Extremely slow Time Machine backup for only 4 Gb
I have a WD Passport for Mac, which is only a month old, so is in prestine condition. This is not the first backup, but the past few times I have tried to back up my data it takes hours for just a few megabytes. I am running a late 2013 model of the RD Macbook Pro, with OSX 10.9, obviously.
I have tried restarting in Safe Mode and trying again, but that does not fix it. I have also Verified the disk in Disk Utility and it came out clean. I believe the issue is related to this constant message I get in Console: "mdworker: (Warning) Import: Bad path"
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the 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. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
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 that corresponds to an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showing, and scroll back in the log to the time you noted. 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 to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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Extremely Slow Time Machine Backup after upgrading to 10.8.3
Time machine backups are taking an extremely long time on my retina MacBook Pro 13 inch after upgrading to 10.8.3. It's taking many minutes just for a kilobyte to be backed up. I've tested transferring something to the disk and it's lightening fast so there's nothing wrong with the disk.
Is anyone having similar issues or know of a fix?I had the same problem with slow backups. Called Apple 5 times and went through all the hoops checking plists, airport, and then erasing using my airport utility and the first backup of about 25-30 gigs went fine, but the second backup would take between 1-2 hours. By the time it was finished it was ready to do another backup.
After looking at community fixes I found that my Comcast Norton Anti Virus was the problem. Upon speaking for the 6th time to Apple I was told that should have been the first thing they asked, since antivirus programs check each file going to the time capsule. Even unchecking the scan external drives did not help.
I removed the Norton AV from my system and replaced it with the IAV from apple store (free) and my backups are back to normal. I timed a 100 meg using Ethernet/LAN and it took 9 minutes 32 seconds from clicking backup now, searching for backups, preparing backup, backingup, and cleanup. My Wifi connection on 10 megs took only 1 minute 29 seconds.
Now my backups run so fast I don't even see them working. Also the constant updates to Norton were casuing my backups to be 100 megs or more each time due to daily Norton updates. Now I get backups in the order of 10-20 megs - depending up what I have put on the machine. If I put music on it increases the size of the files installed.
I recommend anyone having this slow time capsule problem to turn off your full antivirus program no matter what you are using and watch the difference in speed. I am so happy! No more 2 hour backups and 45 minutes to 1 hour preparing backup! good luck -
Suddenly extremely slow Time Machine backups on Time Capsule
My Time Machine backups on Time Capsule have been pretty good in the last few months. In the last week or so I am seeing painfully slow backups. It's not the preparing or the finishing phase, it's the backup itself. Data transfer for other apps is fine. The backup transfers about 50 Kb per second. In more than 3 hours it backed up about 600 Mb. Here's what I get from the Console:
11/26/08 4:22:07 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.28 GB requested (including padding), 730.31 GB available
11/26/08 5:50:47 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
11/26/08 6:12:40 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
11/26/08 6:51:37 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
11/26/08 7:05:44 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/26/08 7:05:46 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/26/08 7:05:46 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/26/08 7:07:05 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/26/08 7:07:05 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/26/08 7:09:06 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/26/08 7:09:13 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Error: (-39) SrcErr:YES Copying (null) to (null)
11/26/08 7:09:14 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/26/08 7:09:14 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/26/08 7:12:15 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1281] Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Any clue? What happened? (I did an Airport-related upgrade recently)
My set up is a Time Capsule and an Airport Extreme.Well, this link has a video describing a downgrade:
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/airport-extreme-and-time-capsule-firmware-downgrad ing/11537477/
It has been mentioned in apple discussions here as well, but with no other information than that it has helped some people.
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Extremely slow time machine backups
I have problem that prevents me from making Time Machine backup at all. First, some information about my environment:
- MacBook MB404 (late 2008)
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- External USB hard disk drive (Samsung)
I'm using this configuration for years, before Lion everything was working pretty well. Unfortunately, on Lion from time to time I have to erase my external disc drive which contains Time Machine backups and start taking a new backup. Otherwise backups are extremely slow and taking couple hours just to save about 100MB on external drive. That's not a big problem for me, so every two or three months I'm erasing my external drive using Disk Utility, configuring TM from scratch and taking first backup again.
