NO Excuse for NOT taking backups (Laptop done in 8 mins)

Hi folks

Just another post telling people they should ALWAYS take backups
Just did an average laptop backup with a fair amount of programs (Office suite, photoshop etc) with Macrium to external HDD.

Entire thing only took 8 mins.



At these sorts of speeds it should be a matter of course to take one regularly.

Incidentally - also far better to restore also a clean OS from a good backup if you get an infected machine rather than take maybe several hours using typical A/V cleansing stuff !!!! Of course ensure the backup is CLEAN though.

Cheers
jimbo

Just timed mine (using AOMEI) at 2 mins and 25 seconds for a full backup. It reports a transfer rate of around 210Mbit/s which works out correct. 145 seconds total run time at 210Mb/s would be 30Gb. My used space is actually around 27Gb which allows for the couple of seconds to initiate and finalise the run.

I have around 18 programs installed and over 15000 indexed files.

As Jimbo says:

NO Excuse for NOT taking backups

:)

Edit... this is a Dell laptop with just 4Gb RAM

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks

Just another post telling people they should ALWAYS take backups
Just did an average laptop backup with a fair amount of programs (Office suite, photoshop etc) with Macrium to external HDD.

Entire thing only took 8 mins.



At these sorts of speeds it should be a matter of course to take one regularly.

Incidentally - also far better to restore also a clean OS from a good backup if you get an infected machine rather than take maybe several hours using typical A/V cleansing stuff !!!! Of course ensure the backup is CLEAN though.

Cheers
jimbo

Does the backup time include verification?

I use the same here and it takes around 2 hours, not 8 mins. I/O is 450 Mb/s a limitation of the Storage medium/hardware used the next limit upwards in the system is the 1 Gb/s Network Card and components.
Those 3 Gb/s are fantasy speeds to most users.

Helmut said:

I use the same here and it takes around 2 hours, not 8 mins. I/O is 450 Mb/s a limitation of the Storage medium/hardware used the next limit upwards in the system is the 1 Gb/s Network Card and components.
Those 3 Gb/s are fantasy speeds to most users.

Hi there.

should be fine if laptop OS is on an SSD and backup is to USB3--->sata connector connected to another SSD (external).

Same backup took around 40 mins when running to external USB3 HDD.

Took around 1 hr 10 when running to an old laptop HDD (1 TB 2.5 inch) connected by SATA==>USB2 connector.

Shows that poor or sluggish I/O is much more problematical of poor computer performance than willy nilly upgrading processor or RAM -- even today people often spend a fortune on hardware but scrimp on DISKS using hideously slow ones.

BTW Macrium R7 -couldn't get it to work --kept getting unspecified error. R6 working just fine so will stay with that until R7 has been out longer.

Cheers
jimbo

I use Macrium. Image full backup once a month-200gb. I run incrementals daily. Both run unattended from Task Scheduler. Recently updated to 512gb I7 SSD laptop. Now full backup takes 40 min vs 2 hours with old laptop. Incrementals take from 15 to 90 seconds vs 15 to 30 minutes. Have 5tb external as backup media.