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How long does a 5 TB backup take?

ConnectionIdeal time100 Mbps4d 15h 6m 40s500 Mbps22h 13m 20s1 Gbps11h 6m 40s2.5 Gbps4h 26m 40s10 Gbps1h 6m 40s

Backup windows need headroom

These are line-rate baselines. Compression, encryption, deduplication, file count, storage throughput and other traffic can increase elapsed time.

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