3.0 creeping slow first backup?

I have waited two hours for my second generation Touch with the new update to do it's first backup; I "Xed" out of it. Everything is there and working. But when I try to do another backup; same thing; just creeping along very slow for a back-up. Anyone have a suggestion here?? Thanks. Paula

i've tried resyncing the touch sooo many times. I'm just leaving it this time hoping to let it sync (although there was time I exited the backup and it continued to sync calendars... only it wanted to change my 75+ calendar entries on my outlook!)
PS: I've reseted the ipod inbetween and it's still crawling. sometimes 1/3 others 1/2 way through right now it stuck at 80%! the closest so far (the funny thing is that this time round it sped all the way to that point then stopped).
I wanna go for a run with my ipod touch
(Seriously Apple, after all the hoopla of how great 3.0 was going to be everything seemed to be delivered at 80% - bluetooth with only AD2P support - no headsets, no AVRCP?) geez lets see if i can sync the darn thing

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A friend has a MacBook (C2D) and has just bought an iomega USB 2.0 external hard drive. Everything is plugged in and working its formatted (Journaled Case Sensitive(done automatically)), we have set Spotlight not to index the backup drive so we wouldn't encounter any problems.
Yet the first backup was started at 11pm last night (now 8:45 am) and it has only done 4GB of the 68GB it has to back up.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can speed this up???

Apple says that a Time Machine disk requires Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with GUID formatting for Intel Macs and Apple Partition Map for PPC Macs. As complicated as the file structure is for Time Machine I would be inclined to take Apple at their word. Directions for properly formatting a Time Machine disk are here but people with PPC Macs should use Apple Partition Map instead of GUID.
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Felix,
The first backup I did was wirelessly and it was slow.
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Hi, I recently purchased a new 3TB backup drive to backup my iMac system (10.9.4).
I set up a Time Machine backup of my system + external HD, and began scheduled backups about a week ago. As expected the first backup took several hours (overnight) since it was backing up nearly 1TB of data. Subsequent backups were fast and everything seemed fine.
Then, last night I ran a backup and Time Machine began to copy ALL the data again. The backup took 6-7 hours. Why would it do this if it uses a cumulative system where most of the data is already on the backup drive? Did this occur because I manually started the backup (by selecting"Back Up Now" in Time Machine on the toolbar). Or is something wrong?
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First backup to TC failed halfway through after 24 hours plus of transfer

Dear all
To say that I'm frustrated right now with TM/TC would be an understatement. Here's my situation:
1 I have 270G of data on my iMac
2 my transfer speed to TC is only 130 Gbit/s, less than half speed
3 the TC is about 4m from my iMac, no walls between, same room
4 I have a AXg connected via bridge (for AirTunes) - I did this in an attempt to keep the network at n speeds, but this seems not to be the case
5 the transfer was slow but steady (see #2 above) - after 26 or 27 hours it had reached the halfway point - it will take two and a half days to make the first backup
6 then it failed, and started the backup from scratch again!
What do I do now? If I start the whole process again, it could easily fail again after another day of transfer...
Well, this can't be normal: only half-speed transfer rates, facing a 60-hour transfer that fails halfway through? What do people do with even more data than I have?
I erased the partial backup via Airport Utility, and seek help in avoiding a repeat of this mess.
Questions:
1 do other processes cause a backup to fail? (eg if my computer is being used, or is synching, or whatever) - it is totally impossible for me to suspend use of my iMac for 60 hours while the initial backup takes place.
2 can I make the initial backup via Ethernet cable?
3 does the fact that I have VM Fusion installed affect the backup?
4 how can I get a better transfer speed (somewhere nearer the max of 300 Mbit/sec?)
I would be very grateful indeed for advice and help - watching the backup creep along for more than a day only for it fail and then be back at square one is mind-numbing.

I searched my system logs and found a file that caused my connection to the TC to fail. I erased that file (after checking what it was - a temporary file connected to my Epson scanner) and tried again to back up for the first time.
This time it worked, and in under 10 hours (I had been expecting about 20-24 hours, based on the data transfer speed).
I'm very relieved - let's hope that TC and TM will now function.

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First backup is taking forever , painfully slow, I am using MacBook Air, what can I do to speed things up. is there a particular way to set TC up ?? I set it up to join an existing wireless network, is this right or wrong? I just need a few tips to make the backup faster.

