This isn't much consolation I guess . . . but only the first backup will take a long time; subsequent ones will be incrementals. I would also make sure you're only backing up documents and not your whole drive to an online service . . . upload speeds are just too slow to really do everything a la Time Machine.Sounds like you're only doing data though since you selected 'personal account'. On May 5, 2008, at 06:49, Tim Collier wrote: > I chose to back up my personal account. It began the process and > has given > me an estimate of 10 days to perform this task. Wow, that's super! > The > only problem is that in 9 days, I'm leaving for Europe.