Hi,
Would really appreciate help.
Bought a new external HDD (WD My Passport 4TB) to function as my Backup Disk for my Win7 64bit System for the built-in Windows Backup/Restore tool.
The exernal WD disk connects to my system via USB 3.0.
System disk is an SDD. Also have an internal HDD for storage.
I encrypted the whole 4TB WD external disk with Vera Crypt.
I used the encryption that had the highest performance in the benchmarks, AES in my case.
The encryption of the drive took place with satisfactory speeds (around 80-95 mb/s).
Then, I realized that Win7 Backup/Restore tool does not recognize the mounted Vera Crypt volume as a hard drive that it can backup to.
I researched and found one note of someone who said he circumvented this with a virtual hard disk.
Hence, I created a VDH on the vera crypt volume. VHD of fixed size: nearly all of the available space, but I left 40GB free, because I thought I should not use all the space on the volume.
The creation of the VHD also seemed to progress with a 'normal' kind of speed. Still took a very long time because of the 4TB drive, but it was done when I left the computer overnight.
When I mounted this new VHD, Windows Backup did recognize that new volume and it was a selectable disk for the backup.
Now, before actually backing up on this new encrypred disk, I wanted to migrate the contents of my old backup disk (a WD 2TB external HDD) to this new encrypted back up disk, so I still have my old backups available.
My old backups were 2TB of size, so I did not want to use Windows Explorer for the copying.
I googled and decided to try / use Tera Copy, so I can pause/resume the process if some problem arises.
Now, this transfer started out fine, with speeds of about 80mb/s.
I left the computer overnight, but on the next day, I realized the speed had come down very, very much. I think it was like 500kb/s.
The whole system seems a bit unstable, the new hdd aspect.
Sometimes I open diskmgmt and it hangs on 'loading disk information'.
My computer basically froze 2 times, it must somehow be connected to whatever's going on here with my copy/pasting or the mouning of a close to 4TB VHD.
Had to hard restart once without dismounting the VHD or the vera crypt volume first, because the whole system broke down and I could not access diskmgt anymore to eject the VHD.
When I rebooted though, I was able to mount everything again and continue the copy process in Tera Copy.
I thought maybe Tera Copy is at fault, but when I paused Tera Copy and tried out the normal Windows Copy/Paste, it was even slower than Tera Copy, like 300kb/s.
Does anyone have any tips I could try out?
I disabled indexing on the Vera Crypt volume and the VHD.
I dont have any other processes doing any kind of copying or anything like that. No antivirus scan in the background or the like.
Sometimes, when I eject the VHD and then the Vera Crypt volume, and then re-mount everything, it will start out with a better speed (like 9mb/s), but then it slows down again to 200kb/s - 500kb/s.
The copy process is still going on, and the ETA is like 18 days :-/
Let me know if I forgot to supply some important information.
Would really appreciate any tip or help !
Thank you.
Would really appreciate help.
Bought a new external HDD (WD My Passport 4TB) to function as my Backup Disk for my Win7 64bit System for the built-in Windows Backup/Restore tool.
The exernal WD disk connects to my system via USB 3.0.
System disk is an SDD. Also have an internal HDD for storage.
I encrypted the whole 4TB WD external disk with Vera Crypt.
I used the encryption that had the highest performance in the benchmarks, AES in my case.
The encryption of the drive took place with satisfactory speeds (around 80-95 mb/s).
Then, I realized that Win7 Backup/Restore tool does not recognize the mounted Vera Crypt volume as a hard drive that it can backup to.
I researched and found one note of someone who said he circumvented this with a virtual hard disk.
Hence, I created a VDH on the vera crypt volume. VHD of fixed size: nearly all of the available space, but I left 40GB free, because I thought I should not use all the space on the volume.
The creation of the VHD also seemed to progress with a 'normal' kind of speed. Still took a very long time because of the 4TB drive, but it was done when I left the computer overnight.
When I mounted this new VHD, Windows Backup did recognize that new volume and it was a selectable disk for the backup.
Now, before actually backing up on this new encrypred disk, I wanted to migrate the contents of my old backup disk (a WD 2TB external HDD) to this new encrypted back up disk, so I still have my old backups available.
My old backups were 2TB of size, so I did not want to use Windows Explorer for the copying.
I googled and decided to try / use Tera Copy, so I can pause/resume the process if some problem arises.
Now, this transfer started out fine, with speeds of about 80mb/s.
I left the computer overnight, but on the next day, I realized the speed had come down very, very much. I think it was like 500kb/s.
The whole system seems a bit unstable, the new hdd aspect.
Sometimes I open diskmgmt and it hangs on 'loading disk information'.
My computer basically froze 2 times, it must somehow be connected to whatever's going on here with my copy/pasting or the mouning of a close to 4TB VHD.
Had to hard restart once without dismounting the VHD or the vera crypt volume first, because the whole system broke down and I could not access diskmgt anymore to eject the VHD.
When I rebooted though, I was able to mount everything again and continue the copy process in Tera Copy.
I thought maybe Tera Copy is at fault, but when I paused Tera Copy and tried out the normal Windows Copy/Paste, it was even slower than Tera Copy, like 300kb/s.
Does anyone have any tips I could try out?
I disabled indexing on the Vera Crypt volume and the VHD.
I dont have any other processes doing any kind of copying or anything like that. No antivirus scan in the background or the like.
Sometimes, when I eject the VHD and then the Vera Crypt volume, and then re-mount everything, it will start out with a better speed (like 9mb/s), but then it slows down again to 200kb/s - 500kb/s.
The copy process is still going on, and the ETA is like 18 days :-/
Let me know if I forgot to supply some important information.
Would really appreciate any tip or help !
Thank you.
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