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Matt
Acronis True Image seems to be a great product. Thanks for the
suggestion in the other thread.
I have been evaluating TrueImage 7.0 and have created and restored a
few images. (I love the image creation of an online system/OS
partition without having to reboot!) I've also done an incremental
image backup, and I find that TrueImage 7.0 creates a second file
that's slightly larger than the first.
I'm left to wonder: What's the point of my incremental backup if it's
going to more-than-double my backup storage size? If that's the case,
why not run a separate, full backup?
It's also unclear as to whether or not I restore with the original
backup .tib file (and I'm putting the backups all in one file, fyi) or
the newly-created one. I seem to have trouble executing a restore
with the new one. However, this point is minor if the above point is
not addressed, because I won't run an incremental if it doubles my
backup-storage size and will instead just run a new, full backup every
time.
I would, however, REALLY like to be able to generate incremental image
backups that make my backup store not any larger then the
delta/changes that actually occur in the partition. Isn't this the
point of incremental backups in the first place?
(I'm posting this here as well as sending question to Acronis support.
I bet I get answers more quickly from here than Acronis.
Thanks for any help
Matt
suggestion in the other thread.
I have been evaluating TrueImage 7.0 and have created and restored a
few images. (I love the image creation of an online system/OS
partition without having to reboot!) I've also done an incremental
image backup, and I find that TrueImage 7.0 creates a second file
that's slightly larger than the first.
I'm left to wonder: What's the point of my incremental backup if it's
going to more-than-double my backup storage size? If that's the case,
why not run a separate, full backup?
It's also unclear as to whether or not I restore with the original
backup .tib file (and I'm putting the backups all in one file, fyi) or
the newly-created one. I seem to have trouble executing a restore
with the new one. However, this point is minor if the above point is
not addressed, because I won't run an incremental if it doubles my
backup-storage size and will instead just run a new, full backup every
time.
I would, however, REALLY like to be able to generate incremental image
backups that make my backup store not any larger then the
delta/changes that actually occur in the partition. Isn't this the
point of incremental backups in the first place?
(I'm posting this here as well as sending question to Acronis support.
I bet I get answers more quickly from here than Acronis.
Thanks for any help
Matt