Answer: yes, the Time Capsule is junk - in my opinion. I was excited about an all-in-one router plus 1TB of backup wirelessly available, but if you check the many posts about this thing, you'll hear about numerous problems:
- unbelievably slow backups, overnight or longer for the first, very long for even small backups after minor activity - and not necessarily due to network speeds.
- heat issues - this thing runs very hot, even with fans running, and people have had to put little rubber feet under it to improve airflow, etc. - not something I think is reasonable for a $500+ item - some get an "overheating" message from the utility app.
- problems with hanging - it hangs on "Preparing Backup" (as it did for me for days) and doesn't backup - thereby making the unit useless as it was designed.
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I received my Time Capsule in the mail on Tuesday and immediately started backing up. Its Thursday afternoon and it is only 50% complete. I feel like it shouldn't be taking this long to complete the initial backup. Any suggestions?

That first backup is a doozy. I strongly recommend that you connect a CAT6 ethernet cable to your machine and use that connection for the initial backup. Using that method, it should be able to back up faster than 10GB per hour.
It's also worth noting that if you're using wireless for the initial backup, everything else on your network connection will suffer as well. It's not that your Time Capsule hates you or that Apple designed a crappy product, it's the limitation of 802.11n. Even though 802.11n is cutting edge wireless technology, it's significantly slower than gigabit ethernet with a wired connection.
Normally you would never be affected, because 802.11n is faster than most people's internet connections. If your machine (or other machines) are suffering while your initial backup is running, it's because your Time Capsule is overwhelmed. If you plug in the ethernet cable, you not only take advantage of the much faster connection, but the other machines in your house/office can still use the wireless connection.
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I am experiencing very, very slow backup times using an external drive attached to my Time Capsule. When I recently added a 3 TB Rocstor external drive to my mid-2011 iMac using FireWire, I included it in the drives to be backed up. The internal 2 TB of storage in my Time Capsule was no longer enough, so I plugged a 4 TB WD My Book Studio drive into the Time Capsule's USB 2.0 port and specified this WD drive as the only backup storage. The first backup took almost 48 hours. Now the Time Machine keeps trying to back up about 400 GB - 500 GB (though there haven't been any changes) and is transferring about 400 KB/sec over Ethernet from my iMac to the Time Capsule's external drive. What am I doing wrong? (I recently upgraded the iMac to OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite.)

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I recently bought a 2TB external hard disk. I partitioned into one disk of 500GB (for storage), and one disk of 1.5TB (for a backup with Time Machine).
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Does it slow the backup if I use my computer in the mean time?
Does it slow the backup to have partitioned my external hard disk?
I already took some folders off the backup, deactivated Spotlight on the external disk, all I found on the web! But it's not going faster...!
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My time machine 1st back up to a eSATA HDD is running at <1MB/s,
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or will it think that it has to do it again cross network?
Cheers

What I am thinking of doing is connecting it via USB having it run the first backup and then moving it back across the network. Will this work?
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crazy a,
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Cheers!

Can't load disk image when doing first backup

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I've had to erase my Time Capsule's Time Machine sparesebundle as it had a corruption. And now I am trying to do a first backup again.
Unfortunately, I keep getting an error message telling me the machine can't create a disk image; I have no idea why. I have tried changing my computer name in case that makes a difference (but I don't see why as the previous name worked fine for a year or more).
Since trying to start this new process, I have noticed that sometimes in the TM preference pane that the TC name is given a Time Capsule-1 as opposed to its normal name of Time Capsule.
Below is the log captured from the TM widget.
Starting standard backup
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://graemeaustin@Time%20Capsule.afpovertcp.tcp.local/Time%20Capsule
Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/Time Capsule-1
Creating disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule-1/Austin MacBook_001f5bf6a447.sparsebundle
2010-04-04 12:13:09.184 diskimages-helper[466:1603] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2010-04-04 12:13:09.186 diskimages-helper[466:1603] Cannot find function pointer VRPreviewCFPlugInFactory for factory 20D1C6B2-6A02-11D7-B5A6-000393D45566 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x521da0 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
2010-04-04 12:13:09.189 diskimages-helper[466:1603] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2010-04-04 12:13:09.191 diskimages-helper[466:1603] Cannot find function pointer VRPreviewCFPlugInFactory for factory 20D1C6B2-6A02-11D7-B5A6-000393D45566 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x521da0 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
Error 35 creating backup disk image
Failed to create disk image
Backup failed with error: 20
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Any help is of course so very welcome.
Thanks in advance
Graeme

I tried to start the backup again, after logging out and back in again (as I had done several times before), but this time the sparsebundle loaded ok and the backup started properly.
So there's no need for anyone to spend any time on me.
Graeme

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