WD Backup Restore is crawwwwwwling

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Been utilizing WD Backup for local backups (I also use an offline service), and had to reformat my large RAID 5 array. No big deal, I though, as I have a local backup on my 4TB EasyStore drive.

Ugh… I kicked of my just under 4TB data restore early Friday morning, and it’s now Monday afternoon, and the restore is only 24% complete. This is ridiculous! Now trying to decide if I should stop it to change something (the drive is currently connected through a powered USB 3.0 hub, so wondering if that’s having an impact on transfer rates) and either restart, or try to continue where it roughly stops at. Or whether I should go ahead and order a USB drive from my offline backup service to hopefully speed things up.

Has anyone else experienced super slow restores with WD Backup?

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Well my My Cloud Home was the slowest backup I’ve ever seen. It took, I’m not kidding, a couple of months to backup my photo library - and directly copying a couple of TB of movies from a USB3 drive took something like 3 or 4 days.

So not a particularly helpful answer, sorry - but I definitely have shared your pain.