Adam, My experience with g4u 2.3 is only with the copydisk command, but I agree with Matt that performance can be variable. I've used g4u to copy drives on several machines and the best performance I've had, so far, with copydisk seems to be with two EIDE hard drives connected by IDE cables to the motherboard (of a desktop computer.)
I have a Western Digital My Book that offers an external SATA (eSATA) connection, and I finally got the right cable for that, and I suspect that will offer very fast transfer times when I actually use it with copydisk. But only one of my machines has a motherboard offering a corresponding eSATA connector on the back of the unit and I've not yet seen a laptop with eSATA. For a laptop, transferring data with COPYDISK over USB 1.1 with 4200 rpm drives and older processors can be really slow. I've had one case of a 24 hour transfer time, but all worked well. I like using the Western Digital Passport drives over USB 2.0. They have low power requirements, capacities are huge, and drive speeds are pretty good. I guess I would just be patient. Thanks Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Matt Smollinger wrote: > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *On Behalf Of *Adam Himmer > *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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new > Car Finder tool. > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48518/*http:/autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/;_ylc=X3oDMTE3NWsyMDd2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDY2FyLWZpbmRlcg--%20> > > > > > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by any > other person is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission > in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and then destroy > the message. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this > email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent > those of ADVANCED AUDIO VISUAL. Finally, the recipient should check > this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. ADVANCED > AUDIO VISUAL accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus > transmitted by this email. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > g4u-help mailing list > g4u-help@feyrer.de > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
