Windows 10: My weekly Windows 10 Back up - is taking HOURS and HOURS to complete-

Discus and support My weekly Windows 10 Back up - is taking HOURS and HOURS to complete- in Windows 10 Backup and Restore to solve the problem; Have been using windows back up - Windows 10 for sometime. Recently bought a larger 3TB drive and started a new back up. Up until recently - the weekly... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Backup and Restore' started by margholdsworth, May 13, 2018.

  1. My weekly Windows 10 Back up - is taking HOURS and HOURS to complete-


    Have been using windows back up - Windows 10 for sometime.
    Recently bought a larger 3TB drive and started a new back up.
    Up until recently - the weekly incremental back ups were completed in 10 minutes - although last weeks took quite a bit longer - several hours.
    Today - It started at 2pm as usual and at 11.30pm its only 21% completed and I am confused as to WHY.

    It seems as tho its copying everything from scratch again.
    I did have FILES and FOLDERS ticked but not sure if I need to do that so have unticked it.
    Would appreciate simple help as getting older and greyer and more confused lol.
    Thanks so much.
    Margaret

    :)
     
    margholdsworth, May 13, 2018
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