Running backups

[techiedork]

Hey everyone,
I am trying to figure out a good way to run auto backups on my Data drive. It is a 400gb SATA drive, and I have a matching external SATA drive to back up to.

I am trying to run a full backup with Acronis True Image (on Vista 32bit), but it looks like it would take 2 days to complete!!

Is there a better way to run a reliable backup without taking forever? Is it best to run a RAID 1? Or are actual backups more reliable?

Thank you for any help!


-David

 

[Pabster]

I like Drive SnapShot. It isn't free, but fantastic for quick full-disk image backups and restores.

 

[techiedork]

Thanks Pabster...I am trying that now...

I am running a backup now (from an internal SATA to an external eSATA drive) and Drive Snapshot is showing 107mb/min. Does that seem awfully slow? It says it will take about 30 hours to complete a 300gb backup!

Not sure if the problem is my mobo, my eSATA PCIe card or my eSATA enclosure.

Any ideas? I will try connecting the enclosure directly to a SATA channel on the mobo to rule out the PCIe card. If that is no good, then I will try connecting the drive directly to the mobo (no case)...

Help! 🙂

Thanks,
David

 

[RebateMonger]

Don't know why it'd take two days to backup. Even Windows NTBackup (limited to 9 MB per second transfer rate) would only take a day to back up 400 GB (using an external USB drive). I'm sure that Acronis uses compression to cut down the size of the backup.

Have you looked at running Differential backups, that only back up changes after the inital Full backup?