back up issues

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:05

not sure if this is the best place to show this issue ,anyway im having difficulties backing up my system it gets to about 80% and fails pita when you wait so long to find it fails ?here what i get after disc back fails

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Surveyor · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:48

So have you checked the source and destination disks like it says?

That should be the first thing you do.

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 14:14

i have checked to make sure there is enough volume and that it is and also correct disc to back up to

Surveyor · 9 Jul 2011 at 14:22

paul10 said:
i have checked to make sure there is enough volume and that it is and also correct disc to back up to

That's not what the error message is asking you to do.

It's asking you to check the source and destination disks for errors.

My Computer > Right click on the disk drive > Tools > Select check now

You should be able to check the back up disk without restarting the PC.

To check your system disk the PC will need to be restarted after you've clicked check now.

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 14:33

ok will do,do i do this for all disc s C E AND F

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 14:48

ok checked the drives e and f went ok also drive c had to be restarted to check ,do i now proceed to back up ?

Surveyor · 9 Jul 2011 at 14:53

paul10 said:
ok checked the drives e and f went ok also drive c had to be restarted to check ,do i now proceed to back up ?

That was quick.

Did you tick "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" When you ran the check?

You should do that.

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 14:54

whats an I/O device ? does this mean input / output

Surveyor · 9 Jul 2011 at 14:58

paul10 said:
whats an I/O device ? does this mean input / output

It does.

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 15:30

ok i ticked only the top option not the recovery of bad sectors sorry my error but i will do this again

Surveyor · 9 Jul 2011 at 15:37

paul10 said:
ok i ticked only the top option not the recovery of bad sectors sorry my error but i will do this again

My fault as I didn't make it clear.

I was just going from memory and forgot that bit.

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 16:45

this checking for errors is taking its time almost as long as backing up ,is there a faster way to back up ie usb 3.0 external hard drive will/does this improve back up speeds or is it pending on the speed of the external drive for back ups

Surveyor · 9 Jul 2011 at 18:20

paul10 said:
this checking for errors is taking its time almost as long as backing up ,is there a faster way to back up ie usb 3.0 external hard drive will/does this improve back up speeds or is it pending on the speed of the external drive for back ups

The checking will take time.

If you're backing up over USB 2.0 then the write speed is limited to around 30MB/s so around 34 seconds for each GB of data. If you have 300GB to back up that's nearly 3 hours.

If you have a USB 3.0 external drive (and USB 3.0 on your PC) or eSATA then the write speed will be limited by the write speed of the external drive but will probably be at least twice if not three times as fast.

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 18:38

ok cool i got this when checking errors and recovery of bad errors[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/capture1up.png/]

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paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 18:57

could you recommend a good usb 3.0 back up drive the one im using at moment is the one i bought with nectar points from sainsburys hitachi 1tb looks alright but a bit noisy gurgly when in use .

Surveyor · 9 Jul 2011 at 19:33

Do you have usb 3.0 on your PC?

What size drive are you looking for?

paul10 · 9 Jul 2011 at 23:55

Yes I do have USB 3.0 looking 4 1 gb or more

Surveyor · 10 Jul 2011 at 01:20

I'd crack open the enclosure you have now and use the drive inside (hopefully it's SATA) with either of these:

Akasa Noir S 3.5" USB 3.0 Enclosure

Sharkoon SATA QuickPort XT USB3.0

paul10 · 10 Jul 2011 at 08:53

how easy will it be to remove from the enclosure it is in ,also my back ups are still not completing ,shall i try a system restore to an earlier date to resolve the issue

paul10 · 10 Jul 2011 at 09:12

mine is in a aluminium case which could prove difficult to remove?