Backup Post Recovery
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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Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense.
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