Question Am I seeing this right ?

[Ferdly1]

i just purchased a 256GB Sandisk . It came with Acronis True Image for Western Digital. I did a backup. the name of backup is Office. Then it created 17 more files called office. they all look the same. Is that just the way it does it ?

The drive i copied is 110GB. it says the used space on the thumbdrive is 79GB. I plan on buying a new PC so I'm gonna need good copy to move to the new computer. Is this how Sandisk handles backups?

 

[evermorex76]

Change Windows Explorer to show file extensions and you'll see what the other files are. If it did them at the same time as the big backup, then I'm not sure. If it did them at later times (check the timestamps) over the course of two weeks then those are incremental backups and it's making backups every day on a schedule, which it will name similarly but with either timestamps or random stuff in the filenames.

The backup image data is compressed, so it's normal for it to be 79GB for a 110GB backup. Has nothing to do with Sandisk or WD, it's what Acronis and most other backup programs do. The amount of used space will slowly increase, as each night's backups will only contain the changed data from the previous night, and will only be large if you did a lot of data writing.

Acronis True Image also allows you to make a clone of the drive. If your new machine has a second slot where you can install the old drive, it would make it much faster to simply clone directly to the new one. Just be careful about selecting the source and destination drives, but you have your backup on the Sandisk if you screw up.