Rollback RX et al

Well it turns out I mispoke before as I just backed-up & verified the used sectors (46GB) of my C-partition in 23 min. (equating to 2GB/min.)

@moontan, while I have the utmost confidence in IFW, I still believe in verifying each backup; backing up is such a vital function I don't see cutting corners!

@Brian, even with my new (accurate) timings you are still backing up and restoring (at 4.3GB/min) over twice as fast as me! I don't use Enhanced Speed, but that surely wouldn't account for our difference. Are you backing up from HDD to USB 3.0? The only other significant difference that I see between our systems is W8 (you) vs W7x64 (me).

 

TS,

Enhanced Speed - A will halve or third your backup time without changing the Verify time. It increases the image size by around 10%.

I'm backing up SSD to internal HD. USB 3 would be the same speed as an internal HD. Do you have your OS on a SSD?

Edit .... My pagefile is 5 GB and I don't have a hibernation file. These aren't backed up but they are included in Used Space.

 

My internal drive is a 7200rpm HDD. My USB 3.0 drive is 5400rpm.

I'm sure going to try Enhanced Speed -A to see what difference if makes with my configuration!

I find it rather curious that moontan doesn't bother verifying his backups, while I run a standard verify with each backup and you do BFB verify with each backup!

 

I took that into consideration (my 46GB does not include the pagefile).

PS. We should probably take this discussion elsewhere as I'm pretty sure it is OT.