frplett Posted April 20, 2010 Report Share Posted April 20, 2010 I bought a new 64 bit computer with an Athlon X2 chip running Windows 7 Home Premium 64. I installed Retrospect on it, and upgraded to Version 7.7 64 bit. I recreated scripts I used on my old computer. One is a full backup, and one is Docs and Settings, both to external firewire hard drives. I run either script, and get no error message, but the backup stalls after a while - it says it is running, but no progress is made in writing anything to the external disks - I thought to ensure that the computer itself doesn't enter sleep mode. There is apparently no way to ensure the hard drives don't but I put a very long period before they do - 1500 minutes or so. Though I have other software running in the background I ensure that none are memory, or cpu hogs(SETI at home, a disk reorganizer). Why is this stalling out on me? Retrospect worked great on my old XP computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frplett Posted April 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Let me add to this - apparently the backup is working but slower than creation. It took 19 hours to back up 21 GB out of 76 GB. Too slow to be useful. I changed down to the simplest DES encryption which made a difference at first, but 8 GB in, the backup slowed to a crawl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frplett Posted April 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Let me also add this - I don't think it is a problem with Retrospect at all but with Windows 7. I did a search of slow Firewire with Windows 7 x64 and came up with all sorts of hits. I tried Windows 7 backup and it is also painfully slow. There was a recommendation to revert to a legacy ieee 1394 driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frplett Posted April 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 I confirmed that switching to a legacy firewire driver in Windows 7 x 64 brought back the functionality of EMC Retrospect. A full recycle backup of 77 GB takes about 4 hours, a livable amount of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ew02748 Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Fred from NH, How does one switch to a legacy fire wire driver? I may be having the same problem but with windows vista. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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