Time Capsule versus Clone with SuperDuper

Hello
I have a question for heavy user working with macbook pro & TC.
Till now I made made my backup (Clone with SuperDuper), every 2-3 days on an external WD 500Gb Passport. Works fine but the incremental backup over FireWire take allways about 45-60min. This because he always backup 2 large file which I use every day
- Entourage Database (5.5Gb)
- Parallels Data Files (about 32Gb)
My HD is about 80% Full, but most of the files are not change because it are tools and masterimages of files from clients.
Is it workable to use the TC over WLAN for the Backup. I think TM will update both files every hours so my system runs in continues mode when it is connected to TC. Who can advise me if this is a workable solution? Or are there some trick. For me it is clear that the first time backup need to be done over 1000Gb/s Ethernet, but I think even this will take 10-12 hours.
Maybe it is better to use my old backup solution also in the future. The only disadvance is that with SuperDuper I have no versionation of the backups. Maybe better then to use 5 external firewire drives.
Any suggestions
Regards
Gérard

Hello Gerard and welcome to the discussions.
A few thoughts:
Continue to use your FireWire drive to backup the Entourage Database and Parallels Data Files.
Use Time Capsule to backup everything else, excluding the Entourage and Parallels files. With TC trying to backup every hour, this just won't work with files this large. I know that it is not possible to do incremental backups with Entourage because of the file structure (monolithic, I believe it is called) and assume from your description that Parallels is the same type of file structure. I exclude the Entourage database from my TC backups and instead backup to a small separate USB drive daily. All seems to be well.
If you do elect to use the Time Capsule in your system, you are smart to use ethernet for the first backup. Subsequent incremental backups will go much faster since only changed files will be backed up (assuming you exclude Entourage and Parallels),so wireless should work well assuming a good connection.
Another thought, if you do not need to backup hourly, take a look at Time Machine Editor, http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/, for options on setting the backups whenever you would like with Time Capsule and Time Machine.

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