Not unreasonable that a run should take 8 hours to write 15 DVD's worth of backups - you originally said CD-RW's, for which 8 hours would be somewhat excessive
Just curious - but are you including the images of C: and D: as part of a composite backup of E: If so, would it be a better process, if having put each of those to a separate DL-DVD then exclude them from the image of E, - possibly by creating those images on a different partition, Perhaps splitting off approx 19 Gb of the space in partition E (The 19 being adjusted to allow sufficient space for 2 DL-DVD's ) Also - with 8.5GB space on a DL-DVD, is it worth using max compression and did you run a clean process on C: to get rid of the temp files and other garbage, because only 2.78 GB free seems to be a bit tight for a system capable of putting/getting 8.5GB from removable media Perhaps running it after a backup would be safer JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:59 PM Subject: Re: Software: Backing full volumes with NG 10. I've completed a full volume backup of Volume E: last night using NG 10. Here are the partions, used and free space and their sizes: Volume Total Capacity Used Free Used Space + Free space = Total C: 15,315,435,520MB 11.4GB 2.78GB 14.18GB D: 35,640,102,912MB 11.6GB 21.5GB 33.1GB E: 71,979,388,928MB 38.1GB 28.8GB 66.9GB NG 10 volume images stored in E:\Norton Ghost Image backup\ using high compression: C_Drive002_S01.v2i 6,657,717,760 D_Drive002_S01.V2i 6,940,017,152 These images I will copy to 2 DVD+R DL disk. I ran a backup using Verbatium DVD+R DL 8.5 GB disks using my new Sony DRU-810A at 8x clocked in at 5 hours and consumed 5 DVD+R DL 8.5 GB disks! I recliamed the 15 DVD-RW disk by erasing them. Backing up in the image format I can deal with in this case just as long as your backup imaging software can read the disk using either DVD+R or DVD+R DL disk whcih are universal and compatible with almost all DVD burners and players. When Microsoft's Windows Vista goes RTM I'll have no problem with the image file format at all. Marc Sims Data Technician I Prince George's Community College >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, November 14, 2005 >>> Have fun - but do check the resulting discs are readable on some other system it can be really annoying to have recovery discs you cannot read because the drive that created them has failed Almost as annoying as MS changing the format of their backups with the new versions of their OS releases so you cannot read old backups without installing the old OS, and then you cannot read the new backups JimB -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
