After quite some time deliberating the pros and cons of different backup mechanisms, I finally chose to go with a NAS drive. The main reasons for this were so that both my iMAC and MacBook can access it via Wi-Fi.
So yesterday I finally found time to open the box and set it up.
However, it is taking a painfully long time to do the first backup, which I know is "normal" but I just didn't expect the first backup to run into days. I expected it to be a number of hours, but so far 24 hours in and it is about 20% complete!
I am backing up around 1Tb of image files and after initial testing of the NAS drive using Wi-Fi, I changed to using it hard-wired into the router because it seemed too slow via Wi-Fi. I have my iMAC connected via the Gigabit ethernet socket to the Gigabit ethernet connection on the router using a CAT6 cable and the NAS drive is connected to the router via normal ethernet connection.
Is it normal for it to take this long? I was expecting (hoping) that it would be quicker than this and I am now concerned that if has taken 24 hours to back up around 200Gb of data then if I shoot just one 32Gb card of data and run another back up, it will hours to do this just to do the incremental backup.
Anyone have any experience of setting up NAS drives and can give any pointers?
Equipment being used is iMAC (with Gigabit ethernet), Western Digital EX4100 (with x2 4Tb Red drives fitted in RAID1 configuration) and BT Homehub 4 router (in the United Kingdom) which does have a Gigabit connection. Cat6 ethernet cable connecting the iMAC to the Router.
Thanks,
Ross