SOLVED Macrium Back-up. 4hrs for 30Gb after Patches

[Elmer BeFuddled]

First off I don't think this is a Macrium issue at all. Just grabbing ya attention don cha know!!

So. After being away for a week, for me, Patch Tuesday became Patch Sunday.
On Monday I decided to sort out and move my .flac and .mp3 files from my D:\To Rent () folder to my E:\Music folder. A total of 1.6Gb of pure Jam/Paul Weller was going to take in excess of 6 hours! So I stopped it. I cleaned out all the temporary etc. folders and tried again, this time it took about 15 minutes. That would be about normal.

On Wednesday I was due my fortnightly back-up with Macrium. The last back-up was for a System size of 27Gb and took less than 7 minutes. This time I was backing up 30Gb (!?! Aah, Acrobat Pro trial!!) so expected roughly the same. Everything started off well but about half way I decided to have a look at the progress. Macrium was telling me I had 4 hours to go for the last 53%!
So I did the same scenario as with the music files and started a fresh backup which took just over 8 minutes.

Now I've never had any issues in either of these, or any other, situations like this before.

So I'm wondering if it's anything to do with the M$ Patches?
Has anybody else had weird things happening (apart from the old Bee SOD's)?

 

[Fire cat]

Weird. These patches seem to be doing more harm than good.

My login screen reverted to the default, that's for sure... Some BSODs as well...
I don't know but it sounds like Windows is caching a lot, so when you run the backup it wants to cache that too :/

Though, 15mins still seems a lot for 1,6 gigs. I usually manage that in 4-5mins max, and probably 1 or 2 when using the command line (move command).

 

[Elmer BeFuddled]

Though, 15mins still seems a lot for 1,6 gigs.....

I'm probably just guessing there. Just knew it was a lot quicker than the previous 6 hour forecast! I'd moved a couple of folders "singly" before using the select all/cut/paste on the remainder.

I'm marking this as solved as it was more a mini moan / statement than a request for help.