Data Storage

[Marv]

I realize that this is off topic for this forum but I hope that someone
can point me to a place that might have an answer. I have a Dell
desktop running Win 7. I have started the Dell Data Safe Local Backup
program. I selected an option to consolidate previous backups. The
program has now been running for 7 hours and the progress bar still says
1%. The backup is located an external HD and there is constantly
activity being shown on it.

I have just spent two hours in the Dell support site trying to get any
answer with absolutely no luck.

My question is - Is this time normal or am I likely in some processing loop?

Marv

 

[Andy Burns]

I have a Dell desktop
running Win 7. I have started the Dell Data Safe Local Backup program. I
selected an option to consolidate previous backups. The program has now
been running for 7 hours and the progress bar still says 1%. The backup
is located an external HD and there is constantly activity being shown
on it.

I'm not familiar with the Dell Data Safe, but it sounds as though the
"consolidate" option might be de-duplicating the contents of all your
backups to save space, this could certainly take a long time, also I
suspect it's the sort of operation that if you cancel it, could leave
you with a set of useless partial of backups.

If you can leave it chugging a way for a day or two, I think you
probably should.

 

[Marv]

I'm not familiar with the Dell Data Safe, but it sounds as though the
"consolidate" option might be de-duplicating the contents of all your
backups to save space, this could certainly take a long time, also I
suspect it's the sort of operation that if you cancel it, could leave
you with a set of useless partial of backups.

If you can leave it chugging a way for a day or two, I think you
probably should.

Thanks for the response. I let it run overnight. Since there is no
Cancel option I used Task Manager to stop it. I looked at the site
where is stored the backup files and there were 7 version of backups. I
guess it was consolidating all 7 of them. I deleted all but the last
two and will try it again.