16th April 2017, 3:38
Hi again leszek. I have now used BIT several times, initially creating full backups of my pertinent Tower user files last week on two USB sticks, & just now completing the first incremental backups to the same sticks. BIT is seriously impressive!! I like it more than my previous b/u pgms.
The only criticism possible is that, compared to the other pgms, it seems to use a lot more cpu. The full backups frequently used 90% - 100%**, & today's incrementals often used ~60%.
**As i was not expecting this, last week during the first attempt at the first full b/u to the first stick, i had kept one of my VMs running during the b/u [coz i wanted to play around inside the VM, until the b/u's on my "real" Maui were finished so that i could then stop playing in the VM & reopen my docs on my "real" Maui to get on with my activities]. Well, the combined [unexpected] cpu load of VM + BIT was so extreme that it actually froze Tower [yes, yet another freeze, but i'm assuming this one was my own fault]. Hence today i learned my lesson & ensured no VMs were running when i did the b/u.
The only criticism possible is that, compared to the other pgms, it seems to use a lot more cpu. The full backups frequently used 90% - 100%**, & today's incrementals often used ~60%.
**As i was not expecting this, last week during the first attempt at the first full b/u to the first stick, i had kept one of my VMs running during the b/u [coz i wanted to play around inside the VM, until the b/u's on my "real" Maui were finished so that i could then stop playing in the VM & reopen my docs on my "real" Maui to get on with my activities]. Well, the combined [unexpected] cpu load of VM + BIT was so extreme that it actually froze Tower [yes, yet another freeze, but i'm assuming this one was my own fault]. Hence today i learned my lesson & ensured no VMs were running when i did the b/u.