I have been using g4u for my PC workstations for a long time with great success, cloning from one drive to another. Now, with a Sony VAIO in my studio, I decided to start using the FTP method to clone disks.
I was able to use g4u, cloning the hard drive from my VAIO to a Vista PC running the Filezilla FTP server. It did take me a some time to realize that I couldn't use the wireless network on the VAIO, as I kept getting "unable to connect to FTP server" errors. But when I connected it using a network cable directly to my router, it worked. When I normally clone disk to disk, using copydisk, I will get a 80Gb drive cloned in less than 30 minutes. But when doing the ftp method, it took over 6 hours to do a 230 Gb disk. Does this sound normal? I'm on a Gigabit network, but didn't do any disk zero-ing, or duplex setting stuff. I'm not quite sure how that is done. Considering the 230 Gb disk is roughly 3 times the 80 Gb, cloning it in about 3 hours would sound right. Add to that time the extra processing to compress the data (the final image is 56Gb), maybe 6 hours is understandable/normal? If there is anything I should do differently to improve performance, please let me know. Thanks in advance for any advice. - Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
