Ghost 15. Win 7. Backing up to a mapped network drive on another computer.
Ever since I did a full system backup (20 GB), Ghost is EXTREMELY slow to start. Once I open the program, I get the message: Connecting and retrieving information from backup and recovery service on MY-PC. Reading backup destination information. I get the progress bar. It takes about 15 minutes and then goes to something like a "good" status green screen.
Then when I go to run a backup job, it says: Data Backup:Waiting. for several minutes.
Once the backup gets going, it runs quickly, just a few minutes to back up. No errors or anything. But it is all of this getting ready to back up delay that is annoying. To spend this much time before it even begins the backup job is too much.
What's my system doing during this "connecting and retrieving information from backup and recovery service." that takes so long? How can I speed this process up so I can launch Ghost and quickly launch my backup routine?
By the way, I have run earlier versions of Ghost under windows XP and the same mapped network drive setup for years without any similar problem.
Ghost 15. Win 7. Backing up to a mapped network drive on another computer.
Ever since I did a full system backup (20 GB), Ghost is EXTREMELY slow to start. Once I open the program, I get the message: Connecting and retrieving information from backup and recovery service on MY-PC. Reading backup destination information. I get the progress bar. It takes about 15 minutes and then goes to something like a "good" status green screen.
Then when I go to run a backup job, it says: Data Backup:Waiting. for several minutes.
Once the backup gets going, it runs quickly, just a few minutes to back up. No errors or anything. But it is all of this getting ready to back up delay that is annoying. To spend this much time before it even begins the backup job is too much.
What's my system doing during this "connecting and retrieving information from backup and recovery service." that takes so long? How can I speed this process up so I can launch Ghost and quickly launch my backup routine?
By the way, I have run earlier versions of Ghost under windows XP and the same mapped network drive setup for years without any similar problem.
Thanks for the response Erik. I think I figured it out a few days ago before you responded.
After I made my first backup, I moved my backup file locations to a different drive. I think the system was still trying to look for the old location of those files. Now I see that you have the option to move the backup files from within the Ghost 15 interface, which is what I will do next time.
I have since removed the program, reinstalled and have been careful to leave the files where they are at. Everything seems fine now.
Glad to hear your issue is resolved.
I have the same problem and no solution so far.
I have a weekly backup of C: to D:, when I started using Ghost 15 I also did a backup to a mapped network drive.
Network setup: Computers ->|Switch|->|Linksys router|->|Internet| all, connected thru ethernet cable, even internet.
Firewalls: The windows 7 builtin and no port forwarding in the Linksys router.
D:\>vssadmin list providers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Provider name: 'Symantec Software VSS Provider'
Provider type: Software
Provider Id: {262b716e-bb23-41b5-aaef-e2c15e767167}
Version: 1.0
Provider name: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Provider type: System
Provider Id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
Version: 1.0.0.7
Without backup started since Ghost is still "retrieving info" (I got tired of waiting).
D:\>vssadmin list providers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Provider name: 'Symantec Software VSS Provider'
Provider type: Software
Provider Id: {262b716e-bb23-41b5-aaef-e2c15e767167}
Version: 1.0
Provider name: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Provider type: System
Provider Id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
Version: 1.0.0.7
D:\>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {103d29cc-e075-45b7-b48c-df1f2aa660b5}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {c489097d-a6b1-402b-8986-0fa193bdf5d2}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {8dee4c36-2713-4ea9-8f78-edddef934855}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {7175ac5c-f454-4348-9a72-147e71dd33eb}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
Writer Instance Id: {fecfcd3c-0a4d-4ced-8db6-123f25c8e8a3}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {2a13cccc-f73e-41a4-b12a-e092653fc44a}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {d640613d-ee31-49e9-8f50-13cd394d5b7b}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'MSSearch Service Writer'
Writer Id: {cd3f2362-8bef-46c7-9181-d62844cdc0b2}
Writer Instance Id: {65ea948a-068c-4d38-ad3b-09ebe71a89c7}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {17e55fa2-78be-4387-a8d7-29886b42beab}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Any suggestions?
And now I started a backup of an USB drive into D:
D:\>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {103d29cc-e075-45b7-b48c-df1f2aa660b5}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {1ad1c5d4-22a1-445c-b3bf-a068b4f3e6ca}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {8dee4c36-2713-4ea9-8f78-edddef934855}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'MSSearch Service Writer'
Writer Id: {cd3f2362-8bef-46c7-9181-d62844cdc0b2}
Writer Instance Id: {65ea948a-068c-4d38-ad3b-09ebe71a89c7}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {e19c3a3b-5c60-487f-aed4-871d774d0260}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {1f88cb67-ebb5-49ba-9b64-cff0297c9ddf}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {3f77cd13-c59f-4bcf-842a-7575b0165675}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
Writer Instance Id: {fecfcd3c-0a4d-4ced-8db6-123f25c8e8a3}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {7175ac5c-f454-4348-9a72-147e71dd33eb}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error