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Michael Westphal

Hello folks,

I want to save my partitions complete. I know Drive Image 2002. But I don't
like this program because it is very slow (at least on my computer; I have
heard of transfer rates of 1 Gibabyte / second, though).

And the switching to Caldeira Dos is not very comfortable either.

Do you know a better program? Best would be it wouldn't cost too much?

Thanks!

Michael
 
It must have been military or research, you heard it from. I'm not in
1GiGaByte per second industry yet.
For now, I'm doing a mere 300-700MeGaBytes per MINUTE over my network with
Ghost 8.
 
Michael Westphal said:
I want to save my partitions complete. I know
Drive Image 2002. But I don't like this program
because it is very slow (at least on my computer;
I have heard of transfer rates of 1 Gibabyte / second,
though).

And the switching to Caldeira Dos is not very
comfortable either.

Do you know a better program? Best would be it
wouldn't cost too much?
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I also found Drive Image 2002 slow as molasses
on my machine. (More than an hour for 16GB).
I had used it because it worked, while Drive Image
7.0 and 7.01 didn't. But after installing Microsoft's
.NET Framework (a free download), DI 7.01 works,
and it takes less than 4 minutes for 16GB (less if
the partition is deframented). You can only get that
utility program now as part of Ghost 9.0, and it's not
cheap, but you might be able to get it at an academic
discount if you're a student or somehow associated
with a learning institution. If you can find an old
Drive Image 7.0 CD, go for it.

*TimDaniels*
 
Previously Michael Westphal said:
Hello folks,
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I want to save my partitions complete. I know Drive Image 2002. But I don't
like this program because it is very slow (at least on my computer; I have
heard of transfer rates of 1 Gibabyte / second, though).
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The maximum I get with RAID is 80MB/s. That is reading.
Since this is 640Megabit (Mb), I think you confuse GB and Gb
here. The first is Byte, the second ist bit.

However you cannot get even a Gb over standard PCI, so this
is no ordinary hardware. With 66MHz PCI the Gigabit might be
reachable. From my experience on Linux you can expect about 20-30MB/sec
(= 160-240Mb/sec) on a drive to drive copy in a well configured system.
And the switching to Caldeira Dos is not very comfortable either.
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There is a reason DOS is used. Doing this kind of thing with
a opaque OS like Windows is risky.
Do you know a better program? Best would be it wouldn't cost too much?
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Not on Windows, no. Lots of good options on Linux (all free), but
there is some learning needed to use them.
Someone who considers himself too important for small jobs is often
too small for important jobs
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(Jaques Tati)
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Nice .sig!

Arno
 
Arno Wagner said:
Snip!


Not on Windows, no. Lots of good options on Linux (all free), but
there is some learning needed to use them.
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Please tell us the names of the programs and the URLs we may find them at!
 
Arno said:
The maximum I get with RAID is 80MB/s. That is reading.
Since this is 640Megabit (Mb), I think you confuse GB and Gb
here. The first is Byte, the second ist bit.

However you cannot get even a Gb over standard PCI, so this
is no ordinary hardware. With 66MHz PCI the Gigabit might be
reachable. From my experience on Linux you can expect about
20-30MB/sec (= 160-240Mb/sec) on a drive to drive copy in a well
configured system.


There is a reason DOS is used. Doing this kind of thing with
a opaque OS like Windows is risky.
Click to expand...

Acronis True Image? 15 day trial version available:
http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/

I've just installed a pair of Hitachi 80GB SATA drives in my PC on the
on-board SI RAID controller set up as non-RAID with XP Pro SP2. I get
transfer rates of ~850Mb/min (DI5 or DI2002) with my new Asus A7N8X-E deluxe
(all partitions are NTFS).

This m/b replaced my damaged Asus A7V266-E. I used to get fairly slow
transfer rates on this board until I edited the default.vdf file by
extracting the autoexec.bat file using the PQVF Editor then changing the
line near the bottom from:
PQDI
to
PQDI /ide=ON
then reinjecting the autoexec.bat back into the default.vdf file. The same
can be done for the quick definition files which also have the vdf
extension. This extra switch forces some m/bs to use ATA transfer instead of
PIO mode under DOS when running DI. This more than doubled the rate for me.
My new board doesn't appear to need this extra line so YMMV. The same can be
done for the DOS floppy. I got this tip from this NG a long while ago so I
apologise if this is old news.

I'm not sure about DI2002 but updating DI5 to DI5.01 /didn't/ update the
Rescueme folder which I copied manually. PQ may have address this later
having been told about it. I can't run either v5 or v2002 from Windows at
the moment but that's for another thread.

Regards, Paul
 
Timothy Daniels said:
I also found Drive Image 2002 slow as molasses
on my machine. (More than an hour for 16GB).
I had used it because it worked, while Drive Image
7.0 and 7.01 didn't. But after installing Microsoft's
.NET Framework (a free download), DI 7.01 works,
and it takes less than 4 minutes for 16GB (less if
the partition is deframented). You can only get that
utility program now as part of Ghost 9.0, and it's not
cheap, but you might be able to get it at an academic
discount if you're a student or somehow associated
with a learning institution. If you can find an old
Drive Image 7.0 CD, go for it.

*TimDaniels*
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Says right on the box, in the written directions, and during installation of
DI 7.0 that net framework is required for operation. So nothing was broke
but the operator.
 
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