The Acronis backup is greater than the files on the disk
Hello to all,
I use Acronis long time and I never had problems. The software has always satisfied me. I perform backups using the live cd.
Lately I have found problems in the backup process of my pc.
I have a 500GB disk with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 8.1.
I made a backup of the entire disk with all partitions. During the creation of the .tib file Acronis tells me that tib file will occupy 64GB but the software takes a long time in making a copy of my OS, and in the end I find myself a tib file of 230GB. I also did a restore and .tib file works perfectly, just do not understand why Acronis uses of space 230Gb.
Linux is 10GB, Windows is 116GB, but I do with Acronis a good compression so 230Gb has not sense.
Thanks for the support


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Thanks, I read on the pages you have listed me:
Acronis True Image 2016 does not support Linux operating systems.
Which Acronis product backs up all operating systems, Linux also?
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Technically, they all do, with the offline recovery media, but I believe sector-by-sector will always be the result if anything other than Windows paritions are discovered.
For direct support though, I think that backup 11.7 is more in line... you should contact customer support to be 100% sure though. Here's the supported OS page for Backup 11.7
https://kb.acronis.com/content/57680
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