Back Up using 3rd Party Software

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Hi
I am trying to back up using Silverkeeper..I wonder if you can answer me a couple of questions? Firstly Sileverkeeper is reading the folder I am trying to back as being 773gb with 120,000 items! When I use the Info in finder it states that the same folder is 830Gb with 147,000 items.. One opinion has led me to believe that this is OK so I have gone ahead and started to back up.. Seeing as this would take at least 48 hours I had a look during the process and the files are being copied, but some that are at the beginning of the folder have been skipped and not copied yet.. Can you please give me some advise on these 2 points and any help is really appreciated and would save a lot of time.
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Steve
 
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Some advice ... Let the process finish and compare the results .

Cheers ... McBie
 

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Also, I have not used Silverkeeper in quite some time but could it be set up for an incremental backup? This would only copy files added/changed since the last backup.

McBie's advice is still good. Let the process finish and go from there.
 

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