Faster when Backing up and restoring Images?

[gate1975mlm]

I use True Image 9 latest build. I am very happy with it but I just wish it was faster when Backing up and restoring Images.

Will newer versions of True Image get any faster?

[Long View]

How fast is fast ? Over the years ATI has tended to get faster but the question of speed is not entirely the responsibility of ATI. How fast is your cpu ? how much data are we talking about ? what type of drives are you backing up from and to ? ........

[seekforever]

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Will newer versions of True Image get any faster?" }-

What are your actual times? The most consistent way is to add up the size of tib files created and use that as the amount of data archived and divide by the time in minutes for a GB/min number.

Even though you said images, are you making an image of the whole disk or partition as opposed to a Files and Folders backup? Files and Folders is much slower.

What is your backup destination device, internal HD, USB1 or 2 HD, DVD?

Are you using compression?

Are you including a Validate in the process, this roughly doubles the time.

Are you doing both the backup and restore within Windows or the Linux rescue environment. (When restoring, even though you start the restore in Windows, if the system partition, usually C, is being restored the PC will reboot into the Linux restore environment.)

Typically, the speed in Windows when creating is as good as you get. The linux environment runs more slowly on most PCs.

[Xpilot]

If you backup while in Windows and restore when booted from the recovery CD to and from an internal slave hard drive that is as fast as it gets. Leaving out the optional extra validation process obviously saves even more time.

[ErikAlbert]

I always ask myself. Can "I" restore my computer faster than ATI ?
No, I can't re-install/configure winXPproSP2 and all my other applications completely in 45 minutes.
So I have no reason at all to complain about speed and during those 45 minutes, I can do something else.

[starsfan09]

All you guys have very good points!! :thumb:
I don't have any issues with ATI at all when it comes to speed.
I can Restore a normal compressed .tib file that's 3.06gb... from a WD Passport 5,400rpm External - To my Internal Raptor 10,000rpm .... in about 7 minutes. I couldn't concieve of it getting faster than that!!:wacko:

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P4 2.8Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 2-SATA1 drives.

Image of C partition to second internal SATA1 drive, Normal compression, image size=4.96GB, allocated space on C is 8.2GB. All times measured with stopwatch.

Time to backup C from within Windows: 3:38 min
Creation of compressed archive is: 1365 compressed MB/min
Based on uncompressed, allocated space on C this is roughly equivalent to backing up at 2256 uncompressed MB/min (swapfile ignored).

Time to Validate archive within Windows: 2:05 min

Restore: Reboots into Linux environment, restore time is time from Operation Progress Window appearing (ie, ignoring reboot and Acronis load time) to Operation Completed box appearing.

Time to Restore: 5:09 minutes (no validate done).
Rate for restore of compressed file is: 963 compressed MB/min