[Ti] Retrospect vs. ABS Plus (back-up solutions)

[Malcolm Hamilton]

Hi all,
I recently bought Retrospect 6.0 to back up to an external fw drive, 
which I've now done a few times.  I'm sure this is a good program, 
but I'm amazed by how long it takes!  My first back up took quite a 
while, understandably, but my incremental backups since then also 
seem to take a long time.
(I should mention right now that I'm using a powerbook Titianium, 
400MHz, with 768 MB or RAM).
I timed my last back-up:  it took just over an hour; and it was 
working at around 200 MB/minute.

An option I'd consider, if people here who use it recommend it highly 
enough, is the CMS ABS Plus hardware/software unit.  It claims to 
work at speeds of 400 MB a second!  (vs. 200 MB a minute for 
Retrospect).

I realize that on my older powerbook I wouldn't get the "blazing" 
speeds CMS lays claim to, but even at half that speed, 200 MB/second, 
it would be 60 times faster than my Retrospect experience.

Any thoughts on this?  Thanks in advance,
Malcolml