Yesterday was the day TM starts working very slow, so I decided to repeat mentioned process. Everything went good to the moment Time Machine started making a new, first backup on a erased drive. It is still so slow, it wont be done in a week or more. I know, that this is the fist and clean backup, and TM have to copy over 60GB of data from MacBook's hard disk drive to external disk drive, connected by USB, so it have to be time-consuming, but it wasn't take more than 6-8 hours before for the same amount of data! I have already fixed permissions on the disk using Recovery HD partition, but I didn't help, TM is still so slow it almost impossible to make a backup. I have checked MacBook's disk and external Samsung disk - both seams to be in good shape, there are no errors in S.M.A.R.T, Disk Utility says that everything is OK. What else can I do to fix this issue?I just added a TM backup disk and TM says it will take about 7 DAYS to backup.
iMac Intel i5 mid-2011, Mac OS 10.7.5 (1163), FW800 connection
It looks like the 1163 build of 10.7.5 didn't fix the problem of Spotlight slowing down TM backups. I'm going to dl the supplement (even though Apple says it isn't needed) and see if it will fix it. -
Extremely slow time machine backup
Hi,
I tried my first backup on snow leopard and I found it extremely slow compared to leopard. What used to take 20 minutes in leopard now takes 3 to 4 hours.
This was my first backup on snow leopard.
Is there any known issue for slow TM backup? If not, this must be a bug in this new OS.
If there is any assistance needed (i.e. logs etc) do let me know.
Thanks,
ApurvaHi every one had the same problem for a while and had tried everything but discovered a solution that has helped me out and hope that it helps others as hours have been burnt trying to get this running.
so here we go.
Restart your Mac with the boot up media/ CD/ DVD
open disk utility
repair back up drive
repair local disk
repair permission local disk
boot back in to SL
go to your back up drive
open Backups.backupdb folder
find your back up folder (it will be named the same as your machine)
locate your current backup temporary file (this is not a folder but a file that is used to store and create your latest backup of your system it will look different so don't remove the wrong one)
move it to the trash
empty the trash (this will take a while depending on the size of temp file)
once completed run time machine again.
this time time machine will run a lot faster in determining the backup required, the the actual back up process will be a lot quicker once the first back up is created.
I went from waiting over 24 hours for a backup which ended up either failing or crashing my system to a 1st time complete back up in less than an hour and the incremental backups are much quicker.
for some reason the temp file gets corrupted no idea why but this has seemed to fix it for me.
I am backing up over 150 GB on my local disk and about 350GB on another external disk drive to my back up drive.
Drives is connected by Firewire 800
let me know if I can b of further assistance.
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I can see Time Machine backups for only last 10 days.
I lost majority of my Documents content.
To my surprise Time Machine has partial backup of that folder for only last 10 days.
Can I somehow access previous backups (that are not visible)?
thxWhen you Enter Time Machine, do the older backups appear in the timeline on the right at all?
If they do, but the little "tick marks" are faded-out and you can't select them, see the pink box in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #15A.
If the backups don't appear at all, Time Machine probably ran out of space on the backup disk, and had to delete old backups to make room for new ones. If so, your backup drive is probably too small. See #1 in the above link. -
I have a mid2009 MacBook Pro running Mavericks for which I have been using a USB WD HD for Time Machine. I'd like to get a wireless HD and start a new Time Machine backup for this Mac and retire the 5 year old WD drive. Can I start over?
no archive/ backup is perfect, HD clones can be set to make incremental additions, same as time machine however, though they are more time involved in doing so.
See the + and - of all data backup/ archives below and "spread it around".... or the "dont put your eggs all in one basket" philosophy.
Peace
Data Storage Platforms; their Drawbacks & Advantages
#1. Time Machine / Time Capsule
Drawbacks:
1. Time Machine is not bootable, if your internal drive fails, you cannot access files or boot from TM directly from the dead computer.
