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Macrium Reflect creating full disk image QNAP NAS too slow
I have always been a big fan of Macrium Reflect and have several images on several USB drives around the place.
Recently I have purchased a QNAP TS453Be (8G memory) which I am amazed it took me this long to get one. With 4x4TB NAS drives in raid 5 configuration. Very happy with it.
I have copied all my data from my desktop to my NAS just getting the hang of things, no issues there.
However when I transferred data that way I had to string a blue CAT 6 cable across the entire house which was not winning any popularity votes from my significant other half. SO I am back to connecting over WIFI which limits me to about 50Mb/s I know. Not ideal but not really much other option at the moment.
So last night I decided to create a full image backup to a folder on the NAS. After all, I do have roughly 10TB of space, so why not do a lazy image once a month to the NAS?
So 24 hours later and Macrium Reflect still has 3 hours to go creating a full disk image of my SSD which is a Samsung SSD Pro 1TB. The amount of used data is about 750GB.
It doesn't take nearly as long to make that image to a USB 3 drive....
If I do the math I think it goes like this:
750GB=750000MB
number of seconds to transfer 750000MB @ 50Mb/s = 15000 seconds = 250 minutes = 4.2 hours.
I know that maybe a rough calc, but I just can't see how it can be taking this long?
Has anybody had any experience with creating images over NAS?
I thought it would be quite good to have another layer of protection before I make some pretty significant changes to my file structure ie. declutter!!!
Also, I am curious to know:
1. Does a disk image age on a USB3 drive? I have heard of "bit flop" which is a worry....
2. If a "bit flop" did occur, does that render the whole image file corrupt?
3. Is it possible to copy disk image files, which are so large?