PS3 Backup Utility question

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I have a 60GB PS3 and under my system info it says that I have 16GB out of 55GB left. I want to upgrade my HDD, so I performed a backup. I bought a 160GB external hard drive and used a third party software to convert the whole thing to FAT32, which worked like a charm. After doing the backup, the backup file is only 31GB according to my PS3. Is this possible? If I have 16 out of 55 left, then that means I used 39GB, so how could the backup be only 31GB?
I don't want to proceed because of this. I heard that the backup gets compressed. Could the backup have been compressed by 8GB?
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I'm taking a stab in the dark with...

Using Windows/PC termanology, I would assume that your used 39GB is your Saves, Game Data, and Demos/Download-only games, PLUS PS3 SYSTEM DATA!!!....which probably gets stored in memory maybe.

So when you use the backup utility you're probably only SAVING the Saves, Game Data, and Demos/Download-only games. not the ps3 system data.

But my advise is that you look elsewhere about upgrading the PS3 HDD (google is your friend).

I would also like to know info on this, because I want to backup my saves and dl-only games but dont want to back up the Game data (RE5 takes up 5gb of space!!!), game data ca jsut be installed again later, but saves and dl-only content is quite difficult to retrive.
lol I have a PS3 80GB and only have 9gb FREE T_T
 
I believe 10 GB or so of the PS3 hard drive is used for Blu Ray caching, therefore making loads quicker. The 360 does this, too (assuming you have a hard drive attached). In addition, the backup does perform some compression, too, but not 8 GB worth.

Plus, you're worried you'll lose your saves in the transition, then don't throw away the old hard drive until you have the new one installed. Worse comes to worse, you stick with the old one and return the new one.
 
don't forget that Rockband DLC and saves don't transfer over and (with me)( none of my PS1 stuff transferred over. So add that to system data and what not. I think you're fine to procede. When I did my back-up, NONE of my PSN games transferred. I had the same delema of "WTF is going on!"
 
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