Enabled FileVault, now backups are sloooooow
I've been using my MBA (10.8) with a Time Capsule for a quite a while and it's fantstic. Recently I turned on FileVault beause of some work-related requirements and since doing so I can't get any backups to complete. It starts to backup and never finishes. I let it go for 4-5 hours yesterday and it was only able to backup 10-15MB out of 250MB. Do I need to delete my sparesbundle and create a new one since my previous backups were not encypted via FileVault? Any ideas?
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
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+-- Logical Volume Group 475006A5-3CEF-463D-A00E-DCB3A54145A3
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| | ----------------------------------------------------
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| |
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| ----------------------------------------------------------
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| Fully Secure: Yes
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| ---------------------------------------------------
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+-- Logical Volume Group 9DB99B20-2034-42AF-ADE4-B4B9267DC98C
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