Time machine extremely slow and size of backup keeps increasing. please help!

I bougth a external hard drive form western digital, MyBook World Edition, and at first it was working fine, I make a first backup with time machine and it was perfect. last month when I entered time machine to check my backups they were all gone, and now I've been trying to make a new backup but it's moving really slow, like less then 2Gb per hour, and also it seems as it's over but them the size of the backup keeps changing (as soon as it reaches the whole size it gets bigger) Don't know what to do, I haven't changed anything in the system or anything.
The hard driver is connected to a router and I connect to it trhough my wireless network.
ps: sorry my bad english I'm not a native speaker.

UPDATE: It's now trying to do a backup of 31.7MB. It's stuck at 993KB (first it was stuck at 8 bytes, then at 87 bytes, then 88KB), but it took a really long time to get there. So now it looks like it's just slow no matter what. I haven't been keeping track, but it may have been stuck on 993KB now for around 40 minutes.

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Time Machine getting stuck on random hourly backups?? Please help!

I set up Time Machine the yesterday, it compleated it's initial backup fine, and performed about 10 or so hourly backups, then randomly on one of it's hourly backups it got stuck. It never actually started the backup. The preferences said it was backing up, but the progress bar wasn't moving, and there was no activity on the drive. I stopped the "backup", and from then on I could not get it to do another backup.
So last night I reformatted the external and decided to let TM start over. Once again it finished the initial backup fine, and I went to bed. While I was in bed it finished 3 more hourly backups, and I woke up this morning to find it stuck again, trying to do it's 2:05AM backup. The computer was awake all night, so it should have no problems. The preferences say it is backing up, but never makes any progress, and there is no drive activity.
Here is the relavent errors from my System log:
Nov 1 02:05:50 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: Backup requested by automatic scheduler
Nov 1 02:05:50 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: Starting standard backup
Nov 1 02:05:57 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
Nov 1 02:05:57 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Nov 1 02:05:57 todd-sullivans-imac KernelEventAgent[35]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (256)
*Nov 1 02:05:59 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume  Macintosh HD*
*Nov 1 02:05:59 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|*
Nov 1 02:09:45 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 14.57 GB requested (including padding), 132.30 GB available
Nov 1 02:09:46 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: MDBackupBegin() returned result (909) > 0, waiting
Nov 1 02:10:16 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: MDBackupBegin() returned result (906) > 0, waiting
Nov 1 02:10:46 todd-sullivans-imac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[304]: MDBackupBegin() returned result (906) > 0, waiting
I bolded the entries that I assume are the problem, but I don't know what it could be. Why does it randomly get stuck on hourly backups. BTW The "waiting" is just repeating over and over etc..... Help! Or it's back to CCC for me. Thanks
EDIT: Tried it a 3rd time, and this time it managed to do 25 hourly backups before getting stuck. does anyone have a clue here, I'd like to get this working. Every time it stops working I have to format the drive and start over to get it to backup again.
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The deep traversal is being done because something in the TM data base is corrupted or not trusted. The deep traversal means the TM backupd process has to traverse your whole set of volumes being backed up. This is a very lengthy process.
No matter, it does seem you're hitting a snag of some kind. The best response I can give is for you to send the evidence to Apple feedback for the software engineers to review.
People on this forum are unlikely to know what the problem is nor have a fix for you.
When you formatted your TM backup Volume to you zero it out using Disk Utility. You could be running into an unrecoverable disk i/o error - a bad spot on the backup HD or even a bad spot on your internal HD.

Time machine extreme slow

since i updated to maverics, the timemachine and the finder are extremly slowly, i mean realy much slowlier than "microsoft-speed". But i checked it again, i closed my MBP an found the white apple on it´s top..... its an apple. In different forums i read, that its a problem with spotlight. The backup with 4.87 GB is now, after 3 hours an 44 minutes at 3.84 GB.
Even Microsoft is faster.
can anyone help me?

Hello Bastlbeda,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
OS X Mavericks: If Time Machine is slow
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14169?viewlocale=en_US
Have a nice day,
Mario

