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<p>When trying to perform a windows backup to an external USB drive you may get the following error:</p>
<p><span style="color: #003366;">The backup was not successful. The error is: There is not enough free space on the backup storage location to back up the data. (0x80780048)</span></p>
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<p>To resolve this issue, please uncheck the image backup for each drives, and also uncheck “<span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Include a system image of drives</strong>…</span>”.</p>
<p>If the free space issue does not occur this time, it will probably occur during the system image backup process.</p>
<p>If you are trying to make images for every drive during backup, the disk space of the backup storage may be not enough.</p>