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Backup Laptop to External USB Drive via Router and NAS Backup very SLOW

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Hi, I backup my laptop (Core i7) to a 2TB external HDD that is attached to a NAS (Netgear Ready NAS DUO) which is in turn attached to a wireless router/cable modem (Netgear CDG24N). My laptop runs Windows 7 (64 bit) and the backup is incremental to the external HDD. The first full backup takes about 16-24 hours!!!!

System details are as follows:

Destination: 192.168.0.2\hdd\backup.tib
Compression: normal
Backup Priority: normal
Network connection speed: Maximum
Archive splitting: Automatic
External HDD format: NTFS
Download speed: 151 Mbps
Upload Speed: 1.13 Mbps

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael,

You could try to run some test to compare the backup process with simple Windows file copying. This should give you some comparables. For example:
- backup a single big file and compare with WIndows copy,
- backup a bunch of small files, and compare with Windows copy.

Make sure you disable validation first to run these tests. Validation can easily double the backup time.

Thanks for your help Pat, results of test is as follows:

Folder with many large individual files: 3.4gb
Windows copy & paste: 14 minutes
TIH 2009 full backup with normal compression: 8 minutes

Given that rate it will take approximately 8.5 hours to create an image of the 215gb of data on my C:\ drive. Is that considered normal or optimal? I thought the advantage of TIH was that it takes a much condensed snapshot image of the system. 8 hours for TIH vs 14 hours for a full copy and paste using windows.... there doesn't seem to be that much of a benefit, both will be overnight runs. Am I doing something wrong with TIH?

Well, back of the envelope, you are looking at 3.4*1024/14*60=4MB/s and change for your average transfer speed.
You should do a bit of research on this. I would expect between 6 and 8MB/s for file transfers on Wireless N. Your mileage will vary. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/30387-cheap-dr…

Now, looking at ATI's performance within your setup performance, you get a transfer in 43% less time than the OS. Not bad.

If your content is mostly already compressed files (.PDF, music and videos), then you don't gain by enabling compression. The transfer might be faster without it in this case.