I'm planning to make an image file of my c:\ drive for the first time ever. It's about 300 gig - anyone know roughly how long it will take? I've got Backupper, Acronis and of course Windows.
It's not the size of the drive it's the am't of data on it. My HD to HD image backups of 50 Gigs take about 15-20 minutes. My image backup from SSD to HD of 30 Gigs takes about 8-9 minutes. All using Acronis.
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I highly recommend moving user data to another partition. Your image backups should only contain OS and application files. Including user data will make backing up and restoring longer, in addition to making the image files bigger.
Could be that some of that mysterious space is used by system restore points. They don't show up in usual Windows file managers. I use WinDirStat to see what's on my drives..
and it does show sys restore as "uknown". You can reduce or delete unused/uneeded points in Control panel>System>System protection. I don't allow it to get higher than 2 gigs which is more than enough room to save system restore points going back months.
FWIW most modern backup programs automatically ignore pagefile and hiberfile when doing backups. I always run CCleaner before I do a backup to eliminate uneeded files/space. I also run Windows own disk cleanup> cleanup system files for the same reason and TFC file cleaner often gets some they both miss.
I've done all the cleanup, windirstat wasn't able to locate the missing 230 gigs but I found it under System Protection, it was restore points. Max Usage was set to 50% of disk space. So I think I'm ready to make my first system image. Thanks to all!