Macrium reflect compression

Hi,
1. There are two forms of image
a. Forensic (uncompressed, used + unused)
b. Normal (can set degree of compression).

2. Some file types are already compressed- e.g. some video, audio, photos. If these comprise a significant %ge of the used part of the partition or disk being imaged, image compression will be much reduced.

Therefore the answer is 'it depends'.

The base image (normal) will be relatively large, but smaller than the used part of what is being imaged.
A differential image will be smaller than that, perhaps very much smaller if little has changed since the base image was created.

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If still puzzled, please post a screenshot of how you configured Macrium R, and anything else that may help.

As Dalchina says, 'it depends'. As a guide, this is the compression I achieved with High compression for a Full image I made recently. There wasn't much user data so this basically represents the typical compression for the Windows system files and installed software. The image was about half the size of the files being imaged.

Code:

 
Backup Definition File: C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Reflect\Local Backup.xml
 Auto Verify:           Y
 Maximum File Size:     Automatic
 Compression:           High
 Password:              N
 Intelligent Copy:      Y
 Power Saving:          N
 Email On Success:      N
 Email On Failure:      N
 Total Selected:        64.13 GB

and this is the size of the image file it created:

Code:

Size:          35.0 GB (37,592,739,131 bytes)
Size on disk:  35.0 GB (37,592,739,840 bytes)