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Hi!

I used Acronis True image in several times with other machines.
Worked well. The best imaging tool I used...

When I want to backup my X60 to a network server the transfer speed is about 5-15kbyte/s. (it made 14mbyte image about an hour....)

Did you try to use Acronis true image with X60?
What version did you use?
Mine is Acronis True Image Workstation V9.1.3602 booted from external DVD-RW.

I tried to change the Sata settings from AHCI to compatibility in the Bios. Nothing changed.

Thanks in advance,
Pdudas

pdudas wrote:When I want to backup my X60 to a network server the transfer speed is about 5-15kbyte/s. (it made 14mbyte image about an hour....)

What kind of a network connection are you using?

I tried it on 2 networks. Both of them were 100mb full duplex cat5e network with network server (Wins, Dhcp).

At home i tried to backup my desktop pc through a Zyxel Adsl router, but the result as the same.

pdudas wrote:At home i tried to backup my desktop pc through a Zyxel Adsl router, but the result as the same.

Do you mean that the desktop backup performance was the same as for the ThinkPad?

I think the problem is with the True Image...
Maybe the built-in Intel Pro/1000 driver is a [censored], because I tried it on three network and the speed of the backup was about 15kb/s.

Then I made a backup to an external HDD (USB) and the 6GB image takes 25 minutes (with maximum compression).

Ghost 9 has always done the job nicely for me.

dmdsoftware wrote:Ghost 9 has always done the job nicely for me.

can i create a Bootable CD using Ghost 9?

I think you might be using the word "bootable" in a different way. IBM's rescue and recovery tool creates a set of bootable CD/DVD that you can boot from and use to re-image your computer.

The Ghost 9 CD is bootable (if you install ghost you can also create bootable floppy disks with the necessary drivers). When you boot from the floppy or CD, it gets you to Ghost's DOS utility. From there you create a file containing the image of a disk or partion. The file can be put onto CDs, onto an external HD, onto an internal HD (assuming there's a seperate partition or disk available from the one you're backuping up), or across a network. Note: on external or internal HDs, the format of the partition must be FAT32 for Ghost to store the image...I'm not sure FAT or FAT16 work. Ghost can create an image of an NTFS (or any file system, really) drive, it just cannot create the image file onto a drive using NTFS or another file system.

Once you have the image file created, if you need to restore: you boot into Ghost, select the drive/partition you want to restore, choose your image, and then the program restores the image.

smvp6459 wrote: Note: on external or internal HDs, the format of the partition must be FAT32 for Ghost to store the image...I'm not sure FAT or FAT16 work. Ghost can create an image of an NTFS (or any file system, really) drive, it just cannot create the image file onto a drive using NTFS or another file system.

This is NOT true. I have successfully have Ghost 9 backup to an image file that resides on a NTFS drive. I have attempted this twice, once to an internal 40GB drive formatted with NTFS and on an external 160GB drive with NTFS.

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This is NOT true. I have successfully have Ghost 9 backup to an image file that resides on a NTFS drive. I have attempted this twice, once to an internal 40GB drive formatted with NTFS and on an external 160GB drive with NTFS.[/quote]

I stand corrected. I was thinking Ghost 9 was the last Symantec Ghost version prior to the switch out of DOS.

What I said remains true for Symantec Ghost versions before 9 and Norton Ghost versions 2003 and before.

smvp6459 wrote:

dmdsoftware wrote: This is NOT true. I have successfully have Ghost 9 backup to an image file that resides on a NTFS drive. I have attempted this twice, once to an internal 40GB drive formatted with NTFS and on an external 160GB drive with NTFS.

I stand corrected. I was thinking Ghost 9 was the last Symantec Ghost version prior to the switch out of DOS.

What I said remains true for Symantec Ghost versions before 9 and Norton Ghost versions 2003 and before.

That's why I like Ghost 9. Makes creating images very smooth.

When you do a full system restore, you actually load into a Windows (98?) shell off the CD. I was able to restore from an image on a NTFS drive both times.

All backups are done from your native windows, and partial restores can also be done from your native windows. You can even run a ghost 9 image directly from vmware.