4 days to back up 60G of data and I gave up, Any advice on how to speed this up

Legacy Products My Cloud OS 3
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You probably have something wrong on your local network for it to take that long to backup. Couple of things, first go with Gigabit (1000 Mbit/s) networking if at all possible. Second see the following link.

http://community.wd.com/t/before-you-pack-up-your-wd-and-return-it-lets-talk-about-copying-speeds/91887