Time Machine taking forever to backup

I am using a mid 2009 MBP running OSX 10.9 and my TC is model A1355. I've been noticing the past week or so it hase been taking extra long to back up. I am backking up over Wifi which is what I've always done and have never had this problem. Not sure why it has been taking so long. Please help.

After a new OS install, TM can and will take a very very long time. It has to backup a whole new OS and its endless 10000s new files.
An alternative, is take another drive (blank and unused) and create a new TM backup,...that will go very FAST
(did same twice myself).

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Incremental Backups in Time Machine taking forever

Greetings all,
I have read the various posts about slow initial backups with Time Machine. I, on the other hand, had no such problem. However, now that my initial backup is complete I find it takes quite a long time for Time Machine to do its hourly thing. I mean a LONG time. The machine will sit for minutes at a time doing nothing, then copy a few kilobytes of a reported 239 MB backup. Then when it finally does complete - roughly 30 minutes later - it will sit for 10 or 15 minutes at the "Finishing backup" stage. At this rate Time Machine is running almost constantly - by the time the darnned thing finishes it's almost time to start again. It didn't do this on my G5 quad core with the same amount of data (about 850 GB). Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?
Thanks for your help.

Your Majesty!!
Sounds like your incremental backups are quite fast!
I have a mid 2011 iMac with SSD and 2TB HDD, and Time Machine incremental backups take anything up to 5 hours, sometimes longer. Trivial amounts of data are usually involved, but the log reports very large numbers of files.
One time I completed a Time Machine backup, rebooted and initiated another backup immediately with very few apps running (Console, Activity Monitor), and after several hours, the backup log said it had backed up over 800,000 files but only a very small amount of data.
I have a case open with AppleCare since July 1st. They have a whole lot of logs and other information being analyzed.
You will find others who have the same unresolved problem at - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3144862?start=0&tstart=0

Time machine taking longer to backup?

Since the recent update to the timemachine software it has been taking about twice as long to complete each hourly backup. Amy ideas out there?
Colin

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

Time Machine taking forever and backing up extensive files. Help!

Ever since we upgraded my spouse's iMac, Time Machine has been acting up. My Mac store/guru guy migrated all the files from her really old G5 to her "new" (refurbished) aluminum iMac... NOT from the external HD she used for her Time Machine back-ups. When we connected the external HD to her new iMac, Time Machine automatically made a new back-up folder and did a complete back-up to that new folder. That was unexpected but understandable. After that, however, subsequent back-ups take forever, and Time Machine insists on preparing tens of thousands of files for back-up every time it runs, even though the great majority of said files had not been touched and did not need to be backed up. I will periodically check Time Machine preferences during these interminable back-ups, and sometimes it will be stuck in the "preparing" phase, and sometimes in the "finishing up" phase. The poor external HD just cranks and cranks and cranks.
I've read many of the Time Machine-related questions and responses, but none seem to address this particular problem. I tried putting the external HD on the Spotlight Preferences/Privacy/Indexing exclusion list, quitting System Preferences, then opening it up again and reversing the process to see whether Spotlight would re-index the external HD (per one communities suggestion I read), but that didn't seem to take place.
I have yet to visit the site referenced several times as the Time Machine FAQ gold mine; will do that next.
Any other ideas, anyone?

Thanks, Joe. My software is up to date. I forgot to mention that, after this first began happening, I erased the external HD and had Time Machine start all over again. It did the first, complete backup overnight, but subsequent ones still take longer than they should and it still prepares 90,000 - 120,000 items when it should be doing no where near that many files on an hourly basis. I'm wondering whether the cable needs to be changed out, as well. We're running OS 10.6.8.

HT201250 Time Machine taking forever...???

I am backing up 230GB from my local drive to a new external drive using Time Machine. I am now 24hrs into the process and only 25GB along...should it take this long?

