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Backup Time Taken & Size

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Hi.

Have just backed up a folder on a hard drive.

Source : Internal hdd, WD, 5400RPM Black. Folder size on disk: 325GB

Destination: 2TB Seagate External through USB 2.0.GB.

Time Taken: Started 1:29PM. Finished 10:35PM. Full backup. Size on disk: 880GB

That's ridiculous. Any ideas?

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I believe your slow hardware is the cause for that long time backing up 325 gigs.

5400 rpm drive and USB 2.0 are both very slow transfers compared to faster 7200 rpm and ssd drives and USB 3.0.

If it's any consolation, the incremental backups will be much faster.

danfilipi wrote:

I believe your slow hardware is the cause for that long time backing up 325 gigs.

Thanks but I don't believe this should be an issue. I initially transferred the data from a usb drive to my hdd using Robocopy and that took just over 4 hours.

But this still doesn't address the fact that the backed-up copy is 3 times the size of the source data.

I've raised a service call with Acronis. I'll let you know how that goes.

Cheers

@ Les,

Your average backup speed is 27.81MB/s which is OK for a USB 2.0 : (880*1024)/(9*3600)

Your backup is bigger (880mGB) than your data (325GB), but smaller than your disk (2TB). So there is about half a TB of data that ATI is seeing. COuld be hidden files, including shadow copies, or hidden partitions, or some issue with the NTFS data (a disk check would fix the latter).

Pat L wrote:

@ Les,

Your average backup speed is 27.81MB/s which is OK for a USB 2.0 : (880*1024)/(9*3600)

Your backup is bigger (880mGB) than your data (325GB), but smaller than your disk (2TB). So there is about half a TB of data that ATI is seeing. COuld be hidden files, including shadow copies, or hidden partitions, or some issue with the NTFS data (a disk check would fix the latter).

Hi Pat and thanks for your suggestions.

Acronis support asked a good question - for me to open the backup and take screenshots of the folders (which I hadn't thought to do). Below is a portion of the email I sent in response to the request.

"Good idea to explore the backup though. It seems even though I have specified the subfolder "Study" on my H: drive (325GB), Acronis has in fact carried out a backup my C: (but hasn't bothered to put any of C:\'s contents) & all of the D: drive. The D:\ drive ALSO has a folder called "Study" on it.

Capture4.jpg shows what Acronis is setup to backup.
Capture5.jpg shows what Acronis has actually backed-up.
Capture6.jpg shows that Acronis doesn't have the D: drive highlighted in the Study backup scheme.
Capture7.jpg shows that the "Study" folder Acronis has backed-up is the one on the D: drive, not the one on the H: drive as specified.

Just for your information, I only have 2 backup schemes, 1) C: & 2) H:\Study.

I hope you can explain why Acronis has chosen to backup an empty C:\ and all of D:\ instead of H:\Study!"

Any ideas at your end, Pat?