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TI Home 2011: time remaining to completion is 1476 days...

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I backed up around 120MB of files with TI Home 2011 to a USB external drive and after about 2 hours the progress report stated that there were 2 minutes left to completion - this message was displayed for over 30 minutes before the verification process announced that it would complete in 1476 days and some hours - this message persisted for over 30 minutes before I cancelled the job.

I'm using the latest build of TI Home 2011, but it doesn't strike me as an application I'd want to rely on to protect my precious data.

Any comments from Acronis?

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Are you using the most current build (6696) and are you on any type network?

Also, if using a hub, try plugging in direct to computer and if desktop, use a plug in the back.

Validation takes almost as long as the actual backup. The time estimation are approximations and is best to ignore. It was probably close to finishing when you stopped it. It is still suggested that you perform a validation and preferably from the Rescue CD.

As the CD is the main recovery vehicle, boot from the CD and make the same backup and validation and compare times.

GroverH wrote:

Are you using the most current build (6696) and are you on any type network?

Also, if using a hub, try plugging in direct to computer and if desktop, use a plug in the back.

Validation takes almost as long as the actual backup. The time estimation are approximations and is best to ignore. It was probably close to finishing when you stopped it. It is still suggested that you perform a validation and preferably from the Rescue CD.

As the CD is the main recovery vehicle, boot from the CD and make the same backup and validation and compare times.

GroverH wrote:

Are you using the most current build (6696) and are you on any type network?

Yes.

GroverH wrote:

Also, if using a hub, try plugging in direct to computer and if desktop, use a plug in the back.

I was using the disk via a hub (on my LCD monitor) so I'll plug it into the PC directly in future. Not sure why that would make a difference though....

The ETA time calculation is notorious for behind extremely inaccurate. Whenever I restore, I cannot trust the ETA given. It keeps hopping and changing to the point of being meaningless.

For testing purposes, you might also disconnect yourself from your network to see if that single item makes a difference. There have been some recent postings also about missing devices causing delays.

Also, validation runs for the entire backup (full + full chain of incrementals, or full + last differential). So, although you just backup maybe 120mb during an incremental, the validation runs against prior backups as well. I don't know if this applies to your case, but just in case...