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Subject: [Leica] OT - Time Machine problems
From: gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:19:39 +0000
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Tarek

I am on Firewire 800. I am going to leave it overnight tonight and see how 
it comes down. The new disk is working the whole time so it is doing 
something.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
+44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
+44 (0)797 287 7932
www.gwpics.com

On 13 Dec 2012, at 18:17, Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi Gerry,
> 
> It sounds like you're backing up via WiFi or USB? You really should use 
> FireWire 400 or 800 to de the BU. 56 days is far to much, 1Tb shouldn't 
> take longer than overnight?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tarek
> 
> Le 13 d?c. 2012 ? 14:38, Gerry Walden a ?crit :
> 
>> This is for the Mac users on here please.
>> 
>> I have just rather frighteningly discovered that my external hard disk 
>> has not been backed up for a long time because I excluded it from backup 
>> using Time Machine. As a result of including it now I needed a larger 
>> backup disk so I bought a G-Drive 2TB disk but it is taking for ever to 
>> back up. I only have just over 1TB to do, but it is saying it will take 
>> 56 days after running since last night (it is now 1.30 p.m. here). Is 
>> this normal? It has come down from around 73 days at 7 a.m. today.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
>> Gerry Walden
>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>> www.gwpics.com
>> 
>> 
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