Acronis True Image Home 2012 Backup Time Comparison
Hi;
I just purchased a WDC MyBookLive NAS and was surprised at the length of time it took to perform my backup. I ran some benchmarks and since I'm not a network guru, I was wondering whether someone could comment on the amount of time it took to run the backup where the target was a locally attached WDC MyPassport (USB 2.0), a network attached MyBookLive and a network share on a Windows 7 PC.
Based on my limited network knowledge the elapsed backup times make sense. However, I'm puzzled by the extraordinary long time it took for the validation step.
I tried to copy the table inline, but it became a mess, so I attached a PDF file with the results.
Thanks for your help,
Rick.
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Hi, thanks for commenting. I understand that there are many pieces that can affect network performance. I expected network backup to be slower. I'm just wondering whether my results are typical in a standard, non-optimized, out-of-the-box network environment. Frankly, I think the 3X increase in time for the "Backup" phase is quite acceptable. It was the 9X increase in time for the "Validation" phase that I found a bit disconcerting. I was just wondering whether others experienced the same pattern.
The backup is approximately 115GB in size (full backup of my laptop).
The laptop is connected wirelessly at 72Mbps.
The Access Point is connected via Cat5 Ethernet cable to a 10/100Mbps switch.
The Windows 7 computer is connected to the switch via Cat5 Ethernet cable and has a 100Mbps network adapter.
The WDC MyBookLive NAS is connected to the same switch via Cat5E (I think) Ethernet cable and has a 1000Mbps network adapter (I know this is being throttled down by the throughput of the switch to 100Mbps).
Cheers,
Rick.
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I'm surprised that no one has ever benchmarked locally attached USB storage versus networked attached storage.
I really don't want to start tweaking my environment if other people are getting similar results.
Anyone?
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