Back up time duration - time machine slow

I have a newish mbp. I have about 270 gig on it ot 750 gig drive.
My Time machine bacup stalled and after researching it was suggest to clear the backup drive totally and start again.
This i did.
Backing up to G Tech 2 TB drive via firewire 800.
Have been going for 24 hour and its done 17 gig. Is this slow? says 11 days to complete. Seems like it to me.
How can I speed it up?

Apple bombed on the last lion upgrade.. did you install the supplement to fix slow TM.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1599

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Time Machine won't back up. Starts of REALLY SLOW, and the errors out.

I've been having a hard time getting time machine to back up. To start off I'll give you my specs and what I have done.
iMac
OS 10.6.6
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 DDR@ SDRAM
320 GB HD
All software updates are current. I am trying to back up to an external Western Digital 1 GB drive connected by USB2. I have formatted the external drive, and set a single partition on that drive from the Disc Utility. I have run disk repair on both the external and local hard drive. I have run disk repair permission on the local drive. I have restarted, after every time. I have done everything listed above multiple times, and have done them all in kinda different orders each time.
My thought is that the issue may not be with the hard drives, but maybe a file its trying to back up. When it starts out for the first time, it tells me that it needs to back up over 100 GB of data. It gets about halfway done, and then errors out. When I try to start it again, it tells me that it needs to backup around 50 GB of data. And this time, its REALLY slow. Like bytes slow, not Mega bytes, or even kilobytes. Bytes. 36 bites backed up, 120 bytes backed up. 2 Kilobytes backed up. SLOW SLOW SLOW.
Then it picks up, and usually gets up to 120 MB, and then gives me this error message "The Backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk. - The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
Its a pretty generic message, and gives me no help in trying to figure out what the problem is. I've been trying again for almost 3 days now, and nothing is working. Is there an error log file that I can go find that would help me a little more?

woody24 wrote:
"The Backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk. - The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
See #C3 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Its a pretty generic message, and gives me no help in trying to figure out what the problem is. I've been trying again for almost 3 days now, and nothing is working. Is there an error log file that I can go find that would help me a little more?
Tell Apple about the inadequacy of that message: http://www.apple.com/feedback/timemachine.html

Time Machine Slow & Backs Up Large Amounts of Data - The Fix

This is about Time Machine becoming very slow and taking hours to backup and trying to backup large amouts of data each time.
I spent a month on the phone with 2nd level Tech support and engineering - every other day.
I have 4 computers (one was a clients), all with different backup systems: Time Capsule over CAT 6 Gigabit Ethernet through a Thunderbolt monitor, internal eSata to external 6 TB RAID 5, Wireless to Time Capsule, Firewire 800 to External 2 TB RAID 1 dive.
With the install of 10.8.5 (the itermediate update to 10.9) I immedialety had Time Machine problems on all four computers. As I said, I spent a month talking with Apple. Also during this time I purchased 2 new MacBook Pro 13 Retinas. Installed Norton Internet Security 5 on them and they had the same problem. The new Retina's had 10.9 on them, so this is about 10.8.5 and 10.9.
After doing Data Capture on 3 of the computers for engineering (a new MBPro13R and my MacPro, and a MBPro 13 Mid-2012), engineering finally figured out what was happening.
Norton Internet Sucrity 5 for Mac is not longer compatible. As my 2nd level tech said: " Engineering told him, engineering needs to call Norton and figure out what they did to their program to cause this."
The fix is to completely remove Norton and all it's components (using the uninstall app inside the Symantec folder). Once you do that, Erase your backup drive, Restart everything, Re-connect your computer to your drive - then it immediately works perfectly.
Do Not Re-Install Norton.
I have now done this exact operation on 7 different machines. Time Machine works instantly. Time Machine is not the same program from 10.8 - it has been completely rebuilt, so I doesn't backup in the same way. But it works perfectly on all my computers now.
Don't forget the first backup will take hours since it is starting over clean and must do a complete backup the first time. After that it works fine.
I'm not going to put Norton back in my computers until I find that Norton has acknowledged this problem, or they come out with Norton Internet Security 6.
I reposted this here because on another post it was on the 20 page.
Hope this helps

