Online Back up

I don't use backblaze, but I'd be willing to bet that after it actually starts backing up your new downloads, that extreme time estimate will go down. I know when I copy a huge chunk of files to a new location it always over-estimates at first.

 

I use backblaze- when I did the initial download- I had the settings so it ran constantly. Now that I've done that- it only runs at night. Maybe check to see what your settings are? 72 days is still a LONG time!

 

Check your settings--back when I had Backblaze, I seem to remember that I had to tell it how much of the system's resources the program could use. If you have that set very low, it could account for the long backup times. I also kept my laptop on and plugged in overnight for a couple of weeks during my initial backup so it would finish faster. It's possible your issue is because of the upload speed available through your internet provider, and unfortunately that's a lot harder to work around.

 

It is, but depending on the internet speed, it might not be.
At my house, if I go into the Performance right now, it'll backup 29 GB/Day. I've seen that higher, and lower depending on where I'm at. My initial backup was on a much slower internet speed, and I believe it topped off at 10 GB/day?

Open the Backblaze Control Panel. Click Settings. Check the Performance tab. I let mine be Auto, but you can choose manual, and tell it to do faster backups and see if that makes a difference. Also, when I did my initial backup, I told it to only do photos. I excluded all the other folders until my photos were done. Because that was what was most important to me. And I second the leave it running overnight if you can.

 

So, my initial backup was easy-going all my photos were on an external drive. I told it to only backup the external.
However, in setting someone else up, what I did was stay as high on the folder hierarchy as possible. And exclude that. It didn't take too long to do it that way because her photo folder was on the desktop.
Does that make sense? I can show you if it's unclear.

 

Jennifer, have you set up exclusions? I have a big list of file types I excluded and it really helped hurry it along.

 

Your "To Backup" list is very similar to my list. What I did was Google different file extensions I didn't recognize as I saw them in the "Files Scheduled for Backup" list (under Settings). There were some I decided not to exclude, but many that I did. Here's my list:
wab~,vmc,vhd,vdi,vo1,vo2,vsv,vud,iso,dmg,sparseimage,sys,cab,exe,msi,dll,dl_,wim,ost,o,qtch,log,ithmb,vmdk,vmem,vmsd,vmsn,vmss,vmx,vmxf,menudata,appicon,appinfo,pva,pvs,pvi,pvm,fdd,hds,drk,mem,nvram,hdd,swm,ppkg,lua,dat,xml,db,sdb,jfm,kdz,enc,json,mbdb,xpe,srd,rbs,js,slc,irs,dmp,igpi,jcp,bak,etl,tmp,sth

Some of these may be from BB's automatic list that you can't edit, but most of them were added by me. Perhaps that gives you an idea of what you could exclude? Don't just copy and paste my list though lol cuz perhaps there's a file type in there that you do want backed up. I also excluded a few folders, including appdata, music, and Microsoft. I figured I could back up my music if I wanted, but I don't need it: it's all in the cloud via iTunes or Amazon anyway. The thing is, BB chooses in what order to back stuff up. Since we, the users, can't pick and choose, I wanted to eliminate as much extraneous stuff as I could.

 

Sorry, I don't use blackblaze. I just wanted to send you XOXO because I just noticed you are back!!!! btw. love your siggy!

 

So, depending on your file structure, it could change what your computer looks like. But, for example, on mine, once I drop down to the drive (E: on mine) I can see a lot of folders that would be easy to exclude for my initial backup.
I would leave the Scrap Stuff, My Photos, My Documents, and Fonts but exclude the ACDSEE, Adobe, etc. Then go back and add those once my important files were done.
I still have some of the Microsoft folders excluded.

 

202 to 198 to 19 is AWESOME. Crossing my fingers it stays low!