Large difference between drive to backup (17GB) and acronis backup onto DVD (5.5GB)
New Windows 7 PC says it has 17GB on C: Acronis says backup will be 10.f and then only backs up 5.5
Is this normal. Seems like a high compression ratio. I am worried that the backup was done allright. It said yes and validation said yes, but what was validated?
Thanks friends!
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Swap and hibernation files are excluded; the rest is compressed to, say, 70% of original. Original estimate was size*0.7 probably without taking excluded files into account.
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Whatever Acronis popped up I did. I believe it was Partition backup. And this was a fresh, out of the Box, no free/try software loaded
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You are attempting to make a backup with default settings--not a bonafide backup plan. If you want your backup to be able to create a replacement disk--should you have a need, then the type backup you need is one that includes all partitions--such as illustrated in 2012 as in Disk mode.
I suggest your review this link and perform a Disk Mode backup and the target should be an external drive or similar. As Dev-anon stated, you can expect the backup size to be about 70-% of your used space. A backup to DVD is usually not recommended as the sole means of a backup. If using a DVD, you should supplement that with another backup to another disk.
28705: Grover's How to Backup 2012 from within Windows
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
Help For New Users of True Image Home 2012
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29803
If learn more about what you actually have inside your backup, suggest you boot from the Acronis CD and view the contents of your backup and see which partitions you have included in your backup. Most Win 7 installation on retail laptops have a separate boot partition which needs to be included within the backup.
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