Any improvement to hard drive copy/restore estimates?
I have been using ATI for about 5 years. A few years ago, something changed and made the estimated time remaining calculation to be the biggest nonsense I can think of. So this is my biggest problem with ATI, and why I won't purchase any more versions until improved:
Estimated time remaining is nonsensical. A lot of my cloning is from HD to SSD. I did one the other day for about 100GB, and the estimated time remaining started off at 4 minutes, never went above 7 minutes, and took 50 minutes. When the calculation got down to 1 minute or so, it took 8-10 minutes more.
This is a very consistent experience for me, especially with SSD's that should have writes in excess of 100MB/s. Back when I only ever used HDD's and XP cloning 10-20GB drives, I might see an estimate of 9 minutes, and it actually took 11 minutes, but it was a NIGHT AND DAY difference in estimated time remaining and actual time remaining.
There are multiple ways to calculate estimated time remaining. Whatever algorithm Acronis is using, IS VERY, VERY, VERY, wrong.
There are probably half a dozen bugs I regularly experience that have been in 2013 and 2014 that I've had to live with. Since the UI is so changed, I'm sure they are gone, though.
p.s. features removed in 2015 that I want/use/need:
- Backup file conversion from the .tib format to .vhd, and vice versa
- Manual Consolidation of incremental backups
Glad the feature below was removed, it caused the program to take longer to load, and was often unresponsive and loaded the screen/page in the least smoothest way possible.
- Polling of disks at startup so all backups can be found and added to database or listed for recovery.
p.s. features removed in 2015 that I want/use/need:
- Backup file conversion from the .tib format to .vhd, and vice versa- Manual Consolidation of incremental backupsMy experience with manual consoldiation was that based on the user postings, the function caused more problems than it fixed. Maybe it worked for some but for many it did not and was always looking for the files which it deleted. All my postings encouraged users to avoid this option because it was inconsistent.
Glad the feature below was removed,- Polling of disks at startup so all backups can be found and added to database or listed for recovery.
I'm not really certain this function has been removed. When I first installed the program, there was a scan and it added old backups which was stored on another data partition of the same disk.
The registry still has the "scan for backups" setting. You may want to disable it (change the 1 to 0). Since I disabled the setting, I have not had any more scans but not sure the registry change was the reason.
"My experience with manual consoldiation was that based on the user postings, the function caused more problems than it fixed. Maybe it worked for some but for many it did not and was always looking for the files which it deleted."
Yes, this was very annoying and caused me much pain until one day I went and found the way to remove the old backups from ATI and then it stopped caring. The use case for this was I had a 500GB HDD and a 750GB backup destination available. Given compressed is like 220GB, I thought I wouldn't really run out of space if I did incremental updates and what not. No, it was a major PITA.
Since I haven't had any real ATI issues for months, I just checked and found there I had 3 months of incremental backups. It seems when I did previously try and configure consolidation and limited versions to prevent going over 750GB is when things went to hell.
It would be nice to be able to consolidate some of the 112 incremental versions into less versions.