Hi all,
I was wondering about Time Machine as used on say a Time Capsule or alternative wireless storage device or NAS.
On my PC I currently backup with a hotswapable SATA 2TB hard drive. I push it in, make my backup and remove to a safe location.
I was considering Time Machine with either a NAS or Time Capsule. However, I was wondering how efficient that is over wireless. When I made my first PC backup (over 1.7TB) onto the hard drive, it took nearly 19hours. That was over the 300GB/sec SATA connection. Wifi is much slower, would it seriously take several days for the first backup? What happens when the Mac is rebooted during that time? And afterwards, how often does Time Machine do incremental backups and how long would this take?
Thanks for your help :O)
I was wondering about Time Machine as used on say a Time Capsule or alternative wireless storage device or NAS.
On my PC I currently backup with a hotswapable SATA 2TB hard drive. I push it in, make my backup and remove to a safe location.
I was considering Time Machine with either a NAS or Time Capsule. However, I was wondering how efficient that is over wireless. When I made my first PC backup (over 1.7TB) onto the hard drive, it took nearly 19hours. That was over the 300GB/sec SATA connection. Wifi is much slower, would it seriously take several days for the first backup? What happens when the Mac is rebooted during that time? And afterwards, how often does Time Machine do incremental backups and how long would this take?
Thanks for your help :O)
