The whole process took 29 minutes and increased the backup size of 93GB backup by 31GB, more than two thirds of the time was taken by ‘writing clusters’ but to be fair the drive used to backup to was a USB2 one. A lot of emails, different printer and various Word files but little else has changed apart from some WAV files. I plugged in the external USB hard drive I used for the backup a week ago and now backup what has changed in the last week. Now this is something that needs sorting and if you were using paid software it is probably more accurate in its predictions but remember – at the risk of being more boring – this is a full backup of a hard disc sector by sector. Then at 4.50PM – 110 minutes after starting it has finished. After 100 minutes (4.40PM) the figure has fallen to 5 minutes remaining, the maximum it showed at anytime was something over 14 minutes. I know enough to know this figure will grow and not reduce for sometime. While it should be able to handle a file being opened and come back to it why risk it.Īfter five minutes of preparation it states at 15.08 that there is 3 minutes 41 seconds to go. So at 3PM I downloaded the required software it creates two icons - Backup and Recovery and Media Builder -on your Desktop and once you run the very Windows 8 like interface (it works fine on Windows 7) you get a screen saying be patient and other similar phases while a very confusing and optimistic clock tells you the progress.īeing a belt and braces person I do not do anything else on the PC as remember this is a full system backup. So here what happened on a Friday afternoon and then one week later what took place on the next backup. After you have done the full backup the other backups will be far quicker as all the files that have not been changed are not backed up again.
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