Guitarfx wrote:
Time Machine has worked properly for me for several months. However, in the last week or two I have noticed some very strange behavior. Basically, Time Machine wants to backup virtually my entire system every few days or so.
How often do you let TM do backups? If it hasn't backed up for several days, it may indeed be doing a new, full, backup. Apple doesn't document this, but many folks believe it's about 10 days.
Download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget from: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/timemachinebuddy.html. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window.
It first shows the most recent backup. Navigate to one of the large backups, and examine the messages. If you see something there that seems suspicious, copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).
I presume that for whatever reason, Time Machine believes my files are changing and therefore proceeds backing them all up. I can't really think of anything special I have done with my system in the last month which would cause this, but have tried formating my Time Capsule and starting over with a fresh backup--to no avail.
There are some applications that cause large backups, often because they use a single file, often a database, to store their data. Entourage is a common one: every time you send or receive a single message, the whole database is changed, and will be backed-up the next time. Apple mail, of course, stores messages individually to prevent this.
FileVault is similar, in an even bigger way: it converts your entire Home Folder into a single, encrypted disk image. So any change to anything in your Home Folder is treated as a change to the encrypted image. TM minimizes the impact, though, by only backing it up when you log out.
So consider this while examining the results from TimeTracker, as VA2020 recommended.

My Macbook pro Early 2008 is randomly slow at starting up and when I am backing up to my time capsule I am receiving the following message 'Time machine could not complete the backup. '' ''The backup disk image ''/Volumes/name time capsule/ my name MacBoo

My Macbook pro Early 2008 is randomly slow at starting up and when I am backing up to my time capsule I am receiving the following message 'Time machine could not complete the backup. '' ''The backup disk image ''/Volumes/name time capsule/ my name MacBook Pro (4).sparsebundle'' could not be accessed (error-1).
Problem started after deleting parrell desktop and window7 ?
Please help?

Look at the more like this column on the right.. this is the most frequently asked question in this discussion area.
Reboot the TC.. restart the whole network if the simple reboot did not work.. start in order. modem.. router/TC.. clients. 2min gap.
Read C12 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

When Time Machine is backing up, my computer is so slow that it is essentially useless. Backups occur irregularly, and take a long time.

When Time Machine is backing up, my computer is so slow that it is essentially useless. Backups occur irregularly, and take a long time. How do I get Time Machine to work properly?

Hello,
Have you verified both drives in Disk Utility?
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?

