Two issues - compression and hidden image backup file Windows 10
Everyone,
I have started migrating my home and office PCs to Window 10. I upgraded to Acronis 2016. I have had good luck with Acronis 2014, 2013 and 11.
I didn't really understand the 2016 interfce on the installed version, so I made a rescue CD and USB.
For my notebooks, I tried two configurations boting from the USB.
First, I stored the .TIB file on a USB connected HDD. That seems ot work, but when I do it, there is no compression, or even a negative compression. On one notebook, the space on C is around 51.1 GB, but the image file is 61GB. I tried it twice to make sure I selected "high" on compression. I always run full backups. I only store the OS and programs on C - no data. I did a disk cleanup to remove what I could. I run CCleaner regularily. I do have several iPhones that get backed up to the computer. These backups acocunt for around 17gb.
Second, I stored the .TIB file on a second drive on the computer. When I moved to a SSD, I kept the old magnetic HDD as a drive to store dtata and images. Before the SSD, I woudl make an OS partition and a DATA partition. That worked well for a while. So when storing to a separate drive, the .TIB file is not viewable in windows explorer. But I can see it wen I boot from teh USB. This is weird. I seemed to have that with acronis 2014 before the win 10 update. I made a new bootable USB and it seemed to clear it up.
Any idea on either of these issues?
Chris


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Thanks.
For the cmpression, I mede sure it was not sector by sector. So its just the OS, no data.
For the file that does not show up, this is when I do not use USB, just making an image of the OS over to the magnetic. I might check what happens on acronos 2014.
Any other thoughts woudl be helpful.
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Chris, if you are doing your backups when booted from the USB Rescue Media, then make sure that you setup your own exclusions as if I remember correctly, there are no exclusions when booted from recovery media, so your images will include such as the pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, swapfile.sys plus also any Acronis .TIB image files stored on the source drive.
I am not sure as to why you cannot see .TIB files with Windows Explorer, it almost sounds as if these files are having the Hidden flag set - try changing your Explorer view options to show hidden files & folders if that is not already set.
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Chris, did you create the backup in Windows? If so, did you select "entire PC" or the "disks and paritions" method? "entire pc" will backup all drives attached to the PC at that point in time and is the default option and may explain how you ended up with a larger backup than expected since it may include more than one drive in that single backup.
I would recommend NOT using "entire pc" and instead, using "disks and paritions" and then specifically selecting only the hard disk you intend to backup.
Screenshots of the backup job for each tab may help solve the mystery.
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In the case of tib file viewing in Explorer, there have been a few odd occurences where the tib file association was not set correctily for Explorer. Right click on the tib file and select Open with, Select True Image.
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I think I figured this out.
To reply, I did disc and partitions. I do have hidden files shoring in Explorer.
On the missing file, I think the file is just gone now. It goes thorugh the image procedure but probably doesn't do a final write. So maybe the file is not complete. I could see it at one point from the boot media, but I suspect that was just what acronis though was there. This only happend using a bootable rescue media of acronis 2016 to store to my magnetic drive (Drive D - not the OS). If I store to my new external USB, I can see the file, but it is uncomplressed. Bothe are with a 2016 USB.
On the compression, I don't think the 2016 bootable USB has the compression components. Using acronis 2014, it all seems fine.
So I think I'll just skip using the bootable 2016 and stick to 2014. I hope that works with windows 10. I'm goign to test whetehr a .tib made with 2014 will restore wirh 2016. I think so, but I need to be sure before I committ to this scheme.
As part of this process, I did mess up my computer. I accidently made my appdata all hidden. That is a bad idea! Instead of messign with it for hours, I just went back to an image and was fine. I love the confident a good image brings!
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