On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Arden Currie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Have you looked at the partitions with gparted.
>> <http://gparted.sourceforge.net/> What did you format the drive to begin
>> with?
>> Arden
>
> I did not look at GPartEd.
>
> I used DiskUtility before, and a repartitioned it now with DU.
> Most of what was on there was backups, and I don't think I needed
> anything from the old time machines.
>
> But initial backups of big disks over wireless are slow. Is there any
> way on 10.5.8 to hook a drive up locally, and use the network format
> of backup?
I've lost track of what brand and type of device you're talking about here.
However, it's apparent that backup software is not going to know or care
whether you are communicating with a network backup device via wireless or via
an ethernet cable, and the cable will be faster (especially if your device does
gigabit).
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