True Image Home 2009 too slow, useless
I bought TIB Home 2009 yesterday, and installed in on a new PC (HP P6116be), Vista 64bit.
I have a Iomega NAS connected via Gigabit switch, gigabit ethernet is working OK.
The NAS has some mapped network-drives (that's what it is made for :-)).
When I launch TIB Home 2009 it takes very long minutes to start. Seems it is examining all drives/partitions, but at a so slow rate it takes ages.
Making backup/image is also "rather slooooooooooow".
After many nightly hours an image (system c: etc) was finally made.
I mounted this image to verify the contents. Mounting (you guessed?) took aaaaaaaaaaaages.
I think I will have to uninstall TIB Home 2009 and try the former version 11?
But I don't have the time. (All my spare time vanished with these TIB 2009 trouble).
Anyone any idea on how to speed things up?
Is there a way to exclude partitions / drive letters from being examined when TIB 2009 starts ????
I will never be making images form the NAS-drive for instance, so TIB2009 should not examine those.
If no speeding-up is possible: don't buy this product, it's useless.
I really hope someone can help me.
P.S. This forum-editor seems to insert extra blanks when one types a 'return', rather anoying.

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If you're not getting a backup rate of about 1-2 GB per minute then either ATI is having probs with your hardware (if you're using the boot disk) or it's having probs with your network -- a more common occurence since there are so amay factors at play with networks. The backup rate you are getting is not anywhere near normal. Check that your security software is no tying things up scanning each packet -- try setting tibs as excluding from scans. The netowrk wizards can probably offer more and better advise. good luck.
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Thanks, MudCrab, that made a fantastic difference in the speed of Acronis 11 starting up. :)
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Network backup performance is a dog. I -have- a gigabit wired network, and even running a backup task at high priority / maximum network speed takes more than 10 hours to copy a 12 Gb partition. I know it's not a network problem because once the backup finishes I can then copy the .tib file from the network share back down to the machine where the backup ran, using Windows Explorer, in about 43 minutes flat. This is with Workstation Echo build 8398.
And, since I -am- running a Windows domain network in which both the Distributed Link Tracking Clients and Server tasks are running and useful, disabling one or the other really isn't an option.
This is an Acronis issue and nothing else.
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