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Super Slow Full Backup?

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Hi Guys,

I recently purchased Acronis True Image 2012 to backup my bootcamp partition on my Macbook Pro. The partition is only 150 gb, with 90 gb being used, so I assumed the backup would take a few hours. I let it run over night (9+ hours) and it now has 1 day 13 hours remaining with 22% complete! I have no idea why this is happening. I set up the backup with the Incremental Scheme, scheduled it to backup on logon, and set the compression to normal. I am using a spare Lacie Rugged 7200 rpm drive connected via firewire 800 for backup. Is there a major setting I am missing that will make the backup time more reasonable?

Thanks!

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Time should run about 1/2 to 2 minutes per gb depending on your system. so about 45 min to about 3 hours for your 90GB. Significantly longer than that and something has gone wrong.

If you target drive is not USB 2 or 3, then the backup will take about ten times longer than normal -- the older USB standard is that slow--only the oldest firewire stadard would be comparably slow.

It could be disk errors. ATI wil try a limited number fo times to reread/rewrite if it has a problem with a sector. This can greatly slow down the operation if there are weak spots on the drive. the way to check is to go to satart, choos Programs, Accessories then right click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator then enter "chkdsk /r" without the quiotes. If the problem persists after than, then it's not a bad hdisk issue.

Also you should be able to cancle the operation. IF it won't cancel, then it means the program is hung. If it does, then view the log and see if there's any clues before the "cancelled by User" entry in the log.

IF the proglram was hung, you can try rebooting and see if it persists--if so, thr unistanlling and reinstalling -- I recommend using msconfig.exe to stop all non-microsoft services and all startups, reboot do unintalls installs, then use msconfig to resume normal start, reboot.

That should give you a start .

I appear to be stuck on "locking partition c", according to the log. I saw online that there are some drivers that could be updated to possibly fix this problem, but I do not know what the most recent ones are. I think they were SnapAPI drivers. Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

this should let you know your current snapapi version
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/26747

a later version would have a higher number.

I have the latest build, so I am assuming that I have the latest driver (I have SnapAPI version 3.12.0.640). I do not know where I can update the driver and I figure that I must have the latest, since I have the latest build. Could there be another issue that is causing the "locking partition c" error?

sometimes iterim snapapis are issued whenan acronis rep responds on the forum. if ur within support period, contact acronis via chat and have a system report handy from ati.

I just purchased a new hard drive and it seems to have fixed the problem. I was about to contact support while it suddenly starting backing up with the new drive! Thanks for your help.