I have two external usb3 hard drives (WD Passports) and I wanted to back up 900GB from one onto the other (empty) one. The laptop is a Dell 6440, and am using the usb3 ports on it, and it has 8GB Ram, BUT, I highlighted all the files and folders in the source disk, r/clicked, then clicked on send to, and chose the destination drive, and it's saying about 23 hours remaining and it's doing 3.64 MB/second?? Has anyone any ideas where it's going wrong please? What do the people here use to do fast backups like this please?
What is the fastest way to backup large amounts ?
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1. Open Backup and Restore by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Backup and Restore.
•If you've never used Windows Backup before, click Set up backup, and then follow the steps in the wizard. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-files#1TC=windows-7
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Backing up your files would be faster than doing a full back up as it is not including to OS.
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The time estimation is often VERY wrong.
Just yesterday, I had to copy over a couple hundred GB. It went from 22 hours initially, down to 2 hours, back up to 2 days, etc, etc.
I think it was about 3 hours total.
Just let it run.
Just yesterday, I had to copy over a couple hundred GB. It went from 22 hours initially, down to 2 hours, back up to 2 days, etc, etc.
I think it was about 3 hours total.
Just let it run.
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Enabling write caching:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10392-write-caching-enable-disable.html
Or, just let it run overnight. It would have been done by now.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10392-write-caching-enable-disable.html
Or, just let it run overnight. It would have been done by now.
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There's a simple option let it run and leave it be then it will finish. Just have some patience. Remember it's a virtue.
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There's a simple option let it run and leave it be then it will finish. Just have some patience. Remember it's a virtue.
Hope this helps
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Hope this helps
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Didn't help in this case, but thanks anyway.
Sorry to hear that. Is your data backed up yet or have none of the other options worked?
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