Not sure you are saying what you have done. You open "Backup Status and
Configuration", highlight "Complete PC Backup" and it doesn't tell you the
location of the last successful backup, and where it is?
There are setting available during a backup that let you set the interval
between "Complete" backups.
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"Tim" <Tim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to reset the Vista backup routine in order to force
> it
> to do a fresh complete backup? My problem is detailed below...
>
> I've used Complete PC Backup to backup / restore various new customer
> installs. The way I understand it is that the first time it's run it
> backs
> up ALL the data on the selected partition(s) to the backup media, then
> subsequent backups are incremental and smaller in size.
>
> I've just finished rebuilding a Vista machine and want to make a complete
> (i.e. not incremental) backup of it. 52Gb of space has been used for data
> on
> the C: drive, but when I attempt to make a complete backup it says that
> previous backups have been detected and it will only backup the
> differences.
> The backup file created is only 26Gb.
>
> There are no other backups on the system as the backup device (ext USB2
> HDD)
> has been reformatted. I'm guessing that if I attempted to restore, the
> routine would try to find a previous complete backup that no longer exists
> and fail. The only way I can test it would be to attempt a restore which
> I
> cannot risk.
>
> There must be a hidden file somewhere that records previous backups. If I
> can reset this I could make a full 52Gb backup.
>
> Any advice would be greaty appreciated.
>