On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:50:00 -0700, R5 <R5@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:
>Thanks for the replies, hopefully someone from Microsoft will actually
>respond to this, because this is pretty pathetic.
Don't hold your breath. This is a user-to-user support group. As a
rule, it is not frequented by MS people.
Quote:
> The native backup that has
>come with Windows has always been dependable, now this stuff is failing, and
>reporting that it was successful.
>
>I have had good luck with this software on my other Vista machine, but it
>was only a 80gb drive.
>
>"Patrick Keenan" wrote:
> Quote:
>> "R5" <R5@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:C0DDE582-8C07-431B-8C68-4E6E95D7657C@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > The backup is not failing, it says it's complete, but the file that it
>> > creates is less than 70GB, and my drive is 225GB full out of 279GB. The
>> > machine is running Vista Ultimate and running Vista Media Center. 157GB
>> > of
>> > the files are recorded shows, my music and pictures. I'm expecting a file
>> > closer to 225GB, especially since media files don't compress well (if this
>> > program compresses).
>> >
>> > I find it awfully coincidental that 225 - 157 = 68, which is about the
>> > size
>> > of my backup file.
>> >
>> > The bigger problem is that I can't use the backup it creates. When I go
>> > to
>> > the restore operation, it finds the backup, I hit start and get back
>> > Restore
>> > Failed, element not found 0x80070490, which leads me to believe the backup
>> > is
>> > incomplete.
>>
>> Apparently the backup *is* failing. It's just misreporting the failure.
>>
>> There are reasons many people don't use the Windows backup utilities. Works
>> for some people, not for others. I suggest an imaging program, and agree
>> that Acronis TrueImage is a good bet, and inexpensive.
>>
>> HTH
>> -pk
>>
>>