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Retrospect currently backs up NTFS sparse files as normal files, relying on compression to reduce the size to a manageable level. On restore however their sparseness is (apparently) not recreated.

 

This can result in a volume being unrestorable, due to too many (previously) sparse files overcomitting the volume. In certain applications with highly sparse files a single file may not be restorable.

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