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Knowing that HDDs have a limited lifespan, I have last night taken the plunge for online backup. After a lot of reading of reviews etc, I registered with Backblaze for a free trial. On starting I clicked on "How long will my backup take?" The first estimate was 138 days So, I did a speed check on my broadband. Download speed a respectable 56mb. Upload speed, 2.16mb. WHAAAT!! Not only that, but after an hour of use, continuous use, they reduce that by around 30%, then after 2 hours a further 20%. This is rediculous. So, in an effort to try and reduce the time, I opened up the bandwidth to full for backblaze to use, meaning that I can't really use my browser for anything else because all resources are going to my backup. I also took two of my hard drives out of the backup, so it's really just my onsite backup drive that is being backed up!
Have you any suggestions to try and speed things up? Is there a way to compress files to speed up uploading? Or, is this just the way it is? I know nothing about this stuff, so any help appreciated,
Cheers,
Garry
Knowing that HDDs have a limited lifespan, I have last night taken the plunge for online backup. After a lot of reading of reviews etc, I registered with Backblaze for a free trial. On starting I clicked on "How long will my backup take?" The first estimate was 138 days So, I did a speed check on my broadband. Download speed a respectable 56mb. Upload speed, 2.16mb. WHAAAT!! Not only that, but after an hour of use, continuous use, they reduce that by around 30%, then after 2 hours a further 20%. This is rediculous. So, in an effort to try and reduce the time, I opened up the bandwidth to full for backblaze to use, meaning that I can't really use my browser for anything else because all resources are going to my backup. I also took two of my hard drives out of the backup, so it's really just my onsite backup drive that is being backed up!
Have you any suggestions to try and speed things up? Is there a way to compress files to speed up uploading? Or, is this just the way it is? I know nothing about this stuff, so any help appreciated,
Cheers,
Garry
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