TI 2011 Extremely Slow
I am using TI 2011 to backup my laptop to my desktop. I was using windows 7 backup and that was agonizingly slow. (48 hours and not even 60% done) Anyway so I got TI 2011 and after a few quirks installing it. (NTFS credential trouble on the remote share) It began the back up it said it would take 1day 18 hours for a 63GB backup?! I only have it transferring my music directory and my documents. Turned down the compression settings and it still takes it forever. Not only that acronis is running slow on the PC. It is connected via a wireless network over a a 54mpbs connection. Ive transferred that much data over the network and it only took a couple of hours, any idea whats going on? Both PCs are running Window 7 Pro
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 an Acronis issue and nothing else. This is with Workstation Echo build 8398.
Unbelievably slow. Welcome screen takes several minutes to display (not responding ), finally displays then select an option, again a long agonising wait, go make a coffee & still waiting... removed ( also used removal utility) & reinstalled. same thing. Win7 64 Ultimate, AMD dual opteron, 4GB RAM, OS on 120GB SSD, 4 SATA drives. Might have to go back to 2010 & get my money back..... Surely the programmers could have made some notification messages on the GUI prior to the disk search routine to notify what is happening, where's the option to recover to a different disk? Dissapointing!!!
What you are experiencing is not normal. Are you connected to a network? If yes, try being a standalone computer as a test and see if that provides any assistance.
2011 is a totally new so we all have had a learning curve. The 2011 has the same features of 2010 and maybe more. Yes, you can recover to a new disk via Windows mode but you would be better served doing so using the 2011 Rescue CD.
Click on the green colored link inside my signature for a large bunch of "how to's" using 2011 by Acronis,
Learning curve alright, on patience & a lot of it. Might have to invest on another eSATA drive enclosure to get TIH to run properly. Or maybe slow is what to expect with the bloated code? Sorry, cynical after going from 8 years of Acronis & only having issues since v.2010, thought that 2011 would be an improvement....
Agree. I'm a long-time Acronis customer, way back from the time it actually worked, and worked well. It's sad to see them take what used to be a good and reliable tool and turn it into crap. With over 30 years under my belt in I.T., currently as Director of Operating Systems Software for one of the largest financial services companies in the world, I think I'm qualified to make that judgment. As soon as I have the time to find something else that works and performs, Acronis is out the door.
I may re-visit Ghost if I can't get this to work properly. I used to get it for free in IT, might have gone down in price & the Aussie dollar trumps the US. Ghost was fast & flawless (even over a network).
First let me say Acronis saved my butt after a hard disk failure.
The first time I did a disk backup, I seem to recall it took about eight hours.
Now I am backing up up the same disk (new and faster than the old HS) with 172g to an external 1t drive. The estimated time indicates 1 day, 17 hours.
I have the performance set up to high.
Am I likely doing something wrong or has the product changed (for the worse)?
Do not trust the estimated time. It tends to be close to reality only towards the end of the backup.
The quickest TI backups are done from one internal hard drive to another. If you have a big enough second drive run the images with no compression and providing you can check your backups by other means leave out the validation stage.
I always backup in the Windows environment it is more convenient and faster that way. My current speeds with TI2011 are 6 GB per minute. Restores are slower at about 3GB per minute.
Next down the speed scale is backing up to an external HDD. These come in various flavours, USB, USB3, e-SATA etc. With some hardware speed may be improved by booting into the Bart PE/ Ti environment.
Slower still is backing up over a wired network and wireless networks are not really fit for purpose when it comes to TI backup images. I have not checked but until fairly recently wireless networks were/are unsupported.
DVDs are another possible backup media. I have never used them as they have several other disadvantages.