At this rate initial BU will take 61 days...

I set up my TC up on March 4th. I had no idea it would be SO SLOW and I started the backup wirelessly. It's been working on the initial BU since then and so far it's backed up 4.4 GB out of 135.85 GB. At 2.2 GB a day, it should be finished sometime in May. Needless to say, I'm not impressed yet.
Here's my question...it's doing a wireless BU right now. If I move the TC and hook up an ethernet cable, can I stop the BU and restart in order to connect via the cable? Is it going to mess up the initial BU? I can't keep doing it like this; it's ridiculous!
Thanks in advance!

Ouch! Sorry to hear about that. Yes, you can stop and restart. After few moments in 'preparing' mode, it should pick right up where it left off.
Once that initial backup is done, unplug the cable and don't worry about it. The backups after that first one are incremental (only the stuff that's changed), it will take much less time and space. I'm doing our third machine right now (we installed it last night, the other two went smoothly), and don't even realize that Time Machine's doing its thing in the background.
Hope that helps!

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Initial System backup takes DAYS!!!!

I attached a USB HD to a new Extreme Base Station and started TM.
It's been going 35 hours and completed 26GB of 112GB!!!!
I have seen others complain but this is pathetic. Why is it not going faster - especially when the computer is not in use?
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I don't have a TC and don't use TM, but based on my Unix/MacOS X experience, would like to offer these things to check:
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Can you share them if possible?
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There are no hard and fast rules on this and it always depends on factors unique to each project. I can share with you how I would do it, should my boss ask for such an estimate. I assume you already planned for the requirements gathering, design, testing and implementation and here only focus on estimating the development work of forms/reports.
What is the baseline effort for new programs (forms, reports, stored procedures) ?
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....and then once somebody in the management stratosphere looks at the effort estimate and decides its too much and cuts it by half and tells you the good news later that he has already committed you to the slashed effort.

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At this rate initial BU will take 61 days...

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