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

[Peter Schumacher]

At 13:55 Uhr -0400 19.10.2004, Malcolm Hamilton wrote:
>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.

Malcolm,

  we use Retrospect a lot and I've seen such a slowness if something 
is wrong with hardware.

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