Time Machine slower since Lion?

I don't know if any of you have noticed as well, but since Lion my TM on my MBP is WAY slower than before. I mean it's taking more than 10 minutes to clean up after a 50MB backup...
During this time kernel task and mds are taking up about half the CPU.
Before you should ask, the Lion migration took place more than a week ago, it HAS finished indexing... ;-)
Any thoughts?

I had the same issue.
I use an external USB hard drive for time machine and had backups from Snow Leopard stretching back about four or five months. After upgrading to 10.7 it seemed as if time machine kept reindexing and reading the entire contents of my disk before and after every backup. It would take several minutes for the copying to even start and finishing off the backup would also take up to five or even ten minutes for relatively small data sets of around 50-100 MB.
As an experiment I made sure that all my data was safely backed up on another drive, repartitioned the USB drive and started over with a fresh time machine partition. Now backups are just as fast as they used to be. Might be something with my previous configuration that confused time machine into making deep scans or reindexing after making a restore point...

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It's like the Time Machine has to spring into action for every little process or keystroke on my machine to be executed. It's really awful because I usually keep a pretty rigorous degree of workflow on my machine and run dual 22-inch screens with many windows and spreadsheets open simultaneously. An extra 5-6 seconds for every action really adds up when that happens 75-100 times per day.
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A number of things can cause slow backups. See #D2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Time Machine won't even try to back up an open file. Most apps don't do that, anyway -- when you want to edit a file, the app makes a copy in memory, then replaces the one on disk when you Save it.

Time Machine Slow on Lion 10.7.5

Time machine keeps saying it's preparing and it's going on for ages, when it finally gets going there's only a couple of Gig to do but it's just taking forever. The drive is connected via USB and was OK till I went from OS 10.7.4 to 10.7.5.

problem solved see below.
The simple solution for me was to restore the whole system from Time Machine.
Here's how.
Make sure you copy all the stuff that you haven't backed up manually to a spare drive.
This fix will restore everything including 10.7.4 and wipe out all unbacked up data.
Hold command R down and reboot with your time machine drive connected.
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Hit restore and depending on how much data, there will be an estimated time displayed. In my case about 45 minutes.
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Hit return spotlight will stop.
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hello --
ever since upgrading to lion i am having a lot of problems with my time capsule. it is running extremely slow, while before it was perfectly acceptable over wifi. eventually i installed the time capsule buddy widget and noticed the error below repeatedly occuring (in bold). i also noticed that all of a sudden it requires 1.89 GB to backup ( !!! ) in the last line, something that never was an issue before. have others encountered similar issues?
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p.
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2012-08-26 21:51:49,984 com.apple.backupd: Failed to move /Volumes/Data/Pärs MacBook Pro 111026.sparsebundle to file://localhost/Volumes/Data/P%C3%A4rs%20MacBook%20Pro%20111026.sparsebundle/ error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=516 "“Pärs MacBook Pro 111026” couldn’t be moved to “Data” because an item with the same name already exists." UserInfo=0x7fb8c050fac0 {NSUserStringVariant=(
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Okay, so I basically started over and now everything is okay. Since it worked for a few weeks when I upgraded we will see how it works this time.
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Very frequent Time Machine corruption since I upgraded to Mountain Lion

Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion, I encounter very frequent Time Machine corruption.
A few backups are OK, and then, I get an error "Time Machine has verified your backups and needs to create a new copy in order to enhance fiability...".
In the console, I can see a lot of these errors :
29/07/12 11:10:33,384 com.apple.backupd[17480]: Error (256): fetching properties: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file “objects.xib” couldn’t be opened." UserInfo=..... {NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/Copies%20de%20sauvegarde%20Time%20machine/Backu ps.backupdb/...objects.xib, NSFilePath=/Volumes/Copies de sauvegarde Time machine/Backups.backupdb/....objects.xib, NSUnderlyingError=... "The operation couldn’t be completed. Input/output error"}
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Everything has been working perfectly well on OSX Lion for months...
I already have reselected my Time Machine volume, and already have accepted a full new backup (3 times !) and it always finish like this...
Any idea ?

I had the same general problem: every few minutes I would get the message "There was a problem connecting to the server 'myserver'. Contact your system administrator for more information."
The problem went away for me when I reset the sync server.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627
I hope this works for others as well.

