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Very long backup times

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I am experiencing very long backup times tio the Cloud, I just purchased this product and I am very unfamiliar with it.  I am trying to backup my computer now, it has been running for 1 hour and 45 minutes and the time remaining is !3D 2H 49M, is this normal?  Is so this is insane.  I have a moderate DSL 6GB and using Win7 in a reasoonably fast computer

Kelsey S

 

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Backup to Cloud is dependent on the upload speed of your internet service data plan.  Depending on what your plan provides will dictate the speed at whcih data backup to cloud will perform. 

So bottom line is that slow upload is due to your connection in all likelyhood and not that of the product.

Impossible to answer without specific figures as so much will depend on your upload speed and how much data you're uploading (as well as internet and the cloud storage loads at the time)

Broadband connections typically range from 340kb/s up to 20Mb/s, which will upload at about 34kBytes/s to 2MBytes/s. So each GByte will take anything from about 8-9 hours to about 10 minutes, depending on your upload speed.

At the worst upload speed, 3 days or so should be long enough to upload around 10 GBytes.