How long should a backup with Norton Ghost take?

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Hi RVH,

 

I apologize that we did not reply as quickly as you expected. As to the question of checking the disk for bad sectors, Norton Ghost 14 allows the user to analyze the drive for bad sectors:

 

1) In the Analyze panel, click Check Hard Disks for Errors.

2) Select the drive that you want to check.

3) Select any of the following options:

    - Automatically fix file system errors

    Fixes errors on the selected disk. When this option is not selected, errors are displayed but are not fixed

     - Find and correct bad sectors

    Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information

4) Click Start.

 

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns.

I am backing up an 80-gig hard drive.  Roughly how long should it take?  I’ve got the slider at about 70% of the way toward Fast.  How much does this slider help/hurt?  Is 50% a 50% increase in speed?  It seems like it’s taking forever.

I guess that the Norton folks don't monitor these forums very well.  So, I'll answer my own question.

 

The reason Ghost took so long was that there were bad sectors on the drive.  It's a 250gig WD run though a USB port.  I was backing up an 80gig main drive.  It got to 50% in an hour, but then six hours later was stuck at 94%.  Nothing happened for an hour, no movement of anything, so I had to power down the machine.  Bad move but all I could do.  After about ten reboots through GoBack which wouldn't let me through, I finally was able to boot to Safe mode.

 

Question, shouldn't Ghost do the equivalent of a CHKDSK before embarking on such an important mission?

 

I ran diagnostics on the drive and they failed.  So, I tried another drive, again through a USB port and it did the backup flawlessly in less than 2-hrs.

 

So, as a benchmark, I guess 40 gig and hour through a USB 2.0 port is about right.