2. Time machine is controlled by complex software, and while you can delve into the TM backup database for specific file(s) extraction, this is not ideal or desirable.
3. Time machine can and does have the potential for many error codes in which data corruption can occur and your important backup files may not be saved correctly, at all, or even damaged. This extra link of failure in placing software between your data and its recovery is a point of risk and failure. A HD clone is not subject to these errors.
4. Time machine mirrors your internal HD, in which cases of data corruption, this corruption can immediately spread to the backup as the two are linked. TM is perpetually connected (or often) to your computer, and corruption spread to corruption, without isolation, which TM lacks (usually), migrating errors or corruption is either automatic or extremely easy to unwittingly do.
5. Time Machine does not keep endless copies of changed or deleted data, and you are often not notified when it deletes them; likewise you may accidently delete files off your computer and this accident is mirrored on TM.
6. Restoring from TM is quite time intensive.
7. TM is a backup and not a data archive, and therefore by definition a low-level security of vital/important data.
8. TM working premise is a “black box” backup of OS, APPS, settings, and vital data that nearly 100% of users never verify until an emergency hits or their computers internal SSD or HD that is corrupt or dead and this is an extremely bad working premise on vital data.
9. Given that data created and stored is growing exponentially, the fact that TM operates as a “store-it-all” backup nexus makes TM inherently incapable to easily backup massive amounts of data, nor is doing so a good idea.
10. TM working premise is a backup of a users system and active working data, and NOT massive amounts of static data, yet most users never take this into consideration, making TM a high-risk locus of data “bloat”.
11. In the case of Time Capsule, wifi data storage is a less than ideal premise given possible wireless data corruption.
12. TM like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
13. *Level-1 security of your vital data.
Advantages:
1. TM is very easy to use either in automatic mode or in 1-click backups.
2. TM is a perfect novice level simplex backup single-layer security save against internal HD failure or corruption.
3. TM can easily provide a seamless no-gap policy of active data that is often not easily capable in HD clones or HD archives (only if the user is lazy is making data saves).
#2. HD archives
Drawbacks:
1. Like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
2. Unless the user ritually copies working active data to HD external archives, then there is a time-gap of potential missing data; as such users must be proactive in archiving data that is being worked on or recently saved or created.
Advantages:
1. Fills the gap left in a week or 2-week-old HD clone, as an example.
2. Simplex no-software data storage that is isolated and autonomous from the computer (in most cases).
3. HD archives are the best idealized storage source for storing huge and multi-terabytes of data.
4. Best-idealized 1st platform redundancy for data protection.
5. *Perfect primary tier and level-2 security of your vital data.
#3. HD clones (see below for full advantages / drawbacks)
Drawbacks:
1. HD clones can be incrementally updated to hourly or daily, however this is time consuming and HD clones are, often, a week or more old, in which case data between today and the most fresh HD clone can and would be lost (however this gap is filled by use of HD archives listed above or by a TM backup).
2. Like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
Advantages:
1. HD clones are the best, quickest way to get back to 100% full operation in mere seconds.
2. Once a HD clone is created, the creation software (Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper) is no longer needed whatsoever, and unlike TM, which requires complex software for its operational transference of data, a HD clone is its own bootable entity.
3. HD clones are unconnected and isolated from recent corruption.
4. HD clones allow a “portable copy” of your computer that you can likewise connect to another same Mac and have all your APPS and data at hand, which is extremely useful.
5. Rather than, as many users do, thinking of a HD clone as a “complimentary backup” to the use of TM, a HD clone is superior to TM both in ease of returning to 100% quickly, and its autonomous nature; while each has its place, TM can and does fill the gap in, say, a 2 week old clone. As an analogy, the HD clone itself is the brick wall of protection, whereas TM can be thought of as the mortar, which will fill any cracks in data on a week, 2-week, or 1-month old HD clone.
