slow back up using update on FW400

[avinator]

Both my main drive and the back up drive are encrypted using pgp. I am also running vmware with linux on my main drive. When I do the smart back up, the times are incredible long. it copies between 50 to 60 gigs each time I do a smart back and I know for a fact I did not add or modified 50 to 60gig...

I am puzzled? Does the vmware slow it down ?

Thanks

[dnanian]

Well, VMWare's disk image is pretty large, and likely accounts for much of that. And using PGP is going to slow it down, too... did you exclude the "PGPWDE01" file from copying?

[avinator]

Thanks for your reply. No I have not. I am puzzled on the back up time....If I backup with the smart update once every 2 days it takes close to 2.5 hrs to update 200gig worth of data. If I do the smart update the same day or right away after my first update it takes only 8 to 10 min - any ideas ? If i exclude the pgpwde01 file would that make a difference ?

[dnanian]

Yes, you definitely want to exclude that on the source if you're using PGPWDE.

[avinator]

Thanks. I don't want to sound ignorant, how do you exclude that pgpwde file ?

[dnanian]

The general steps are in the User's Guide, linked from page 1. The file you want to ignore is

PGPWDE01