Time machine running slow and slowing network access

I have had and continue to have issues with wifi on my MBP. Those are pretty well summarized in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5535320?start=30&tstart=0. I've been able to make mt system usable with some of the less dodgy workarounds in that thread ( like keeping a ping on my router running )
That thread really doesn't mention the issues I've been having with time machine though, so I thought I'd bring this up here. Whenever time machine starts up, Safari and mail become unresponsive. It's worst when TM is "preparing" of "cleaningup", though barely usable during the actual backup. Mostly, I can work around that too, but occationally, TM will find GB of data to be backed up and lock up my mac for a day. Here's a recent example:
2/16/14 12:30:27.952 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Starting automatic backup
2/16/14 12:30:28.466 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://;AUTH=No%20User%20Authent@MyBookLive._afpovertcp._tcp.local/TimeMachine
2/16/14 12:30:33.866 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/TimeMachine using URL: afp://;AUTH=No%20User%20Authent@MyBookLive._afpovertcp._tcp.local/TimeMachine
2/16/14 12:31:44.678 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Disk image /Volumes/TimeMachine/sparky.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
2/16/14 12:31:46.613 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Backing up to /dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
2/16/14 12:34:07.904 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Will copy (1.66 GB) from Macintosh HD
2/16/14 12:34:08.004 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Found 83487 files (1.66 GB) needing backup
2/16/14 12:34:08.738 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: 4.16 GB required (including padding), 445.21 GB available
2/16/14 1:32:33.579 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 534.6 MB of 1.66 GB, 28317 of 83487 items
2/16/14 2:40:02.513 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 564.1 MB of 1.66 GB, 30225 of 83487 items
2/16/14 3:46:20.853 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 593.2 MB of 1.66 GB, 31631 of 83487 items
2/16/14 4:48:19.461 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 621.8 MB of 1.66 GB, 33182 of 83487 items
2/16/14 5:00:31.968 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
2/16/14 5:54:51.036 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 658 MB of 1.66 GB, 34773 of 83487 items
2/16/14 6:17:20.839 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
2/16/14 6:56:27.566 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 688.2 MB of 1.66 GB, 36246 of 83487 items
2/16/14 7:57:07.076 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 704.8 MB of 1.66 GB, 37267 of 83487 items
2/16/14 8:58:52.469 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 730.7 MB of 1.66 GB, 38724 of 83487 items
2/16/14 10:09:42.807 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 760.5 MB of 1.66 GB, 40291 of 83487 items
2/16/14 11:21:25.825 PM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 803.8 MB of 1.66 GB, 42462 of 83487 items
2/17/14 12:30:58.322 AM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 834.1 MB of 1.66 GB, 43513 of 83487 items
2/17/14 1:45:28.495 AM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 846.1 MB of 1.66 GB, 44160 of 83487 items
2/17/14 2:45:36.010 AM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 868.6 MB of 1.66 GB, 45485 of 83487 items
2/17/14 3:57:29.939 AM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 890.6 MB of 1.66 GB, 46729 of 83487 items
2/17/14 5:07:30.971 AM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 926.7 MB of 1.66 GB, 48695 of 83487 items
2/17/14 6:15:49.283 AM com.apple.backupd[11557]: Copied 963.7 MB of 1.66 GB, 50583 of 83487 items
This is on an AC router. My peak throughput shows 19 Mb/s on menu meters, so, not great, but not this slow. Mostly, the network activity is nothing with short bursts of higher throughput.
I'm hoping this will be addressed in 10.9.2. In the mean time, are there any workarounds to get past this issue short of turning off TM?
Thanks,
Horst

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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050302225659382
The Unix program dd is a disk copying util that you can use at the command line in order to make a disk image. It makes a bit-by-bit copy of the drive it's copying, caring nothing about filesystem type, files, or anything else. It's a great way to workaround the need for Norton Ghost.
Normally, in order to make a disk image, the disk you're copying from has to be able to spin up and talk -- in other words, it's OK to make a copy if the disk is healthy. But what happens when your disk is becoming a doorstop? As long as it continues to spin, even with physical damage on the drive, dd and Mac OS X will get you out of the fire.
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The bs=512 designates block size, and the if=/dev/rXX# is the UNIX path to the actual disk device. Make sure that the chosen directory (some_dir) has enough room to take the entire disk image -- which will be equal to the size of the drive. Since dd doesn't care about the contents of the drive, it copies every bit on the thing, so you get an image equal to the disk's capacity. A really big file. One workaround is to put it on a RAID array.
Once you've established the disk image (in this example, foo.dmg), you're almost home. Here's where your Mac OS X box is far and away the best thing to have. In this example, the dd output file is foo.dmg. You have to realize that this is an exact copy of a busted drive, but the "holes" are filled with nulls. As long as the damage isn't to the boot sector, though, when you double-click on it, Mac OS X mounts it without breathing hard ... who cares if it's FAT32, NTFS, whatever.
Due to the size of the image that we were copying, we put it on a RAID array, and had to access the image over the network -- it still mounted fine. In straight UNIX, if you try to mount a disk image, it complains that there is "no block device" and fails. Once your image is mounted, it appears in your Finder, and then it's easy work to retrieve the critical files from the image -- usually things like .doc files and .xls files and the lot.
Finally, since your disk is actually dying, once you have your image, you can drop it to tape or something and you've not only recovered your files, you've made a viable backup as well. Once again, that which destroys a Windows box becomes a play thing to a Mac OS X box.