6. Best-idealized 2nd platform redundancy for data protection, and 1st level for system restore of your computers internal HD. (Time machine being 2nd level for system restore of the computer’s internal HD).
7. *Level-2 security of your vital data.
HD cloning software options:
1. SuperDuper HD cloning software APP (free)
2. Carbon Copy Cloner APP (will copy the recovery partition as well)
3. Disk utility HD bootable clone.
#4. Online archives
Drawbacks:
1. Subject to server failure or due to non-payment of your hosting account, it can be suspended.
2. Subject, due to lack of security on your part, to being attacked and hacked/erased.
Advantages:
1. In case of house fire, etc. your data is safe.
2. In travels, and propagating files to friends and likewise, a mere link by email is all that is needed and no large media needs to be sent across the net.
3. Online archives are the perfect and best-idealized 3rd platform redundancy for data protection.
4. Supremely useful in data isolation from backups and local archives in being online and offsite for long-distance security in isolation.
5. *Level-1.5 security of your vital data.
#5. DVD professional archival media
Drawbacks:
1. DVD single-layer disks are limited to 4.7Gigabytes of data.
2. DVD media are, given rough handling, prone to scratches and light-degradation if not stored correctly.
Advantages:
1. Archival DVD professional blank media is rated for in excess of 100+ years.
2. DVD is not subject to mechanical breakdown.
3. DVD archival media is not subject to ferromagnetic degradation.
4. DVD archival media correctly sleeved and stored is currently a supreme storage method of archiving vital data.
5. DVD media is once written and therefore free of data corruption if the write is correct.
6. DVD media is the perfect ideal for “freezing” and isolating old copies of data for reference in case newer generations of data become corrupted and an older copy is needed to revert to.
7. Best-idealized 4th platform redundancy for data protection.
8. *Level-3 (highest) security of your vital data.
[*Level-4 data security under development as once-written metallic plates and synthetic sapphire and likewise ultra-long-term data storage]
#6. Cloud based storage
Drawbacks:
1. Cloud storage can only be quasi-possessed.
2. No genuine true security and privacy of data.
3. Should never be considered for vital data storage or especially long-term.
4. *Level-0 security of your vital data.
Advantages:
1. Quick, easy and cheap storage location for simplex files for transfer to keep on hand and yet off the computer.
2. Easy source for small-file data sharing. -
How to select correct time machine backup for migration assistant
We have two MacBooks backing up to one Time Capsule using time machine: let's call them H and R.
I have had to reinstall Leopard on Macbook H and am now trying to restore using Migration Assistant.
Migration Assistant finds the Time Capsule and identifies that there are two Time Machine Backups, but doesn't give an option to select the one to use.
Whenever I click 'Continue' it does the 'Checking time machine backup' (for hours), then brings up the data to restore, but every time it comes up with the data and settings from Macbook R.
How can I tell Migration Assistant which Time Machine Backup I want to use?Brilliant. That was it.
I used the other MacBook to run Disk Utility on my backup volume and repaired it: #A5 is bang on.
Then, Setup Assistant saw both backups and let me select the one I wanted. It's now transferring my stuff.
Very relieved and extremely grateful.
Your apple tips should come with every mac and time capsule. -
Can I use a single external drive to maintain time machine backups for two Mac computers?
Hello
We have an older mac mini and macbook air. I have one Western Digital external USB drive. Can I use the same drive to hold and maintain time machine backups for both machines?
I already have the macbook air time-machined on the WD drive. I now want to backup the mac mini onto the same drive. Is it going to over write the time machine backup or is the software smart enough to maintain two separate files, partitions, whatever it does..?It will maintain separate backups. Note that it's generally advisable to use separate drives for best practice backup, but yes, it will work for both computers, provided you have enough space (need generally 2-3 times the total used file space for both Macs).
Matt -
When is Apple going to fix the problem with slow Time Machine backups with Mavericks?
