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<blockquote data-quote="TyesMacs" data-source="post: 1634234" data-attributes="member: 232255">Good afternoon all. It's been a while since my last post but that is a good thing.....until now.On my 2008 iMac, I'm running Mavericks with a 1.5 TB HDD (just over 500 GB used) and 6 GB of memory. I want to upgrade to Yosemite so I decided to back up the hdd (I was doing it prior to this but my WD Ext drive died so I had to start over). My iMac overall functions pretty well for its age. I have a 1.5TB ext hdd serving as my Time Machine backup, connected via Firewire. I know that an initial backup will take some time but out of the just over 500 GB to be backed up, its only backed up 50 GB....after running continuously for SIX days. The destination hdd is a fully functional 1.5 TB WD drive that has two partitions: 1TB for TM &amp; 500GB for redundant storage of important files outside of my internal hdd. I will run Onyx later today just to confirm the hardware is still good. I have tried what I know but now I've reached my limited final frontier. Perhaps with some wisdom, I can expand that here. Thanks in advance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TyesMacs, post: 1634234, member: 232255"] Good afternoon all. It's been a while since my last post but that is a good thing.....until now. On my 2008 iMac, I'm running Mavericks with a 1.5 TB HDD (just over 500 GB used) and 6 GB of memory. I want to upgrade to Yosemite so I decided to back up the hdd (I was doing it prior to this but my WD Ext drive died so I had to start over). My iMac overall functions pretty well for its age. I have a 1.5TB ext hdd serving as my Time Machine backup, connected via Firewire. I know that an initial backup will take some time but out of the just over 500 GB to be backed up, its only backed up 50 GB....after running continuously for SIX days. The destination hdd is a fully functional 1.5 TB WD drive that has two partitions: 1TB for TM & 500GB for redundant storage of important files outside of my internal hdd. I will run Onyx later today just to confirm the hardware is still good. I have tried what I know but now I've reached my limited final frontier. Perhaps with some wisdom, I can expand that here. Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]

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