On 06/11/2020 12:22, Jim GM4 DHJ ... wrote:

I have all my stuff on a 1tb external drive....yesterday I bought
another to back it up...doing it at the moment and it says it will take
three and a half hours is this correct

might be

What quantity of data?

What kind of external drive? (spinning rust, or SSD)

Connected via USB presumably, but which version? (Blue insert on the
socket = USB3)

or is there a quicker way of
transferring ?

there might be, depending on the answers to the above, and how much
complexity you are happy with.






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Cheers,

John.

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