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Backup - Excessive Size

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I have used Acronis for years without any issue. I do a once a month manual back up to an external hard drive. This week I have tried to back up but I am told that the disc size is too small. The back up size is 1.7 Tb when the C drive file size is less than 200Gb. I have tried the back up as a partition and just the C drive but both require terabytes of space. What has gone wrong and what do I need to do?

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Just a stab here but sounds like it is misidentifying the drive. If it was me, I would try doing an install, it should then offer a repair option--do the repair.

If working from a backup task, delete the task and create a new one -- first save in a new location any backups you want to keep. This should ensure that any wonky registery entries related to the task are no longer in effect.

If that doesn't work, try uninstalling, run the cleaner, then reinstall.
good luck