Very slow first backup...

A friend has a MacBook (C2D) and has just bought an iomega USB 2.0 external hard drive. Everything is plugged in and working its formatted (Journaled Case Sensitive(done automatically)), we have set Spotlight not to index the backup drive so we wouldn't encounter any problems.
Yet the first backup was started at 11pm last night (now 8:45 am) and it has only done 4GB of the 68GB it has to back up.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can speed this up???

Apple says that a Time Machine disk requires Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with GUID formatting for Intel Macs and Apple Partition Map for PPC Macs. As complicated as the file structure is for Time Machine I would be inclined to take Apple at their word. Directions for properly formatting a Time Machine disk are here but people with PPC Macs should use Apple Partition Map instead of GUID.
Anti-virus software can slow Time Machine down so it should be disabled during at least the initial backup. It's also possible that Time Machine could be hanging on a corrupt file. Another possible source of slowdown is having a really large number of tiny files bunched up all together.

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So...I may have panicked when I saw all of those empty folders in my Document folder...however, when stopping the backup to TC (the 'cleaning up' process of stopping took more than 2 hours), my folder contents showed up. I guess that process takes the file index pointers offline or something so I couldn't see file contents during the process. I then did a permissions repair and a verify on my hard drive.
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I've seen some other posts like this, so I don't think I'm alone with this problem.
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Florian M. wrote:
Thank you. Did that, and it seems to be working now - though it actually seemed to have got better even before I ran Disk Utility. Before, even rebooting didn't help.
Yes, if there's a problem inside he sparse bundle, rebooting (the Mac and/or TC) won't help.
Time Machine is a great technology, but it seems to have strange quirks sometimes
It does indeed!
Once again, thank you.
You're quite welcome, and thanks for the star!

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sda1 0.00 0.65 0.00 2074066 16
sda2 21.57 220.59 1833.98 700856482 5827014296
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 12787 5960
sda4 0.00 0.00 0.00 8 0
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sda6 0.05 0.00 0.55 5322 1736264
sda7 0.00 0.00 0.00 2915 16
sda8 0.50 9.03 5.24 28695700 16642584
sda9 0.51 0.36 24.81 1128290 78829224
sda10 0.52 0.00 5.98 9965 19004088
sda11 83.71 2311.26 1254.71 7343426336 3986520976
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Linux 2.6.18-194.el5 (mca-webreporting2) 06/01/2012
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09:57:20 AM all 6.97 0.00 1.87 16.31 0.00 74.84
09:57:21 AM all 6.74 0.00 1.25 17.48 0.00 74.53
09:57:22 AM all 7.01 0.00 1.75 16.27 0.00 74.97
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09:57:24 AM all 6.98 0.00 1.37 16.83 0.00 74.81
09:57:25 AM all 6.49 0.00 1.25 14.61 0.00 77.65
Average: all 6.82 0.00 1.44 15.90 0.00 75.84
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Linux 2.6.18-194.el5 (mca-webreporting2) 06/01/2012
09:57:19 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
mca-webreporting2;601;2012-05-27 16:30:01 UTC;2.54;1510.94;3581.85;0.00
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 16:40:01 UTC;2.45;1442.78;3883.47;0.04
mca-webreporting2;599;2012-05-27 16:50:01 UTC;2.44;1466.72;3893.10;0.04
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 17:00:01 UTC;2.30;1394.43;3546.26;0.00
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 17:10:01 UTC;3.15;1529.72;3978.27;0.04
mca-webreporting2;601;2012-05-27 17:20:01 UTC;9.83;1268.76;3823.63;0.04
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 17:30:01 UTC;32.71;1277.93;3495.32;0.00
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 17:40:01 UTC;1.96;1213.10;3845.75;0.04
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 17:50:01 UTC;1.89;1247.98;3834.94;0.04
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 18:00:01 UTC;2.24;1184.72;3486.10;0.00
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 18:10:01 UTC;18.68;1320.73;4088.14;0.18
mca-webreporting2;600;2012-05-27 18:20:01 UTC;1.82;1137.28;3784.99;0.04
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procs -----------memory---------- -swap -----io---- system -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
0 1 182356 499444 135348 13801492 0 0 3488 247 0 0 5 2 89 4 0
[root@myserver ~]# dstat -D sda
----total-cpu-usage---- dsk/sda -net/total- -paging -system
usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read writ| recv send| in out | int csw
3 1 89 7 0 0|1240k 1544k| 0 0 | 1.9B 1B|2905 6646
8 1 77 14 0 1|4096B 3616k| 433k 2828B| 0 0 |3347 16k
10 2 77 12 0 0| 0 1520k| 466k 1332B| 0 0 |3064 15k
8 2 77 12 0 0| 0 2060k| 395k 1458B| 0 0 |3093 14k
8 1 78 12 0 0| 0 1688k| 428k 1460B| 0 0 |3260 15k
8 1 78 12 0 0| 0 1712k| 461k 1822B| 0 0 |3390 15k
7 1 78 13 0 0|4096B 6372k| 449k 1950B| 0 0 |3322 15k
AWR sheet output
Wait Events
ordered by wait time desc, waits desc (idle events last)
Event Waits %Time -outs Total Wait Time (s) Avg wait (ms) Waits /txn
free buffer waits 1,591,125 99.95 19,814 12 129.53
log file parallel write 31,668 0.00 1,413 45 2.58
buffer busy waits 846 77.07 653 772 0.07
control file parallel write 10,166 0.00 636 63 0.83
log file sync 11,301 0.00 565 50 0.92
write complete waits 218 94.95 208 955 0.02
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free in buffer (NOT_DIRTY) 10.71%
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