Acronis True Imahe Home 11 - 197Gb image !!

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The other day I had to reinstall Vista so I decided to create a new image using the above.

Now the image is fine and I can restore the PC from scratch with no issues.

The only slight niggle I have is that the image is 197Gb in size and as you can imagine it is bit of a blag to store and restore and drag over a network.

Why is the image so large and is there anyway I can shrink it?
 
what sort of image did you make? if you copied the partition it wilbe the same size as the partition. you will need to make it build a filesystem only backup so it includes only the files on the drive and not the free space.
 
Well generally the software archive compression will automatically determine the freespace and compress that within the archive.

Give Acronis a contact and they will be able to help you.

For an example i do a vista/xp32/xp64 images at work with all updates, drivers, several programs and ms office on a 40gb partition and that takes up about 4gb. That is using workstation 9.1 tho.
 
BigBoy said:
what sort of image did you make? if you copied the partition it wilbe the same size as the partition. you will need to make it build a filesystem only backup so it includes only the files on the drive and not the free space.
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I am guessing I used the partition option, it is no big deal in the grand scale of things as I have a working image, it was just a tad annoying!
 
Skyline said:
Well generally the software archive compression will automatically determine the freespace and compress that within the archive.

Give Acronis a contact and they will be able to help you.

For an example i do a vista/xp32/xp64 images at work with all updates, drivers, several programs and ms office on a 40gb partition and that takes up about 4gb. That is using workstation 9.1 tho.
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I was expecting around 5 - 10Gb image to be honest, I would imagine there is an option I have selected wrong.

When I have used Ghost in the corporate environment the images like you say with Acronis are around the 2 5Gb mark.
 
I have seen this when the partition backed up had errors. Running a chkdsk and re-imaging produced an image of the expected size in this case.
 
Slinwagh said:
Errors in what way, like I have said the image can be restored successfully.
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The image can be restored successfully as the image itself is fine. In restoring it you just get your partition back in the same state as before (with any errors that it might have had). Just try running a chkdsk first (right click on drive, properties, tools, "error checking" with fix errors automatically selected) and then re-imaging.
If this does not have any impact then the problem is something else.
 
Woah, what sort of compression strength were you running? I tend to use Max, but since my C: is a 20GB partition I only get images of around 9-10gb with Vista and various programs.
 
Slinwagh said:
The other day I had to reinstall Vista so I decided to create a new image using the above.

Now the image is fine and I can restore the PC from scratch with no issues.

The only slight niggle I have is that the image is 197Gb in size and as you can imagine it is bit of a blag to store and restore and drag over a network.

Why is the image so large and is there anyway I can shrink it?
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I suspect that you selected the "sector by sector" option (new in ATI 11) when you did the backup, if this is the case you will end up with an image that is huge in size, this is because when you select the "sector by sector" option all sectors on the entire hard drive are backed up even if they don't contain any data, hence the large size of the backup image.

All you need to do is backup your system with the "sector by sector" option unchecked/deselected.

Hope this helps!
 
d.chatten said:
I suspect that you selected the "sector by sector" option (new in ATI 11) when you did the backup, if this is the case you will end up with an image that is huge in size, this is because when you select the "sector by sector" option all sectors on the entire hard drive are backed up even if they don't contain any data, hence the large size of the backup image.

All you need to do is backup your system with the "sector by sector" option unchecked/deselected.

Hope this helps!
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I will give it a bash !!!
 
I too have seen this weird problem ( I manage about 200+ PC's using acronis )
Using 9.1 3718 workstation

We got a new Dell PC for a new project , it has a 100G drive on it.

Only about 10G is actually used , for some weird reason the software
thinks that there is hidden information on the partition and it tries to do a
full sector by sector copy.

I can only assume that some of the funky software supplied on the machine
has allocated storage secretly that does not show as used file space , so it
gets unsure of what to do and then tries a sector copy.

My only viable solution will be to wipe it completely and delete all partitions
and start from scratch :-(
 
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