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SV650rules · 07-03-17, 10:32 PM

Reason it takes seconds to delete and hours to restore is because when you delete a file the data is not erased, the file gets a tag attached to tell the system that the space is available to be overwritten if it is required, this happens very quickly, but when you restore a backup it actually has to transfer the data from backup media to wherever the emails or files are stored, literally bit-by-bit, and ironically the backup is pretty much sure to be overwriting the files that were deleted so quickly.

Don't you just love computers.

07-03-17, 10:32 PM	#4296
SV650rules Member Mega Poster Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: Shropshire UK Posts: 1,363	Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours? Reason it takes seconds to delete and hours to restore is because when you delete a file the data is not erased, the file gets a tag attached to tell the system that the space is available to be overwritten if it is required, this happens very quickly, but when you restore a backup it actually has to transfer the data from backup media to wherever the emails or files are stored, literally bit-by-bit, and ironically the backup is pretty much sure to be overwriting the files that were deleted so quickly. Don't you just love computers. __________________ 2016 SV650 AL7 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain Last edited by SV650rules; 07-03-17 at 10:34 PM.