Slow Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5.8 on a three years old MacBook Pro?
Hi.
Is it me or does it take forever (e.g., a couple hours) to back up about 42 GB through USB 2.0?
Thank you in advance.
Sounds about right to me, seeing as how you are doing a TM backup over USB.
USB is the slowest bus to external drives. TM does much more then just a straight copy of the data.
Allan
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