I have been with Apple tech support and they got my Time Machine working by doing a spotlight re-indexing and a safe boot. This worked for about three days and I am back to very slow backups. It is impossible for Time Machine to back up every hour when it takes six hours to do the back up. I don't want to take hours to re-index with spotlight all the time. I think taking six hours to do an incremental backup is a bit much. I see that there are many people that have this trouble and it all started with an upgrade to Mavericks. The question is when is Apple going to fix this problem of slow backups with Time Machine for Mavericks. I have wasted more time than I care to. I am think of going back to Windows. I need good solid backups of my machine and Apple has taken it away with the new Mavericks. Oh, I am using the UBS 3.0 connection so the drive should not be the problem. Also this has occurred in about the last five months, so I am not sure this problem was in the original Marvericks.
Allen Thanks for your reply. All I can say is several months ago Time Machine quit working in a reasonable manner. Right now I have a Time Machine backup that has been running all night and still has three hours to go to backup 6 GB of data. I am using a OWC 1.5 TB drive connected directly to my MacBook with a USB 3.0 connection. In the resent past I have added Dropbox, GoogleDrive and a MAMP server on which I am using a program called Learning With Text from Sourceforge. There have been a lot of questions on the forum about people having very slow Time Machine back ups, so it appears to be a general problem. I should also state I am getting this very slow backup after doing the Spotlight re-indexing and the Safe Restart procedure that was told to me by apple support. I have a 750 GB drive in my MacBook Pro which I am constantly trying to keep at a 5% level of free space. This might be a problem also. However, I am working on a lot of things and like to have a lot of things on my drive. Also the heavily loaded drive has not be a problem in the past. This slow backup business started about three months ago, so something has happen in a very short time period. Now it seems even the procedure that Apple support gave me is not working. Currently I am in China and it is difficult to interact with Apple support to solve this problem, but because I am in China having my computer backed up is critical. I have run the EtreCheck and am attaching the results below. I would appreciate any suggestions. If necessary I will clear out more of my hard drive if that appears to be a solution. The Time Machine drive was recently reformed so I only have a few backups on it. I also don't run the Time Machine all the time as I don't want multi-hour backups running all the time. I run it every few days.
Here is the info from EtreCheck:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
1 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) - Uptime: 0 days 10:18:59
Disk Information:
APPLE HDD HTS727575A9E362 disk0 : (750.16 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 749.3 GB (54.06 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information:
VIA Labs, Inc. USB3.0 Hub
OWC Elite Pro mini C 1.5 TB
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
NewMBP-TimeMachine-1.1 (disk1s2) /Volumes/NewMBP-TimeMachine-1.1: 1.5 TB (691.6 GB free)
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
QQMail: Version: 1.0.2.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
txftn: Version: 1.0.0.6 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Adobe Version Cue CS4 Support
Flash Player Support
GeekTool Support
Growl Support
Java Support
MacFUSE Support
MenuMeters Support
MySQL Support
Norton\nQuickMenu Support
Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X Support
Pen Tablet Support
Perian Support
TechTool Protection Support
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 697.84 GB Disk used: 647.49 GB
Destinations:
NewMBP-TimeMachine-1.1 [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 1
Total number of backups: 11
Oldest backup: 2014-03-18 15:09:46 +0000
Last backup: 2014-04-29 23:24:28 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 1 < (Disk used 647.49 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
47% SymAVScanDaemon
7% Finder
7% WindowServer
2% mds
1% NortonAutoProtect
Top Processes by Memory:
385 MB NortonAutoProtect
262 MB mds_stores
180 MB Safari
139 MB WindowServer
115 MB Finder
Virtual Memory Information:
1.15 GB Free RAM
2.87 GB Active RAM
1.83 GB Inactive RAM
1.05 GB Wired RAM
1.02 GB Page-ins
380 MB Page-outs
I hope you can see something that can be fixed. -
I have been using a Mac Mini with an external hard and Time Machine. I bought an Airport Extreme and have had problem setting up the hard drive using the USB port on the Airport Extreme. I also just recently bought a Mac Book Air and hope to have both computers back up to the external hard drive using Time Machine and Airport Extreme. I have been using the optical drive from the Mac mini to load programs into the Mac Book Air. I think I'm just getting confused in Finder. I am just not seeing the hard drive. I ended up plugging the hard drive back into the Mac Mini and that is work fine again. How do I setting the external hard drive up to the AirPort Extreme and use for both computers? Or at least to start with the Mac mini.