Time Capsule / Time Machine very very slow

I'v been having problems with very slow backups using a Time Machine / Time Capsule combo and I've been looking around this forum and the web in order to figure out what it is, but I couldn't find any specifics relating to my situation. Both the preparation and the backing up stages are both very slow.
I hadn't used Time Machine since before Christmas as it become unreliable after updating to Yosemite but thought I'd try and get backups running again. It took about 16 hours to complete it's first backup of 17gb, then today's backup of 475.9mb took 4 hours to prepare and it's only backed up 167.7mb as I write this.
Can anyone with a good technical understanding of OS X, Time Capsule & Time Machine backups tell me what the problem is by looking at the console output below?
Hope someone can help, thanks.
Specs are:-
MacbookPro early 2011
OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite
Time Capsule- 4th gen 2TB
Console:-
Feb 4 00:27:32 xxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[135]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Data-1/xxxxxxx MacBook Pro.sparsebundle
Feb 4 00:27:33 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[135]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Feb 4 00:27:33 xxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[135]: Running automatic backup verification.
Feb 4 00:27:33 xxxxxxxMacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[135]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://xxx%20xxxxx;AUTH=SRP@xxxxxxxx%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Dat a
Feb 4 00:27:33 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[135]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Data-1 using URL: afp://xxx%20xxxxx;AUTH=SRP@xxx%20xxxxxx%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local /Data
Feb 4 00:28:04 xxxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[135]: Verifying backup disk image.
Feb 4 00:32:50 xxxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd-helper[44]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
Feb 4 08:56:30 localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd-status): The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
Feb 4 08:56:30 localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd.status.xpc): The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
Feb 4 08:56:30 localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd-helper.status): The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
Feb 4 08:56:30 localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd-auto): This service is defined to be constantly running and is inherently inefficient.
Feb 4 08:56:58 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local backupd[133]: Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)
Feb 4 08:56:59 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local backupd[133]: Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)
Feb 4 08:57:00 xxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local backupd[133]: Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)
Feb 4 08:57:10 xxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local backupd[133]: Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)
Feb 4 08:57:20 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local backupd[133]: Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)
Feb 4 08:59:24 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local SystemUIServer[224]: Attempt to use XPC with a MachService that has HideUntilCheckIn set. This will result in unpredictable behavior: com.apple.backupd.status.xpc
Feb 4 08:59:24 xxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[370]: Attempt to use XPC with a MachService that has HideUntilCheckIn set. This will result in unpredictable behavior: com.apple.backupd.status.xpc
Feb 4 09:26:41 xxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd-helper[44]: Attempt to use XPC with a MachService that has HideUntilCheckIn set. This will result in unpredictable behavior: com.apple.backupd.status.xpc
Feb 4 09:27:11 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[638]: Starting automatic backup
Feb 4 09:27:11 xxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[638]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://xxx%20xxxxxx;AUTH=SRP@xxxxxxxx%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Da ta
Feb 4 09:27:13 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[638]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Data-1 using URL: afp://xxxx%20xxxxx;AUTH=SRP@xxxxx%20xxxxx%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.loc al/Data
Feb 4 13:06:27 xxxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[638]: Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/xxxxxxxxs MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Feb 4 13:06:40 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[638]: Backing up to /dev/disk3s2: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Feb 4 13:39:28 xxxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[638]: Will copy (323.4 MB) from Macintosh HD
Feb 4 13:39:28 xxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[638]: Found 7354 files (432.7 MB) needing backup
Feb 4 13:39:28 xxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[638]: 799.1 MB required (including padding), 563.6 GB available

Feb 4 08:56:30 localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd-status): The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
There is an 8 hour gap between this message and the one before it.
This message is related to the use of encryption. If you are still getting it even after you have turned encryption off then something is still hanging around. And it is a big problem.
The previous log entry that it may also be the concern is
Feb 4 00:28:04 xxxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro-2.local com.apple.backupd[135]: Verifying backup disk image.
So it is doing a full verify of the backup.. that is extremely time consuming over wireless. It takes much longer to verify than to do the backup. That is because of the long gap since the last backup. When you wait so long it is sometimes better to simply start over.
It is essential when this happens to be using ethernet with wireless turned off.
Make sure IPv6 is set correctly to link-local only in the ethernet settings of the computer.
Why your latest one is so slow is again a Yosemite bug mystery.
However I would like you to test actual network speed copying files to the TC.
Stop the present backup.. if it is still running. Then via finder simply copy a file to the TC hard disk.. a single very large file say 100-1000MB and give me a network speed using activity monitor.
Yosemite has real network issues on top of real TM issues.
Test by doing a TM backup to a USB drive plugged into the computer. If this is dramatically faster the issue is mostly network rather than TM.
If it still fails to backup in reasonable time periods.. and for people having big issues.. I recommend give up on TM until apple have managed to patch the bugs. Use an alternative like Carbon Copy Cloner.. I would do that even if TM does work if you want a backup you can trust.

Time Machine slowing to snail pace, md root, mdworker, backupd spikes

Running a fresh time machine backup, in this case a 480GB from MBPro to cleanly formatted 1TB Time Capsule over 1GBe, backup commences at a decent (though still too slow) clip of about 40GB an hour, then slows to a painful drip at 430GB complete when I rechecked in the morning.
Looked at apps and processes, seeing 99% cpu usage spikes varying across mds root, mdworker and backupd. When they back off, transfer picks up, though still really slow compared to what it should be.
Guess is an imbalance in how Spotlight interfaces with Time Machine on indexing. I would expect a 30% CPU constant level during the Time Machine job to keep up on indexing during file transfer rather than a spikey machine slowing, backup stalling methodology which appears to be happening.
Open to ideas, its not a memory or process leak or thread runaway, since a restart of the machine and return to the backup solves nada. I have 2GB of RAM with 1GB free during the job. I closed all other main apps, nothing else is placing a burden on the machine.

