bkbs Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 Always backed up using wired connection with no probs but now need to back over wireless - I have one client running XP Pro and a Laptop client running Vista. The backups take an extremely long time, (desktop 11hrs for 22Gb, 16hrs for 40Gb on laptop. OK I know that wireless will be slower but with 802.11g 54Mbps is this the best performance I can expect? Client version is 7.5.116, Retrospect version is 7.5.508 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blm14 Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 well you wont be backing up 40gb every night - just for the initial snapshot. Differentials will be much less. How fast is your wired network? Gigabit? 40gigs over 16 hours is actually over 700k/sec which is about all you can expect - maybe a little faster... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 Retrospect does not do differential backups. Retrospect does a progressive backup, which basically means after the initial full backup of the data, it will just copy the new or changed files since the prior backup that backup set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blm14 Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 sorry wrong nomenclature, but my point was that after an initial snapshot, subsequent backups contain much less data Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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