Copying Partition Extremely Slow
I began a cloning operation last night at 6PM; now 16 hours later it has not finished. It is only 75% complete.
Prior versions of Acronis True Image (vers 12 and earlier) were never this slow.
My drives are 465GB identical drives and I previously cloned with version 11 on my machine.
Usually it took about 2-4 hours max now it is unbelievably slow.
Any ideas???
I have a system running an Intel i7 950 CPU at 3 GHz.
Drives are identical WD SATA 500GB drives installed individually - not a RAID.
In the True Image 13 software, I do not find any "Settings" for cloning.
Under Tools/Utilities and selecting Clone Disk, there are no separate settings. Am at a loss where or how a "sector by sector" mode is selected or any other clone selection.
I have just stepped through the Clone choices selecting Source and Destination drives, Automatic, Delete Partition on destination drive, confirm and then Go.
Then the cloning process starts and is excruciating slow.
Same EXACT system (above) using Version 11 and/or 12 took at most 1-2 hours, if that.
Have never experienced such slow performance until Version 13.
Other info on system:
I am runninng Vipre Anti-Virus - at the server and pushed out to workstations.
Also, on my workstation I run Malware Bytes.
Are you running the clone operation from True Image while running in Windows or while booted to the Rescue Media (bootable CD/DVD/UDB Flash drive)? How are the source and destination disks connected to your system?
Have always run True Image from Windows.
Source and Destination drives are identical WD SATA drives connected as Drives Cand D.
My mistake about the sector-by-sector option for cloning, there is no such setting.
When performing a clone of an active system drive, a reboot is necessary for Acronis to invoke a runtime environment based on Linux before Windows starts up to perform the clone operation. During the boot process the Linux recovery environment loads and then the clone operation begins. This would be the same Linux based environment that the Acronis Rescue Media uses. It is possible that the 2013 version of the software uses a different Linux kernel and/or SATA controller drivers that do not work as well on your system as the older version of True Image. A simple test to see if this is the case, would be to boot to the earlier version Rescue Media (bootable CD/DVD/USB Flash drive) of True Image that seemed to work better for you and attempt the clone again to check the results. If the clone operation happens in a much more reasonable time than you have described in your first post, that would lead me to believe that the Linux kernel/SATA drivers in the 2013 version are to blame.
It would also be good to try the clone operation from the 2013 Rescue Media for comparison.
Also, when mentioning previous versions, be sure to note whether they are v11 or v2011 (they are not the same) as you have referenced v11 and v12 in your post. Version 12 that follows the v11 release is actually called version 2009.