Time to restore with Acronis

[Leros]

I'm restoring a 15Gb partition from another partition on the same drive. The drive is 7200rpm SATA.

In the past, something like this would take 15 minutes to restore, but now its taking 50 minutes.

Why would this happen? I'm not sure if something is wrong or not.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Acronis is slow. Ghost is so much faster.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Acronis is slow. Ghost is so much faster.

I thought it was the opposite. In the past, ghost would take 50 minutes, but when I started using Acronis it was much faster.

Now im confused.

 

[Twsmit]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Acronis is slow. Ghost is so much faster.

I have noticed the same thing. The old school ghost that you can boot with a floopy would take 5 minutes to image a drive. Acronis was taking an hour or two.

 

[Remedy]

IIRC, Ghost 9 is just a rebadged version of Drive Image 7 from PowerQuest. I personally use both DI7 and V2I Protector 2.0 from PowerQuest. Haven't gotten around to Acronis just yet, although I have it. Which version of Acronis are you using?

 

[Slugbait]

Acronis is very fast for me. Check your DMA, make sure it's set. If using PATA, also check the BIOS, cuz I've personally had Cable Select pick the wrong device as the master, and having the hard drive set to slave (while the optical drive is set to master) can also slow things down...or so I've heard. My new machine couldn't do Cable Select correctly, and doing the jumper-thang fixed a world of problems.

 

[Slugbait]

Another thing is that Acronis apparently images your page file (it seemed to do it to me), so I disabled the page file before creating my image, which resulted in a much smaller image.

 

[furballi]

For reference, my ancient copy of Drive Image 5 with WXP Pro, Abit AX8, FAT32, and 7200 rpm Seagate drive tops out around 1.2GB/min during image creation and 2.7GB/min during image restoration.

Naturally, this program runs in Caldera DOS.

 

[FlirtyToad]

In my experience Acronis restore timings depend as much on your mainboard's chipset. For example the VIA chipset (I have an Asus A8V mainboard) is not supported well. Although Acronis works with VIA chipsets, timings are really slow. This is well documented on the Acronis support forums. On the other hand my Intel 875P chipset mainboard works well with Acronis.

Flirty.

 

[Leros]

Interesting as I have a board with a Via chipset.

However, on the exact same hardware I was getting much much faster restorations. I may have gone from PATA to SATA (I forget when I changed HDs), but I think that would speed things up. Maybe not.

 

[furballi]

Have both SATA and PATA drives. The speed differential is less than 3%.