Backups set to incremental, but always seems to do full?
I have my backup job set as "incremental", and also have the scheme set to "Incremental backup scheme" with the number of backups to keep as 3. I expect this behavior to work as follows: the first backup will be a full backup which will take a long time, and the next 2 will be incremental backups that take significantly less time. However, all my backups seem to take a very long time - like, 8+ hours, so I need to leave my laptop running during the whole day while I'm at work so when I come home the backup is done or almost done. Is there a way I can verify whether my backups are incremental or not? How long should I expect an incremental backup to take? The drive I'm backing up is about 500 GB, but I made almost no changes since the last backup. Should the filenames for my backups indicate that they are full or incremental? My backup names are just "Disk Backup.adi", "Disk Backup1.adi", and "Disk Backup2.adi". It is just not practical for me to have my laptop backing up for hours every day.
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As for the "bad sector" error, is it error code 33? Please try to restart Vss service under Task Manager-->Service, and then run backup again.