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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: dumping to a UNIX host
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Date: 17 Oct 90 01:57:00 GMT
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Have you calculated the *minimum* time to do such a backup?  At 1,000
characters a second (9600 baud), it would take you 100,000 seconds to
backup 100Mb, i.e. a minimum of 27 hours).

If you allow for, say, 50-80% throughput (which is likely if you're
sending many small files), then it would take 2.25 days to make the
initial backup.  Will the phone company allow a phone call to last for
this long?  I'm not sure.