You might start with this link:
http://pondini.org/TM/D2.html
and
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Also the other links within these Time Machine general information web sites may shed light on your issue. For instance, you need to format the external backup drive properly, probably not causing your issue, but check this link just in case:
http://pondini.org/TM/5.html
FYI, my Time Machnie backup for ~ 215 GB took 2.5 hours, yours should be similar, so checking through the above links' list of troubleshooting steps might be worthwhile. Mine was via firewire and USB 2.0 might be somewhat slower, up to a factor of x2, but the time you have been waiting seems excessive.
Sep 5 12:53:27 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Starting standard backup
Sep 5 12:53:27 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Backing up to: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb
Sep 5 12:54:28 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Backup content size: 242.2 GB excluded items size: 29.7 GB for volume Macintosh HD
Sep 5 12:54:28 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: 255.02 GB required (including padding), 1.82 TB available
Sep 5 12:54:28 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Sep 5 15:11:02 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Copied 1168316 files (212.4 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 5 15:11:10 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: 10.24 GB required (including padding), 1.60 TB available
Sep 5 15:11:10 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Sep 5 15:23:53 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Copied 15087 files (14.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 5 15:23:54 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Copying Lion Recovery set
Sep 5 15:24:03 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Starting post-backup thinning
Sep 5 15:24:03 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Sep 5 15:24:03 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Backup completed successfully.

How to prevent time machine from deleting certain backup folders?

So, I have problem undrestanding time machine. Time machine has made a backup of my files in Nov 2012 and another backup from Jan 2013. There is some files in Nov 2012 that I want to keep them forever and never be deleted. So, they were backed up by Time machine (I have deleted those files from my computer so they're no lonegr excist in my compuetr). Althought they do excist on my time machine under the Nov 2012 folder, I am not able to modify them at all for example, I'm not allowed to copy them somehwere else. Since, I can not make another copy of them, I am worried if time machine delete my Nov 2012 in future and then they will be gone. Can someone please help me in modifying/ controling my folder so it won't be deleted in future?

You are using Time Machine incorrectly, your files will be deleted from Time Machine after you delete them from your Mac, the only variable is when.
Time Machine is a backup, not a storage system.
Restore them now and copy them to long term storage (another hard drive)

Time machine Deleted old computer backups

Hey,
I have been using a mac pro for about a year and a half now and as all computers get it has become slow and full of garbage. So i used my time machine back up and successfully backed up all my files. I put in the OS disk and wiped the computer clean and reinstalled the OS. I plugged the time machine back up in and began to copy over only the files that i wanted. A few days later I had not yet copied over all of the files that I needed, i was prompted me to set up this computer with a time machine back up. I began the process thinking that it would create the backups in a new file on the drive or append it to the current list of back up images. It stopped half way though saying there was not enough free disk space. on the 1 TB HD there was only 5 GB remaining. So I just canceled it and was going to finish copying over all of the files i wanted and they delete the old backups. However when I went to get my old backup files, they had all been deleted.
I was using this hard drive to store other media files as well as time machine backups. taking the HD into the local computer shop i was informed that that is a terrible thing to do and perhaps the reason that my backups have been lost. the tech said there was nothing to be done but reformat the drive and start again. I am hoping this is not the case. the drive still says there is only 5GB of free space however I can only fine 300GB of files on the drive. so i believe that the files are still there. Does anyone know a solution to this issue. There are many valuable things on this hard drive that i would hate to loose.
I have tried holding the option key and clicking on the icon to view other backups, but my original backups are not there.
Thanks in advance.

