Is there a trick to speed up Backblaze?

[jagooch]

I'm doing an initial Backblaze backup of around 6TB total. After 2 weeks of non-stop backing up, it's completed 1.3TB or 650GB / week.

If it doesn't speed up, it will take roughly 2 months total or 6 more weeks for my initial backup to complete. My performance settings are:
Manual Throttle: Faster Backups
Backup Threads: 1
Schedule: Continuously
* The thread setting is the default "1 (recommended )" of the Backblaze app.

Related info
ISP : centurylink
Speed: 1GBps
Macbook connection: Ethernet

Are there any hacks to get the backup to go faster? I read Backblaze's knowledge articles and didn't find anything there that I was not already doing.

 

[HDFan]

After 2 weeks of non-stop backing up, it's completed 1.3TB or 650GB / week.

That's about 8 Mbps, which is good for an inexpensive unlimited services. My last major crashplan (home) backup took months.

The thread setting is the default "1 (recommended )" of the Backblaze app.

Backblaze seems to be checking system resources and making a recommendation. In my case it recommends 6 threads:




This message seems to say that Backblaze can saturate your internet connection, implying that there is no upload restrictions other than those imposed by your system hardware.

I would try bumping up the number of threads while monitoring system resources: cpu, memory, and just the backblaze portion of network activity,

What is your ISP's upload capacity? I have a fast downloads, but just 10 Mbps uploads.

 

[jagooch]

It's a 1GB symmetrical connection, so 1GB upload or download

 

[HDFan]

What happens when you increase the number of threads?