[RESOLVED] Backup takes long time to complete

[Brian Sheridan]

I am using a Dell Dimension 4300 PC with Windows XP Home OS with Service Pack 3. The hard drive on the PC is only 40 GB’s. I am backing up this drive to a WD 120 GB’s external hard drive. These backups using Syncback software are taking an inordinately long time to complete. I recently deleted approximately 5 GB’s from my hard drive and my backup took almost 3 hours to complete. It shows that I have over 290,000 files to backup. There must be something wrong with the way I have asked for the back up to be done. I only want to backup any files that have changed. I have not asked for files to be synchronized. Previously it always took less than an hour to do a backup. Is there some action I should take to improve the backup time?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Brian

[HAN]

You want it to sync. You can still specify it as a one way sync but the program should be comparing files before copying. Sounds to me like it's set as one way copying. So it's copying everything, everytime.

[Brian Sheridan]

Hi HAN,

Thanks for your reply. Can you tell where I tell the program to sync only one way?

Regards,

Brian

[jdc2000]

The options you have vary depending on which version of SyncBack you have (free, SE, or Pro). Some screen captures of the settings can be found at the link below:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncbac...reenshots.html

[Brian Sheridan]

I deleted the files on the destination external hard drive that were not on the source drive and this solved the problem.

Thanks for your help,

Brian