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The thing that worried me was the hostname in the prompt: cjg-vpn.
Are you actually using a VPN connection at the moment? Or is that
just a prompt left over from when you did from home?<br>
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As Jules implies, if you had a wired connection you should shift
that volume over a 1Gbit/s link in 1-2 hours, typically. I
suspect your estimate may have been based on the wifi performance.
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then 50Mbit/s (20GB over an hour) seems very slow for GigE.
Though I don’t know how Time Machine does its thing - maybe much
of the time is taken by its processes, not the network?</div>
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Might be worth asking Seb to look at the network monitoring to
see if anything’s up.</div>
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<div class="">On 29 Jun 2015, at 16:06, Christopher
Gutteridge <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mactardis.ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">mactardis.ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>
(152.78.68.161), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets<br
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1 sys2010-router.core.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.69.126)
0.779 ms 0.352 ms 0.309 ms<br class="">
2 mactardis (152.78.68.161) 0.570 ms 0.349 ms 0.331
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cjg-vpn:DrupalPush cjg$ <br class="">
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But remember that's with me using the machine too.<br
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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.<br class="">
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Where are you based?<br class="">
And what does "traceroute <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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produce as output?<br class="">
150GB in, say, 13 hours = roughly 27 - 30 Mbits/sec.<br
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Sounds on the slow side.<br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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I was using wifi the first time, and Jules asked me
not to do that again :)<br class="">
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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!<br
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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 :)<br class="">
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Were you using WiFi? If so, maybe use Ethernet /
a wired docking point for the Big One? <br
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Christopher Gutteridge <<a
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<div class="">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.<br class="">
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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)<br class="">
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-- <br class="">
Christopher Gutteridge -- <a
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href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg"
class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg">http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg</a></a><br
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University of Southampton Open Data Service:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://data.southampton.ac.uk/">http://data.southampton.ac.uk/</a><br
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You should read the ECS Web Team blog: <a
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href="http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/">http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/</a></a><br
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Christopher Gutteridge -- <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg">http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg</a>
University of Southampton Open Data Service: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://data.southampton.ac.uk/">http://data.southampton.ac.uk/</a>
You should read the ECS Web Team blog: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/">http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/</a>
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email+iMessage: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Jules@ecs.soton.ac.uk">Jules@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>
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University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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Christopher Gutteridge -- <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg">http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg</a>
University of Southampton Open Data Service: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://data.southampton.ac.uk/">http://data.southampton.ac.uk/</a>
You should read the ECS Web Team blog: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/">http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/</a>
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Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
email+iMessage: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Jules@ecs.soton.ac.uk">Jules@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>
Twitter: @JulesFM
Senior Tutor, Postmaster
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
'Think globally, act locally.' - Friends of the Earth
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