Time machine

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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hi

i am trying to use my 3tb MBL to do backup from my imac via Time Machine.

Its going to take up about 2tb but after 2 attempts everything on the mac is painfully slow and the backup just doesnt seem to be happening. 

I am connected to my Sky router via ethernet 

is this normal?

thankyou

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What version of the Mac OS do you have and do you get any error messages when you try to start the backup?

3

I know exactly where you are coming from with this issue.  I’m with the same ISP so have same router or similar - Netgear.  Transfer rates on my Mac with ML are 10mbps max using Ethernet.  So slow when compared to USB2, a real joke - bad one.

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thanks for the reply

i began my time machine backup again on thursday. Its a 2.6TB backup. its still going. except it feels like its just stuck . Is there anyone who can help with this as its rendering the MyBook useless and leaving me without a backup.

I am used to manually backing up big audio drives using firewire and never had a situation so complicated