Depending on the speed of your connection and the size of your backup, your initial backup over the Internet may take several 

hours or even days. Many people with large backup sizes and slower Internet connections (such as dialup) will often run their first backup over the weekend. Once the first backup is completed, each subsequent backup is usually a small amount of data that can be backed up in just minutes over even a slower dialup connection.

Our software can also resume a cancelled backup, so you can start the backup during your slow times and cancel it during your busy times. The next time you start the backup, it will pick up from where it was cancelled until the entire backup is complete.