Before I make any reply, note that you are responding to a topic that has been inactive for more than two years, on a system two versions out of date. In the future, you would do better to start your own topic in an appropriate forum, specifying what system you're running and what hardware you're running it on, among other things.
this exact thing happened to me as well and I must say that I find it totally unacceptable...
Well, without more information, it's impossible to say what might have happened or how you can recover. You may find some answers on Pondini's excellent site:
http://pondini.org
However, it's important to understand that this may or may not have anything to do with Time Machine. Perhaps your backup drive is dying, perhaps its directory structure became badly corrupt, perhaps one of any number of other things could have happened. Because there is no such thing as storage that is completely stable, it's important to keep more than one backup, as noted previously on this topic.
Carbon Copy Cloner seems like a much better solution at this time.
Carbon Copy Cloner is an excellent solution. Is it better? No. It is simply different, and that makes it better in some aspects and worse in others than Time Machine. The best backup strategy will involve two different backup programs. I frequently recommend using both Time Machine and CCC. I use TM with a Time Capsule for one backup, which has certain advantages over CCC. I use CCC for a couple other backups, one of which is in a safe deposit box at all times, and that has some advantages over TM. Using both, with multiple backups, means that I'm extremely unlikely to lose much data, if any at all... unless a meteor hits and destroys both my home and my bank, in which case I've got bigger problems!
Anyway, with regard to recovery, take a look at Pondini's site. If that doesn't help, or you need assistance with something, start your own topic in the appropriate forum for your system and provide additional details that may help us better assist you.

Time-machine won't do backup

Heya,
I have a MacBook Pro and have upgraded it from Mavericks to Yosemite. Since then, it recognises my time-machine and prepares the backup, but doesn't follow through. I tried switching the time-machine off and on again. It also uses the right hard drive, but it just won't do a new backup.
Anyone know how I can fix it?

Ok, I did what you said. I edited some lines out. It was just repeating the lines before. Perhaps there's nothing wrong and it's just taking hours more that the usual minutes to do the backup, like others have noted. I don't know if that is the case however.
Here's the log I copied:
29.10.14 16:11:43,513 com.apple.backupd[1121]: Starting manual backup
29.10.14 16:11:43,519 com.apple.backupd[1121]: Backing up to /dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/Time Machine-Backups/Backups.backupdb
29.10.14 16:11:45,202 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
29.10.14 16:11:51,811 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:11:52,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageLogical::resumeBackgroundTransform: thread already running
29.10.14 16:11:52,180 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:11:59,384 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
29.10.14 16:12:05,986 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:12:06,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageLogical::resumeBackgroundTransform: thread already running
29.10.14 16:12:06,389 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:12:07,773 com.apple.backupd[1121]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
29.10.14 16:12:07,834 com.apple.backupd[1121]: Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
29.10.14 16:12:07,835 com.apple.backupd[1121]: Running event scan
29.10.14 16:12:13,086 WindowServer[114]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Systemeinstellungen" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
29.10.14 16:12:13,759 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
29.10.14 16:12:20,181 WindowServer[114]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Systemeinstellungen" after 8.10 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
29.10.14 16:12:20,317 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:12:20,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageLogical::resumeBackgroundTransform: thread already running
29.10.14 16:12:20,649 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:12:25,821 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
29.10.14 16:12:32,764 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:12:33,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageLogical::resumeBackgroundTransform: thread already running
29.10.14 16:12:33,178 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:12:37,829 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
This last two lines are repeated dozens of times.
29.10.14 16:37:47,612 AddressBookSourceSync[1495]: ApplePushService: Timed out making blocking call, failed to perform call via XPC connection to 'com.apple.apsd'
29.10.14 16:37:48,709 AddressBookSourceSync[1495]: ApplePushService: Timed out making blocking call, failed to perform call via XPC connection to 'com.apple.apsd'
29.10.14 16:37:49,799 AddressBookSourceSync[1495]: ApplePushService: Timed out making blocking call, failed to perform call via XPC connection to 'com.apple.apsd'
29.10.14 16:37:50,872 AddressBookSourceSync[1495]: ApplePushService: Timed out making blocking call, failed to perform call via XPC connection to 'com.apple.apsd'
29.10.14 16:37:51,950 AddressBookSourceSync[1495]: ApplePushService: Timed out making blocking call, failed to perform call via XPC connection to 'com.apple.apsd'
29.10.14 16:37:53,043 AddressBookSourceSync[1495]: ApplePushService: Timed out making blocking call, failed to perform call via XPC connection to 'com.apple.apsd'
29.10.14 16:37:55,138 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
29.10.14 16:38:01,801 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:38:02,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageLogical::resumeBackgroundTransform: thread already running
29.10.14 16:38:02,239 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:38:02,778 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
29.10.14 16:38:10,591 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
29.10.14 16:38:17,901 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:38:18,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageLogical::resumeBackgroundTransform: thread already running
Again these last two lines are being repeated …
29.10.14 16:39:02,877 Console[1498]: Failed to connect (_consoleX) outlet from (NSApplication) to (ConsoleX): missing setter or instance variable
29.10.14 16:39:03,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageLogical::resumeBackgroundTransform: thread already running
29.10.14 16:39:03,133 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:39:11,553 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
Repeated again …
29.10.14 16:44:06,951 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:44:07,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageLogical::resumeBackgroundTransform: thread already running
29.10.14 16:44:07,366 corestoraged[133]: 0x7fff786b8300 resumeBackgroundConversion: background conversion started/resumed for lv 0637A04B-F682-4A19-80B5-63D6A9ECD036.
29.10.14 16:44:12,431 com.apple.kextd[20]: /: kextcache has had enough tries; not launching any more
29.10.14 16:44:18,984 com.apple.backupd[1121]: Backup canceled.
Thank you!

