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gpn43's avatar
gpn43
Level 3
10 years ago

Hyper-V VM Incrementals same size as full

Hello, My hyper-v VM incremental backups are the same size as my full backups. The backups are going through the hyper-V host, they have GRT enabled, unticked box to run VM as full if inc is not s...
2014
Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • jurgen_barbieur's avatar
    jurgen_barbieur
    10 years ago

    have a compare between the job log of the full backup and the joblog of an incremental backup.

    if I take a look in the job-log you provided, I see 3 backup sizes, and if I sum them together, the result is approx. 16 GB, which possibly is the size of an incremental. In the picture you show it just give the title "SIZE". 

    Maybe there is some problem in backupexec not showing the correct size in your backupsets summary.

    open a case at symantec to have a better look on this issue

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jurgen_barbieur
Level 6
10 years ago

Is the sizing exactly the same or almost the same?

because of the unticked box to run full if inc is not supported, if this was the issue the job has to fail. Because of a successfull backup it seems that he does run a inc backup. 

can you attach the job log? I think the log will tell us if it is a full or incr backup.