[OSX-Users] Re: Time Machine tip

[Jules Field]

Where are you based?
And what does "traceroute mactardis.ecs.soton.ac.uk" produce as output?
150GB in, say, 13 hours = roughly 27 - 30 Mbits/sec.
Sounds on the slow side.

Please don't omit any top-level directories once you have a complete 
backup. It's a *lot* quicker to recover from a complete backup. So *do* 
include all your Applications and such like.

On 29/06/2015 15:26, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> I was using wifi the first time, and Jules asked me not to do that 
> again :)
>
> Wifi/wired actually didn't make much difference. My disk is full past 
> the 200Gb mark, although it's easy to exclude some obvious junk it's 
> still 150Gb and that estimated it was going to take >12hours!
>
> Right now I'm adding another 20Gb incrementally to my first backup and 
> that's just estimating it'll take around an hour which is a time span 
> I can commit to :)
>
> On 29/06/2015 15:23, Tim Chown wrote:
>> Were you using WiFi?  If so, maybe use Ethernet / a wired docking 
>> point for the Big One?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>> On 29 Jun 2015, at 15:20, Christopher Gutteridge 
>>> <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been trying to get up and running using time machine to back up 
>>> my mac, but the time to do the initial 200Gig means that I would 
>>> have to leave my laptop in one place for a very long time which is 
>>> very inconvenient.
>>>
>>> What seems to be working better is to exclude all the big 
>>> directories, and do an initial backup, then add in a few more to the 
>>> backup each time. Un-excluding higher directories on the later 
>>> iterations, (eg /Users/cjg ) but still excluding (/Users/cjg/music)
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>>
>>> University of Southampton Open Data Service: 
>>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
>>> You should read the ECS Web Team blog: 
>>> http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>>>
>>
>
> -- 
> Christopher Gutteridge --http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>
> University of Southampton Open Data Service:http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
> You should read the ECS Web Team blog:http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>

Jules

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