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Acronis eating up hard drive space

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Hi, I am running Acronis 2009 build 9809 Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2 on a Dell Studio 1535.

 Whenever I use Acronis to back up my "C & D" drives to my external Western Digital hard drive, about 9 GB of space on my "C" drive is used up.

I have unsuccessfully used both the Windows search function and Glary utilities to try to find the file(s).

No other programs but Acronis is running during this backup period and I am disconnected from the Internet.

I discovered this by accident because I am cleaning up my "c" drive. It is occurring EVERY time I run Acronis for a backup.

I sincerely appreciate your help.

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My suggestion would be to

1. Do a search on the drive C for *.tib and you should find nothing if none exists.

2. Check the temp folder used by True Image to see if you see a file of that size.
One path might be c:\users\username\Local Settings\Temp

3. Check the Windows Restore option and turn if off for a backup run. Don't forget to turn it back on if you wish, but with regular backups, it system restore checkpoints are really not needed. If turned on, limit its allowed disk size.

4. Change the task to do not schedule and create a new task being especially careful about what is checked to be backed up. Suggest you check mark only the disk

Hi GroverH, thank you.

I followed your instructions and found 2 ".tib" files out there

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpd1.tmp

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpd0.tmp

I also followed this tutorial to limit the size of the shadow drive to 10 GB and recovered 30 GB of hard drive space. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html

 I will follow these instructions the next time I run Acronis. Check the Windows Restore option and turn if off for a backup run. Change the task to do not schedule and create a new task being especially careful about what is checked to be backed up. Suggest you check mark only the disk

I sincerely appreciate your help!