What are the downsides of terminating a cloning operation

[ELGINILWILLOBY]

I am currently at 64% current op progress and 98% total progress in operation 3 of 3 wiping disk Acronis True Home (see my post from 45 min ago)

What are my downsides of terminating now? At this rate I will not be done for another 9 hours. I do not mind losing the clone, but will doing the termination damage my original source. The operation has run in excess of 12 hours now.

[BlueZannetti]

Originally Posted by ELGINILWILLOBY

I am currently at 64% current op progress and 98% total progress in operation 3 of 3 wiping disk Acronis True Home (see my post from 45 min ago)

What are my downsides of terminating now? At this rate I will not be done for another 9 hours. I do not mind losing the clone, but will doing the termination damage my original source. The operation has run in excess of 12 hours now.

I know I've terminated clone operations in the past with no ill effects, I do believe a bit of cleanup occurs on the restart and it may recognize that the clone operation was interrupted and provide a prompt for a continue/abort decision (not sure of this). For calibration, on my machine (2.8 GHz P4, 1GB RAM), a 250 MB clone takes ~ 30 minutes when it's an internal drive.

Blue

[ELGINILWILLOBY]

Blue,

Did the C Drive still work fine?

Were you able to resume the clone operation later or did you start over again fresh from the beginning?

[ELGINILWILLOBY]

Blue,

How can you get the whole cloning operation to occur in 30 minutes (did I read you correctly)?

I have been running almost 13 hours now and look like I need another 8 or more.

I am probably doing something wrong if you can get that speed but I do have a slower processor (a 1.5 mhz)

[ronjor]

See this post. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=178417