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How long will it take to backup a megabyte of data?

April 26, 2017backup Data megabyte

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How long will it take to backup a megabyte of data?

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A megabyte of compressed data takes 40 seconds with an ADSL connection to the Internet. However, that 1 megabyte of compressed data could have begun as 3 megabytes of word processing or spreadsheet data or 10 megabytes of database (accounts, records etc.) type data.