Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Matt Smollinger
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

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
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

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: 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

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Matt Smollinger
Cc: Adam Himmer; g4u-help@feyrer.de Subject: Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: 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

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
Hubert Feyrer wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: For a laptop, transferring data with COPYDISK over USB 1.1 with 4200 rpm ^^^ There's your problem. USB1.1 is known to be dog slow. - Hubert Yes. You could take the source disk out of the laptop and connect it to a

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-29 Thread Fernando Witzke
I've already tried to create a local image and the script ran too slow too. Don't know why! cya 2007/7/28, Adam Himmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

[g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-28 Thread Adam Himmer
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