Gregory Lynn wrote:
Found a decent summary of how TM works in OS 10.5 http://www.girr.org/mac_stuff/backups.html which shed a little light on the operation and where one would expect slow downs.
That's more than a bit outdated. It refers to 10.5.1, the very early version.
See #D2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
One cause of apparently slow backups is actually extra-large backups. If yours seem too large for the amount you've done between backups, see #D4 there.
And you might want to browse Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

Time Machine Slow? Kill Norton AntiVirus

After reading all of the posts and trying absolutely everything, I read one post where a user mentioned turning off Norton AntiVirus. Of course Norton 10.0 is not even 10.5 OS ready, but I did not even think about it as this runs in the background. I was in the middle of the initial Time Machine backup which was going as slow as all of the others when I tried to reformat my LaCie drive etc....etc...etc...
So, I turned off Norton in the middle of the backup, and it speeded up instantly. From taking over an hour to copy 1.5gigs of my 86gig drive, it went through 5 gigs in about 10 minutes. I am SURE this is almost everyone's problem as Norton is not something that is transparent to us as it runs in the background. Hope this helps a few people. Time Machine has worked flawlessly for me since then.

I had the same problem while McAfee VirusScan was running. I'm now backing up to the Time Machine hard drive at about 2-3 G per minutes.

Backing up macbook with time machine for first time

I tried backing up my macbook for the first time, using time machine, to a new portable external hard drive formatted for p.c. The screen said do you want to erase the disc and i did. It said nothing about formatting for mac, but began to appear to be backing up my computer, and was running for 3-4 hours doing that. I walked away from the computer and came back an hour or two later, and there was a message on the screen saying error, could not create directory. I don't know if this was related to the initial backup, or if an hour later it tried updating the backup and it referred to that. How do I know if my computer is backed up properly. What do I do about the message about the directory. If I don't need this program to update the backup every hour, how do I change that. Also, I have a 1 terrabyte external hard drive on which I store all my raw photography files, can I plug that in and plug in another new external hard drive and back up the external hard drive to the other external hard drive using time machine as well? thanks for any suggestions, this is a little confusing the first time, Virginia

The backup frequency can be changed using e.g. TimeMachineScheduler and I think you can set Time Machine to backup external drives. (System Preferences --> Time Machine --> Options)

My external hard drive is 'seen' by my iMac and I can go into the Finder and open files and folders. I am using the hard drive for Time Machine back up. However Time Machine says it can't find the drive. Same thing has happened with Final Cut Express.

My new LaCie external hard drive is 'seen' by my iMac and I can go into the Finder and open files and folders. I am using the hard drive for Time Machine back up. However Time Machine says it can't find the drive.
The same thing happened recently between Final Cut Express and my other LaCie external hard drive used as the Scratch disk. It fixed itself.
I've run out of ideas. Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

have you done some searches on FCPx and time machine? Is there a known issue with using a TM drive with FCPx? dunno but ...wait...I'll take 60 sec for you cause I'm just that kind of guy.... google...." fcpx time machine problem" Frist page link
http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/fcpx-bug-best-practices-for-using-external-hard- drives-and-final-cut-pro-x/
You cannot have time machine backups on your hard drive if you intend to use it in FCPX.
booya!

