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Howie,

How long is forever?

Are you imaging from within Windows or with your offline bootable recovery media?  Which ever you are using, try the other as a test and see if it is any faster.  Imaging in Windows may be slower since the OS is taking up resources and or may be set for a low priority backup.  Other things like Antivirus can also be actively scanning the source content and the subsequent output backup files in realtime, making things even slower.  You can set the backup priority in Acronis to be low, normal or high - I would make sure it is at least normal and bump it up if it is not.

Where is your backup going to - a network share or a USB drive?  Network shares can be slower depending on your network speed.  Not all USB drives are created equaly either.  If using USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.0, it's going to be much slower.  Additionally, if the backup drive is a 5400RPM spinning drive or hybird drive it's bound to be much slower too than, say an SSD.  I routinlely take full offline backups going from an internal SSD to a USB 3.0 connected SSD and it takes less than 8 minutes to do the entire backup with this setup.  If I use a USB 3.0 2TB spinning drive, the same backup can take closer to 40 minutes because of the limitations of the spinning drive.

Finally, what is the health of your source and destination drive?  If they are fragmented, that will slow things down.  If either drive has less than 20% free space that will slow things down.  If either drive has bad sectors/blocks, that will slow things down and or prevent the backup from completing too.  You may want to run and elevated command prompt and run "chkdsk /f /r" on both the source and destination drives to check for and attempt to repair bad/dirty sectors too.