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Question about Macrium's compression (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Revolutionary_Cod672 on 2024-06-09 10:09:20.

Hi all,

I've got a 12TB home server and I'm trying to use Macrium Reflect to run backups. In an effort to cut costs, I'm trying to backup onto smaller external HDs. I've got one media library that's about 6TB that I'm trying to put onto a drive that's got an actual capacity of 4.5TB, I'm trying to rely on compression to make that work.

The issue is that I've tried with both medium and high compression but the backup always fails due to insufficient space. Does the compression happen after the backup takes place? Or am I doing something wrong?

Wasn't sure if I needed to have 6TB of space available initially, then it does some compression afterwards.

Thanks in advance.

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