But that's always been the case with incremental backups. I've backed this stuff up before under XP and it was never this slow...this is beyond ridiculous. Also, it takes forever to find how to turn the exact image off, which it does by default along with a regular backup, on the first time. MS just went way stoopid on this. I've basically lost two days fooling with this. Imagine how the restore would be. A complete backup/restore using Windows 7 would take a damn week on any modern hard drive that has zillions of jpegs and videos. This cannot stand.
BTW, I've been googling after I first posted...this is all over the net now. ---- Brian Weeden <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't have a ton of experience with Win7 backups but I think the first > time it takes a lot longer than it does afterwards (or at least it should). > This is because the first time it copies everything, whereas each successive > time it should only copy those files which have changed. So unless a large > portion of that 350GB is constantly changing, future backups should be fine. > > It also might make a difference if you have a lot of small files in the > backup. > > --------------------------- > Brian Weeden > Technical Advisor > Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> > +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada > +1 (202) 683-8534 US > > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Gee Whiz....I have about 350 GB to back up to an external USB HD. Win7 is > > working on this now for over 12 hours! Still only at 78% done. Was worse > > when I let it do an image too...so bad that I had to cancel that and start > > over. > > > > Is this right? > >
