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True Image 2009 slow

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Well worn theme this, but I can't find a solution. Situation is that I am doing a full back up of a linux system using the Acronis 2009 boot CD. So Acronis has the whole system to itself. I have 2 partitions amounting to 8GB total. Its taking hours (approx 4) to create the partition images so that they can be written to disc. In fact I'm going to leave it overnight to finish - for 8GB data ! Disc light is flashing quite slowly, which would explain why its so slow. How on earth can I speed it up ?

Really odd thing is that I took a full backup about 2 weeks ago (again using the Acronis boot CD) on the same system, and it took 40 mins. For the life of me, I cannot understand what's changed to cause this dramatic slowdown. System is approximately the same size, and all the Acronis settings that I'm using are the default ones. I've checked to make sure that I'm not accidentally doing a sector by sector backup, and I've also checked the Bios to make sure its using DMA transfers, which I saw could cause slow performance. Anyone got any ideas ?

 

Thanks

 

David

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If the destination for the Backup is a usb drive then it looks as though True Image is seeing it as a USB 1 port and not USB 2 ... why .... I don't know.  Try another usb port if there is one.  Also disconnect any other usb devices (including hubs) for now.

Acronis has imaged the whole disc of 90GB. So I guess it must not be recognising the linux structure and doing a sector by sector backup. Although I had no warning letting me know. And I still find it puzzling that it imaged just the 8GB a few weeks ago quite successfully

David:

You may have file system errors on the disk that have just recently occurred. Can you run a file system check on your Linux partitions? Boot your PC from a Live Linux CD and run sudo fsck /dev/sdax on each partition after first unmounting the partition, where sdax is the device name for each partition.