Compression level
cant find n option when it comes to Compression levels.
Is there an option?
What is the default Compression level in percentage in the cloud?
Beginner here. My first attempt to backup desktop to portable drive using default compression shows 741GB backedup (TI 2016)but external shows 359GB. That's 50 percent. What can I check to determine if the full backup was successful?
r schon, the 741Gb you see is the total size of all backups for that job. If you have not manually deleted backups in Windows file explorer, if you navigate to your backup folder, right click and look at properties, it should equal about 741Gb.
A full disk backup should be roughly about 30% smaller than the total used space of what's on your main OS drive. It will vary though, depending upon what items you have filtered out (there are default exceptions in Windows for things like pagefile.sys, hiberfile.sys and more. I will say, that you want to look and check those exclusions and remove some of them - for insance, Chrome settings - yeah, those may have your favorites! Then, Acronis uses compression by default, so it will shrink the backup as well. Not all files can be compressed though - pictures and videos are already compressed so you won't save much space on those particular types of files.
Ultimately, if you really want to know what's in your backup... restore it to a different disk and check it out. Replace it with the original drive and make sure it boots if you too a full OS disk backup. That is the best way to determine that the backup is not only good, but also has everything you expect it to have. DO NOT test on your main drive though - why take the risk?
Short of that, you can double click on a backup .TIB file and it should open in Windows file explorer where you can navigate the contents and check for files/folders. You can also right click the backup .tib file and "mount" as well. This will mount it as a drive letter and you can navigate it that way too - probably faster once mounted.