Also you may need a BIOS update on your motherboard if it doesn't
recognize the full size of the Seagate.
 
Yes both drives are formatted NTFS.

This is very frustrating to me! I have 120GB on backup drive free yet I
still get an error from Ghost saying "Target Disk Full", what gives?
C-drive is currently using 48GB of 200GB.
 
Yes both drives are formatted NTFS.
This is very frustrating to me! I have 120GB on backup drive free yet I
still get an error from Ghost saying "Target Disk Full", what gives?
C-drive is currently using 48GB of 200GB.
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What version and servicepack of Windows do you run?
Did you try to run chkdsk on the target disk?
 
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