Synology Data Replicator 3 slow

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I took delivery of my new Synology DS213 Air NAS yesterday, and set it up with 2 x 3TB WD Red drives, all working fine in no time. I created some shares on the NAS as backup locations, and last night set Data Replicator 3 off to do a backup (Sync with initial full backup) of about 350Gb data from our laptop.

This morning I saw that the backup was still running, having only managed 100Gb overnight, and with 17 hours remaining to complete! Is this normal? The laptop was connected to my router directly via Gigabit ethernet.

Is Data Replicator 3 a recommended solution for PC backups? I like the 'Sync' option with this software.

Earlier last night I transferred a 750Mb file from my desktop to the NASas a test and that went across fine in a few seconds... didn't test the laptop to be fair, but didn't expect it to be this slow!

Any ideas? Is anyone using DR3 in this way?
 
I have a Synology DS212 with a pair of Samsung 2TB drives in it which I am swapping out for WD reds. I ran a backup to an external 2TB drive using the USB3 port and to transfer 1.8TB of data over took about 14hrs in total using the Synology backup app.

So they are slow.

I think if you format the USB drive to EXT4 it is faster than NTFS.
 
This morning I saw that the backup was still running, having only managed 100Gb overnight, and with 17 hours remaining to complete! Is this normal? The laptop was connected to my router directly via Gigabit ethernet.
What size are the files that you're copying over? The speed you're talking about is about 4MB/s which is OK if you're shifting lots of sub 1Mb files but no use if it's all 100MB+ stuff.
 
Thanks for the replies. The folders I tried to back up contained 91,000 files in 6000+ folders, so quite a few small ones I suspect! I've just started off a backup of 'C:/Users/Home', which is 100Gb less than last night (I did 'C:/Users' then), so we'll see how that goes.

I read about Synchronicity which sounds quite good for free if I don't get on with DR3.
 
I've had 2 BSOD's with DR3 running. never had any on the laptop before, so I'll try Syncronicity. Had a play at work backing up my work machine to a share and it looks good, and allows multiple schedules which DR3 doesn't...
 
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