geordie_john Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 hello i have got an acer aspire 5536 with 500gb running with windows 7 ultimate and i am running a windows backup for the first time and it is only up to 90% and has been running for about 18 hours,i am backing upto a 1 tb cyclone,i have got a lot of videos on the laptop,does anyone know of a quicker backup program and one which will allow me to do an incremental backup as i will be adding more videos as i go along?thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 I tried the backup system included with Windows 7 and after an inordinately long time with it apparently achieving nothing, gave up and reverted to Acronis which I have used for many years with no complaints. 1TB will take a while to complete and an external drive linked by SATA will cut the time down appreciably over a USB transfer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie_john Posted March 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 ok thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 In another thread Click here I detailed the results of copying of a large file from one hard drive to another.I achieved a transfer rates of :-66 GB/sec copying frome one internal SATA drive to another63 GB/sec copying from an internal drive to an external SATA drive via an eSATA connection28 GB/sec copying from an internal drive to an external SATA drive via a USB2 connectionLike pops - I tried the Microsoft backup facility in Windows 7 64 bit but found it to be very slow. After about 4 hours I decided that life is too short to wait for it to complete and I abandoned the trial.I continue to use my old favourite - Acronis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie_john Posted March 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 In another thread Click here I detailed the results of copying of a large file from one hard drive to another.I achieved a transfer rates of :-66 GB/sec copying frome one internal SATA drive to another63 GB/sec copying from an internal drive to an external SATA drive via an eSATA connection28 GB/sec copying from an internal drive to an external SATA drive via a USB2 connectionLike pops - I tried the Microsoft backup facility in Windows 7 64 bit but found it to be very slow. After about 4 hours I decided that life is too short to wait for it to complete and I abandoned the trial.I continue to use my old favourite - Acronis.i have just downloaded and i am running Comodo backup and it says it will take 4 hours to backup all my videos and the program is free.thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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