acronic 2011 is extremely slow to recover a disk

[penske2298977]

anyone else had this?

I am using acronis true image (ATI) 2011 to restore a 300 gb disk from an image stored on an extrenal usb 2.0 drive ...it is taking for ever. ATI is telling me it will take about 30 hours to restore the image. So far I am about half way through. Is this normal?...I think it might have been quicker simply to re-install windows. But I have a ton of Steam games and d/l'ing all that stuf again would surely be painful.

I don't mind paying for a good back-up software. And I see other recommendations here, but what is really the "best" recovery software?...I thinking it isn't Acronis (at least not any more)...thanks, in advance for any advice.

 

[Phynaz]

The software isn't the problem, it's USB that's the problem.

30 hours sounds a little long, I'll bet that it will finish considerably quicker than that.

 

[penske2298977]

The software isn't the problem, it's USB that's the problem.

30 hours sounds a little long, I'll bet that it will finish considerably quicker than that.

I thought this too...but when I copied the image to an internal SATA hard drive Acronis gave a same or even somewhat longer recovery time. So not wanting to risk the possibility that the copied image on the internal SATA drive was corrputed during copying I used the extrenal USB drive that had the original image made by Acronis.

Something can't be right here, 30 hours for a 300gb drive to recover?...that seems excessive...but I'll keep my fingers crossed.

 

[boochi]

Are you doing this from within windows? If so, make a bootable flash drive and do it that way. It is almost always faster. To restore from a usb harddrive should take no longer than it takes to write the image to the usb.

 

[penske2298977]

Are you doing this from within windows? If so, make a bootable flash drive and do it that way. It is almost always faster. To restore from a usb harddrive should take no longer than it takes to write the image to the usb.

I used a bootable rescue disk and am doing this outside the windows environment --- aside from USB being slow (but I agree it should not be this slow) I think an additional problem is that for some reason Acronis decided it need to do a sector-by-sector restore...I guess this might be a significant reason why it is taking up to 30 hours to restore a 300gb disc?...I dunno, but I gotta find a better back-up software solution. This is taking way too effing long.

 

[Phynaz]

Again, it's not the software.

If it is doing a sector by sector restore, then you did a sector by sector backup. Basically you told it to copy the entire disk media, whether it was in use or not.

If you chose this option on other backup software it would take just as long.

What does the restore display say about speed right now?

 

[penske2298977]

Again, it's not the software.

If it is doing a sector by sector restore, then you did a sector by sector backup. Basically you told it to copy the entire disk media, whether it was in use or not.

If you chose this option on other backup software it would take just as long.

What does the restore display say about speed right now?

I understand what you are saying. I never do sector-by sector backups. But I hear that with ATI 11 it sometimes defaults to this under certain conditions when attempting a disk recovery --- it was not an option I choose. When I left for work this morning ATI was indicating another 18 hours to complete the restore. It started about 12 hours earlier (some time last evening). I'll just have to see how it goes...hope it does not error-out on me.

 

[boochi]

Maybe the USB port is only running at 1.0/1.1 speeds outside of windows?

 

[Phynaz]

Maybe the USB port is only running at 1.0/1.1 speeds outside of windows?

That's what i was thinking. Assuming 2:1 compression 30 hours would be right on the practical limit.

That's why I asked for what the restore display says.

 

[penske2298977]

Hmmm...yeah this is odd. By my calculation this corresponds to a tranfer rate of 2.7 mb/sec which is pretty close to USB 1.0 speeds...not sure why my mobo (a gigabyte p67a-ud7-b3) would be doing this. Strange.

And yes, the external USB drive is a 2.0 device in a 2.0 USB port.

 

[penske2298977]

This is an issue and is unrelated to USB 2 or 3 or even if the image is on an internal SATA drive. There somethign wrong with the linux drivers used in the recovery disk/environment that simply does not play nice between a 6 series chipset (or at least the gigabyte p67-ud7-b3) and acronis true image home 11. Recovering my multiboot system is going to take several days, may be a week at this rate --- this is crazy. I giving up and just re-installing everything.

Any one else seeing this?....I guess it is time to change back-up software.

 

[Phynaz]

So you are saying it's a specific software issue, and then asking if anybody else is having it.

Acronis has hundreds of thousands if not millions of users. I have to believe that if the software was this broken then there would be a lot more noise about it.

But grab yourself a trial of Paragon or something and see how that works.

 

[penske2298977]

So you are saying it's a specific software issue, and then asking if anybody else is having it.

Acronis has hundreds of thousands if not millions of users. I have to believe that if the software was this broken then there would be a lot more noise about it.

But grab yourself a trial of Paragon or something and see how that works.

Actually over at the Acronis forums there are a number of people reporting unusually (extremely) slow back-up or recovery times. Seems anecdotal and hardware specific, no clear fix though. I had no problems on an x-58 platform, but there seems to be something going on with my recent 6-series/p67 build. But advice taken, will move on to something else and take a look at Paragon etc...