Time Machine takes 2 days for 1GB

Since my upgrade to Snow Leopard, my Time Capsule takes 2 days alone for 1GB, and takes 24 hours to even start the 1GB... Any ideas?

HI Tom,
Check to see how much free disk space there is on your Mac.
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you always have a minimum of 10% to 15% free disk space at all times.
Not enough and that can slow processes down.
Two days for 1GB... no way.
Carolyn

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UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
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UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
    0 6060     1 1004004   0 53 -20 2555964 29028 ...
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The backup file size is 1.67 TB.*
That's across the internal bus of a 2009 quad-core Mac Pro - which is pretty fast.
Copying an hour's worth of MPEG-2 HD takes about a minute.
I do a fresh backup from scratch about once a year, and the last time it finished over night.
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I could be wrong, but I think the problem is process priority, not file size.
I am unable to set priority to 0 or a negative number. Can someone straighten me out on how to do that?
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Thanks, but it doesn't exactly address my question. TimeMachineEditor allows me to set the intervals or times when backups occur, but it doesn't control the algorithm that decides which snapshots should be deleted. My problem was that Time Machine chose to delete all of the old snapshots and keep only the most recent ones: I'd like it to keep more of the recent ones than the old ones, but still keep some old ones.
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-- Jim

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23.11.12 06:47:26.133 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Backup canceled.

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After 25 years being a windows user I finally came over to Apple this month. I bought a IMAC 24" intel 2.88(OS X 10.5.3) and thought I might as well get a Time Capsule (500GB). I absolutely love the IMAC and wish I had got one years ago. My problem lies with the Time capsule. My setup is a Ethernet cable from the IMAC to the Time Capsule and then the same from the capsule to my broadband modem.
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The backup file size is 1.67 TB.*
That's across the internal bus of a 2009 quad-core Mac Pro - which is pretty fast.
Copying an hour's worth of MPEG-2 HD takes about a minute.
I do a fresh backup from scratch about once a year, and the last time it finished over night.
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