cspencer@spdcc.COM (Cliff Spencer) (10/17/90)
I'm looking for a good way to backup my 100mb Mac disk through a high speed modem to a UNIX host. What is the best way to do this? -cliff -- Cliff Spencer cspencer@spdcc.com
gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (10/17/90)
Have you calculated the *minimum* time to do such a backup? At 1,000 characters a second (9600 baud), it would take you 100,000 seconds to backup 100Mb, i.e. a minimum of 27 hours). If you allow for, say, 50-80% throughput (which is likely if you're sending many small files), then it would take 2.25 days to make the initial backup. Will the phone company allow a phone call to last for this long? I'm not sure.