Fed up with appalling speed of TI2011
So last night's backup ran out of disk space. I'm not entirely surprised by that but I thought I'd do a bit of maintenance and tidy things out.
Can /someone/ please explain to me why it took 12 minutes just to list the available backups? Have the Acronis developers never heard of the concept of a catalogue? Granted the machine only has an Atom processor and 1GB of RAM but it has no problem acting as a media server to my PS3 or as a mail server.
The machine is backing up to an external 2TB drive via USB. Now I can accept that - probably - the USB ports aren't the fastest but I'm a software developer and I'd be disgusted to ship a product that took more than a few seconds to produce what is little more than a file listing.
So /please/ before I give up on this software and go elsewhere could /someone/ help me sort out the truly appalling performance.
Edit:Oh it gets better. I told it to delete the oldest version and its dependants. So it sat there for another ten minutes. Eventually came back and no evidence that the backups have been deleted at all. Free disk space seems unchanged.
Edit #2:Well there you have it. I restarted Acronis and repeated my delete request. This time it actually did it. Another nearly 15 minute wait just to delete one backup version! I've also kicked off a new backup and after two minutes it's still thinking about it.
R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S
OS Info:Windows 7 Home Premium.
Andrue,
The latest version of ATI has some issues deleting backup versions... Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. You should consider setting up auto-cleaning options. The one that works best is the one that sets it up to keep only the most XX recent version chains.
Thanks for that suggestion, I was using the default so I've changed to that option. In fairness I don't blame ATI for that. I just cloned my system volume onto an SSD and had relocated 300GB of data onto another external drive so clearly the differential backups would take up more space.
My frustration is just with the speed of ATI. It's like pulling teeth. It ultimately took me an hour to clear down some space and I only do a weekly backup - it's not like I'm managing the archive for a server farm.
Anyway another question if I may. I've put off running a manual backup in case it confuses ATI. Is that a problem or will it happily see that as just another backup in the chain? Nothing much has changed this last week or two anyway so I can leave it until the Sunday scheduled backup but if there's no harm kicking off one tonight I might as well.
If you add a manual backup, the counting of the differentials will be off. I have not figured out the logic for lack of testing, but if you add a manual differential in a chain of 6 differentials, you will get overall more than 6 differentials, probably 8 before a new chain starts, if your setting was to have a new full after 6 differentials.