Why is Acronis partition recovery so bloody slow!!!!

[Fanum]

For some reason I got a dose of spyware......tbon.exe.

Adaware didn't pick it up, Spybot S&D didn't see it and MS Windows defender didn't notice it either...good old ZA picked it up when tbon asked for access.....

Anyway, I started pissing about in the registry to root the bugger out and found some other stuff I didn't like, so I'm reverting to a mirror of my C drive from a couple of days ago that I know is clean.

FFS though.......It's ben running an hour and it's still got another 5 to go!!!

I could have reloaded winders from scratch after a full reformat, applied my last files and settings backup (I do all sorts of backups these days) and had it running with everything reinstalled in half that time.

I can't see why it's so slow.....I wouldn't have bloody started if I'd known

 

[cookie]

that's odd. just done one & it took 13 minutes, and i thought that was a bit long

 

[Fanum]

This was from a USB2 HDD to the boot drive.....I did use compresion but not the highest level

It took a similar amount of time to make the image but I just left that running at night so it doesn't matter .

Odd ...and annoying

 

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i've restored a few drives from acronis, but never from an external drive. maybe that's got something to do with it?

 

[ebbo]

It took my machine about 80mins to restore C: with an Acronis backup, it was just a basic XP setup too, I thought that was slow, but it did it ok

 

[Fanum]

It's got to be the USB drive...I let acronis make a recovery partition yesterday and that process only took 10 mins......I need to look into it deeper but I can't see any way of updating that image ??

If I stipulate an incremental backup, I was expecting it to give me the option of updating the image in that hidden partition but it doesn't
(Or I could reclaom the 250gb USB HDD for other use)

 

[cookie]

If I stipulate an incremental backup, I was expecting it to give me the option of updating the image in that hidden partition but it doesn't
(Or I could reclaom the 250gb USB HDD for other use)

that's odd as well. maybe it's because it's hidden

what i do is make a backup image to another internal HDD partition, then copy that image over to external drive.

 

[Fanum]

Hmm.....

It seems odd though doesn't it...the hidden partition is a mirror of the boot drive...it means you can hit f11 on boot up and it'll copy the hidden 'c' to the actual C for fast recovery.
There seems little point in it though if you have to go through the palaver of recreating the hidden partition each time

I'll have another poke at it

My backups are getting silly anyway....I've got a files and settings one at well over 100gig and mirror copies of my C and files drive at 162 gig......plus now I've got an 85 gig hidden partition on the main SATA drive.


WTF!!!

 

[cookie]

Hmm.....

It seems odd though doesn't it...the hidden partition is a mirror of the boot drive...it means you can hit f11 on boot up and it'll copy the hidden 'c' to the actual C for fast recovery.

you don't need to do that with acronis. if you can access windows you can initiate a boot & restore from there. if windows is inaccessible, you boot from the acronis rescue disc & do it from that.

you won't need the mirror anyway as you will have the acronis image

i admit pressing one key on boot is a bit easier, but how often do you need to do it?

 

[stephinson]

Acronis will be slow if there is a problem with the disk
acronis true image server is a lot faster
I dont have a problem from imaging from usb drives or from the network
(are you sure its usb2)

I always make the c partition as small as possible and move my documents to another drive

how big is the partition?