Windows Backup Program

[tdowning]

I have a windows 2000 Server and the Windows Backup program is hanging, and I have no idea what to do about it. can anyone help me?

 

[TheCorm]

System Specs?..Running SP3?

More details on when it hangs, what is happening? does it hang at the same point?

Jamie

 

[tdowning]

Not always same file, (I tried removing the directory it was on when it hung a few times and that didn't do it. Seems to happen after a given period of time.

Asus A7V
Athlon 800
256 MB Ram
60 GB Maxtor System disk
80 GB WD Special Edition backup disk
2000 Server SP3

Ironically, I put the 80 GB Drive into a Windows XP client on my network, and ran windows backup on that, and all was peachy. I'm stumped.

Only other thing I can think of is that I put a brand new WD 80 GB Special Edition in it got "Windows was unable to complete the format" from the Disk management MMC thingy. I removed the offending drive and exchanged it at Best Buy, and the replacement works fine, but there is a "Missing" drive in the disk management MMC thing, and I can't remove it, and it seems to me like it's been taking longer to boot up as well since that happened. I think since I have a backup of all the data files, I may just start over from scratch.

Any ideas anyone?

 

[tdowning]

^^Bump^^

I have been thinking about this problem, and have come to the conclusion that maybe my A7V motherboard needs a BIOS upgrade to be able to handle a HDD with an 8 mb cache.

Any thoughts?

 

[tdowning]

OK, Update, I just flashed the Bios from version 1005c to 1011, all seems to be well, I am presently 3 GB into a 52 GB Operation.

Now, I understand that a Full, (Or in Windows backup terms, 'Normal') backup copies all files, and resets the archive bit.

When a file is modified, or created, it's archive bit is set.

A Differential backup grabs att files with the archive bit set, but doesn't reset the archive bit.

An Incrimental backup grabs the files that the archive bit is set, abd then resets the archive bit.

I Understand the implications, (To restore differential, you need the full and the most recent differential backup. to restore an incrimental, you need the full and all the incrimentals between the full backup and the present)

I am figuring, that, because I am using an 80GB HDD to store the .bkf file from windows backup, I should use incrimental, (Less space used for partial backups.

Given that, I figure I should append the Incrimental backups to the original .bkf file.

Now my question is:

When I go to restore the thing, assuming I have 15 incrimental adidions to the file, can I tell it to not restore to the most recent backup? Will I be able to look at the backup catalog, and have it say "This file was backed up on dates a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, ... and then restore a previous version, rather than the most recent?

(As of completion of this post, it is at 16 GB and still going strong. What a relief.)