Rescue and Recovery Backup

How long does it usually take for you guys to do a backup using thinkvantage rescue and recovery? I tried using it for the second time tonight and let it run for roughly 2 hours at which point it still said 0% completed. I couldn't cancel so I had to stop R&R in the task manager. I was backing up to a external hard drive and when I looked to see if anything was backed up there were a bunch a new files and two new folders called MiniNT and Preboot, does the back up not consolidate into one folder? I am basically trying to figure out if my R&R is working correctly. Can anyone help me out?

 

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I backed up my system to dvd's a few nights ago using Lenovo's R&R, more as a test of the burner than anything else.

Anyway, I ended up with 4 dvd's - R&R Startup, 1c, 2c & Final C. (Those were the names for the backup discs I was told to use)

The whole process took somewhere between one and a half to two hours.

 

Thanks for bringing up this issue. I came to the forum tonight to see if anyone else was experiencing that problem and to see if there is a solution. It worked for setting up the external drive as a bootable drive (or says it did) but it has been at 0% on the backup for way too long.

 

I have met this problem on some new Vista systems. But I still don't know how to deal with. I advise you should contact lenovo to solve it.

 

Checking with Lenovo is probably the best next step. I cannot get the R&R to do a full system backup (it made the recover discs okay, but that's just a restore to the factory image). I tried the full system backup from within Vista. It also failed. Not encouraging.

 

OP - you're doing this on your T60 with XP Home?

docdeh - you are having the same problem on Vista?

 

I've been experiencing the same problem with R&R backup hanging with the 0% progress on one of several T61's I've tried the backup on. Normally a full backup takes about 45 minutes, but that time depends on how much data you have on the disk. I tried reloading the OS to factory specs on this one system; pressing the ThinkVantage button on restart to access the restore to factory feature, which works great, but takes about two hours. The backup problem still existed after the restore. I also checked msconfig to verify that Scheduler_Proxy was enbled on startup, and it was. Finally, I decided to take another look at the Rescue and Recovery window to see if I have missed anything; at this point, I'll try anything. Hmmm, what about the Optimize backup space button, I've never tried it, so I clicked it and the system did some heavy processing for a few minutes, and completed successfully. Next, I tried the backup feature again and behold it started cranking, just like I've seen on other systems. It ran the backup to completion, so give that Optimize button a try if you are seeing this problem. Apparently Optimize cleaned up some corruption in the backup space, even though I had nothing there to begin with.