Re: Vista Complete PC Backup (0x80780048) Not Enough Space?

Sushil Baid [MSFT]

hello,

i wanted to make sure that you are using complete pc backup, and not basic
file backup. are you using backup UI and using "complete pc backup" flow?

why i am asking this is because
complete pc backup does not exclude any files on a volume except
hiberfile.sys/pagefile.sys and at times - vss diff area areas files. hence,
backup should contain all the files on the c:. only reason - you should
disparity between estimate and actual backup size - is order of size of the
above files. but order of disparity mentioned by you below is huge. hence, i
am trying to get few details like i mentioned in my previous reply. can you
pl provide those details?

ps/ complete pc backups are placed in "windowsimagebackup" folder on the
backup drive.
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-sushil [MSFT]
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explicit.
"chuckbam" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> bullred;752913 Wrote:
>> thanks sushil....
>>
>> yes, i finally found the backups under the PC name on the Fat32 drive.
>> i guess i wasen't aware the PC name would appear on my backup drives as
>> well. i was looking on the C drive. DOh! yea -and i had like weekly
>> 22gig backups for the last 5 or 6 weeks. that'll fill it up. i deleted
>> all except the latest. like in another thread here, i wish Vista would
>> automatically delete older backups.
>
> Thanks for the offer, but I don't need to do a full backup now. But,
> this is a common problem. It wants the whole space of the volume (C:/).
> But only uses a much smaller amount. For example, I have folders out
> side of my C drive that windows does not back up. Also the MC dvr-ms
> files are not backup either. I can have many GB of dvr-ms files. Last
> time I had the problem. Complete backup wanted about 350GBs and used
> something like 74. Before I deleted what I had on my backup destination
> drive, I received an error that the volume had not enough space. But
> like I said, many many other people have the same problem because it is
> on every Vista OS with complete backup. I don't use the command prompt.
> I am using the Complete Backup GUI.
>
> You could help me with one thing. My power plan keeps changing back to
> " Turn Display off in 20 minutes". I set it back to " Turn Display off
> display never" and turn off the hard drives. And it goes back to 20
> minutes again and again. On 3 computers I have Vista on. It may take a
> few days, but it happens again and again. Is there a regedit fix to
> force my custom settings?
>
>
> --
> chuckbam

Sushil Baid [MSFT]

regarding the power setting - i am not the right person. i will post the
query to relevant product team and see if they can resolve it.

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-sushil [MSFT]
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"chuckbam" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> bullred;752913 Wrote:
>> thanks sushil....
>>
>> yes, i finally found the backups under the PC name on the Fat32 drive.
>> i guess i wasen't aware the PC name would appear on my backup drives as
>> well. i was looking on the C drive. DOh! yea -and i had like weekly
>> 22gig backups for the last 5 or 6 weeks. that'll fill it up. i deleted
>> all except the latest. like in another thread here, i wish Vista would
>> automatically delete older backups.
>
> Thanks for the offer, but I don't need to do a full backup now. But,
> this is a common problem. It wants the whole space of the volume (C:/).
> But only uses a much smaller amount. For example, I have folders out
> side of my C drive that windows does not back up. Also the MC dvr-ms
> files are not backup either. I can have many GB of dvr-ms files. Last
> time I had the problem. Complete backup wanted about 350GBs and used
> something like 74. Before I deleted what I had on my backup destination
> drive, I received an error that the volume had not enough space. But
> like I said, many many other people have the same problem because it is
> on every Vista OS with complete backup. I don't use the command prompt.
> I am using the Complete Backup GUI.
>
> You could help me with one thing. My power plan keeps changing back to
> " Turn Display off in 20 minutes". I set it back to " Turn Display off
> display never" and turn off the hard drives. And it goes back to 20
> minutes again and again. On 3 computers I have Vista on. It may take a
> few days, but it happens again and again. Is there a regedit fix to
> force my custom settings?
>
>
> --
> chuckbam