Image Archive Splitting - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 6.0 User Manual

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Image Archive Splitting

In the next Image Archive Splitting window you'll be able to select if the
software should create a single archive file or split it into a number of
volumes. If you set the switch to Automatic, Acronis TrueImage will try to
determine settings for certain situations itself. If there's enough space on a
hard disk that you've chosen for locating an image on, the software will
create a single archive file. If there's not enough space, Acronis TrueImage
will prompt you a warning and wait for your actions. You'll be able to try to
and free some additional space on the partition, where an archive file is
being created, and then continue the image creation. But you will also be
able to terminate Acronis TrueImage, prepare a partition for image creation,
and run the process anew.
FAT16 and FAT32 limit file sizes. In particular, the maximal file size of FAT16 and FAT32 is
4 GB. FAT32 file system is currently the most widespread in individual users' PCs. At the
same time modern hard disks have 20 GB, 40 GB, and higher capacities! Hence the
maximal file size can be easily exceeded at creating an archive file. In this case Acronis
TrueImage will automatically split an archive file into separate volumes.
If you are creating an archive file on CD-R, CD-RW disks in Automatic mode,
Acronis TrueImage will simply pause and prompt you to insert a new disk into
the drive, if the current disk space is fully occupied.
You can also appoint a fixed archive size switching to Fixed Size and setting
the volume size manually.
Splitting an archive file into separate volumes
14 Chapter 2 : Creating Disk/Partition Images