Symantec 2013 - Question to Backup Time

Hi,

I am testing Symantec 2013 on a SSD having 2 partitions C: (Boot) and D:

Select and mark drive C:, backup finishes in 2:28 minutes
Select and mark drive D:, backup finishes in 0:56 minutes

Now, I select and mark drives C: and D: and start backup.
As expected, 2 backup files are created.
However, backup time for both files is only 1:58 minutes.

How come, backup time for both files in a row is so much shorter
compared doing them one by one?

File sizes are fairly close on both tries.

 

Have no idea - just a wild guess: if you select the whole disk it does a simple sector to sector backup, sequentially from the first sector. If you select a single partition, it has to consult some sort of file table, since the various sectors for each partition will be intermixed (it being an SSD which doesn't partition physically).

 

It could be the first time is full backup, whereas the second time is incremental backup!

 

Thank you for answering.
But I'm still poking in the dark, made full backups of both partitions, no incrementals.

1st backup C: size: 5.830.490.813 time: 2.28
2nd backup D: size: 2.586.296.867 time: 0:56

Then backup drives C: and D: in one run
size C: 5.830.495.248
size D: 2.586.335.352 time for both: 1.58

Backups were made from a Boot-CD (actually from an ISO via EasyBCD)
with same setup conditions.

Well, no big deal, just got curious regarding to the difference in times.

 

Maybe you have verify enabled in the job that runs longer?

 

guest,

What is the full name of that software?

 

Hi Brain,It is Symantec System Recovery 2013 (SSR 2013) and it is the replacement for the excellent Norton Ghost v15. I am using SSR 2013 and it is excellent software. One of the best, in par with Macrium Reflect and AX64.Best regards,Mohamed

 

Mohamed,

That's what I suspected but I wasn't 100% sure. I did beta testing on this app. I agree, it's good.

 

Brian,

does it support windows 8.1, with uefi and secure boot on?

 

oliverjia,

I know it supports Win8 and UEFI but I haven't tested either. Not sure about Win8.1.

 

@ Brian K
My apologies for not giving the full program name
Symantec System Recovery 2013, sorry for that

@ claykin
I always use verify marked

I have repeated the whole process to eliminate leftovers in RAM.
Reboot, doing C: then D: (different partitions should not conflict)

Reboot to clear RAM, doing C: and D: in one step.
Results are about the same as in my starting post.