Anthony -
Any way to pare down the data you actually need to backup? I mean, are
there a bunch of data files (mp3 and so forth ) that you can just copy
to a backup HD or LAN location?
I always keep my install and data partitions separate so I can have
them backed up in each's most appropriate way.
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Brian
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On 2010-01-03, at 11:40 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Yes, what I am seeing is consistent with what you state. I must say
this caught me off guard. It also shows that I had not been doing
my backups, since if I had I would have discovered this and planned
better. This is delaying everything and I need to get back to work
next week. I don't know why MS has to always toss out weirdness. I
guess they are doing their part though, because all of the backup
vendors will get business.
---- [email protected] wrote:
Win7 backup actually does something very different.. Backups are
held as a vhd (virtual hard disk) and incrementals as differencing
discs. This keeps backups a bit like a 'ghost' or acronis image.
But the problem is it doesn't do it the smartest way and tries to
compress everything by default. If you've got tons of mp3 or avi/
mkv/dvr-ms/wtv on your c drive, that little hiccup wil make backups
take forever.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 6:34:02
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] Win7 Super Long Backups?
And none of that excuses how slow Win7 is compared to XP for backup.
---- "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, I realize all of this. I use multiple levels of backup...the
USB is just one. I wanted to do esata but for some reason that
port doesn't work.
After I get this done, I will do another backup (and WET) to the
other 1TB HDD that is on SATA.
---- Garind P <[email protected]> wrote:
HDD today is cheap. Why don't you try an e-SATA port, or use the
available SATA port to connect another HHD, then backup the whole
things to the drive.
My backup experience start from
- CD-ROM
- DVD-ROM
- USB HD
- now SATA Drive
At 07:20 PM 1/3/2010, you 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?
