I am using a Dell Dimension 4300 PC with Windows XP Home OS with Service Pack 3. The hard drive on the PC is only 40 GB’s. I am backing up this drive to a WD 120 GB’s external hard drive. These backups using Syncback software are taking an inordinately long time to complete. I recently deleted approximately 5 GB’s from my hard drive and my backup took almost 3 hours to complete. It shows that I have over 290,000 files to backup. There must be something wrong with the way I have asked for the back up to be done. I only want to backup any files that have changed. I have not asked for files to be synchronized. Previously it always took less than an hour to do a backup. Is there some action I should take to improve the backup time?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Brian