Seems a bit slow. I usually get about 10GB/hour throughput on wifi
backups, so I would expect 125GB to easily complete in a day. Of course
if your machine goes to sleep or other things use up bandwidth your
mileage may vary. There was also discussion about issues with slow
performance on wifi in certain situations which seems to be an OSX bug:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19083821#19083821#19083821
That said, once you get your first backup done the incrementals should
be much faster.
CB
On 11/11/12 5:40 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
Thanks for all your support,
As we speak the backup is going slowly but surely.
Could anyone of you experts suggest a course of action to try to
attempt the wired connection with a cable without passing through
router? At the moment I have the ethernet connected to both macs
without a router but I have a feeling that the network is still
happening over wifi.
It is very slow for now. 2 days for 125 gigs.
Thanks again,
Ioana
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On Nov 8, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com
<mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote:
I've had pretty good luck with time machine over wifi. I have an old
Mac G4 running in the basement with a 500GB drive for time machine
backups wired to my wifi router. I then have sharing turned on and
mounted that drive on a laptop and told time machine to use it. It
seems to back up a lot of the time since I'm back on 802.11G since my
Airport died. It was much more reasonable with 802.11N. In other
words, if you're patient you might be fine just doing time machine
backups over wifi and will have no need of a frankencable setup.
CB
On 11/7/12 12:31 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
You are correct in most accounts. Time Machine will continue from
where it left off if all things are equal, meaning that you're using
the same Backup location and configuration as well as connection
method. Yes it should be much quicker on future backups.
With respect to the Internet connection being lost when the ethernet
cable is connected. Try going to the System Prefs, in the Network
pane. In the Actions pop-up menu, choose "Set Service Order" and
then drag the WIFI above the Ethernet service. This should allow
the WIFI to maintain its Internet connection but still allow
connectivity between computers with the ethernet cable. Note that
"should" is my favourite word in computer-land so I'm not promising
that it will work perfectly. I do, in my world, use multiple
network services but these are usually in a Server environment so
your machine may behave differently.
Good luck.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2012-11-06, at 12:50 PM, Ioana Gandrabur <igandra...@gmail.com
<mailto:igandra...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for your detailed response.
Like you said, it opens up more questiones than it answers.
I have a sighted husband that could help with non VO friendly
solutions. Could you mind telling me what those might be?
Also, I am just thinking letting timemachine do its thing although
it takes forever. I am thinking that for subsequent bakcups it
would be faster since there is less to update. Do any of you know
if timemachine can continue backup where it left off if the backup
was interrupted? IN this case am I risking corrupted data?
hanks very much!
Ioana
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On Nov 5, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com
<mailto:kilbur...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
Migration Assistant is a different kettle of fish. Although, the
basic answer is yes, sort of. Some complications will arise
though if you are planning to have the units tethered more or less
permanently. Normally, the ethernet connection is a higher
priority than the wireless one thus once the connection is made,
you will lose your IP address and most likely lose your Internet
connection. There are workarounds for this sort of thing but they
are not typically VO friendly.
The connection speed should be quicker than WIFI and depending on
your router, could be slightly quicker then going through it as well.
The problem I see with your design though is that, unless your
other Mac is set up as a server, using it for Time Machine backups
is not as easy as it appears. My suggestions for this would be to
either have some sort of network access storage either through
your existing router (if it supports it), to use a Time Capsule or
Airport Extreme with external HD, or convert your other Mac to a
MacOS Server. Financially, if your router supports NAS, that's
the least expensive route, purchasing the MacOS Server is only $20
and the most expensive would be the Airport Extreme or Time
Capsule route. Just because life is never easy, the less
expensive routes are not necessarily the easiest methods to configure.
Sorry, probably just gave you more questions than answers.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2012-11-05, at 1:40 PM, Ioana Gandrabur <igandra...@gmail.com
<mailto:igandra...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
Just wondering if it is possible to connect 2 macs on a wired
network directly with a cable. THe router is very far away from
both to be close to the dsl plug on the wall. I thought that just
connecting with a cable should do it since I did this with pc for
migration assistent.
If it is indeed possible, how do I make sure the connection works
and is it slower than passing through a router?
Thanks for your help.
Best,
Ioana
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