How long to backup an image with home 2010?
Hi folks,
I have been using acronis true image home 2010 happily until now but now the backup of image time seems to take forever, seems to speed along at start but then gets stuck at a certain percentage.
The drive I want to backup is around 60gb, in the past (admitably there was probably not a smuch dats on it) I could do a backup well wihin an hour, but now it is really slow.
I have a quad core computer with a Amd phenom 3000 processor 4 GB of ram and plenty of spare drive for backup.
I would be grateful if you could give me an idea of what length of time on average it would take acronis home to make a backup of say 60gb of data?
I usually do the backup from within windows itself but even now it is taking forever even when using acronis boot disk.
Thanks for any help
Joe
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Thanks James for your reply, my setup is as follows 2 hard drive 0 and 1. 0 drive is partitioned into 3 partitions C D and E with windows xp on C and windows 7 on both D and E, windows 7 on D is my default OS.
The other hard drive is partitioned as well into G and H drives and used to store the acronis backups on drive H
A few points to note,
From within D windows 7 on drive 0 I can backup windows xp on C or windows 7 on E to partition H on drive 1 no problem, it just speeds along.
This is not the case when I try to backup my default drive D windows 7 on drive 0, for the past week or so it is really really slow, but does complete eventually. I have reinstalled windows and also acronis from scratch on it, but to no avail. Does not help to run from acronis boot dvd and validation is not activated
A few questions if I may,
1 Is it possible there are bad sectors on D that is causing problems specifically when I am trying to create a backup (but these bad sectors are not present on C or E even though its the same hard disk)
Otherwise windows runs normally.
2 Is there something within the drive D such as a specific file that acronis is having trouble dealing with backing up, and preventing smooth running of the backup?
3 Could it be a problem on the motherboard where there is some sort of a bottleneck when transfering data from one hard drive to another, though as I mentioned no problems with backing up other partitions on the same drive.
Thanks very much again for your kind help.
Joe
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I'm not sure can explain the slowness with your Windows installation on D: being so slow.
To answer your questions:
1. If there were bad sectors on the D: drive, Acronis would probably throw an error if it could not read from them and the backup would fail with an error code. You can run Windows checkdisk with scan for bad sectors enables to test your drive. You should probably do this to your backup destination drive as well.
2. If there was a file or folder that Acronis was having trouble with, more than likely it would abort or fail the backup, not continue and finish it.
3. I don't think it could be a motherboard problem, since as you said, the data transfers work fine from the other partition to the backup drive.
How large is the resulting .tib file from your Windows D: drive installation?
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Thanks for your help James in this, I have gone out and bought a new hard drive installed it and so far so good with true image, back to its nice quick speed again, so it must have been some early failing fault with the old drive.
Will see how it goes for a while as to build up my confidence in it working flawlessly with backups.
I probably will use a different program as well, so that if one fails always something to fall back on.
Only problem with the new drive its a little louder than the old when its seeking data.
Thanks again
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If there are weak spots on a disk than a bad read or write could occur, in which case a reread/rewrite is attempted-- this repeats for, iirc, 7 - 15 times, before an error is declared. If the fault causing the bad read/writes is not literally a bad spot on the disk (could be misaligned head, faulty part in the hdisk circuit, etc). So you can not have error messages and yet had a weak disk that greatly slows down the backup process.
But to answer your first question, on an XP machine, expect backup times of about 1- 2 min / GB. On newer faster machines, expect about 0.25 -1 min / GB depending on your machine. I have a laptop with an i5 type mobo made this year that backs up to usb 3 at 0.25 min/GB. Some machines could do better; may will do worse. But if it's more than 2 min/gb, then you probably have something not working quite right.
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