What *was* Microsoft thinking?
Dec. 4th, 2016 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrScratch that, *were* they thinking.
After having to deal with some major annoyances moving stuff from an XP box to a Win7 box, I'd reluctantly set up Ms backup to back up Drive C *and* the hidden system partition on drive C to drive G.
Drive C is a 320 gig SATA drive. Drive G is a 2 terabyte SATA drive. There's adrive D that's another 320 gig SATA drive. I use secondcopy to backup the files on Drive C every night. That makes for some redundancy, and also make it easier to recover some things.
So, remember, MS Backup was *explicitly told to back up *only* drive C and the hidden system partition to drive G.
A week or two back, I hooked another 2 TB drive up to the box. It's going to go inside when I pick up a SATA card so I'll have enough ports.
Well at some point I noticed a warning that the backups were failing. The message made it seem like maybe there were problems with drive G being too busy or something.
Today I had to reboot the box after updating some software. I decided to load things carefully. Only one thing at a time. and I started the backup.
I noticed that it seemed to be taking a very long time and turned on "view detials". at which [point I discovered that it was trying to back up files on drive H.
No wonder the backup had failed It was trying to back up over a terabyte of files onto a drive with less than half a terabyte free!
I stopped the backup and checked the settings. MS backup had cheerfully added drive H to the stuff to be backed up *on its own*!!!
Which leads to the subject of this post. Adding a new drive to the stuff to be backed up without even asking may make sense for braindead users, but even then it doesn't make a lot of sense.
I corrected the settings and am running the backup again. Yeesh.
After having to deal with some major annoyances moving stuff from an XP box to a Win7 box, I'd reluctantly set up Ms backup to back up Drive C *and* the hidden system partition on drive C to drive G.
Drive C is a 320 gig SATA drive. Drive G is a 2 terabyte SATA drive. There's adrive D that's another 320 gig SATA drive. I use secondcopy to backup the files on Drive C every night. That makes for some redundancy, and also make it easier to recover some things.
So, remember, MS Backup was *explicitly told to back up *only* drive C and the hidden system partition to drive G.
A week or two back, I hooked another 2 TB drive up to the box. It's going to go inside when I pick up a SATA card so I'll have enough ports.
Well at some point I noticed a warning that the backups were failing. The message made it seem like maybe there were problems with drive G being too busy or something.
Today I had to reboot the box after updating some software. I decided to load things carefully. Only one thing at a time. and I started the backup.
I noticed that it seemed to be taking a very long time and turned on "view detials". at which [point I discovered that it was trying to back up files on drive H.
No wonder the backup had failed It was trying to back up over a terabyte of files onto a drive with less than half a terabyte free!
I stopped the backup and checked the settings. MS backup had cheerfully added drive H to the stuff to be backed up *on its own*!!!
Which leads to the subject of this post. Adding a new drive to the stuff to be backed up without even asking may make sense for braindead users, but even then it doesn't make a lot of sense.
I corrected the settings and am running the backup again. Yeesh.
