Yesterday I picked up a My Cloud 4TB single-drive unit, because my old time machine drive died. The features look cool, but this has me worried: I started a backup 24 hours ago, and this is how far it’s gotten:
That’s about 7GB/hr, or 210KB/sec. Is this what I should expect? I need to figure out whether this is acceptable.
I’m running 10.7.5 on a 2007 Mac Pro. The My Cloud is attached to a 1GB switch, with the Mac Pro (1GBE) attached to the same switch.
Are you saying that I should configure the mycloud via SMB rather than AFP? That’s the only suggestion I recognize in that thread. I’m game.
But…can anybody definitively confirm that Time Machine works over SMB? This is a technical question, as Time Machine uses directory hard links, which are arcane and unsupported by most file systems (but presumably are supported in AFP).