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Netger R9000 how long to to backup using ReadyShare Vault? It's been running for >20 hours!
I am trying the ReadyShare Vault backup routine on my new NetGear R9000 and just wondered if it should be expected for this to take a LONG time - this is the first backup?
I set it running around lunchtime yesterday using the backup routine and set a password for access. It is now about 8am the next day (best part of 20 hours later) and it is still only showing about 55% complete.
I guess it's possibly backing up somewhere approaching 1TB of data. The computer it is backing up from is attached via a Cat5 cable to the R9000 and there is a new Seagate drive running which is attached to the router via one of the USB3 ports as per the instructions. If it is going to take over a day to do a backup each time this might not be of much use as the system will be constantly backing up and I might as well go back to my straight copy of all my data to my old Western Digital drive which used to take <30 minutes.
Can anyone offer some advice please?
I'd like to know if this sort of time duration is normal - it is already running the (supposedly) faster routine taking more system resources.
It is the first ever backup and obviously it is writing the data all for the first time. However, I'd like to know if this sounds normal behaviour and if subsequent back-ups are quicker i.e. is it one of these systems where subsequent backups only change files that have been changed since the last time?
> I guess it's possibly backing up somewhere approaching 1TB of data.
> [...]That's not a small amount.
> [...] I'd like to know if this sort of time duration is normal [...]
It may be. You need to consider that you're dealing with the actual
source storage device and the backup software on the Windows system, the
network hardware, the file sharing software running on the
(sub-amazing?) CPU in the router, the USB interface speed, and the
actual destination storage device attached to the router. Many of those
considerations vanish with a destination storage device which is
directly connected to the source system. Without a much more detailed
analysis, I would not bet that the router's USB interface is your
bottleneck.> [...] and if subsequent back-ups are quicker i.e. is it one of these
> systems where subsequent backups only change files that have been
> changed since the last time?
Almost certainly.> [...] NAS [...]
I also wouldn't bet that a "true" NAS system would greatly improve
your times. My NAS experience is limited to small Seagate devices
(NAS 220, and similar -- SATA disks, gigabit Ethernet), and I haven't
done any large transfers to one lately, but I've spent at least a whole
day waiting for an initial (Mac Time Machine) backup (smaller than 1TB)
to finish. Running the experiment would be much more reliable than any
advice you're likely to get here.I _would_ expect a real NAS gizmo to suffer from fewer firmware bugs
than the slapped-together mess of freeware which you'll find for file
sharing on a Netgear router. However, the primary advantage of a real
NAS gizmo is RAID. When your single USB-connected disk fails, you
typically lose all the data on it. When a disk fails in a RAID system,
you don't.
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It's now up to 24 hours running and still only 68% completed!!!
Greetings,
You've just learned a valuable lesson. Backing up to USB is the problem. Thats your bottleneck and weak link. Consider another destination like true network attached storage (not network attached USB) and you will be much happier with the results.
Hi shadowsports many thanks for that - at least my system is not behaving unexpectedly.
However, it begs the question as to why Netgear advocate attaching a diskdrive via USB3 to act in a back-up capacity then supply software that appears to be designed for the task when such a system, would appear from your comments and my experience, to not be efficient.
Perhaps I'll let it complete this time and see where it leaves me, but if it is going to take that long each time it is needed then I think I'll try to sort out another solution. You mention 'true Network Attached Storage' is that these so called NAS drives? Please bear with me - I am on a steep learning curve here - so 'Network attached' does this imply that these are drives hard wired into the network via the router Cat 5 ports or similar ports in an extension box via something like a Cat 5 ethernet cable? I've looked online and found NAS drives listed, but some of these still seem to suggest a USB3 connection where you suggest that USB is the problem.
Would I get a partial solution if the PC I am backing up had a USB3 connection like the R9000 has? Is this something that I could install if the machine motherboard had a spare slot? Would it help, or do I really need this network connection to a drive (presumably through that cat5 ethernet cable I mentioned above)?
