Learning Curve
I'm migrating a system from Acronis THI v. 11 on Windows XP to TIH 2012 on Windows 7 and I'm finding the learning curve a bit steep.
The Win 7 computer is configured with the system and programs on a SSD (single partition, C:) and the user data on a rotating disk (partition D:). When the migration is complete, the backups will be directed to an external drive, but for initial learning purposes, I've directed them to another partition (E:) on the internal rotating hard drive.
A few newbie questions:
I have done a "Disk and Partition" backup of C: but although the C partition currently is using around 43 GB, the backup file is only about 15 GB. Is this normal? Is the compression that great? The backup scheme is set to "Incremental," which I thought would have done a full backup as the first one. Should I have explicitly done a "full" backup" first and then reconfigured to "incremental"?
If I click on the gear icon in the "My partitions" backup item, I see the "Explore and Recover" icon and clicking on that opens the Backup Explorer (that took a bit of digging to uncover -- the manual talks about the Backup Explorer but not how to start it). On the "Disks and Partitions" tab, it shows the "System Reserved" partition and C, which is what I expected. On the "Files and folders" tab, it looks like it backed up two directories on the D: partition: one named "Boot" and the System Volume Information directory. This seems strange. Interestingly, there is no "Boot" directory listed under C.
I also did a "File Backup" of selected directories on the D partition. This backup file size is 38.3 GB, which seems more reasonable for the amount of data backed up. When I click the gear icon in this section, there is no "Explore and Recover" entry in the pop-up menu -- but I finally discovered that the "Backup Explorer" window opens when you click the "Recover now." button.
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Thanks for the comments and clarifications.
I did notice that when I tested out the stand-alone Acronis module (bootable recovery disk) it definitely gave different names to the partitions than Windows did -- in Win 7, the "System Reserved" partition doesn't get a drive letter, but the Linux environment for the bootable recovery disk assigns it letter C: and then all of the remaining partitions get bumped up one letter. There is a good reason that Acronis recommends giving partitions "meaningful names."
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