This will of course be determined by MANY factors, including the speed of your computer, the number of profiles in your database, and other complexities like how detailed / large your local profiles are, cover scans, etc.

My database contains profiles for all the titles I now own (3,087) plus all the titles I have owned in the past (1,439). There are plenty of people with larger collections, but this is a fair number of items for Profiler to be tracking for me. I don't know how many years of my life I've got in manipulating, tagging, documenting in notes, etc., but I'm pretty worried about the loss of data, and I back it up frequently.

I have a pretty robust server type system running Win7 Pro 64-bit on an eight core processor, with 32G of RAM, eight 2.2TB drives in a RAID60 with five hot spares all run off of an LSI Megaraid 9260-16i, including the fancy performance enhancing CacheCade Pro option using three SSD drives as additional cache to the 512MB on the controller itself.

I think the system is pretty fast at most anything it does.

Even so, my backups are taking just over four (4) minutes to complete.

I guess I'm happy about that, but would still like to hear from other people as to their experiences with backup speeds for their collections on their systems.

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I guess I'm happy about that, but would still like to hear from other people as to their experiences with backup speeds for their collections on their systems.

0:01:25 for a backup of all 1422 profiles without covers and cast&crewDB. This includes the time to start DVD Profiler because it is done by a batch-file so I don't have to rename the files.

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I regularily sync my filesystem with another location on a completly different drive. It only takes a few seconds because it only syncs the files that have changed.

So this is basically a file copy operation rather than the File -> Backup Database/

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I regularily sync my filesystem with another location on a completly different drive. It only takes a few seconds because it only syncs the files that have changed.

So this is basically a file copy operation rather than the File -> Backup Database/

Yes, but it fulfills the same basic purpose. I have a backup of all my data on a different drive which I can restore if I made a major mistake or if my HDD crashed.

Backing up everything, with coverscans, headshots, etc... usually only takes me a little under 5 minutes for 5,731 profiles.

3.8gb total size of backup file.

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0:01:25 for a backup of all 1422 profiles without covers and cast&crewDB.

So doing it your way (limited backup) I got it under 2:30 for 4,526. That makes a difference for sure.

But be careful, the cast&crewDB-exclusion might bite you in the posterior if you use Cast & Crew pictures. If not this thing is quite irrelevant, c&c is of course present in the profiles itself.

For the covers I do make a manual backup every once in a long time, because as a phpDVDProfiler-User I have those covers online as a quasi-backup anyways.

I have a rather small collection of 1550 movies.

Backup takes about 3 minutes, and is 1.2 Gb. Most of size and time is taken by gallery images (15500) and headshots (~95% of crew and ~60% of cast have headshots). For covers I use rather small images (540x375) since I don't really care about what is on covers.

You guys are so lucky having these nice fast machines... I have about 4,500 titles and I normally do backups without images to speed things up but tried a full back-up today just to see... so

WITHOUT cover scans: 8 minutes.
WITH cover scans: 23 minutes.

Which is why I, like bbbbb, set it going and then leave it!