suprsonic Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Hi, I just started using restrospect 10.4 today...I was helping a friend backing up the whole hard drive of the mac book (60g) onto a partition of an external hard drive (60g). how big will the backup files be? currently, it took up all of the partition of the external hard drive and only finished backing up 47gb so far but already finished using up the whole partition which is 60gb in size, what is taking up the other 13gb of space? and how much space would i really need to backup the 60gig hard drive? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 Have you tried enabling compression? I backed up 7.3 GB today, and the backup file was 4.7 GB. However, if lots of your data is video and music, it's already compressed so there probably won't be as much of a saving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 Quote: I just started using restrospect 10.4 today Quote: I was helping a friend backing up the whole hard drive of the mac book (60g) onto a partition of an external hard drive (60g). how big will the backup files be? How much actual data is used on the 60 GB Macbook drive? > currently, it took up all of the partition of the external hard drive and only finished backing up > 47gb so far but already finished using up the whole partition - What exactly does "finished using up the whole partition" mean? - What Type of Backup Set are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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