<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you’re going through one router and no firewalls, 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><div class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
Might be worth asking Seb to look at the network monitoring to see if anything’s up.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class="">Tim</span>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Jun 2015, at 16:06, Christopher Gutteridge <<a href="mailto:cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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traceroute to <a 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 class="">
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 ms<br class="">
cjg-vpn:DrupalPush cjg$ <br class="">
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But remember that's with me using the machine too.<br class="">
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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 href="http://mactardis.ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">mactardis.ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>" produce as
output?<br class="">
150GB in, say, 13 hours = roughly 27 - 30 Mbits/sec.<br class="">
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 class="">
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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 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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Christopher Gutteridge -- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg" class="">http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg</a><br class="">
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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 class="">
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><br class="">
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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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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jules
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Christopher Gutteridge -- <a 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 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 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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