Acronis True Image 2011 Home with Plus Creates an Image Much Larger than the Data
Environment:
- Running ATI 2011 Home with Plus, Update 2, Build 6868.
- Running the backup from Rescue Media for a complete bare metal type backup.
- The source is the only drive in a Windows Vista 64-Bit computer.
- The drive was cleaned up (both current user and all users) before shut down for backup.
- The drive was defragged before shut down for backup.
- The entire drive was selected (all partitions, etc.) by checking the drive.
- Raw "sector by sector" backup mode was NOT specified.
- 180.1 GB to backup up reported on this drive selection screen.
- Target was another computer's "C:\Temp" directory (open to Everyone/Full Rights for this purpose).
- Options selected:
- - Maximum compression (reports approximately 92 GB will be generated).
- - Archive splitting for DVD (4.7GB per chunk).
- - Verify was selected to help delay the auto-crash (instant reboot) that usually occurs in 2011 at the end of the selected operations until the end of the verify process, which can then be reverified later to ensure good backup integrity.
- The backup completes, but creates 90 chunks for a total of 390 GB - more than twice the original data size!
- "Verify" indicates a good backup image.
- Browsing through the image after mounting it, shows everything looks good as well.
Notes:
- Tried the next lower compression level below Maximum, and created an even larger backup.
- This has never happed to me before in many years of Acronis use...
Comments:
- I wish "verify" was not just a backup image integrity check:
- - A real verify compares the contents with the original.
- - The current function should definitely be called "Integrity Check", not "Verify".
- - It would be good to keep the current backup integrity check function.
- - Just add a true verify function and rename the old function.
Questions:
- Why is the backup image so large?!?
- How to fix this issue?
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When you run the backup from the CD, do you get the same result?
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