IFD: Backing up to USB autostarts

[Retrospek]

It's the strangest thing, the computer that I'm currently working on is a strange puppy. My USB drive connected shows up as a drive under the normal BIOS area, but if you try to back it up this way, it runs REALLY slow (as in every minute it ticked along, it was growing an estimated 1/2 hour longer, and was at 38 hours to backup a 750GB drive with about 200GB on it).

Anyhow, this is where it gets really strange. If I pick USB with the drive connected, it hangs for a few seconds (and the keyboard is unresponsive) and once it finally detects the drive, it auto starts the backup process (as in plugs in the TBI filename and automatically clicks the Okay button it seems). I don't get to pick the options (such as setting a file description, choosing the compression method, validation, etc.).

Anyone ever run across this, and is there a work around for this? I would really like to validate the data it backs up, and also choose the compression method. The file description I can live without, but would definitely like to set those 2 things.

Thanks in advance.

[TeraByte Support]

yeah strange, the bios must be reporting keystrokes after the usb interface
is taken over by something else.

You can use Image for Linux instead, it has both HID (keyboard) support and
mass storage support for USB.


"Retrospek" wrote in message news:3711@public.image...

It's the strangest thing, the computer that I'm currently working on is a
strange puppy. My USB drive connected shows up as a drive under the normal
BIOS area, but if you try to back it up this way, it runs REALLY slow (as in
every minute it ticked along, it was growing an estimated 1/2 hour longer,
and was at 38 hours to backup a 750GB drive with about 200GB on it).

Anyhow, this is where it gets really strange. If I pick USB with the drive
connected, it hangs for a few seconds (and the keyboard is unresponsive) and
once it finally detects the drive, it auto starts the backup process (as in
plugs in the TBI filename and automatically clicks the Okay button it
seems). I don't get to pick the options (such as setting a file
description, choosing the compression method, validation, etc.).

Anyone ever run across this, and is there a work around for this? I would
really like to validate the data it backs up, and also choose the
compression method. The file description I can live without, but would
definitely like to set those 2 things.

Thanks in advance.

[Retrospek]

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

I ended up pulling the internal drive, and hooking it up to another box and imaging it that way.

It turns out the drive had a firmware issue that would cause it to get "stuck" on certain sectors, and I think this was the cause of the time going way up. I was able to back up 2 of the 3 partitions and get the important data off the 3rd partition by using a Robust File Copy program. Every time the drive would hang on a file, I'd pull it off the USB, shut it down, wait an hour or so, and try again. Little by little, got all of the necessary data.

Should I run across this again, I'll give the IFL version a shot.