Keriver Free time imaging and restoring

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by Solarlynx, Apr 28, 2012.

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  1. Solarlynx

    Solarlynx Registered Member

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    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.
     
  2. Woody777

    Woody777 Registered Member

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    Probably between 30 Minutes to 60 Minutes but your system may be different than mine.
     
  3. napoleon1815

    napoleon1815 Registered Member

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

    Solarlynx Registered Member

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

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    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.
     
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  6. Solarlynx

    Solarlynx Registered Member

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    Thanks, this is inspiring data.
     
  7. Solarlynx

    Solarlynx Registered Member

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    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.
     
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  8. napoleon1815

    napoleon1815 Registered Member

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