Size of my full drive backup.
In preparation voor the Windows 10 release this Wednesday i have recovered my Surface Pro 3 tablet and installed all the windows updates it could find for the bare system.
I then installed ATI 2015 en made a full disk backup to my 64GB USB stick.
Eventhough my drive has only got 18GB of data on it the backup ended up being almost 45GB ...
1.
If the image includes all empty sectors of my 64GB drive (wich it should not according to the info on the site) the image should be close to 64GB wich it is not.
2.
If the image does not include any empty sectors it should be about 25GB including the recovery partition and rescue partition of Windows 8.1 but again it is not.
Can anyone here explain to me why the image still comes to 45GB en how i can perhaps get it smaller without compromizing the backup integrity ?
I had hoped to put both clean images on 1 USB drive of 64GB but i cannot do this right now.
I have selected only the primary HDD wich in my surface is 64GB.
18GB is used on the c:\ drive and maybe 6GB on the other partitions... nothing else is selected.
i also selected the "backup sector by sector" option en made sure the älso backup empty sectors"option was not used.
The image clearly should not be 45GB... i don't get it.
I just did the same prior to Windows 10 with my desktop. I backed up only the C:/ drive with 6613 build. C:/ drive is only 450GB used out of 1.79TB. I bought a new external hard drive of 2TB, thinking I would have plenty of room for additional backup files. After more than 12 hours of backing up and validating, Acronis 2015, at 'Normal' compression used almost all my new external hard drive with 1.76TB of Acronis Backup files!!!!!!
It also created 4 files instead of one full; V1 = 1.72TB, V2 = 16MB, V3 = 4MB and V4 = 47.2GB
There is unlikely to be any room for additional incremental back ups, making this a one-time backup copy of minimal use. This is a crazy situation and wholly unacceptable. I've used Acronis since 2003 and while it was a pain with CD's, then DVD's, and NAS wasn't supported in the early days. Now it seems no better with today's myriad of simple storage options.
Maybe time to look for a more efficient backup software.
By fiddeling with the settings a little bit and removing the recovery partition i was able to reduce the image size to 30GB and i can now fit them both on the stick i hope :-), we will have to see the size of the Windows 10 image first.
Windows 10 here i come !! hello Cortana...
I have to admit that i used to really like True image when i still had a desktop with a large HD but since i switched to a Surface Pro 3 tablet it has lost some of its appeal to me.
- WinPE & Normal bootdisks of any kind have no touchscreen support, if it does the driver for the SP3 is missing from the standard image.
- Even with the magnetic KB (typecover) the bootdisc cannot be controlled.
- I cannot make a backup anywhere on the device as it take to much space.... i have to use USB sticks or the Acronis Cloud.
- Tablet gets very hot when backing up... even at normal or low priority, i did not even know the tablet had an active fan until i used ATI to backup the device and it started blowing loudly.
This software still has some positive sides/functions aswell ... but some tablet support would be nice Acronis... not everybody has a KB & Mouse anymore :-(