Hi, I'm trying to back up my hard drive to an external hd for the first time using superduper. It's been running for about 3 hours and looking at the progress bar, i'm thinking somethings not working... how long should it take does anyone know? Thanks!
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emw
macrumors G4
How much data are you backing up? How is the external HD connected?
i'd agree that 3 hours seems like a fairly long time, but if you have a lot of data going over a USB connection, it could very well take several hours.
When you say "looking at the progress bar, i'm thinking somethings not working", do you mean it's not actually moving, or just moving slowly? How far along is it?
i'd agree that 3 hours seems like a fairly long time, but if you have a lot of data going over a USB connection, it could very well take several hours.
When you say "looking at the progress bar, i'm thinking somethings not working", do you mean it's not actually moving, or just moving slowly? How far along is it?
I don't know exactly how much stuff I'm transferring (the entire contents of my hard drive, but how do I tell what that is?). And it is over a usb. The progress bar hasn't moved at all really and it just says "312 of 467, 473 files evaluated, 312 copied..."
emw
macrumors G4
If it's stuck there, I'd guess that there's an issue with the copy. Unless file 312 is about 200GB or something 😉
Can you cancel the operation from within the application?
If not, if you go to Force Quit... under the
menu, does it say that Superduper is not responding? If so, you might need to force quit it.You can tell how much data is on your HD by doing a Get Info... on it.
Thanks again, I dont mind it taking a while so long as it is actually getting done.
And the external hd is making noises every so often, so maybe that's a good sign (?)
And the external hd is making noises every so often, so maybe that's a good sign (?)
Odd, I can back up about 40 gigs in about 40 - 50 minutes with SuperDuper. I do use a firewire external drive however. Is USB that much slower?
emw
macrumors G4
USB (not 2.0) is, I believe, limited to something like 12Mbps, where Firewire can go to 400Mbps. So Firewire could theoretically complete the transfer 30x faster. So 40 minutes to 13 hours isn't surprising.
YIKES!!!
That's why I'm glad I went with Firewire800 for my external backup drive. The first time I backed up my user files (~40GB) it took relatively little time. The subsequent updates to the backup files are only taking about 5 minutes to evaluate and transfer maybe 1-2 GB each time.
That's why I'm glad I went with Firewire800 for my external backup drive. The first time I backed up my user files (~40GB) it took relatively little time. The subsequent updates to the backup files are only taking about 5 minutes to evaluate and transfer maybe 1-2 GB each time.
ok, now I'm using firewire and it's moving nice and fast. I had been using usb and it was incredibly slow, but it looks good now. It looks like it'll take about an hour to copy 120 GB, (instead of forever!)
