date: Wed Aug 5 11:39:22 2009 from: Tim Osborn subject: Re: desktop backup to: CRU Computing Support Ta At 11:35 04/08/2009, you wrote: Hi Tim, It's gone back to 16 mins today. I upgraded BackupPC last week. My guess is that they've changed the algorithm for incrementals so it effectively did a full backup and then some. Once it did a real "full backup" the new algorithm works properly so incrementals go back to a more manageable size. I'll be doing a further upgrade in a few days, so it may do it again. Fix would be to force a full backup. Mike Tim Osborn wrote: Hi Mike, my cruto4 (Windows) machine incremental backups seem to have gone from 15-45 minutes previously up to 281 minutes on Wednesday and been running since 10am today and still going! Any idea what's happening? Tim Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk phone: +44 1603 592089 fax: +44 1603 507784 web: [1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ sunclock: [2]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm