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I did a test backup to my Google account, 1.6GB of data – granted my internet upload is only 500megabit per second and I was in a zoom meeting at the same time (church) so it’s still running…at about 330MB out of 1.6GB…by comparison, if I uploaded to MASV a 400MB file, it would take 8 seconds at 50MB per second. So I am assuming if the image file of the backup is done first, maybe stored in a second partition on the local disk, then uploaded, to a fast or local server, that would save on time.
Maybe it stopped running or slowed way down to allow Zoom to run well? I have an older version of this and never used it because there is no way to easily turn off the “always on” features. I need to dedicate ALL my PC resources to music production when I’m doing that, I can’t have a synth or sampler or my DAW waiting on some other process — that would cause problems in anything I record.
That said, if this backup program can safely get out of the way when another program is running, it might work for me. No details on how long it sleeps before checking again, or how much system activity causes it to pause. Win 11 all by itself is ALWAYS running things, and I turn off what I can when working on music, but what criteria does backup use to decide when to run? And does it create a real disk/partition image, or just a collection of the files from the disk/partition?
Installation went smoothly.
After installing it offers to upgrade to a 10 day trial of version 26 Pro, the latest version. This can be extended to a 20 day trial. Prior to it downloading and installing version 26 Pro it has to uninstall version 25 Pro. I don’t know if it reinstalls 25 Pro after the trial of 26 Pro, but I doubt it. I chose the trial anyway. After it installed without issues, and announced it could be 26 Pro could be bought for $20 instead of for about $66. As I have yet to test the program I’m not prepared to make the decision.