I am trying to get space on an external hard drive which has some old time machine back up files that I do not need but can not eliminate, even by going into the time machine, clicking on the backup file to be eliminated and using the drop down eliminate

I am trying to get space on an external hard drive which has some old time machine back up files that I do not need but can not eliminate, even by going into the time machine, clicking on the backup file to be eliminated and using the drop down menu with the gear box symbol to eliminate

I cannot find this 300GB "Backup" in the Finder, only in the Storage info when I check "About This Mac".
You are probably using Time Machine to backup your MacBook Pro, right? Then the additional 300 GB could be local Time Machine snapshots. Time Machine will write the hourly backups to the free space on your hard disk, if the backup drive is temporarily not connected. You do not see these local backups in the Finder, and MacOS will delete them, when you make a regular backup to Time Machine, or when you need the space for other data.
See Pondini's page for more explanation: What are Local Snapshots? http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
I have restarted my computer, but the information remains the same. How do I reclaim the use of the 300GB? Why is it showing up as "Backups" when it used to indicate "Photos"? Are my photos safe on the external drive?
You have tested the library on the external drive, and so your photos are save there.
The local TimeMachine snapshot probably now contains a backup of the moved library. Try, if connecting your Time Machine drive will reduce the size of your local Time Machine snapshots.

I have 2 auxillary disk drives for my MacBokk Pro. Time Machine uses one for backup and I use the other for storage, but I am unable to create a new folder or drag and drop files or folders to the aux drive.

I am unable to create a new folder on either of my auxillary disk drives. I can access the files and folders that were there when I transferred one of the drives from a PC. Time machine uses one for backup and I want to use the other to store photos which are large files. An help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the reply. If I reformat the drive will I be able to access the files on it from the MAC. I do not share the drive with a PC. The files were originally created on a PC which I no longer use. I do want to continue to access the files put there by the PC. I would like to not have to copy them over to the MAC hard drive just to use them. The second aux drive is new and works fine because it was formatted by the MAC. I can drag and drop files there and work with just as if they were on the internal drive.

Time Machine no longer recognizes backup file

Hi:
My Time Capsule was malfunctioning, and I lost my internet connection. I rebooted the Time Capsule, and had to reset the internet connection via the Time Capsule software that's part of System Preferences. When I got my internet connection back up and running, Time Machine can no longer connect to Time Capsule. When it tries to back up, I get this error message...
"The backup disk image “/Volumes/Aquaria-2/JHitch’s Computer_0017f2ce01da.sparsebundle” is already in use.
It's like Time Machine thinks that my backup file on my Time Capsule belongs to somebody else. How can I get Time Machine to go back to using my old backup file on my Time Machine?

I have had this exact problem occur when I logged off while Mail was in TM restore state. I guess the backup is locked somehow because it was cut off while in use. I wish I could help, but I am in the same boat and I will watch this post for help.