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configuration: 1 Raid internal hd of 1.8 TB, 1 TB backup internal hd using retrospect. 2TB external HD for time machine and copy of home file from
computer's hd. 650gb external hd with clone of computer's hd.
running Time Machine on a 650GB Lacie external hd via fw800 for 6-9 months.
ran out of space. dumped old backups. still needed more space.
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now time machine is running backups at 1GB per minute speed as if it is doing an initial backup again. it only used to run for a few minutes. what is happening?

You might want to try formatting your time machine drive and starting again. And yes Time Machine only copies the changes that are made. However, judging by your screen pic and the size of your hard drives, I would assume that you are in the movie business? Therefore I would bet that you deal with constantly changing movie files and pictures that are relatively quite large in size. Since these have "changed" they would be re backed up. Also since you are dealing with quite large quantities of data, it would only make sense that time machine would take a while. One thing you could try is in the time machine preferences pane, click on Options and tell time machine what you don't want to be backed up. I dunno how raid drives work but it might be possible that one of the clones that you created on those drives was backed up too.
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Time Machine Restore slow and does give any staus info.

I had issues with my HD and it was unrepairable via Disk Utility and would not unmount via OSX Install dis >utilities>disk utilities>repair, etc.
I decided to to do a complete restore with time machine. The size of the restore is around 100gb. I am doing so through an external drive and usb connection.
Everything seemed to be going well, it took a while for the estimate of file size required to finish but then it began the restore process. Now 12 hours later, there is no status update (% completed, estimated time left, etc.) The status bar still seems to be active though (status bar is still animating and is full). I can still access some options in the OSX installer if I need to quit the process but do not want to quit the restore if it is still restoring.
Is this normal? Any advice?
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Pondini wrote:
Yeah, it sure sounds like it. There's a chance it will complete if you re-start. Note what the last message was, so you can watch for it next time.
If you monitor with the log, you'll see it runs in spurts of activity, then no messages for a few seconds or several minutes. When it gets to the message you noted, give it an extra long time, but if it really seems hung again, we'll go to Plan B.
That's doing an Erase and Install, then Migration from your TM backups. Full instructions for this are in the *Erase, Install, & Migrate* section of the Glenn Carter - Restoring Your Entire System / Time Machine post at the top of this forum.
It seems to be working well now. I restarted it and tried to repair the disk again through Disk utility with OSX install disc. That worked so I then when through the restall process again. It is up and runnning now. Took about 2 hours to erase, restore and reboot. Thanks... I probably would have waited another 10 hours or so before restarting because I had seen so many others with rather long restore times.
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I have been backing up my hard drive with a external hard drive as atime machine
the last time i backed up time machine said that it had deleted the oldest backup to make more space for newer ones .
I looked back through the various back ups i have made and found that all my vidoes that i had taken off my computor and put on my external hard drive were only on the earlest backups
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My time machine is full as it is backing up my imac and macbook. I am getting the orange flashing light.
I have looked at the settings and it does not seem to give many options on length of backups etc.
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You may not need to do anything; Time Machine ordinarily deletes your oldest backups automatically when it needs room for new ones. The orange light is completely separate and independent from that.
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I do have an old 500gb hard drive. Can i re format this and piggy back it to the time capsule to give me 1.5 tb?
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Hi there.
I read tons of complaints about this issue, but I did not read any solution, so I am posting this hoping that some good soul can help me and many many others.
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I’m having a few issues with Time Machine. I’ve noticed that backups seem to be getting progressively slower. Details are:
System: 17” 1.25Ghz iMac – PowerPC – 10.5.8
Data: Around 140GB total data over two hard drives:
1st Drive: Internal hard disk
2nd Drive: Smartdisk CrossFire External Firewire 400 Hard Drive
Time Machine Drive: LaCie d2 Quadra Firewire 400 Hard Drive
Time Taken for Incremental backup: Between 6 and 13 minutes, usually around 10 minutes.
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A few days ago I even resorted to re-initializing my entire TM drive, zeroing it out and starting again completely.
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Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/LC 5 Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 151.7 MB requested (including padding), 77.57 GB available
Copied 5 files (0 bytes) from volume CrossFire 2 Movies Photos.
Copied 6016 files (17.3 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 137.2 MB requested (including padding), 77.54 GB available
Copied 5 files (0 bytes) from volume CrossFire 2 Movies Photos.
Copied 6016 files (4.8 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
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No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
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Repair/verify permissions on all drives;
Safe Boot;
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Run Daily, Weekly and Monthly scripts;
Erase TM partition, zero out completely and start again;
Force spotlight database rebuilds on all drives;
Delete com.apple.TimeMachine.plist from top level Library/preferences folder;
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Copied a 1gb file to the TM drive manually to check FireWire 400 data transfer. It took around one minute 20 seconds which seems ok to me;
Told my antivirus VirusBarrier X6 (which I've been using without issues for years) to ignore the TM drive.
I'm at a loss. Something must be wrong, but I'm completely out of ammo.
Thoughts?
Advice?
Anyone?

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