How do you speed up windows 7 backup

[alanwest09872]

Earlier on I did a psot on the best backup software. Well I'm back to windows 7.

I think it works likes this.

It creates system images. of certain.
Restart you computer and place in windows 7 install disk.

Select your c drive and restore that drive

bam computer is back to normal


Just two questions

is this breakdown correct
is there a way to speed up the backup

 

[corkyg]

How much time is it currently taking?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Are you only doing a system image? Or is it also doing a file backup.

I've found the file backup:
a) takes forever and...
b) doesn't work well at all. It'll re-backup files that haven't actually changed, but might have altered access or modified timestamps due to library indexing. And then, when it re-backs them up, it's not just saving the modifications but the whole file.

I just do a system image through Win7's backup, and then use CrashPlan for file backup.

 

[alanwest09872]

I was doing file backup.

See one of my drives wont allow me to create a system image of it. its wierd one time I turn it on then I can do 2 of 4 then next its 3 of 4 not all 4

 

[corkyg]

OK - how long does it take presently? In order to speed something up, we need a baseline from which to work.

 

[lopri]

This is what happened to me a few months ago.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2033330