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Win 7 Pro Backup - Adjusting the Priority
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. |
can you schedule this for a non peak time of day-
say when you are sleeping? |
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. |
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. |
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Again, the backup doesn't usually take too long, but the whole computer is bogged down while it is running.
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I just threw my hands up- first time it happened Itunes was on as well- CPU in my bedroom...Awesome. rjp |
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. |
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