Crashplan for Dummies, aka Step by Step :)

skim32 wrote:
...I'm on Verizon Fios 25/25 plan and am seeing speeds at around 9Mbps. Anyone know if that's a limitation of Crashplan? Or I wonder if my Fios service isn't living up to it's advertised plan. My speedtest results show around 20Mbps, so I am curious as to what other people are seeing.

I have Verizon Fios 35/35. Speeds vary quite a bit - it depends in part on what is going on with Crashplan Central, and partly on the NAS (and your ISP of course). I've seen it vary from 1.5 Mbps to 18 or so. 9 Mbps is fairly is typical.

I've set the WAN sending buffer size to 2560 KB, and the receiving message buffer size to 512 KB in backup settings. I also have data de-duplication set to "minimal" and compression set to "off" in advanced backup settings. This seems to give pretty good performance.

I've also made a few adjustments to my.service.xml on the NAS which seems to speed up some file types. They certainly helped in the beginning, but I haven't confirmed how much they help with 3.2.1. PM me if you want details on that.

I don't recall the exact performance of my initial backups, but I know I was uploading an average of ~70 GB per day, perhaps more. There is a short performance thread here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61412 you might want to add to it.