acroinis true image 2017 compression greyed out

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Chuck Reiss
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I have True image 2017 and I'm trying to backup 508GB of a 1TB drive through a 3.0 usb interface to a 3TB sata drive.

The back up is taking 18 hours. I checked my setting and compression is greyed out. I normally set it to max which consumes a lot of I5 CPU but makes a small transfer to the backup drive.

Why is compression greyed out on my standalone full backup?

Tue, 09/08/2020 - 19:21
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Steve Smith
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Chuck, compression can only be set for new backup tasks and is not available to be changed after the task has been run and created any backup files.

Wed, 09/09/2020 - 10:29

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Chuck Reiss
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Thanks! I deleted the failed backup and started a new fresh backup. The compression is no longer greyed out. Hopefully it will take less than 18 hours.

Wed, 09/09/2020 - 14:45