System image backup

It takes longer to backup than to restore but it is still faster and better than MS's . I can restore 188Gb in less than 2 minutes.

halasz said:

Mine takes 6 minutes to restore 11GB on a PCIe SSD (that works out at 244Mbps). What drive do you use? 15GB in 1 minute (0.25 GBps) is 2000Mbps which seems very fast.

Wow. I backup 43 GB and it takes less than 3 minutes. To restore takes about 5 minutes. This is from 2 x 840 PRO in RAID 0 or 3x 1TB WD Blue in raid 0.

Gary said:

It takes longer to backup than to restore but it is still faster and better than MS's . I can restore 188Gb in less than 2 minutes.

Really? From what? That is > 1.5 GB/s. Or are you talking 188 gigabits and not gigabytes. I expect the latter.

Geneo said:

Really? From what? That is > 1.5 GB/s. Or are you talking 188 gigabits and not gigabytes. I expect the latter.

No I am talking about 188GigaBytes over an E-Sata External Hard drive connection. That also is with formatting the disk first. This is the restore part. The backup takes about 30 minutes.

Geneo said:

Esata can do up to 500 mb/s. It is limited by sata 3 bandwidth. So how do you get more than 3x that limit? It is hard to imagine that you are getting over 3x compression.

I assume you are using Macrium. It's default units for display of how much data has been transferred is in bits not bytes. There is a setting to change that to bytes. 188 Gbits is 23.5 Gbytes = 195 MB/s which makes sense.

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It is done off line using a Restore Disk from Macrium. I am talking about all of my programs and two games Ghosts is ~28 Gbytes and Advanced warfare is ~65 GBytes I also have CS 6.0 and other large programs. Just my music collection is 45 GBytes. Now I was wrong in that MR does not format the source drive but it deletes it if you want it to. I use the paid for version and from what I understand it scans the hard drive first and when it restores it, the program only really is changing anything that has changed. The initial speed is 1gb/sec but then it will drop to 800 to 700.

Clive K said:

Do yourself a favor and download free Macrium.

I agree.. Macrium (Trial) or FREE - Each of them are NO - COST. and they work fine. I have used them in making and IMAGE and also recoving that IMAGE that they made. All is good and Free. Be safe.. Cliff M.

Word Man said:

That's the RDR feature I was referencing in post # 19. More on that here: http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/pag...811&src=search

I know , that is why it is fast. I did look up my E-Sata speed in my MSI manual and it is at 3.0Gb/s.