"alan_m" wrote in message
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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 or is there a quicker way of transferring ?


The time wouldn't be unreasonable but often the time is an initial
estimate by the back-up software and the estimate may reduce dramatically
later on during the backup.

ok thanks