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Default External hard drives...

On 06/11/2020 15:18, Tim Streater wrote:
On 06 Nov 2020 at 12:22:43 GMT, "Jim GM4 DHJ ..."
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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 ?


If you're doing a reglar, automatic, backup then the speed doesn't matter
particularly. And if it's set up to do incremental backups, then each one
takes very little time.

Proper computers come with that sort of software as standard.

my computers are road kill...I have been told...