Sorry, but your answer has nothing to do with what I said? Totally off mark.
- When I copy files from my laptop to the mybook, I get great speeds (7-13mbs)
- When I use Time Machine I get 100k
That’s clearly an issue to do with TimeMachine being screwed up…not the drive, or network as you suggest???
SOLUTION THAT WORKED FOR ME - (use at own risk blah blah blah)
You need to DELETE TimeMachine from the MyBook, and start again:
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Go to Dashboard → http://mybooklive.local/
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Go to Shares
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click the Trashcan on the offending TimeMachine folder
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Create a New Share (make it public)
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Click Settings → System - Mac Backups
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Enable, and select the Share you just created.
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go to TimeMachine preferences
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Select Disk
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Select the Share you just created
Presto…“fast” backups again (Not that 7mbs is a fast backup, but definitly beats 100k!!!)
By the way here’s a great tip to see if you’re backups are slow…or even just to test how fast transfers form your Macbook to the mybook live are:
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Go to Activity Monitor
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Select Network
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And analyse “Data Sent/sec” figure.
To get most accurate results close browsers, and torrents etc…there’ll still be a little bit of overhead from network traffic…but it will be negligable.
