Hi, All,
I have some data(150G) on a 500G external drive, I want to back them up and save to a dedicated external drive. so I installed Ghost to my desktop and as a test, I tried to back up one of the data folders. This folder is 8G big , contains 3000 files. Afraid of external drive to external drive backup taking too long, I choose to back up the data to free space on the desktop's C drive (system drive, 110G free space). But after 1 hour, it is still estimating/calculating the time. Yesterday, I use Ghost CD , did one-time cold backup of a whole external hard drive(160G total, 50G data), takes around 40-50 minutes. The folder back is too slow in comparison.
I am thinking to move all the data on the 500G external drive to an external drive, then using one-time cold backup of the whole drive. But when I copy the data in windows XP, it shows it can not copy, probably due to the folder structure is too deep, like 9 or 10 level deep from the root. So is there some DOS tool I can use to copy the data to an external hardrive? Or any suggestion to speed up the folder backup?
Regards,
Tao