It's critical to understand that Time Machine (TM) stores backups differently between local and network drives. That would mean the TM backup on your locally attached USB hard drive will not be directly useable when it is connected to the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS). There is a way to copy a local version to a network version, but it is not fool-proof. When you do connect this drive and point TM to it, TM will start a brand new backup, leaving your existing backup as is.
If your current backup is critical to you, you may want to consider getting a second USB drive to attach to the Extreme and use your existing one as a backup ... or use TM's multi-backup process to backup to more than one destination drive alternatively.
So, at this point, you may want to make a decision on how you want to go forward to help provide a solution for you.
To directly answer your question, when you go to select a destination for a Time Machine backup, the drive(s) that show up under "Backup Disks" are those that TM already recognizes and has backed up to. Those listed under "Available Disks" are drives (either local or on the network) that TM can back up to. -
Add'l ideas to cure slow Time Machine backup
Over the past 10 days, the average duration of my Time Machine backups has gone from 1 minute to :42-:45 minutes. There's been no significant shift in my computing behavior during that time. To fix, I've tried nearly everything recommended in Pondini's terrific site -- can you see something that I've overlooked?
* iMac8,1 4GB, running OS X 10.6.8
* TM drive: Seagate GoFlex 1TB, 30 days old, was freshly formatted and 100% dedicated to TM; have tested both Firewire and USB; 356GB used
* Fusion virtual machines excluded from TM via Preferences
* no virus program running
Review of backupd items in system.log shows, after the first few weeks of speedy TM backups, a gradual decay -- can't pinpoint a cliff (that could be blamed on an installation, etc.) And there's no other TM-related messages ("deep traversal," etc) in the log. When I watch Activity Monitor during a TM cycle, I see low CPU usage by TM, and slow read/write speeds for disk activity.
Yes, I have:
* repaired permissions (frequently)
* done disk verify and repair on both internal and TM drives (nothing found)
* set drives to "no sleep"
* disabled Spotlight
* relaunched Finder (and, of course, rebooted the whole system)
* tested in Safe Mode (no improvement)
* run daily/weekly/monthly maintenance scripts and purged caches, using Cocktail (Ironically, it got dramatically worse yesterday after I did this!)
No, I have not yet reformatted the TM drive, nor reinstalled 10.6.8. Am I forgetting something else?
thxHi there
The same problem here:
17.07.12 17:17:17 com.apple.backupd[12749] Starting standard backup
*means: com.apple.backupd[12749]
17.07.12 17:17:17 * Starting standard backup
17.07.12 17:17:17 * Backing up to: /Volumes/TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb
17.07.12 17:17:48 * No pre-backup thinning needed: 703.6 MB requested
(including padding), 1.37 TB available
17.07.12 17:22:43 * Copied 34006 files (639 bytes) from volume DATEN.
17.07.12 17:23:54 * No pre-backup thinning needed: 704.0 MB requested
(including padding),1.37 TB available
17.07.12 17:27:14 * Copied 10482 files (639 bytes) from volume DATEN.
17.07.12 17:29:47 * Starting post-backup thinning
17.07.12 17:33:29 * Deleted backup /Volumes/TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/
pmg5/2012-07-03-121520: 1.37 TB now available
17.07.12 17:37:05 * Deleted backup /Volumes/TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/
pmg5/2012-07-03-114951: 1.37 TB now available
17.07.12 17:37:05 * Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
17.07.12 17:37:06 * Backup completed successfully.
Many years everything with TimeMachine was fine. No problems, no effort. Works quiet and effectiv in the background.
2 months ago I recognised first changes. TM needs long and longer. Thousands of files - big number with low volume - TM copied to my external HDD. "Preparation" and "reworking" take a long time.
