One particular file, bzfileids.dat is at a porky 973.9 MB.Īt any rate, I don’t think my backup would be complete before I have to leave North Carolina, but at least all of critical files are back up now. In addition to this, I noticed that BackBlaze was taking up 2.38 GB of data on my disk for its own purposes. However, that’s probably the most optimistic estimate since the speeds have crawled to a slow and conspiculously consistent 0.1 GB/hr since 3AM this morning. Since I have approximately 260 GB to back up, it would take me 13 days to back up at 0.87 GB of data. Calculating just all of Saturday and Sunday, the transfer rate improve to a 0.87 GB/hr. However, the first 24 hours (all of Friday) seemed very eratic in transfer rates, with no files transferred at certain hours in the afternoon hours. That is a 51.8 GB over 80 hours, or 0.65 GB/hour. The last reading is on 8am this morning at 72.9 GB. On Thursday midnight, the back up started at 21.1 GB. The red is the data backed up in 10 megabytes per hour (100 = 1 GB). The blue is the overall cumulative data stored in Gigabytes. I’ve charted the hour-by-hour backup for the past 80 hours into google docs and charted out the backup process over this time. Having only two weeks of time left to back up ~330 GB of data, I decided to park my laptop and external drive at the university for the past weekend and see how it fared without user interruptions and at Ethernet speed. Initially, I thought the backups were slow because I was using the laptop or that my internet connection at home was too slow. Though I like the service they provide – unlimited cloud storage at $5 per month, I realize the speed which they promise the users is always on the optimistic side of the spectrum. I am not going to chance it again.Īfter much consideration, I decided to go with BackBlaze. Last time I had a data disaster, I lost all my pictures without a backup. As I prepare for my move out to California, I decided to back up all my data online lest my Drobo and other hard drives get lost during the transition.
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