Hi,
I started a full backup last night of a tired old Windows-based Dell NAS.
It's very slow. The filesystem is full and super-fragmented. I also have
compression turned on which makes the cpu work rather hard and slows things
down even further. 1.5MB/sec :-(
Anyhoo, this leads me to try and guess how long it will take. I ran an
estimate before I started, though I can't recall exactly what the figures
were. I don't really want to run one again now as that will slow things
down even more. Anyway, I'd then have to guess the file compression to
work out what the total amount to transfer is (as opposed to the total
amount of uncompressed data).
I realise a progress bar is a bit much to ask, but do people know of
sensible ways to estimate the time a backup has remaining?
Gavin
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