Keriver Free time imaging and restoring

[Solarlynx]

Hi everyone!
I have never used Keriver. It has an attractive option to keep images on removable hard disk and USB flash.

I ask those who use Keriver free, could you make an estimation for a 50 Gb sys partition:
1. How long will it take to make an image on a removable hard disk or USB flash disk?
2. How long will it take to restore from a removable drive?

Thank you.

[Woody777]

Probably between 30 Minutes to 60 Minutes but your system may be different than mine.

[napoleon1815]

Depends on how much of that 50gb has data on it...can you tell us how many of those gigs are actually used? Thanks.

[Solarlynx]

12 GB are used. The question is really important for me - I must make a final decision soon. Thanks.

[ichito]

@Solarlynx
I estimate that each baseline snapshot would be ca 10,20-10,30 GB. On my WinXP disk C 9,95 GB are used and each baseline snapshot is 3,8-3,9 GB...it's ca 38% of used space. Time to do snapshot is ca 12-14 min but time to restoring that one is 6-7 min.
That is of course on HD...saving/restoring on USB will be longer and it depends on data transfer.

[Solarlynx]

Thanks, this is inspiring data.

[Solarlynx]

I have tried Windows 7 imaging and got quite satisfied: ca 5 GB, 10 min for the first image (of freshly installed Win7 32bit), size and time for the next are even less - must be incremental snapshots. And restoration time is ca 5 min. There is a possibility to keep images on internal and external drives. Windows Rescue disk is quick and convenient enough. I see no need in other snapshot or imaging progs for my Win7 comp.

[napoleon1815]

We use imagex at work (Windows Imaging) and it works well. For me - personally - I use at least two solutions to be safe.