ive been trying to back up my files onto an exterbal hard drive bacuse my pc has been acting up lately and im afraid of losing all my stuff, but its taking way too long for the files to back up, are there any suggestions too spped up my back up time?
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LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Is the External drive a proprietary drive? or can you take the hard drive out?
Put the hard drive into your system and back it up internally.
Takkies
Well-Known Member
Backup Drives are GR8, but . . . . .
I empathize. Are you using a network drive over Ethernet or just a USB version?
Actually if it’s an Ethernet unit, it usually doesn’t help to remove the drive from the housing, even if that is possible. Most machines these days use NTFS, whereas these network drives often use a proprietary format. I know the Netgear and the Airlive units do anyway. Also if you bought the Western Dig drive, these things have DRM enabled. I wouldn’t touch one of those on principal!
I empathize. Are you using a network drive over Ethernet or just a USB version?
Actually if it’s an Ethernet unit, it usually doesn’t help to remove the drive from the housing, even if that is possible. Most machines these days use NTFS, whereas these network drives often use a proprietary format. I know the Netgear and the Airlive units do anyway. Also if you bought the Western Dig drive, these things have DRM enabled. I wouldn’t touch one of those on principal!
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stoke
Honorary Master
Buy a hard-drive case that supports USB2 and E-SATA (if your motherboard supports SATA drives and you have a free SATA port).
E-SATA is the fastest data transfer available at the moment, it's just like having your drive in the computer, just that it's not.
E-SATA is the fastest data transfer available at the moment, it's just like having your drive in the computer, just that it's not.
Asha'man X
Expert Member
+1 on that. I use eSATA at work to back up my server, and it's the best choice I could have made. It's just as fast as if the drive was in the server itself.
eSATA has been poorly implemented by motherboard makers, especially driver side, which is a shame, since it works really well.
I agree with that, esata works very well, I use a esata external enclosure with a 500GB Seagate. I also run GHOST 12 and schedule incremental backups, that way you only backup the data that changed and not the whole lot. First do a complete image, so that you can recover everything quickly (including the os) then schedule the incremental backups…. Worked for me.
the hard drive that im backing it up onto is an external so its in a case and connects to my computer through a USB port its just taking so long for everything to copy across, but it might be because mmy computer is so slow, there is definitly enough space for it to be working poperly so im pretty confused, and i run a virus scan everyday there is nothing???????
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
that doesn't answer our question.
This external hard drive of yours (yes, we know it is in a case), is it one of those Proprietary External Hard Drives (like Iomega) or is it a case that you just bought from Matrix and slapped your own hard drive inside it?
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
it would normally warn you if you plugged a USB 2.0 device into a USB 1.1 socket...
but install Teracopy... which tells you your transfer speed... and post those results here for us...
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php
i found out what the problem was, spoke to one of my friends studying computer sience and he asked me when the last time i ran a defrag was, had no idea what he was talking about but he set it all up for me and my files are going across much faster now, he said something about pieces of my files were everywhere so it was taking long to find them and transfer them. thanks so much fopr your help though.