Hi guys,
I'm new to the Mac, and thusly new to SuperDuper!. Since installing the backup software, I've noticed extremely slow backup speed to my networked file server (i.e. 0.5 MB/s over 802.11g and 2.0 MB/s via gigabit ethernet).
For reference:
Notebook: 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro
OS: OS X 10.4.8
Networked File Server:
Thecus N5200 RAID5 with three 400GB SATA drives
Network: Wired gigabit + Linksys 802.11b/g router. (Wired gigabit network directly to file server.)
I've been using SMB protocol for my network shared drives, and I think this is why I've been having some throughput slowdowns. The moment I activated the AFP protocol on the RAID server and connected via AFP, my wireless throughput jumped 4-5x. I haven't yet tried the wired connection, but I expect that I'll see some performance increase there, too.
If you've been having agonizingly slow backup speeds and you have the ability to use AFP instead of/in addition to SMB, you may have better luck.
I will post my wired throughput after I've had had a chance to give it a try.