Homebrew Question How long does it take to make a complete Switch Nand backup?

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Well, just a quick question. I use the Hekate CTCaer mod, and I'm going to make a full backup but, between job and travel my time is a bit rushed.

I just want to have an estimated time, to be safe and don't disturb the console nor let it discharge in the process. I know it takes at least 30gb of space. The SD card is Adata exfat 64gb, and I'm on 4.1 .

Thanks in advance.
 

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Well, just a quick question. I use the Hekate CTCaer mod, and I'm going to make a full backup but, between job and travel my time is a bit rushed.

I just want to have an estimated time, to be safe and don't disturb the console nor let it discharge in the process. I know it takes at least 30gb of space. The SD card is Adata exfat 64gb, and I'm on 4.1 .

Thanks in advance.
On my 64gb exfat took 17 minutes.
 

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It took me about 15-20min...
And then again about 15min to copy the files from SD Card to computer.
Edit: All done on a 32Gb sd card
Is it possible to do a complete raw dump on a fresh 32GB card? I thought this is a block copy which uses the full 32gb of the emmc (and Hekate took some space on the card too)
 

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it depends on how many games you have installed on your switch.
When you have no games on the internal memory it tooks about 10 minutes to dump (100mb/s Sandisk 128Gb)
 
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It's taking forever to backup my NAND, I forgot about the games I have downloaded.
 
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it depends on how many games you have installed on your switch.
When you have no games on the internal memory it tooks about 10 minutes to dump (100mb/s Sandisk 128Gb)
Same here, same card. My 3rd Switch was virgin fresh out of the box 4.1 when I ran the backup, I didn’t time it but don’t think it was more than 20 minutes.
It's taking forever to backup my NAND, I forgot about the games I have downloaded.
I rember my Wii took forever, I just went to bed.
 
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I completely formated my Switch. It's taking a while to backup the Nand. About 30 minutes, and its 16% on the green progress bar. It's verifying, maybe? I'm positive the copy was already made.
 

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