Where can i find steps to back up iPhone to time machine?

where can i find steps to back up iPhone to time machine?

can't back up iPhone to time capsule? only MACs?
You can also back up to iCloud.
See this support document for more details on backups:
Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support

How do I back up iPhone to time machine?(I'm new)

How do I back up iPhone to time machine?(I'm new)

-Mayor- wrote:
How do I back up iPhone to time machine?(I'm new)
If you're new to this, I suggest you read the manual:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

Having downloaded Mavericks to my IMac I now find Time Machine couldn't back up to the Time Machine HDD. I am using a WD 1TB independent Hard drive

Having downloaded Mavericks to my IMac two weeks ago, I now find Time Machine couldn't back up to the Time Machine HDD. I am using a WD 1TB External Hard drive. I understand that a number of people have lost data since installing Mavericks on their Western Digital external drives. Has anyone any futher info. Or is there a better way of backing up my computer. Thanks. Lee

Check the More Like This section at the right particularly i upgraded my imac hard drive to a 2tb drive. how do i use time machine to get my computer back to normal?

Time Capsule as external hard-drive, as back-up drive with Time Machine

Two questions today:
I understand that I can use the Time Capsule as an external hard-drive while using it as my back-up location, using Time Machine. It has been suggested that to do this, it is best to partition the Time Capsule to prevent the TM program from confusing the files it manages, the data files from the backed-up files. (I hope I got that right.) I believe I read in this forum that one can partition the TC after the fact, and not destroy any data on it. Is this possible? A clerk at the Apple Store in San Francisco told me that I would want to partition, but that it would require that I erase the TC. Which to believe?
Secondly, how does TM create the back-ups? I have used SuperDuper and appreciated the difference in how (and what) it backs up. My example: my first back-up involved having an 80gb external drive attached to my computer and TM backed up both my HD and the External Drive. I then turned off the TM. Today I turned it on and allowed it to back-up every hour as it is designed to do, but without the 80gb External drive attached. When I checked the newer back-ups, they all showed the original configuration of HD and 80gb external drive.
So for it's incremental back-ups, does TM back up new files and updated files without deleting missing files? Is it an additive process? Or does it at some point delete missing files from it's most recent back-up? Or since it recognized that it was backing-up two different drives, it will always keep them separate, maintaining one (80gb External drive), even as it backs-up and changes the other (the HD)?
O.K. a third request. Has anyone published a manual on TM and/or TC with this level of understanding so we can make the most of it's 1 TB storage capacity?
Thanks in advance, LeRoy

LeroyHoward wrote: So, does this mean that TM never deletes a file?
It will when it starts to run out of space and it should likely be the oldest deleted files first.
As I understand it, as long as I have a multi-linked file icon on the TM, I have the original data. And everytime the TM backs-up, it recreates every multi-linked file icon on the previous back-up. Right? So, if you delete a file by mistake, you can go back and find it. But I see a contradiction here. If you delete it on your desktop, shouldn't it be deleted from the back-up of that desktop? We expect it to be on earlier back-ups, but not the most recent one right? So, eventually as the TM fills up and begins deleting earlier back-ups, that data will be lost.
The newest timeline will not point/display the deleted file(s), but it still exists on the backup until the backup drive fills up and needs to erase deleted data.
I'm trying to understand this aspect of the TC and TM, because we want to use it as both an external HD and as one of our back-ups. Any light you can shed on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, LeRoy
Read Glenn's response to dedicating TC to TM backup and the difficulty in partitioning the TC HDD.
Glenn Carter wrote:
However, this is not an option for Time Capsule users as there is not an easy way of partitioning the Time Capsules’ internal had disk without elaborate effort. In this case, use the Time Capsule hard disk solely for Time Machine backups. Then attach an additional hard disk to the Time Capsules USB port and store additional files there. This added disk will still be available to all Macs that can access the Time Capsule.
This works to share the files on the USB HDD attached to TC, but if you want this drive backed up by TM (and this drive is formatted HFS+), then it needs to remain plugged into the Mac directly for TM to back it up.

My iPod Touch is connected to my house internet and every few hours, it doesn't work so I have to shut it off and turn it back on which makes my iPod slower, how do I make it connect the whole time?

My iPod Touch is connected to my house internet and every few hours, it doesn't work so I have to shut it off and turn it back on which makes my iPod slower, how do I make it connect the whole time?

Device Not Recognised
For PC
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
For Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1591

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