Why does Paragon takes to long?

When I use Acronis Trueimage, it takes 20 minutes to backup my hard drive and for the image to be created.

However, when I use Paragon Backup & Recovery™ 2011 (Advanced) Free to backup the same hard drive, it takes 50 minutes.

Why? And is there a way to make it create the image faster like TrueImage does?

 

are both used with default settings or did you tweak one and not the other? in another words check settings

 

I wonder if Paragons paid versions are any quicker than the free?

 

No,

I have tested both Acronis and Paragon Paid version (and others),
Acronis takes about 4 mins for imaging Win7 OS partition
Paragon takes about 7 mins for imaging Win7 OS partition

The speed of paragon is not fast.

 

Default settings. But I played around with different settings.

Paragon FREE created an image and restored it fine. I like it better than Acronis because Acronis always changes my drive letters around for some odd reason when restoring image, but Paragon does not

And I was able to create a USB stick boot rescue, but with Acronis it's not possible.

 

Does anyone know how this Paragon version is different to the Free one?

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Limitations: WinPE recovery media is not included in this download. That's a shame

 

I can't comment on the Paragon vs. Acronis speed question; I haven't used Acronis for a couple of years.

I do know that every version of Paragon B&R I've tried since version 9 is slightly faster than the comparible version of Macrium Reflect. Those are the two backup solutions I use.

As far as the GAOTD offer.
I wonder how it can be named ...'Compact".
Even with no WinPE recovery media included the download package is 304MB !

 

20gb system partition, Paragon and Acronis on default setting.

ATI : 20mn
Paragon : 15mn

 

Having used both off and on for many years, I can tell you that Paragon (for whatever reasons) is slower...one of the slower imagers I have. It is, however, very reliable...and since I do offline images, I run it overnight and use the "shutdown the computer" when complete option.

 

I have recently used Paragon HDM 2011 Suite, O&O Disk Image 6, ShadowProtect. All of them create an image of my Windows 7 x64 system partition in less than 10 minutes, working from a WinPE boot medium. The images are about 10-11 GB.

The fastest imager is SP, as is well known. The slowest I have used in the Windows 7 built-in. It takes it more than 15 min to create an image of my system partition.

 

Thanks for the insight Robin! I know you use Paragon a lot.

 

I also found Paragon's imaging products to be painfully slow compared to others I've used so I no longer use Paragon for backing-up as there are other (free and paid) programs that are much faster, more user-friendly, and just as reliable.

Paragon's slowness may not be as apparent to Robin because of the relatively small (<11GB) backup, but it stands out like a 'sore thumb' with large backups!

 

Which shadowing system are you using when backing up? MS Windows or the Paragon one?

 

So what free program do you use which is faster, yet as reliable as Paragon?

 

You probably asked that of Scott, but fwiw here's my input...

Free: Keriver 1-Click Restore
Paid: Drive Snapshot, Image For Windows, ShadowProtect

 

11GB is the size of the image. The Windows 7 x64 installation uses about 30GB, which I suppose is a "normal" size when there is no "data" (personal information) in the system partition, which is my case.

About Paragon, I think the time to image can increase significantly when some files or folders are excluded from the backup.

 

I think he asked for free program which is faster, yet as reliable as Paragon...not slower or as slow as paragon..

 

So Keriver 1-Click Restore is as slow as Paragon, even slower?

 

if you try it yourself...you'll know what I mean...then again, it's only what I experienced. ..
I found macrium reflect free to be the fastest among the free ones. .. and shadow protect is truly amazing..the fastest of all. ..

 

It's a shame Shadow Protect don't offer a free version.

 

yeah totally...and furthermore it's very expensive....

 

Give a try to "ActiveImage Protector free".
http://aipfree.com/
Is as fast as ShadowProtect.

Panagiotis

 

If it ain't in Softpedia, I won't download it.

 

one drawback though...AIP uses Microsoft's VSS framework to create snapshots for volumes, if it isn't working properly then the backup will fail...whereas every other apps I tried like macrium, keriver, etc. will backup anyways even if vss is not available...this a prob because vss does not work in my xp..so no aip for me...macrium uses pssnap instead and makes images smoothly....

virus total says it's clean site...so no worries...

 

I also found AIP-Free to be very fast backing-up, but imho its Linux boot-recovery disk is horrible!

I wound-up buying IFW (the price is relatively low) and I think it's terrific.