Selecting Data Compression Level - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 8.0 User Manual

Creating a partition (disk) image
If there is not enough space, Acronis True Image will warn you and wait for your
decision. You can try to free some additional space and continue or stop Acronis
True Image, free some space and re-execute the procedure.
Image file size selection
FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have a 4 GB limit for maximum file sizes. FAT32 is currently the
most popular end user file system. At the same time, existing hard drives have capacities of
160GB and larger! Therefore, an image file might easily exceed this limit. In that case, Acronis
True Image will automatically split the image into several files.
If you need to create an image automatically on CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW
media, Acronis True Image will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one
is full.
You can also fix image file size by selecting Fixed size and entering the desired
size or selecting it from the drop-down list. By default, the value is in bytes, but you
can also use kilobytes and megabytes.
You can also split the image file into several volumes when storing it on a hard drive. Later
you'll be able to easily transfer these files onto CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW disks.
Creating images directly on CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW might take considerably
longer time then it would on a hard disk.
4.5

Selecting data compression level

Now you must select the data compression level for the image to be created.
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