Acronis Problems

Uhtred

Uhtred

Uhtred

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Hi there,

I'm having problems backing up with acronis v11. I have two computers which backup to a main server. One computer is xp, one is vista, they both have acronis v11 installed and take an image which is stored on the server using a folder share.

There is a fair amount of data, 60gb and 120gb each week plus a daily which is 1-2gb. The problem is that I just can't get acronis to max out my network (100mb), it just sits at 25%.

I am unable to work out where the bottle neck is, all the drives are fast, the cpus are dual core and don't even break a sweat, there's plenty of ram and if i try backing up to a second drive rather than a network location it flies along.

The network itself is fine, if i manually transfer a file from any of the computers it maxes out the network no problem.

Compression settings don't seem to make any difference.

I'm at a loss, any ideas?

Thanks
 
100Mb - that is (simplistically) 12 MB Sec max. If it is ethernet you really don't want it to run at more than 30% or 40% max capacity - so about 5MB sec is what you want to expect. 300MB per minute. 18GB per hour. How does this compare with what you observe?

Are all the networked devices on you network running at 100Mb? Is it cabled or Wireless? You would probably get better results from cable (and 1Gb cards and infrastructure aren't horribly expensive if you fancy an upgrade).

Might be worth getting some network diagnostics - 3com cards for instance used to supply them with their drivers. Do some point to point to point testing.

However from what you are saying about windows file transfer being OK but acronis being slow - Have you tried simply taking your images to local hard drive then using windows to move it around after?

Is there anyting in acronis to set the priority of the backup task - it might be simply ticking over quietly in the background so as not to disrupt the PC too much whereas you sound like you want it to grab all the resource it can handle even if it kills the PC performance for you as a user?
 
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Thanks for your suggestions. All computers use cat5e and i am considering getting a gb switch if i can be sure that it will help. I am not convinced though because if i use windows file transfer it will literally use 100% until it's finished.

Managing the images manually is not an option because i'm not around a lot of the time and i need the backups to be automated (although this would indeed be faster and get around the problem)

THere are priority settings for both network and cpu but they don't seem to make any difference.
 
disbale av and antispyware (like windows defender real-time scanning)

then try..

also, xp to vista file transfers aren't the fastest...

vista sp1 to vista sp1 is bombing fast though
 
I am using vista SP1 and yes, in windows it is rather quick. The XP and Vista machine are actually pointing to a 2003 share. ALso, there is no AV or firewalls installed on the vista machine.
 
are you using a hub or a switch/router?

hubs are pants compared...


would robocopy suit the backup needs better? or do you need full backups each time



what i meant about vista was, it's got problems with network transfers, if you transfer from vista sp1 to another vista sp1/2008 machine then it's quick, otherwise, it's usually slower than you'd expect
 
It's a switch. I really want the full disk image so i can just restore the image on a spare disk if the drive fails so as to keep downtime to a min.

I can safely rule out it being a vista problem because XP is exactly the same. As i see it the only thing in common is that they are core 2 duo :/
 
As i said before, the cpus don't even break a sweat (they do when on max compression which is to be expected)
 
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