Odd Time Machine Behavior Since Mountain Lion Installed

I have used Time Machine to back up to a three-month-old Time Capsule (named 2012 TC) without problems until I updated my iMac to Mountain Lion.
Now, when I awaken my computer from sleep I often (not always) receive an alert window which says:
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The alert window then goes on to say:
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and
“Open Time Machine preferences to select a different backup disk.”
And then offers a button to “Open Time Machine Preferences.”
The alert window goes away after some seconds, and if I restart Time Machine backup it seems to work OK. I do seem to be getting proper backups.
This did not occur with Lion, and has only happened since my upgrade to Mountain Lion (including its latest upgrade OS 10.8.1). My Time Capsule is in exactly the same format as before, which was set automatically when I connected it to Time Machine months ago.
What’s going on? Is there a problem? Is there something I should do to fix this?

I have the same problem too and have provided feedback to Apple so hopefully they can fix the bug. I suggest you add your voice too:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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.
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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.
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Do Not Re-Install Norton.
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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.
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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.

Time Machine slow to backup files after System Update to Mac OS X 10.7.3

I downloaded and successfully installed the latest update to Mac OS X Lion (10.7.3) a couple of days ago, and since then I have been having problems backing up my files using Time Machine.
My external hard drive is connected via USB, and I have tried replacing the cables but this has no effect. I have tried restarting the laptop several times, unplugging the hard drive and pretty much anything else I can think off, but it still takes a long time to back up.
For example, I left it running for half an hour - when I came back it had only backed up 1KB! It would usually have completed an entire backup in this time.
I have been patient and waited several hours and tried backing up several times.
Any suggestions would be greatly apprectiated.
Thank you.

Try the things in the green box in #D2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Time Machine slow to open

Although there are lots of threads about Timemachine being slow, my problem is slightly different. Timemachine appears to be backing up ok (though I've temporarily disabled backups now), but if I want to recover a file, it opens so slowly as to be almost useless.
When I click on Timemachine it seems as though there is no response. However, after a minute or two, I get a "Connecting to Timemachine" progress meter in Finder. After much longer, say 5 minutes, I get "Do you still want to connect to Timemachine, Backup Volume is now available".
After a few more minutes I'm in Time Machine, but all the controls (forward back arrows, right side bar etc) are frozen. After a very long time (not sure how long, as I gave up after 15 minutes and came back four hours later), the controls are now working, but oh so slowly. Clicking back through archives takes about 30 seconds to a minute for each movement. However, all the archives seem in place, and when I restore a file, though very slow to start (another minute or so with a progress meter) it actually uploads back to my machine quite quickly.
The Timemachine volume is 500GB and there are 53GB spare (>10%).
Okay - what have I done to fix this?
I've tried repairing the Time Machine volume with Disk Utility. I have three volumes on the one hard drive, Time Machine, a Super Dooper boot backup (I backup my docs in Timemachine and have a bootable backup without documents in Super Dooper) and another partition just spare. The two other volumes can be repaired and verified. When I repair the Time Machine volume I get the following:
"Verify and Repair volume “Time Machine 2”
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Couldn’t unmount disk."
And sure enough, if I try manually unmounting the disk, after an interminable wait (>10mins) it fails. Not sure why this matters though? I want it mounted to use it, don't I? However, I infer from this that it's Time machine, not the Hard drive that is the issue, since the other volumes work.
I searched in Console for errrors associated with Timemachine speed problems (backing up). I found I had lots of these errors,
sandboxd: mdworker deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
mdworker: Unable to talk to lsboxd
which I removed, as recommended, by doing a safe boot.
However, now in console I have lots of these errrors:
xx/xx/xxx xx:xx AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.sleepservicesd[6326]) Exited: Killed: 9
In other discussions this seems to be associated with Screen and computer freezing, but mine is more glaciating than freezing, that is, it's frozen but it still works! Also, it appears to be only Time machine. However, the errors don't appear to correlate with opening or doing anything with Time machine - the errors are around all the time.
Any ideas?

Yes, I agree, the disk, though no longer inaccessible to disk utility repair, still seems to have some problems. It has now been shown to be slow across a range of actons, not just Timemachine. Timemachine has improved slightly in its response when retrieving files. It now takes 3 to 4 minutes to open and make files selectable, rather than the 7 to 10 before, and I'm not getting the progress meter and then "Do you still want to connect to Timemachine, Backup Volume is now available" message before this happens.
We've just bought a MBP, so I now need to get a backup solution for multiple machines, so I'll move to a Timecapsule or some other kind of shared backup.
Thanks again for your assistance.

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