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

keokani

Steve,

Across the internet, you are the lead investigator into this issue.
Nearly all discussions are duplicates of your same thread. To date, no
one has stepped in yet with the final answer. You have not posted a
followup to indicate that you have found the answer either. The URL I
found that has the most replies to your thread is:

'Vista Complete PC Backup error 0x80780048'
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Today, I ran into this same issue on my 64-bit version of Vista.
Apparently, the oldest backup has been removed, but it looks like the
Backup and Restore Center still thinks that it hasn't, because it is
still displaying the oldest backup date, which doesn't appear on the
external backup drive when I open it.

Shawn, who I believe owns this Vistax64.com website forum, helped me
solve my last Vista problem. I was hoping he would have already had a
tutorial or final solution for this problem, but apparently he does not.
Hopefully, he can solve this problem too. That is why I chose this forum
to reply to your thread.

Could either one of you please follow up.


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chuckbam

There must be a regedit fix for this. Vista want 360 GBto back-up but
uses about 70 Gb on my drive after the backup.


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chuckbam

John

"chuckbam" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> There must be a regedit fix for this. Vista want 360 GBto back-up but
> uses about 70 Gb on my drive after the backup.
>
>
> --
> chuckbam


I didn't see the beginning of this thread, but I think Microsoft has a KB
patch or something for this error.

John

chuckbam

John;743741 Wrote:
> "chuckbam" <> wrote in message
> news:...> > >
> > >
> > > There must be a regedit fix for this. Vista want 360 GBto back-up but
> > > uses about 70 Gb on my drive after the backup.
> > >
> > >
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> > > chuckbam > >
>
>
> I didn't see the beginning of this thread, but I think Microsoft has
> a KB
> patch or something for this error.
>
> John

I read the patches every month at MS download. I must have missed that.
I delete everything on a backup drives to clear over 350GBs for a 70 GB
backup.


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chuckbam

bullred

yup---i noticed this to this past week. i get a little taskbar message
saying "did not backup today" something to that effect.(i'm at work on
XP so I don't remember the exact quote from my Vista).

i have a 200 gig internal storage fat32 drive i use between vista and
linux. i knew it was half full but was not aware it was backing up that
much stuff. which was only my documents,pics, and some mp3's. it has 70
megs of space left---thats megs,not gigs!:geek:

problem is, since this is just a storage drive, i can't find where the
backups are---yet it's full. anybody know what file i'd be looking
for---like .bu or something? i can't find'em. prolly just haveing a bald
moment week. anyway---where are my backups on this full drive? thx yall
:shock:


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bullred

Sushil Baid [MSFT]

Hi Chuckbam,

i will need some diagnostic information to get the root cause. i will ask
support person to get in touch with you.

in the meanwhile - can you pl send
1. the total/free size of the volume you are tyring to backup and of the
backup target by seeing them in explore - detailed view?
2. vssadmin list shadowstorage -- command output
3. are you using UI or commandline? pl pass the command line output or ui
screen for context.


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-sushil [MSFT]
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explicit.
"chuckbam" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> There must be a regedit fix for this. Vista want 360 GBto back-up but
> uses about 70 Gb on my drive after the backup.
>
>
> --
> chuckbam

Sushil Baid [MSFT]

vista file backup are placed under x:\<your-machine-name> folder
vista complete pc backup are placed under x:\windowsimagebackup folder

HTH

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"bullred" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> yup---i noticed this to this past week. i get a little taskbar message
> saying "did not backup today" something to that effect.(i'm at work on
> XP so I don't remember the exact quote from my Vista).
>
> i have a 200 gig internal storage fat32 drive i use between vista and
> linux. i knew it was half full but was not aware it was backing up that
> much stuff. which was only my documents,pics, and some mp3's. it has 70
> megs of space left---thats megs,not gigs!:geek:
>
> problem is, since this is just a storage drive, i can't find where the
> backups are---yet it's full. anybody know what file i'd be looking
> for---like .bu or something? i can't find'em. prolly just haveing a bald
> moment week. anyway---where are my backups on this full drive? thx yall
> :shock:
>
>
> --
> bullred

bullred

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.


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bullred

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.

chuckbam

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?


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chuckbam

Sushil Baid [MSFT]

delete backup funtionality is planned in window7 UI. it will provide user
option to delete older backups. but will not auto delete older backups. will
that work for you?

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"bullred" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:385c6ea13fbba2e9c99fa3d3ec1578e8@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> bullred
>
> Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.