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Does my backup time (duration) sound correct?

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Hello, I'm new to TI 2014 - testing out my Trial Version. I just did a backup and it seems to have gone FASTER than I'd expected. I feel silly "complaining" about a good thing, but I just want to make sure I did it right. Here's some info:

I ran a "disk and partition" backup, which I believe is an image of all on my comp (OS, applications, settings, files). I backed up to an external HD (USB 3.0). My C drive has 386 GB of data on it.

The backup took about 1 hr & 40 min. Is this normal? It seems fast to me, but then again I have little experience here. I just want to feel confident that I did it correctly...

Thanks for any insight for this newbie! :-)

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You can double click on the TIB file to check the content, in particular the partitions that you included. Ideally, you would have use the disk mode to select what you want to backup and you have selected the entire system disk.

Hi Pat L,

Thank you for your quick reply. I do see there is a "disk mode", but I didn't use that - I used the default "partition mode" with the default settings (sources selected were SYSTEM and Local Disk (C:), but NOT Recovery (D:) or HP_TOOLS (E:).

When I open the TIB file, I do see both the C: and the SYSTEM in there. I don't know what the SYSTEM is, but I do see all of my folders/files from my C: drive. My C drive (real one) is 388 GB and the TIB file is 345 GB (I'm assuming there is some compression).

Does that sound right to you? Any advice/recommendations you can pass along for my future backups would be much appreciated! :-)

Thank you!
Rob

If I were you, I would include all partitions in the backup.
When you backup, no need to set up the "sector by sector option", in case you have.
It is better to leave the compression at normal.
I would expect a better compression than the ratio you have. Maybe you have an overwhelming number of files already in a compressed format?