Hope yours is better than mine. Technically it can do 1GBs from my house to the provider, but actual measured throughput to a remote location is less than 500MBs... That and many sites throttle their outputs to keep their overall transmission rate below their ceiling for all combined users so... Unless it's a dedicated point to point service you aren't getting what you paid for.Now i have an 1 gigabit fiber connection over here.
I have AT&T's 1Gb symmetrical offering. In general it does quite well.Hope yours is better than mine. Technically it can do 1GBs from my house to the provider, but actual measured throughput to a remote location is less than 500MBs... That and many sites throttle their outputs to keep their overall transmission rate below their ceiling for all combined users so... Unless it's a dedicated point to point service you aren't getting what you paid for.

So how long does it take to do that?I do, I transfer to remote sites 10's of GB sdcard image files and system (main servers and home automation) backups daily.
Not most people, but there are plenty of people that do. I have a friend that, at least internal to his home network, ran into bandwidth problems with 1 Gbps ethernet and so moved up to 10 Gbps. I know that he has at least a 1 Gbps Internet connection and was complaining about it being a bottleneck for him and was looking into moving up. Don't know if he found an adequate solution yet.Who actually needs/uses 1Gb/s speeds?

sma2-dir JobId 4377: shell command: run BeforeJob "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog"
sma2-dir JobId 4377: Start Backup JobId 4377, Job=BackupCatalogl.2026-08-03_23.10.00_19
sma2-dir JobId 4377: Connected to Storage "File4" at sma2.rain.com:9103 with TLS
sma2-dir JobId 4377: Using Device "FileChgr1-Dev1" to write.
sma2-dir JobId 4377: Connected to Client "sma2-fd" at 10.1.1.1:9102 with TLS
sma2-fd JobId 4377: Connected to Storage at sma2.rain.com:9103 with TLS
sma2-sd JobId 4377: Volume "Vol-0068" previously written, moving to end of data.
sma2-sd JobId 4377: Ready to append to end of Volume "Vol-0068" size=36,140,975,190
sma2-sd JobId 4377: Elapsed time=00:01:23, Transfer rate=81.80 M Bytes/second
sma2-sd JobId 4377: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 232 bytes ...
sma2-dir JobId 4377: Bacula sma2-dir 15.0.3 (25Mar25):
Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu debian forky/sid
JobId: 4377
Job: BackupCatalogl.2026-08-03_23.10.00_19
Backup Level: Full
Client: "sma2-fd" 15.0.3 (25Mar25) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,debian,forky/sid
FileSet: "Catalog" 2026-01-22 08:56:34
Pool: "File" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File4" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 03-Aug-2026 23:10:00
Start time: 03-Aug-2026 23:39:51
End time: 03-Aug-2026 23:41:19
Elapsed time: 1 min 28 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 1
SD Files Written: 1
FD Bytes Written: 6,789,812,292 (6.789 GB)
SD Bytes Written: 6,789,812,410 (6.789 GB)
Rate: 77157.0 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: None
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s): Vol-0068
Volume Session Id: 21
Volume Session Time: 1785781113
Last Volume Bytes: 42,936,666,110 (42.93 GB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
sma2-dir JobId 4377: Begin pruning Jobs older than 1 month .
sma2-dir JobId 4377: No Jobs found to prune.
sma2-dir JobId 4377: Begin pruning Files.
sma2-dir JobId 4377: No Files found to prune.
sma2-dir JobId 4377: End auto prune.
sma2-dir JobId 4377: shell command: run AfterJob "/etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup"
sma2-dir JobId 4376: shell command: run BeforeJob "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog"
sma2-dir JobId 4376: Start Backup JobId 4376, Job=BackupCatalog.2026-08-03_23.10.00_18
sma2-dir JobId 4376: Connected to Storage "File2" at sma2.rain.com:9103 with TLS
sma2-dir JobId 4376: Using Device "FileChgr2-Dev2" to write.
sma2-dir JobId 4376: Connected to Client "sma2-fd" at 10.1.1.1:9102 with TLS
sma2-fd JobId 4376: Connected to Storage at sma2.rain.com:9103 with TLS
sma2-sd JobId 4376: Elapsed time=00:03:12, Transfer rate=35.36 M Bytes/second
sma2-sd JobId 4376: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 232 bytes ...
sma2-dir JobId 4376: Bacula sma2-dir 15.0.3 (25Mar25):
Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu debian forky/sid
JobId: 4376
Job: BackupCatalog.2026-08-03_23.10.00_18
Backup Level: Full
Client: "sma2-fd" 15.0.3 (25Mar25) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,debian,forky/sid
FileSet: "Catalog" 2026-01-22 08:56:34
Pool: "File" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File2" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 03-Aug-2026 23:10:00
Start time: 03-Aug-2026 23:32:08
End time: 03-Aug-2026 23:35:43
Elapsed time: 3 mins 35 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 1
SD Files Written: 1
FD Bytes Written: 6,789,813,609 (6.789 GB)
SD Bytes Written: 6,789,813,727 (6.789 GB)
Rate: 31580.5 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: None
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s): Vol-0435
Volume Session Id: 20
Volume Session Time: 1785781113
Last Volume Bytes: 15,494,539,806 (15.49 GB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
sma2-dir JobId 4376: Begin pruning Jobs older than 1 month .
sma2-dir JobId 4376: Pruned 1 Job for client sma2-fd from catalog.
sma2-dir JobId 4376: Begin pruning Files.
sma2-dir JobId 4376: No Files found to prune.
sma2-dir JobId 4376: End auto prune.
sma2-dir JobId 4376: shell command: run AfterJob "/etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup"


