Acronis True Image restore time = 1 day 17 hours :)

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Broke one of my 2 x 250gb drives yesterday and screwed my RAID0 up, I had taken an image of my C drive last week so I proceeded to restore that to the working 250gb but the restore time was 1 day and 17 hours, started at 14:00pm yesterday and this morning it still had 10 hours to go (it said on task bar) is this due to the image being on an external USB 500gb IDE drive :confused:

I thought I would be back up and running within 30mins :)

Can anyone explain this please?


Thanks ;)
 
i did this on dell the other week from an external usb drive to a fresh vista + office install.

and it did not take that long! although the total space taken was only 9gb compressed. what compression did you use? normal or the higher ones?

was your drive full ie all the 250gigs? the 9gig i did took 2 hours or so. Its not exactly what you call speedy!

when i used to ghost you would be looking at about 10-15mins for the same thing but that would be over a network
 
Yeah I noticed this aswell while attempting to MAKE a backup to an external 320GB Maxtor.

ridiculous if you ask me. Must still have a transfer rate of around 40-50MB a second?? 16MB of cache.

Didn't realise it would take so long both ways, buying the external drive for backups has been almost pointless!
 
Well there was approx 50gig of data on the C drive and the image file came out at approx 24gb total?

I'm positive that the caddy is USB 2.0 and going into my motherboard which is deff USB 2.0?

I'm just gutted that I brought the software expecting to be able to re-image within an hour or so, and it has taken well over a day so far :confused:

Maybe if I put the image onto the new 500gb drive I have coming this week which will be installed internally onto my sata ports the re-image time may drop dramatically? I would have thought so?

Has anyone else done a re-image with Acronis true home from an internal disk to an internal disk? Care to share time scales on this process?

Thanks for the replies so far guys ;)
 
I could make the backup to the other internal HD in about 2 hours. Then copy the files over to the external in windows, even if it took 1 hour it'd still be a million time quicker than doing a backup direct to the external drive. Stupid.
 
EvilFranky said:
I could make the backup to the other internal HD in about 2 hours. Then copy the files over to the external in windows, even if it took 1 hour it'd still be a million time quicker than doing a backup direct to the external drive. Stupid.
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Actually making the backup took no time at all for me, I was very impressed :)

It's the restore timescale that concerns me the most, I'm sure if you took the image off of an internal drive one good sata ports and splatted it back to another internal drive it would take no time at all?

Well I'd like to think so anyway, can't be doing with over 1 day to restore a 50gb image :(
 
bledd. said:
must be running at usb1 speeds

usb2 hard drives get around 20mb a second
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Is that it? Surely they should have higher transfer rates than that.

USB 2 is capable of 60MB/sec! And the hard drives used are the same as the internal ones you get but in a caddy.
 
TheDogFather said:
I used Acronis to restore my C drive from another internal drive the other day, it took a couple of minutes for 10/3 GB.

TDF.
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Just called home and the girlfriend said it says 9 hours left LMAO I started it @ 2pm yesterday :D

I'm going to roast it and maybe do a basic install and then put the image on that drive then restore back from there?
 
refresh said:
I don't think you can restore to the same drive the backup is on. Sorry if I mis-understood though.
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No you understood me correctly, and thanks for pointing that out ;)

I'll leave it for tonight and see wtf it's up to in the morning.....

Got a shiney new Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB coming this week to replace it :)
 
USB2 Transfers at about 480Mbps or about 35MB/s. USB1.1 would go about 1MB/s. Considering this is 25GB, this was always going to take a long time. One day? A little excessive but considering the overheads on USB and the fact that this had to process the file too, you were always looking at a good few hours. I have restored etc from a USB2 drive (320GB SATA Seagate 7200.10) and this only took about 30 mins (yesterday) but my file was about 5GB or something.

It's likely it was running at Full-Speed USB rather than Hi-Speed USB.
 
Well the restore finished in the early hours this morning, I restarted and it's saying there is an issue with a boot file and to put my Vista DVD in and run the repair program ....lol

It couldn't get any worse if it tried :( waste of time really, I won't use an external drive again I know that much! :(
 
smids said:
USB2 Transfers at about 480Mbps or about 35MB/s. USB1.1 would go about 1MB/s. Considering this is 25GB, this was always going to take a long time. One day? A little excessive but considering the overheads on USB and the fact that this had to process the file too, you were always looking at a good few hours. I have restored etc from a USB2 drive (320GB SATA Seagate 7200.10) and this only took about 30 mins (yesterday) but my file was about 5GB or something.

It's likely it was running at Full-Speed USB rather than Hi-Speed USB.
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8Mb = 1MB

480Mb / 8Mb = 60MB

Where did you get 35MB from? :confused:
 
Think something was/is seriously wrong with that image. Did you validate on creation?

Real-life scenario you'd be lucky to get more than 25MB/s through USB2. BUT got an enclosure with eSATA & same HD hits 55MB/s transfer rate & 99.3MB/s burst rate. More here :)
 
Yeah I think there was a major issue some where

I'm going to bite the bullet and do a fresh install along with Office 2007 etc etc and then take that image and store it on the 500gb I have on order that will be going into my machine.

Only question I have is - Say I call my first drive 'C' and it's 250gb in size (no partitions) how do I just backup the main files as Acronis last time saw my 53gb of data on a 100gb partition and said it backed up the whole partition? I just want to be able to splat a working image back next time I break something :)
 
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