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Disk Backup setup

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When selecting "Disk Backup" do all folders on each drive get backed up including data files, mail and system files?

Are the backed files compressed to take less space and is the compression format a proprietary formula?

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Carl

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A disk image images the complete disk or partition at the sector level so everything is imaged. The files are by default compressed into a tib container. Compression can be disabled or made more rigorous.

It is very important if you ever need to contact Acronis or ask questions here that you don't confuse the word 'backup' with 'image'. In Acronis speak an image is one where the complete disk or partition is copied into a tib file. this file can subsequently be mounted by True Image and used as a virtual hard drive. A 'backup' is at a file and folder level only, no disk structure.

An image can be just one partition of a drive, it is easy to make just a partition image which does not contain the boot sector instead of a complete disk image which does.

Make sure that the source disk is shown by the drives manufacturers name, not by the partition or drive letter to make a complete disk image.

Carl,
In addition to what MVP Colin has written, click on link 2 below and review the first picture.
The disk image or disk mode backup as shown in that picture will include EVERYTHING.