Windows 10: ?? easus todo users .. incremental smart backup taking too long

I downloaded and am learning to use easus todo backup software.

I am trying to figure out how to use the smart backup feature. .After making my first backup of my Data drive, I added 2 small jpgs to my picture folder to see how long it would take to make a new backup which would include the incremental addition of the the 2 jpg files.

The smart backup has been in progress for 10 minutes with an estimated 1 hour and 17 minutes to completion.
I have a WD usb3 external drive hooke up to a new ASUS laptop

Why would it take so long to add 2 small jpg files to an existing 700 GB of backed files. The backup drive is 2TB in size?
Is this normal? If not what am I missing? Thanks for your help

:)

 

Restore Points fail on my Windows 10 pro pc

REPOSTING => ...you may need to do a Refresh - or a
Reset or even a
clean install of Win10 - to fix this.

Note: Since a Refresh is nearly as radical as a Reset, I wouldn't do a Refresh.
And since the EASUs TODO image you created may have been horked by Advanced SystemCare, too, it's probably best NOT to restore the EASUs TODO image - start from scratch with a clean install (then stop using ASC).

 

How can I do an incremental backup on Windows 10

I do understand that it's not their core business to provide good backup software. It would be great anyway, if that was supported natively by Windows in the future. ^^

Found EaseUS Todo Backup now, it seems to be a solid free backup software, at least found good reviews about it. If it turns out to be bad software I'm gonna post it here, if not, you can assume that the program works well for incremental backups.

So the final answer to my original question would be: Windows 10 does not natively support incremental backups.

Have a nice day y'all.

Edit: Why can't I mark my own post as answer?

 

Hi, it certainly doesn't take me that long to create a differential image of several 100Mb of data- that's either SSD (80Mb)/USB3 external drive or an internal HD (5400rpm)/USB3. Maybe 10-20 mins, perhaps less.

Incremental imaging will have to somehow check each file against the version (if any) in any of your base image + incrementals prior to this one. The basis of comparison may vary from program to program (hash, date...).

How fast this happens depends on the achieved transfer rates, how fast your system is and how busy.

In your case you just have the base image for comparison, so I'd have thought that time rather long.

Comparing 20 Drive Imaging Software Backup/Restore Speed and Image Size • Raymond.CC - Page 2
- here Easeus seems to be the fastest for incremental - note the original sizes above- some 2.2Gb added to 12Gb I think

(I use Macrium and Aomei Backupper- used to use Easeus)