Skip to main content

Backup files are huge compared to used space on harddrive

Thread needs solution

I am currently running a Surface Pro 3. It has a SSD. I am running the latest build of acronis and have all updates on my surface pro(windows 8.1) with bitlocker turned on. It shows me that my used space on the drive is only around 30 GB. After running full backups I noticed the files are around 100GB. I am not sure why the files are so big. Is it because of encryption being turned on? I am not seeming to have any luck reducing the file sizes and thus not being able to keep near the number of backups as i would like
Thanks for any help

0 Users found this helpful

Hello Jeremy,

this is a known issue with Bitlocker-encrypted disks.

At the moment our development is working on the issue and we already received an updated version of SnapAPI driver.

If you are willing to check the solution, please send me a private message with reference to this thread.

Thank you.