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

I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit and I'm trying to do another Complete PC
Backup to an external 500gb USB drive and I'm getting error (0x80780048) due
to not enough free space left on the backup drive. The screen before says,
if there is not enough free space it will start deleting prior backups
starting with the oldest. This does not seem to be the case as advertised! I
do scheduled regular data backups once a week and every month or more I also
do a manual Complete PC Backup. Is my only resort to reformat my external
500gb backup drive and start over with a fresh complete pc backup until the
drive fills up again? I thought this was a cool feature with Vista Ultimate
(which made me buy it over the Premium edition) but it does not
automatically delete the oldest backups to make room?

Hey

Vista should automatically delete older files as advertised. Are you using
the built in backup tool or ntbackup (or batch files?).

James

"Steve Mavronis" wrote:

I'm using the built-in Vista Ultimate edition Complete PC Backup
application. It's not deleting old backups to make room. Does this happen to
everyone? I'm reading many stories of this happening via web searching with
no good solutions except reformat the backup drive and start over until it
fills up again! I hope this is addressed in the first Vista service pack.

Steve

"jamesvdm" <jamesvdm@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6569356D-0BF4-428F-B390-5FF4E61B6884@xxxxxx

Anyone have a solution, besides reformatting my external backup drive to
make space again? My external USB backup drive is 500gb and now have 70gb
free on it. I acknowledge there is not enough free space to backup the 184mb
in use so far on my 500gb C drive. But the Complete PC backup is supposed to
delete the oldest backup image(s) to make room for the new backup if needed
right? At least that's what it says on the screen before it check for
available disk space on the backup drive. I searched Microsoft's Vista
support page for the error code but didn't find any matches to help me. Here
are my system specs if that will help:

Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit, Intel Q6600 CPU, 2gb RAM, 500gb RAID-0 HD,
Nvidia 8800GTX 768mb GPU, 22" Widescreen LCD, Asus/ViXS Combo-210E TV Tuner,
Creative SoundBlaster X-FI Audio, Logitech MX518 Gaming Mouse, Logitech
Premium Stereo Headset, external Lacie USB 500gb backup drive.

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

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.

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" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:90c95fd006307c745bae41d1f64a77f4@xxxxxx-gateway.com...
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.

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!

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

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.


--
-sushil [MSFT]
this information is provided as-is without any warranties, implicit or
explicit.
"chuckbam" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:90c95fd006307c745bae41d1f64a77f4@xxxxxx-gateway.com...