Unitiserve backup.
Posted by: David O'Higgins on 17 February 2013
I have ripped 428 albums to my Unitiserve and I set it to backup to a WD MYBOOKLIVE 2tb drive. The backup started at 04.00 this morning, as setup. Now, nearly 10 hours later, it has backed up only 71 of the 428. Is this a normal speed for a backup? At this rate, the backup will take 60 hours.!
Pinging the WD gives response of about 15ms.
It's in line with me experience with USB2, which took 3 weeks to back up my NAS store of 3,000 albums. I subsequently converted to USB 3 which managed it in under 2 days.
Gerry
Thanks Gerry, and forgive me if I ask another question, which may or may not make sense. The WD is NAS; where does USB come in to this?
David
Hi David, I have the SSD Unitiserve and use my NAS as the primary store my music collection. The NAS is set up with RAID 1 giving a mirror copy to a separate HD in the NAS. I then do a back up to an external USB drive. Twice, actually, as I store one copy off-site.
Gerry
Ok, so that's different to my setup. My son tells me that he thinks that while the two devices are connected to the home network, they are actually communicating over Internet. If so, does anyone know how to get them to communicate directly over Ethernet?
Please excuse my technical illiteracy!)
Ok, so that's different to my setup. My son tells me that he thinks that while the two devices are connected to the home network, they are actually communicating over Internet. If so, does anyone know how to get them to communicate directly over Ethernet?
Please excuse my technical illiteracy!)
David, if the two devices are connected over the home network, and not via a usb cable, then yes that is an 'internet type' connection. "Ethernet" is a term that describes a collection of technology used in your home network -- mostly referring to hardware stuff. The actual data transmission on your home network (in layman's terms; a network expert will cringe!) is done using a protocol called tcp/ip, where the "ip" stands for "internet protocol." So yes it's Ethernet, and yes broadly speaking it's an internet type connection.
You do want to connect those two devices via your home network, and not physically/directly with an ethernet cable run directly between them.
I hope that this helps a little!
Bart, I'm just surprised at how slow the backup is. Is there anything I can do to speed it up?
I know that it won't matter once it's backing up every day, but it just seems at odds with the blurb on the WD Box about speed, etc.
David
Once your backup is done, then future backups will be exception ony and much faster