I can stream movies fine even with 10M ADSL, so what kind of streaming needs 10G? Do people actually buy copies of movies and store them locally? I use Amazon and Netflix and AppleTV to rent/buy movies and for memorable movies I buy the blu-ray.Not most people, but there are plenty of people that do. I have a friend that, at least internal to his home network, ran into bandwidth problems with 1 Gbps ethernet and so moved up to 10 Gbps. I know that he has at least a 1 Gbps Internet connection and was complaining about it being a bottleneck for him and was looking into moving up. Don't know if he found an adequate solution yet.
As people continue streaming higher and higher definition video or uploading/downloading larger and larger image and movie files, the needs will continue to grow, particularly for households with multiple streaming devices in use at the same time or multiple users transferring large files.
Then, of course, you have small businesses that share the connection among all of the employees. 1 Gbps becomes pretty tame pretty quick for a company with a couple dozen employees.
May I ask what kind of data are you backing up? and what kind of volumes are those full/incs?Depends on system conditions, times are dynamic on other traffic and users.
Terminated Jobs:
JobId Level Files Bytes Status Finished Name
===================================================================
4231 Incr 10,551 814.2 M OK 28-Jul-26 14:11 hpl
4242 Incr 8,005 767.1 M OK 28-Jul-26 23:27 hp
4254 Incr 1,180 145.4 M OK 29-Jul-26 14:05 hpl
4264 Incr 2,661 330.1 M OK 29-Jul-26 23:13 hp
4276 Incr 1,180 144.9 M OK 30-Jul-26 14:05 hpl
4286 Incr 156,737 4.627 G OK 30-Jul-26 23:57 hp
4298 Incr 46,962 2.634 G OK 31-Jul-26 14:12 hpl
4320 Incr 1,249 145.4 M OK 01-Aug-26 14:05 hpl
4360 Incr 131,086 4.026 G OK 03-Aug-26 14:12 hpl
4370 Incr 153,695 5.241 G OK 03-Aug-26 23:27 hp
====
Terminated Jobs:
JobId Level Files Bytes Status Finished Name
===================================================================
4233 Incr 202 6.098 G OK 28-Jul-26 14:30 hp8l
4244 Incr 224 6.438 G OK 28-Jul-26 23:24 hp8
4255 Incr 232 6.469 G OK 29-Jul-26 14:11 hp8l
4266 Incr 215 6.136 G OK 29-Jul-26 23:20 hp8
4277 Incr 156 6.494 G OK 30-Jul-26 14:11 hp8l
4288 Incr 96,996 10.04 G OK 30-Jul-26 23:44 hp8
4299 Incr 97,040 10.14 G OK 31-Jul-26 14:18 hp8l
4321 Incr 264 6.559 G OK 01-Aug-26 14:12 hp8l
4356 Incr 454 19.56 G OK 03-Aug-26 11:36 hp8
4361 Incr 368 13.07 G OK 03-Aug-26 14:15 hp8l
====
Scheduled Jobs (224/100):
Level Type Pri Scheduled Job Name Schedule
=====================================================================================
Full Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 hp8l WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 hp8l WeeklyCycle_local
Full Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 hpdeskl WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 hpdeskl WeeklyCycle_local
Full Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 hpl WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 hpl WeeklyCycle_local
Full Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 sma2l WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 sma2l WeeklyCycle_local
Full Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 yayal WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 14:05 yayal WeeklyCycle_local
Admin Admin 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 clobber WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 gtv WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 hp WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 hp8 WeeklyCycle_skip
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 hpdesk WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 nmusic WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 nsma2 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 opidaq1 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 opidaq2 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 opiha WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 opiha3 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 rpigert WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 rv WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 sma2 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:05 yaya WeeklyCycle
Full Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:10 BackupCatalog WeeklyCycleAfterBackup
Full Backup 10 Tue 04-Aug 23:10 BackupCatalogl WeeklyCycleAfterBackup
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 14:05 hp8l WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 14:05 hpdeskl WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 14:05 hpl WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 14:05 sma2l WeeklyCycle_local
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 14:05 yayal WeeklyCycle_local
Admin Admin 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 clobber WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 gtv WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 hp WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 hp8 WeeklyCycle_skip
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 hpdesk WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 nmusic WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 nsma2 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 opidaq1 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 opidaq2 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 opiha WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 opiha3 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 rpigert WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 rv WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 sma2 WeeklyCycle
Incremental Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:05 yaya WeeklyCycle
Full Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:10 BackupCatalog WeeklyCycleAfterBackup
Full Backup 10 Wed 05-Aug 23:10 BackupCatalogl WeeklyCycleAfterBackup
This thread got me thinking so I went Gbs provider shopping... Only 1, our local independent Darien Telephone company. One of very few surviving independently owned and operated TELCOS left today. They do provide fiber to our house 4 miles from their operations building as well as some of the house on the coast of our county but not inland. Fiber right to the modem in our house. Which by their instruments from my home to their equipent does 1Gbs. but...I have AT&T's 1Gb symmetrical offering. In general it does quite well.

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