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miogpsrocks
May 29, 2020Tutor
Saving Raw Image on each Hard drive using Reclaime size of entire array vs size of actual drive.
Hello. I am trying to use a software called Reclaime to recovery from possible a hardware failture in a readynas. I don't have enough free ports to just plug in every hard drive so I was go...
Sandshark
May 30, 2020Sensei - Experienced User
Something is amiss. You are correct that a sector-by-sector image should be about the size of the drive. The only thing I can think of is that you are using imaging software that is aware of the file system and not doing a sector by sector backup. In that configuration, the snapshots could be seen as separate sets of files, thus greating increasing the space needed.
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