Indigo Incarnates
So... My portable hard drive bit the dust and I wanted to back up my netbook since it's just a dinky 2 pound machine and therefore fragile. But hey, I have over 100 Gb of unused space on my domain account so I figured I'd just back up the hard drive to a hidden ftp directory on my domain.
Well... It is working... Slowly. My internet connection is my tethered cell phone. I've been running the backup since Sunday. It's 83% complete now (and it's Friday!)
What they don't tell you about wireless broadband is that the upload speed is a small fraction of the download speed. On the bright side, once it's finished, the next time won't take nearly as long since it will only have to upload changed files.
It's a good think I'm patient, eh?
[ add comment ] ( 2 views ) permalink So... My portable hard drive bit the dust and I wanted to back up my netbook since it's just a dinky 2 pound machine and therefore fragile. But hey, I have over 100 Gb of unused space on my domain account so I figured I'd just back up the hard drive to a hidden ftp directory on my domain.
Well... It is working... Slowly. My internet connection is my tethered cell phone. I've been running the backup since Sunday. It's 83% complete now (and it's Friday!)
What they don't tell you about wireless broadband is that the upload speed is a small fraction of the download speed. On the bright side, once it's finished, the next time won't take nearly as long since it will only have to upload changed files.
It's a good think I'm patient, eh?
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