Length of time to back up
Hi. I'm attempting to back up a large file, 485 GB, of photographs. It appears that it will take over 6 days to do this to an external 2 TB drive. Is that what I should expect?
Hi
Sounds a basic question but did you let the backup run or did you just go by the estimate the the timeline gave, if you just looked at the estimate then this is the problem, trueimage is very inaccurate when it comes to estimating the time taken to carry out backups, if i was you i would let the back up run and see exactly how long it will take, as in the past ive seen backups saying they will take days to do but then a few minutes later the time line says it will take 20 minutes!!
Pete
pete's comment about the time remaining indicator is right -- the timer starts out with a small sample of data transfered and makes a wildily inaccurate estimate that improves rapidly and the backup progresses.
The time to backup is roughly about 1 minture per GB on an older machine backing up to internal drives. On newer machines but backing up to USB2, the speed will still be about 1 minute per gb. The speed can be twice that going form internal to internal on newer machiens. IF you backup to usb1, expect about 5-ten times slower--rediculously slow do to the USB1 connection.
Restore times will be about the same or up to about 3 times slower than backups--especially if using USB --depending on how well the linux drivers for the restore work with your machine.
Also, for irreplaceable content like photographs, make sure you have another backup, with some other software, as a backup option. If you are editing your pictures a lot and want to keep version, you could use ATI to back them regularly, but then also copy them or sync them to another disk from times to times.
If you don't edit your pictures a lot, you should consider a simple sync/copy program to back them up. It is not very efficient to have ATI try to compress the files and pack them in a big proprietary container, but of course it works.
I'm having a similar issue. I bought the latest version of the backup software so that I can use it on my 64 bit machines, but the backups on a simple desktop are running anywhere from 6 to 12 hours, when the old version on a 32 bit machine with the same software loaded only took just over an hour. What gives?