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I recently restored one of my drives from the latest good backup to a new drive because the old one was failing.  I specifically chose to restore sector by sector, since the drive is the exact same size and model and wanted my existing backups to continue uninterrupted

After restoring, my backups kicked off again with no issue, but I noticed that the latest backup was significantly larger that I expected it to be.  I know that when restoring an entire drive, Acronis often needs to backup the entire drive contents again, since it's occupying different sectors of the drive, but I thought that by doing a sector by sector copy, I would avoid this.

Am I incorrect?  I also have a weekly cloud backup set up for select data from the same drive that was restored, so I'm hoping that I won't run into any issues with that.

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Did you create the Backup of your failed / replaced drive using the Sector-by-sector option?  If not, then using Restore with sector-by-sector is not going to do anything different because any additional data was not included in the backup file you are using!

Any backup and recovery to a new disk is going to result in changes at a sector level, therefore if you are making a Disks & Partitions backup, this will signal that lots of changes have occurred since the previous backup!

If your Cloud backup is of Files & Folders, then this should not be impacted by the drive change as the actual files and folders themselves should not have been changed other than any changes you have made yourself.

Thanks for the explanation.  Makes sense.