Adam,
What are the specs on your Laptop? The GZIP compression used by g4u is
fairly processor intensive. You should try adding BEFORE the slurpdisk
command "GZIP=1" without the quotes. This will force GZIP to use the
lightest compression possible, thus USUALLY increasing transfer speed.
Also, what is the interface to the external disk? Is the source hard
drive a 4200 RPM drive? All these things contribute.
And yes, you can easily stop the copy by either power cycling the
laptop, or I believe a control+c will also kill the process and dump you
back to a shell prompt. I would then recommend deleting off the external
drive whatever file got generated from the process.
Matt Smollinger
Application Engineer for Convergence Technology
AdvancedAV Advanced Technologies Group
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Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 4:53 PM
To: g4u-help@feyrer.de
Subject: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help
I just started to copy my laptop's 70 GB hard drive onto an external
hard drive, but after looking at the speed of transfer (about 395 kb/s),
I'm worrying that it's going to take too long. I know the documentation
mentioned that images are compressed when using a network, but I can't
find anything on if they are for just a local copy. If it's
uncompressed, it could take nearly fifty hours. How long do you think
this will take? And is there any way to stop it without risking damage
to my drives if it's going to take too long (more than 24 hours)?
Thanks,
Adam
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