I have over 1,000,000 files on my boot drive

[hal]

according to superduper, it's about to copy over 1,000,000 files to my backup drive...

I remember when my pre OSX drive went over 10,000 files. I thought that was an insane amount...

[voodoopenguin]

I would take quality over quantity every time.

[hal]

yeah...only a few hundred of them are really any good...

[voodoopenguin]

Report back next week when it's finished.

[Jimmypoo]

I just copied 55GB (700,000 files) via USB2. Took a few hours, but it eventually made it. I don't have large files. Occasional 100MB file, otherwise, unless it's a DMG, they are under 10MB, and often a mere 100k. And that crap takes longer to copy than a nice, contiguous movie, instead of 5000 files with icons, labels, comments, etc.

BUT Time Machine is workin' via USB2 at the moment. Because it is my MiniStack, I'll try it soon with a FW cable and see if all shows the same. I've regularly used these drives via either connection over the past few months with no issues, booting or otherwise.

[modelamac]

How many are cache and log files?

How many are unused language.lproj files? This can be huge. Try Monolingual (free).

How many emails do you still have in the email Trash that you didn't empty?

How many .dmg files for software you downloaded, and now don't need?

My point is that you don't backup what you don't need.