Ohhhh, so that's where the other 48 GB went
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My primary work laptop has a 106 GB hard drive. According to Xinorbis, I'm using 44.7 GB of that, which of course means that I have 13.3 GB free.
In high school, I enjoyed learning algebra and absolutely adored geometry. But after trigonometry I realized I was bored of learning math and opted not to bother taking a calculus course. Since I've almost never used math in my career (unless you count increment operators - *rimshot*), I've subsequently forgotten nearly everything I learned. But I still remember enough basic addition and subtraction to know that the last sentence of the first paragraph of this post is absolute rubbish.
After enabling compression and disabling indexing on the entire drive, which temporarily freed up a few GB, as a last ditch attempt to avoid running out of disk space, I fired up Defraggler in the hopes that a thorough defrag might reduce the actual size of enough files to make a measurable impact. After the pre-defrag analysis, I noticed the file list contained a ridiculous amount of files named "Data349", "Data206", "Data178", and so on, and all of them were the exact same size: 48,832 KB... and absolutely every one was in a subdirectory of (drum roll, please) "C:\RRBackups".
The laptop in question is a Lenovo Thinkpad running Vista. I'm not running Vista's built-in "shadow copy" backup service. But lumped in with all the rest of the bloated "ThinkVantage" suite that came pre-installed, "Rescue and Recovery" has been happily chugging along, storing 5 incremental backups at a time, never notifying me that it's running or asking me if maybe, just maybe, I might want to store those somewhere else on my network. And, naturally, the reason that Xinorbis couldn't account for the missing 48 GB is that R&R places its backups in a folder I don't have access to - presumably, so I can't be a naughty little user and accidentally delete my own backups and then blame the vendor when I find out that I can't restore my files.
I've since instructed R&R to store the backups on my NAS... at which point it noticed that I'd changed the target location to a different device entirely and asked if I'd like to delete the existing backups from the original device - not move them to the new location, delete them. Since I hadn't intentionally been backing up my system (aside from automatically replicating my design changes - the only data on this machine that really matters anyway - to a Domino server in the office), and my entire original objective had been to free up disk space, I happily clicked "Yes". Having removed the unnecessary 48 GB, instead of only having 13.3 GB left, I now have... 80.2 GB free.
I'm so confused.
My primary work laptop has a 106 GB hard drive. According to Xinorbis, I'm using 44.7 GB of that, which of course means that I have 13.3 GB free.
In high school, I enjoyed learning algebra and absolutely adored geometry. But after trigonometry I realized I was bored of learning math and opted not to bother taking a calculus course. Since I've almost never used math in my career (unless you count increment operators - *rimshot*), I've subsequently forgotten nearly everything I learned. But I still remember enough basic addition and subtraction to know that the last sentence of the first paragraph of this post is absolute rubbish.
After enabling compression and disabling indexing on the entire drive, which temporarily freed up a few GB, as a last ditch attempt to avoid running out of disk space, I fired up Defraggler in the hopes that a thorough defrag might reduce the actual size of enough files to make a measurable impact. After the pre-defrag analysis, I noticed the file list contained a ridiculous amount of files named "Data349", "Data206", "Data178", and so on, and all of them were the exact same size: 48,832 KB... and absolutely every one was in a subdirectory of (drum roll, please) "C:\RRBackups".
The laptop in question is a Lenovo Thinkpad running Vista. I'm not running Vista's built-in "shadow copy" backup service. But lumped in with all the rest of the bloated "ThinkVantage" suite that came pre-installed, "Rescue and Recovery" has been happily chugging along, storing 5 incremental backups at a time, never notifying me that it's running or asking me if maybe, just maybe, I might want to store those somewhere else on my network. And, naturally, the reason that Xinorbis couldn't account for the missing 48 GB is that R&R places its backups in a folder I don't have access to - presumably, so I can't be a naughty little user and accidentally delete my own backups and then blame the vendor when I find out that I can't restore my files.
I've since instructed R&R to store the backups on my NAS... at which point it noticed that I'd changed the target location to a different device entirely and asked if I'd like to delete the existing backups from the original device - not move them to the new location, delete them. Since I hadn't intentionally been backing up my system (aside from automatically replicating my design changes - the only data on this machine that really matters anyway - to a Domino server in the office), and my entire original objective had been to free up disk space, I happily clicked "Yes". Having removed the unnecessary 48 GB, instead of only having 13.3 GB left, I now have... 80.2 GB free.
I'm so confused.
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Posted by David Schaffer At 11:27:31 AM On 03/17/2009 | - Website - |