too slow to be usable
Hi,
I just installed True Image 2017 yesterday on my newish Thinkpad and attempted a full PC backup to the cloud using Wifi. After about 45 minutes about 300MB had been handled out of about 48GB. Time remaining indicated as over 2days. I simply cancelled two attempts.
I am wondering about the following:
1. Does using Wifi make it likely that the backup will be very very slow? Do users find USB or HD backup quicker?
2. How much difference do the exclusions and other settings make? I did not play with this as I am new to these products.
Any other comments appreciated. Right now I cannot even use the internet but hope that is not related to the use of this products.
Thanks in advance for help,
William
William, please ensure that you make a local backup of your Thinkpad as well as doing any Cloud backups. Having multiple different backup options is far safer than using only one, and local backups will always out perform a Cloud one when it comes to both backup and recovery.
Steve,
Thanks for your comment. I intended to have multiple backups but did not realize local was 'better' in the sense you have indicated. I am hoping that I can image my PC in any case since I have been unable to get rescue/recovery media from Lenovo which in my case appears to require using their flawed 'Think Vantage' tool. I guess my next step will be to either get the necessary USB or local hard drive and try to image my PC to that media.
Roger,
Thanks. Acronis should make this clear upfront; probably the main reason I bought the product was that I thought I would be able to create an image of my laptop that would be reside in the cloud for use in the event that my hard drive crashed. So at this point it is not clear why I would not ask for a refund.
There is no possibility for me to use ethernet now or in the near future.
There is no possibility for me to use ethernet now or in the near future.
Ethernet is not required.
I don´t know what router you use or what WiFi hardware you use in the computer so now everything is guessworks. :)
William, broadband speeds do vary greatly depending on your ISP, location, distance from access points etc, as well as all the variables mentioned by Roger in your local environment.
Typically ISP upload speeds are only a fraction of the advertised download speed, so in my case I should get 70 MBps for download from my ISP (over a cable network) but I only get around 5 to 7 MBps upload speed. Others in these forums have reported better rates but some again have had worse!
Acronis do offer a 'pre-load' service (for a price) where you can get your full backup image loaded on to their servers via a portable drive or large capacity memory stick, after which True Image only sends changed data based on a Delta comparison. With Cloud backups there are no Incremental or Differential backups per say.
I personally don't do full backups to the Cloud, but I do have a mix of different local backups to fall back on if needed, some to local drives and some to a NAS drive, and others on disconnected USB drives for greatest protection against malware / ransomware etc. I use Cloud for files & folders such as documents where the size is far less that a full disk image backup.
I backup My Dell notebook to the Acronis Cloud. It does not have Ethernet port so I use wifi (fortunately both the Dell and my router support wifi ac so that means there is no local network speed issues). My biggest problem is the slow upload speed offered by my ISP (2 Mbps, but often as high as 2.7 Mbps). While DOCIS 3.0 supports higher upload speeds, my ISP will not increse them until DOCIS 3.1 is in place. They have sold their cable ifrastructure and the new owners are slow in upgrading the infrastructure.
Ian
Fo me, download speeds no problem 100 Mbps and regularly exceeds 110 Mbps.
Thanks again.
Due to the very slow speeds available to me I have given up on a full PC backup to the cloud, one of the major reasons I bought this software. So I decided to just back up some files; 1.6 GB. Even this took several sessions (approx. 10 hrs total). So I am now going to try to put a full PC image onto a USB drive.
From what I have read there is a potential 'issue' with the formatting of a PC and the formatting of a USB (FATS32 vs. NFTS I believe). Apparently the USB can be reformatted at the expense of speed.
Acronis indicates that USB drives can be used but I am risk averse at this point. I would be getting a 'newish' 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive and my new Thinkpad right now is about 48GB needing to be imaged. I have Windows 7 Pro (64bit)
Does anyone here know of reasons why this would not work?
Bill
It should work as a backup drive when formatted NTFS. If you keep it as FAT32, that would work as well, but it will automatically break up the backup into 4Gb chunks since FAT32 has a 4Gb single file size limitation. There's no reason a flash shouldn't work. Performance-wise, you'd be better off getting an SSD. Flash drives, even "fast ones" are nowhere near as fast as an SSD with a dedicated controller and you can grab a 250Gb SSD for about $65 and a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter for about $10 and it's just as portable (not quite as small, but still really easy to carry around.
Can I use my computer while the 6 days of remaining B/U to the cloud are being done or do I just have to have 6 days of non
use until it finishes? Also, if I have to do a restore from the cloud will it take 6 days or more to do that?
Yes you can use it while it backs up. Changes you make between when the backup started and and the next backup won't be in this backup though.
yes, it will take just about as long to restore as it does to backup. Downloading in theory can be faster as the download speed is probably faster than upload speed, but it sounds like you have a slow connection all around.
your isp is really too slow to rely on cloud as the primary backup. Really though, cloud should never be your first and or only backup. It is better suited as a secondary offsite and disaster recovery option- like if your house burned down and took your pc and local backup out at the same time.
Can I use my computer while the 6 days of remaining B/U to the cloud are being done or do I just have to have 6 days of non
use until it finishes? Also, if I have to do a restore from the cloud will it take 6 days or more to do that?
Yes same answer as posted above - looks like maybe you had a duplicate post?