After having the logic board replaced, Time Machine will no longer backup my computer to the same backup files as before.

After having the logic board replaced due to bad NVidia chip, my Time Machine will no longer backup my computer to the current backup. Is there a way to reset something to get Time Machine to continue to use the same backup files as before for this laptop?

As far as TM is concerned you have a new computer, so it will make a new backup. If you don't have the space for both backups then erase your backup drive before backing up the computer.

I tried to install a new hard drive using Snow Leopard to back up with Time Machine. When I installed the new HD I installed Leopard (10.5) on it and tried to use time machine to restore the backup I had made using 10.6. Kernel panic screen occurred.

I backed up my system using 10.6 Snow Leopard's Time Machine to an external hard drive. I did this because I purchased a new internal hard drive to upgrade my 2007 White Macbook from 80GB to 320GB. When I installed the new hard drive, I installed 10.4 (Tiger) and then 10.5 (Leopard) and once Leopard was in I tried to use Time Machine to restore my backup from 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and received a kernal panic screen directly after the bootup.
The screen had code asking for 10.6, so does this mean that the computer is searching for Snow Leopard? If so, how can I do this? Will a bootable drive with Snow Leopard on it be able to solve the issue or will I somehow need to find a way to wipe out this new hard drive?
-Steve

Booting From Snow Leopard Installer Disc
1. Insert Snow Leopard Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
Drive Preparation and Installation
1. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
7. After formatting is complete quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.

I am using 10.9.1 on a 21.5" iMac. I am backing up using Time Machine. The hourly backups are over kill. How do get TM to backup daily?

I am using 10.9.1 on a 21.5" iMac. I am backing up using Time Machine. The hourly backups are over kill. How do get TM to backup daily, only?

See Pondini's TM FAQs, for details.

Time Machine deleted my old backups and crapped out midstream

I had just gotten my failing hard drive replaced, and restored from Time Machine backup. So far so good.
So a week later, I wanted to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but figured I should be responsible and run Time Machine backup again before doing the upgrade just in case something goes wrong.
The Mac has a 4TB drive, which has 2TB free. The backup drive is a 4TB external drive, which has (or had) Time Machine backups going back two years or so. It still had over a TB of space left. I clicked on Backup Now and let it run overnight. I noticed it said "Deleting old backup to make room" or something like that, which I thought was normal.
I woke up in the morning to find that Time Machine had crapped out in the middle, and said that it couldn't complete. I realized that it had deleted all my old backups. It didn't need to do that, since the only files that had changed would have been less than a GB, and it had over a TB of space to work with.
It must have thought that everything on the drive had changed since the last backup, and it wanted to backup the entire drive. As such it tried deleting all my old backups! But it failed, and stopped in the middle.
Now I have a drive that still says there is only 1.2 TB of space on the drive, but I can't see the files! Even with Tinkertool, I can't see anything beyond the one most recent backup.
Can these files be recovered? I am totally ticked that there isn't some kind of confirmation like "Are you sure you want to delete X?"
I actually need to have some of these older backups, as they include files that had been deleted before the latest backup that I may need to retrieve. Any hard drive experts out there? Any terminal commands that can make these files accessible, even if I have to retrieve them manually?

To clarify, this all happened under Snow Leopard as I had said. My profile lists Tiger, since I haven't cared to update my personal profile since using that OS, and in fact I still use Tiger among other versions. I manage a lot of users. And I never got to upgrade to Mountain Lion on this system, as explained in the post above. So I don't see the confusion.
I don't think the model of Mac makes a difference for this type of problem, but in case it does, the incident was on a 2010 Intel iMac with a 4TB hard drive and 8GB of RAM. I would have mentioned that if this was a problem with hardware specific to the model of Mac. But this is more of a universal issue.
But to stay on topic, I'm guessing my old backups are toast. But if anybody has any experience with recovering from Time Machine deleting their old backups, I would be happy to hear from them. In the meantime, I am going to try to do some old fashioned file recovery, and see what I can salvage.

Time Machine taking forever to backup

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