Win 7 Pro Backup - Adjusting the Priority

[red-beard]

I'm guessing that the Window 7 Pro built in backup program sets its program priority very high. Windows 7 bogs down while the backup is running. CPU meters do not sure extremely high usage. So that leaves us some sort of a Priority issue.

Anyone changed the settings on this? I do like the win 7 pro Backup utility, since a) it backs up to my network drives, b) it makes a disk image for easy catastrophic restore, c) and it's free/included.

Any help from the Pelican trust? I dug through the Microsoft database and didn't find my issue. The topics I found are extremely long back-ups or general slow Win 7. Neither of these are the issue.

The backup doesn't take very long (20-25 minutes for 120MB primary SSD drive), but the computer (6 Core AMD, 16GB RAM) slows down and trying to do other tasks. Even web-browsing is quite frustrating.

[lane912]

can you schedule this for a non peak time of day-
say when you are sleeping?

[red-beard]

It is scheduled for after work hours. But...

If I happen to still be at the office when it kicks in, it slows down. I schedule it for 1 hour after I leave so that my PC will still be on. It will shutdown after 2 hours of no use. Also, since I have a daily backup scheduled, when I come back from a weekend, it will run the backup first thing in the morning.

[bleucamaro]

I have a bad relationship with windows backup. Every time I back up, it adds to the already backed up file instead of overwriting it, and it ignores the maximum file size limits. I quit using it in favor of manual backups. I think if its just being slow, you’re doing pretty good.

Not to hi-jack, but if anyone has suggestions to make windows backup work the way it should, I’d listen.

[RANDY P]

Originally Posted by bleucamaro

I have a bad relationship with windows backup. Every time I back up, it adds to the already backed up file instead of overwriting it, and it ignores the maximum file size limits. I quit using it in favor of manual backups. I think if its just being slow, you’re doing pretty good.

Not to hi-jack, but if anyone has suggestions to make windows backup work the way it should, I’d listen.

+1. Annoying as hell.

[red-beard]

Again, the backup doesn't usually take too long, but the whole computer is bogged down while it is running.

[RANDY P]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Again, the backup doesn't usually take too long, but the whole computer is bogged down while it is running.

I'm on Win 8 and it doesn't follow what I set it at. I give up, I just make sure the email browser and web browser are closed down- I set mine to do work at 2AM, and I can't figure out how to change the settings.

I just threw my hands up- first time it happened Itunes was on as well- CPU in my bedroom...Awesome.

rjp

[Bill Douglas]

Put up with it

I regularly go a ghost image backup of the laptops and last week the GF's disk died. Phew thank Gawd for the backups, Now I don't mind how inconvenient backups can be.