Acronis: why so much time?

[sdlomi2]

Using Win XP Pro and a 40-gig hd and a relatively fast system, am I
doing something wrong when Acronis 10 takes like 13 hours to back up 26 gig?
I did a full backup first and it took that long. Yesterday I did an
incremental, 4.7 gig-max file-size in order to copy to dvd's, backup and it
took just as long. This incremental was only like 2 days since the
original, full bu.
One bit of info that might be pertinent: I have 3.33 gig of pictures.
Thanks for any, all help. s

 

[R. McCarty]

Where and what type of destination media are you sending the .Tib
files to ? Even with Image verification I can image around 8-Gig of
multimedia data in 8 minutes using True Image Home 10. One piece
of important information is what transfer rate is your drive running at.
Usually you'll find this in the Advanced Tab of the Details box for the
Primary or Secondary IDE controller. Most drives should be running
at or above a UDMA mode 3/4. If the drive has dropped back to a
PIO mode then you've got another issue that needs to be fixed. It's
best to image to another volume or physical disk and then burn the
..tib modules to some kind of Optical media from the alternate disk
location.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Using Win XP Pro and a 40-gig hd and a relatively fast system, am I
doing something wrong when Acronis 10 takes like 13 hours to back up 26 gig?

YUP!

Should take about 40 minutes MAX.

 

[Lil' Dave]

Using Win XP Pro and a 40-gig hd and a relatively fast system, am I
doing something wrong when Acronis 10 takes like 13 hours to back up 26
gig? I did a full backup first and it took that long. Yesterday I did an
incremental, 4.7 gig-max file-size in order to copy to dvd's, backup and
it took just as long. This incremental was only like 2 days since the
original, full bu.
One bit of info that might be pertinent: I have 3.33 gig of pictures.
Thanks for any, all help. s

Sigh, sounds like a long thread wreaking pertinent info from the OP to
troubleshoot a 3rd party application.
Dave

 

[sdlomi2]

Where and what type of destination media are you sending the .Tib
files to ? Even with Image verification I can image around 8-Gig of
multimedia data in 8 minutes using True Image Home 10. One piece
of important information is what transfer rate is your drive running at.
Usually you'll find this in the Advanced Tab of the Details box for the
Primary or Secondary IDE controller. Most drives should be running
at or above a UDMA mode 3/4. If the drive has dropped back to a
PIO mode then you've got another issue that needs to be fixed. It's
best to image to another volume or physical disk and then burn the
.tib modules to some kind of Optical media from the alternate disk
location.

Sorry, forgot to say I'm backing up to a Western Digital, 80-gig,
one-button, usb-powered, external unit. In Device Manager, my primary is
running at UDMA; secondary at DMA.
Thank you all for replying. Do you need any other info to help me
determine what I need to do?
sdlomi2

 

[Phisherman]

Using Win XP Pro and a 40-gig hd and a relatively fast system, am I
doing something wrong when Acronis 10 takes like 13 hours to back up 26 gig?
I did a full backup first and it took that long. Yesterday I did an
incremental, 4.7 gig-max file-size in order to copy to dvd's, backup and it
took just as long. This incremental was only like 2 days since the
original, full bu.
One bit of info that might be pertinent: I have 3.33 gig of pictures.
Thanks for any, all help. s

That's way too long. I like to schedule a defrag, a full virus scan
and full backup once a week (while I sleep). If you disconnect your
Internet connection and disable your anti-virus, anti-malware, it may
take less time.

 

[Zilbandy]

Sorry, forgot to say I'm backing up to a Western Digital, 80-gig,
one-button, usb-powered, external unit.

USB1 or USB2? If USB2, then the time is way to long. My tib files come
in at just over 12gb and takes me 13-14 minutes using my Maxtor 250gb
external USB2 hard drive. I'm also using ATI Home v10.

 

[Airman Thunderbird]

Do you have the verify option checked?

USB1 or USB2? If USB2, then the time is way to long. My tib files come
in at just over 12gb and takes me 13-14 minutes using my Maxtor 250gb
external USB2 hard drive. I'm also using ATI Home v10.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Using Win XP Pro and a 40-gig hd and a relatively fast system, am I
doing something wrong when Acronis 10 takes like 13 hours to back up 26
gig? I did a full backup first and it took that long. Yesterday I did an
incremental, 4.7 gig-max file-size in order to copy to dvd's, backup and
it took just as long. This incremental was only like 2 days since the
original, full bu.
One bit of info that might be pertinent: I have 3.33 gig of pictures.
Thanks for any, all help. s

I use TrueImage regularly to image many different drives and have found this
on *one* specific drive (laptop drive from a Thinkpad). On all other
drives of that size or larger, it's done in 20 minutes or so, and that
includes drives from my own Thinkpad.

So I don't have an answer for you, but I can tell you that it isn't some
thing that *you* are doing wrong and it isn't normal.

HTH
-pk

 

[Zilbandy]

Do you have the verify option checked?

I don't. Sometimes I'll run a verify manually.

 

[RJK]

I was thinking that, ...and didn't instead of "wreaking," didn't you mean
"wrenching" or "painfully extricating" ?

regards, Richard

 

[sdlomi2]

USB1 or USB2? If USB2, then the time is way to long. My tib files come
in at just over 12gb and takes me 13-14 minutes using my Maxtor 250gb
external USB2 hard drive. I'm also using ATI Home v10.

I'm using USB 2. And answering T'bird below, I do not have the verify
option open--altho' I've read that I should verify! Thanks to both. BTW:
After Googling for a name I just recalled, as being associated with Acronis,
I found a list of steps she left on that group for using Ac.-TI. I recalled
several people later asking for her list of direx. I've copied them and
they seem to answer any ?'s I had plus giving advice on how to proceed.
Thank everyone for your interest and help. In case anyone is interested,
the link is below. sdlomi2