Why is my backup doing a RAW backup?
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Long time user of Clonezilla on many different computers, but never came across this. I just bought a new Thinkpad T470. It has UEFI and secure boot (For now anyway), so I used the recommended "Alternate Stable" Clonezilla. My older "Standard Stable" version indeed would not boot. So, the only thing that comes to mind is "Bitlocker"; could that be the reason it is forcing a full disk, aka raw backup, because it is encrypting the entire drive? I can't live with 500GB backups, as I do them every couple of weeks! It looks like a simple switch in Windows to turn Bitlocker off, but I want to make sure that a.) That is OK to do (Security issues aside. I use Veracrypt containers for that, not full disk encryption) and b.) that it will fix my problem (Actual used disk space is only about 47GB).
SOLVED: Disabling Bitlocker fixed the problem.
Yes, Clonezilla does not know the encrypted file system like bitlocker.
Steven