I still have Ghost 9 (part of system works 2005), and my computer is nearly unusable after a full backup, it seems. The PQV2iSvc process sits there and consumes all available CPU. This is happening now, so it isn't a complete lockup, but it is painful.
I backed out of my attempt to upgrade for other reasons (the new system works doesn't have ghost).
I have these questions:
What is the expected run time of this crap? The full backup was scheduled at 6 AM, and has completed. It was about 85 GB. It is now 1:30 in the afternoon and this process is still chugging along. With no disk I/O, I can only assume this is a bug. However, it eventually stops - I wonder if anyone has some rule of thumb about the size of the backup vs. the runtime of this CPU hog.
Can anyone verify if this kind of thing is still a problem with newer versions of Ghost. Can someone from Semantec/Norton explain what is broken? I'd feel more confident in upgrading to Ghost 12 or 14 if I had an explaination for the Ghost 9 problem. With out that, I'm equally tempted to switch to some other product. I would really hate to upgrade only to find out this performance impact still exists in newer versions. I'd rather not, but this product has worked for me when it matters. But, my current user experience is not good.
Details: XP, SP3, Ghost 9.0.2 3981
Full backup weekly, daily incrementals.