When you're copying over 100GB. Ugh, it's gonna take forever.

Please kill me.

For that size using something like rsync could probably help a good deal.

Additionally, consider splitting backups into archive fragments (Tar balls ;)), if you aren't already :)

@lotd Hmm, good suggestion. Will try that.

@lotd Why is rsync better? Just curious.

@620hun its designed for file transfer and works great over ssh, honestly I don't know the details of how it works under the hood but have had good results, in particular over ssh..

This post is a pretty good read on the topic :)
http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/...

Dunno if btsync would help here but I always get great speeds. Around 11MB/s over local network and usb. Would probably get more but I only have 100Mb network switch :p

here comes my ssd-obsessed friend saying "SEE?! I told you SSD is so much better than HDD and now you're paying for not listening to me!!"

fyi, I do actually have an ssd-obsessed friend, although he's not crazy xD

Well at least it isn't the Windows XP days when it'd take 325 days or even 1019 years to copy.

@Disreality I've actually got an sshd which is a hybrid with, uh i think it was 8 GB of ssd space and the rest is HDD. Or something like that. Still took years though since the sheer amount of really really small files crashed my computer when I ran out of ram.