Just for the record, an update.
Encouraged by Chuck's last posting that I saw, I revisited the tool in XP that
enables drive formatting, stopped the slow backup that was taking place, and
did a full format of the drive onto which my backup is intended to be written.
That took about 2 hours, which I expected.
To correct Chuck's reasonable assumption, I have only 215 GB of data to
back up, not 1 terabyte.
Having done a full format, I started a new backup using NovaBackup again.
It started out looking promising; about 750 KB per second, and gradually
rose to a great rate of 5.5MB per second. Within 6 hours though it started to
steadily decline, and now it is running at 726 KB per second and the
estimated completion is forecast at an increasingly long time; now at 60
hours :-(
Looks as though I have no option but to grit my teeth and put up with it.
Thankfully, normal computer operations can continue throughout this time.
61,000 files totalling 30 GB done, 187,000 files totalling 186GB to go ...
Cheers, Brian
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