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Hello,

question please, I purchased Acronis True Image 2013 and just did my 1st backup with it, I backed up the system partition of my crucial M4 SSD which contains 180GB data, and the resulted backup is 27GB????

I did also choose 128bit encryption.
this does not sound comforting, any ideas whats going on?

thanks,

regards,

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Andrei,

What compression ratio do you have selected? I would expect a compression ratio of between 3 to 6 depending on how compressable the sector contents are.

If you mount the image what does Windows report the virtual drive size as?

Have you run a validation task to check the integrity of the image?

What disk format do you have on both drives?

Hi Colin,

Thank you very much for your help.

As I tried to answer your questions I just discovered that it was my confusion, Windows shows the 179GB as FREE SPACE, not as occupied space... The drive that was backed up takes 59GB and Acronis used a normal compression (set by default) and turned 59 into 27 which is very much ok.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, all is ok.

Regards,
Merry Christmas,

Andrei