10-15-2007, 12:50 AM

I want to back up my PC regularly now, but it really has to do better than this or theres no way that'll ever happen..
Whenever I back up my Macintosh HD to my NAS server, the speed is around 0.30 MB/s. My NAS and my Macbook Pro are both on my LAN, connected via cables, 1000 and 100 mbit. Nobody else is accessing the NAS, and I'm not doing anything on my Macbook either that stresses the harddisk.

When I go to activity monitor there seems to be a problem. The disk activity goes up and down and up and down, and there is a process SDCopy that is Not Responding and seems to be reading the harddisk. When I quit it, SuperDuper says it failed to copy the files and aborts.

Is there anything I can do to make it work?

10-15-2007, 12:58 AM

Have you ever performed a full backup?

My advice is to let SuperDuper! do its thing and copy the entire disk once and then only perform smart backups. They only take 15 minutes or so on my 80GB harddrive that I back up daily.

10-15-2007, 01:22 AM

What I'm doing is a full backup to a new file, but it's not about how long it takes to copy 160GB, it's about the copy speed. At this speed, copying 160GB would take 150 hours. I assume you didn't wait for 75 hours when making a full backup of your 80GB drive?

10-15-2007, 01:48 AM

If you're doing it over SMB, it's going to be slow. Setup NFS.

10-15-2007, 06:01 AM

Oh ok, I just put smb:// in front of it cuz thats how all the IPs in the list are, but I removed it (assuming it would find the fastest protocol) and it now connects using afp://.

The speed is now around 0.80MBps, which is a great improvement but still very slow, especially if I want to make a full backup every once in a while. SDCopy is no longer Not Responding.

Is NFS the same or faster, and what is AFP?