[OSX-Users] Re: Time Machine tip

[Christopher Gutteridge]

traceroute to mactardis.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.68.161), 64 hops max, 52 
byte packets
  1  sys2010-router.core.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.69.126)  0.779 ms 0.352 
ms  0.309 ms
  2  mactardis (152.78.68.161)  0.570 ms  0.349 ms  0.331 ms
cjg-vpn:DrupalPush cjg$

But remember that's with me using the machine too.

None the less, the basic approach of cutting the initial backup into 
chewable portions has entirely solved my problem, as a workaround, and 
may well be of use to others in future.

On 29/06/2015 15:43, Jules Field wrote:
> 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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>
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-- 
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/

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