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Where are you based?<br>
And what does "traceroute mactardis.ecs.soton.ac.uk" produce as
output?<br>
150GB in, say, 13 hours = roughly 27 - 30 Mbits/sec.<br>
Sounds on the slow side.<br>
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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>
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I was using wifi the first time, and Jules asked me not to do that
again :)<br>
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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>
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Were you using WiFi? If so, maybe use Ethernet / a wired
docking point for the Big One? <br class="">
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<div class="">On 29 Jun 2015, at 15:20, Christopher
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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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University of Southampton Open Data Service: <a
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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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