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If some of those files are present in the folders that you are backing up, the backup software will log error messages to the backup log (usually denoted by an Internal Error 8211), to indicate that those files were not backed up. If the log contains errors, the simple view will indicate that the backup has failed, when really your data files may have been all successfully backed up, but you only received errors on system files or files that were currently in use.
The best way to check to see if the backup ran successfully is to check the Seagate Manager/Maxtor Backup folder on the external drive, to see if your data was successfully copied over.
If you want to check the log to see what types of errors were reported, you can open the log file with a text editor such as Notepad:
Look for and open the maxback.txt and maxback_.txt file(s) with Notepad.
By default, these are hidden file/folder structures. To unhide these folder structures, do the following:
You can now browse to the folder structures identified above and access the appropriate logs.