VEEAM Backup free version WIN10 very low

[Yvade]

Hello everyone,

I need help about my backup pls.
My backup take really too much time and i would like to know what i'm doing wrong pls.

Here is a picture :


It took 10 Hours to backup 1To (2 disks : 500Gb+500Gb) on an external drive (3,63To total space with 2,7 free space)

I edited the job to backup everyday at 8pm.

Can someone tell me what to do pls?

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

The problem is the performance of your backup device. the 3:59h "file merge". What happens there is shown in https://www.veeam.com/kb1932 the Forever Forward Incremental section animation.

There are two options:
1) get a faster backup device
2) switch to active full backup "create active full backups periodically" https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agent ... tml?ver=50
3) format your backup device with REFS (tricky with Windows 10 and unsupported on USB drives). https://www.veeam.com/blog/advanced-ref ... suite.html describes the REFS "trick"

Best regards,
Hannes

[Yvade]

Thank you for your fast answer.

The 2nd option seems to be the best in my situation.
If i do a full backup, will it last 10 hours again pls? or can i expect like 1 or 2 hours max?

[Mildur]

The 2nd option seems to be the best in my situation.
If i do a full backup, will it last 10 hours again pls? or can i expect like 1 or 2 hours max?

It depends mostly on how your external drive is connected to your pc.
Usb3 will be fast. Usb2 will be slow and painful for a 700GB-1TB Data.

Usb3 could be around 1-3 hours.
Usb2 could be around 9-12 hours.

[Yvade]

it's an USB3, i'll try it.

Thanks again to you 2 for your help.