Backup across network is extremely slow
I have Acronis True Image Home 10 installed on my computer (Win XP SP3). I have a folder about 2GB in size that I want to backup onto our server each night. Acronis takes about 60 minutes to backup this file (verify is turned off/priority is high). Windows backup takes about 10 minutes, and if I just copy the file to the server it takes about 2 minutes. If I use Acronis to backup the file to a local drive, it only takes a few minutes. Any idea why Acronis is running so much slower over the network and what I could do to improve it's performance?
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.
I totally agree... This is the major issue for with Acronis TI and has been for several versions back. I used to attribute it to the bottlenecks in my network, but now I am hard wiring across a gigabit LAN into an external gigabit NAS. My wife's laptop was doing a 100GB full backup today which originally came out to be over 8 hours expected time on the progress bar. This included a validation process. When it got about half way, the progress bar jumped forward from about 4 hours remaining to about 5 minutes remaining very quickly. But then it"recalculated"and came up with the weirdo value in the picture file I've attached to this post.
This has been about standard fare with Acronis across networks, at least in my experience. There is definitely something quirky going on with the way Acronis calculates expected and remaining process times.
I had very slow network times using ABR 10 on a Server 2008 Dell PowerEdge 2950. I was able to fix the slow network problems by setting the Speed & Duplex on the network adaport. Do not configure Auto for speed and duplex. Set it to what you know your network is. My network is 100 MB, so I set the adaptor to 100 Mb Full.
If you upgrade firmware or install certain network software, you should go back to these settings and verify that they have not changed.
This worked for me. Hope it helps someone out.
Funny though... I had to do the exact opposite for PS3 streaming. I tested ATI backup with both settings and there was no difference.
The thing for me that improved network utilization was to turn off the ipv4 chcksum offload in the network adapter. This made my network utilization jump from 60% to 100% on wired ethernet (I precisely used ATI to test it). I see full network speed with ATI and PS3 streaming. So it will depend on your configuration...
I have two Win XP PCs linked via a wired ethernet 100Mb/s router. I suddenly found that one of the PCs could not access file shares on the other, getting the message 'Not enough server space....'.
I had also found that ATI 9 was suddenly very slow to backup across the network.
I applied the solution found here:
http://www.techfleece.com/2011/03/03/how-to-fix-not-enough-server-stora…
to correct the network file access problem. I applied this to the sharing PC first and it worked perfectly.
I wondered if this was related to the Acronis slow network backup problem and applied the same correction to the other PC.
Bingo, problem solved.
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