Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks everyone. I think I have solved the problem by following the advice of a friend and long-time Mac user. I turned everything off and on again, and the time is now down to 14 hours and dropping. Thanks agian to all those who tried to help. Gerry Gerry Walden +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or +44 (0)797 287 7932 www.gwpics.com On 13 Dec 2012, at 20:10, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> wrote: > Gerry, > > Firewall 800 should be pretty fast, much less than 56 days. Much faster > than backing up to a NAS gigabit Ethernet. Over a gigabit Ethernet > connection to my home-built NAS, I've seen backups as fast as 80-100 MB/s > in bursts. Bigger (RAW) files makes the backups go much faster. If you > have lots of little files, it's gonna to take longer. > > When I backup my laptop (about 1TB of storage) to a new Time Machine over > gigabit Ethernet, it takes about 12 hours. I am lazy and just let it run > overnight. > > Regards, > Spencer > > On Dec 13, 2012, at 13:19, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote: > >> Tarek >> >> I am on Firewire 800. I am going to leave it overnight tonight and see >> how it comes down. The new disk is working the whole time so it is doing >> something. >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >> www.gwpics.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information