I controlled the backup with TimeTracker - a much smaller number of files was listed.
I read other threads:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3144862?start=15&tstart=0
and jump to Pandinis website. No success with this.
So long
iPille -
Hi there
I'm doing my first Time Machine backup after upgrading from 10.4 to 10.6, backing up to a partitioned Freecom USB2 external drive directly connected to my Mac Mini. The data rate of the backup seems very slow (approx 1GB per 35 minutes compared to 1GB per 45 seconds when doing a copy / paste to the drive). Is this normal for Time Machine to transfer data at this slower speed or is there a possible problem causing this slow transfer?
Thanks in advance
Johnjonty1512 wrote:
will subsequent backups be complete (ie 23GB)
no. you are doing your initial backup hardwired, right ? backing up large amounts of files via wi-fi is neither recommended nor very reliable. plus, an ethernet connection will increase throughput
or will they be small incremental backups?
yes. and they can be done wirelessly.
JGG -
Purge all Time Machine backups for a single user
On my iMac I have my regular user account and a separate "admin" account that I use when things get goofy and I need to back completly out of my system and make sure nothing is in the way when doing admin related tasks.
I was logged in and working on the "admin" account the other day and was waiting for a CCC restore of a disk to complete. When I returned I saw a Time Machine notice that it had completed the backup of ~250GB of data. Since this is only an admin account there is no data on the system to backup, so I'm assuming it backed up a bunch of system files.
Since these files should have already been backed up by my "user" account I want to clean off that 'wasted' 250GB of Time Machine backup, but I am afraid to go in and start deleting items from the TimeMachine screen as I don't want it to delete them from the disk in general.
I have already turned off TimeMachine for the "admin" account but I don't see anywhere in the preferences to allow me to purge all backups for this user.
Or, am I being too worried about the disk space and that 250GB was already covered by the "user" account versions of the files and that Time Machine has built in "deduplication" features?I don't recommend deleting Time Machine snapshots. If you have multiple backup volumes, which you should have, and you need to repurpose one of them, you should just erase it. But if you want to try it anyway, and if you're running OS X 10.8 or later (not any older version), see below.
Don't attempt this procedure unless you have at least one other complete backup of all the data. You should have another backup anyway — one is never enough to be safe.
Navigate in the Finder to your backup disk, and then to the folder named "Backups.backupdb" at the top level of the volume. If you back up over a network, you'll first have to mount the "sparsebundle" file containing your backups by double-clicking it. Descend into the folder until you see the snapshots, which are represented by folders with a name that begins with the date of the snapshot. Drag the ones you don't want to the Trash and empty. Sometimes, for unknown and unpredictable reasons, the Trash will fail to empty with a cryptic error message. I don't know of any way to recover from that condition except to erase the backup volume and start over. -
Time Machine Backup is only 1GB?
I'm running OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and I just did a time machine backup. However, the backup only took a few seconds and it appears to have only backed up 1GB? Is this normal? I've done many TM backups before and they all took 12 hours and were 300GB. Did TM update itself and start compressing backups on the external disk?
Thanks in advanceIf Time Machine really has to back up 300 GB, 12 hours would not be unusual at all. After that 300 GB backup though, the only items Time Machine will periodically back up will be those that changed since its previous backup, and a few moments to complete that task is typical.
If you observe what you believe should only be incremental backups appear to be full backups instead, read what the late Support Communities contributor Pondini had to say in his FAQ: D3: TM is doing a full backup for no good reason. The reasons explained under "Mountain Lion and Lion (10.8.x and 10.7.x)" remain applicable to Mavericks.
Pay scant attention to the "Backing up xxx of yyy" messages that appear in the Time Machine icon during backups. It's not much more than an estimate. To determine the amount of data that was actually backed up, you have to peruse system.log and look for "Copied xxx items ... from volume Macintosh HD" log entries that appear subsequent to the backup and preceding post-backup thinning.
Still, "Backing up xxx of yyy" shouldn't routinely be anywhere near 300 GB.
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