DJ74…welcome to the club of high backup space. I’ve opened a forum entry on my experience with size space, especially with the # of files stored for the Mozilla (Edge and Chrome is probably similar). Backup of Mozilla files in AppData...Local..cache2 contain Millions of files in Volume & History folders
- what is the size of you Passport and currently how much free or used space?
- I see you said backup of the C:…all of it or are you selecting various top folders like the Users/yourname?
- if you are backing up for purpose of a complete system/file restore should your computer crash…then yes, backup files will be very large. If you are only doing your personal files like documents, desktop, download…pic etc then you would not expect sizes to change at each backup.
- you need to review your edited list of files/folder that are chosen for backup…there are check marks (for full subfolder selection) and square box indicators (for partial or selected files/folders). When Viewing, select the > symbol and not the boxes itself. This way you can look at the Tree structure…if you select the boxes instead, a check will appear…so just use the > symbol…
- you also need a Tree statistic App…I ran into a 4million files issue with Mozilla. Downloaded a PC App called Treesize (use the free one). After the app runs, a Tree display appears which I expanded vertically, to see a taller page…that way as you expand each curious folder, you get a birds-eye view of you sizes and # of files… App has various sorting, like allocated size, file total, etc. I then do a screen capture to print the contents…using the Windows Snip app.
- my guess is that even if you add files daily, the amount of files being backed up is being affected by the Windows activity and your Browsing history whether its Mozilla, Edge or any other. If you go to web-sites for viewing or movies, bits and pieces of your browsing are being collected…thus you daily back-up is being compromised.
- try Treesize or some other tool to find where files and their storage are first, then you can move on to the next task. You can run the app against C: or your Passport. Just Explorer hightlight the folders, and rt mouse…there is a Treesize entry stored in the box. Inside the Passport, there is the folder “WD Backup.swstor” that contain your backups…Yes, size does matter!
- finally, I’m real disappointed that the Backup app does not produce a Log file that contains the statistic of each backup. the only indicator is shown on the WD backup dialog box…it does not even tell you the number of files. I need to send WD support a note, because they do not read these blogs…at least mine. Terrible! They rely on users to support users, rather than providing a educational forum.
