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Incremental backup on Acronis 2013

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Last week I created a backup and set it to "incremental." This week, I launched True Image 2013 and next to the backup I created, selected "Backup Now." My intent was to create an incremental backup. However, it appeared that True Image was making another full backup, because True Image estimated that it was going to take an hour and a half to make (there were not that many changes in my computer since the full backup). Is there a different way to make an incremental backup?

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Ignore the estimated time. It can be totally off.

Look at the name of the file and see if "Inc" is part of the 2nd file name. If yes, you are doing correctly. First file should have "full" such as full_b1_s1_v1, and 2nd file should have "inc such as Inc_b1_s2_v1

If you have defrag set to automatic or an automatic defrage program installed, then it can be the cause of backups being much larger than expect ed.

TrueImage makes a backup of changes to the disk--not changes to a file, so any relocation of data will cause the relocation to be included.

My original full backup file is called:
HPg1_full_b1_s1_v1

The incremental backup file is called:
HPg1_inc_b1_s2_v1

It worked correctly.

However, I was surprised to find that the incremental backup was 30 GB. When I used to use Acronis True Image 11, my incremental backups rarely, if ever, exceeded 10 GB. My main file, at 137 GB, was quite large (on Acronis True Image 11, my full backups would rarely, if ever, exceed 100 GB).

Is creating larger backup file sizes a known issue with Acronis True Image 2013?