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After upgrading to True Image 2020 backup from 2018, backup size is about 180GB smaller. Is everything backing up?

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After upgrading to True Image 2020 from 2018, I noticed that the backup file size is 180GB smaller and finished much faster than before. My hard drive is 1TB with 512GB for the Mac OS and 512GB for Bootcamp. The backups were about 660 GB in size in the 2018 version but now they are 479GB. Normally when a backup takes less space and finishes in less time, I'm happy, but in this case, I'm wondering if everything is being backed up.  I have MacOS Catalina 10.15 and am using Acronis version 24.4.21810. Thank you.

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Aaron,

This is primarily a Windows Forum site so responses will be limited.  I cannot answer your question personally as I do not use Mac.  I would think that the reduction you see is inline however.  You may wish to ask the question on the Acronis Mac Forum at this link to receive a more definitive answer

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Aaron,

I've got 5 W10 PC's and all my Acronis backups shrunk by a similar amount. ATI2020 has new "dedup" capabilities that one used to only find in high-end storage systems and this seems to be driving the reduction in file size. The new TIBX file format combined with "incremental" updates (I do about 30 "dailys" before doing a new full) has dropped the storage requirements on my NAS drive significantly, as well as the use of the ATI Cloud storage I need (I do a local NAS and a Cloud backup for all 5 PC's).