Very slow Time Machine!
I have no issues with backing up files with Time Machine, but when i try to activate it to restore a file it takes forever to load. It literally takes a minute or two for the "space" theme to pop up, etc. My Mac isn't old or slow, and everything loads just fine, even applications that take more resources like iMovie/iPhoto with a lot of projects/photos load fine. I've tried searching here, and Googled looking for a fix. Any ideas? Help!
It literally takes a minute or two for the "space" theme to pop up, etc.
There's a HUGE amount of data to be transmitted when you open Time Machine, far more than running a number of normal applications.
You aren't trying to do this using wireless, are you?
If you need to access Time Machine, connect an ethernet cable from your computer to one of the LAN ports on your Time Capsule. Things will go much faster than wireless only, and you'll minimize the chances of any errors due to wireless interference.
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons
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Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
1 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) - Uptime: 0 days 10:18:59
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APPLE HDD HTS727575A9E362 disk0 : (750.16 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 749.3 GB (54.06 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information:
VIA Labs, Inc. USB3.0 Hub
OWC Elite Pro mini C 1.5 TB
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
NewMBP-TimeMachine-1.1 (disk1s2) /Volumes/NewMBP-TimeMachine-1.1: 1.5 TB (691.6 GB free)
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7% Finder
7% WindowServer
2% mds
1% NortonAutoProtect
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262 MB mds_stores
180 MB Safari
139 MB WindowServer
115 MB Finder
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2.87 GB Active RAM
1.83 GB Inactive RAM
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Johnjonty1512 wrote:
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thank you,Hello Mr Davis,
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8/2/13 12:25:47.938 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/2/13 12:27:27.000 AM kernel: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff800b0c8200, 1 -> 4) timed out after 100721 ms
8/2/13 12:27:28.015 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11620]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
8/2/13 12:27:28.016 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11620]) Exited with code: 1
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8/2/13 12:29:08.092 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11630]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
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8/2/13 12:29:08.000 AM kernel: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff800b0c8200, 4 -> 3) timed out after 100746 ms
8/2/13 12:29:19.346 AM applepushserviced: <APSCourier: 0x7fe44b908430>: Stream error occurred for <APSTCPStream: 0x7fe44b810ab0>: The operation couldn’t be completed. Connection reset by peer
8/2/13 12:30:30.000 AM kernel: add_fsevent: unable to get path for vp 0xffffff8017720930 (system.log; ret 22; type 4)
8/2/13 12:30:30.000 AM kernel: add_fsevent: unabled to get a path for vp 0xffffff8017720930. dropping the event.
8/2/13 12:30:48.171 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11642]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
8/2/13 12:30:48.171 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11642]) Exited with code: 1
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8/2/13 12:31:10.000 AM kernel: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff800b0c8200, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100738 ms
8/2/13 12:32:28.263 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11652]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
8/2/13 12:32:28.263 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11652]) Exited with code: 1
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8/2/13 12:33:11.000 AM kernel: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff800b0c8200, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100738 ms
8/2/13 12:34:08.343 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11662]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
8/2/13 12:34:08.344 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11662]) Exited with code: 1
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8/2/13 12:35:48.420 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11672]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
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8/2/13 12:37:28.498 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11682]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
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8/2/13 12:39:08.577 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11692]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
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8/2/13 12:39:19.976 AM applepushserviced: <APSCourier: 0x7fe44b908430>: Stream error occurred for <APSTCPStream: 0x7fe44a444230>: The operation couldn’t be completed. Connection reset by peer
8/2/13 12:40:48.654 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11702]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
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8/2/13 12:42:28.731 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11712]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
8/2/13 12:42:28.731 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11712]) Exited with code: 1
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8/2/13 12:42:54.000 AM kernel: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=11715[GoogleSoftwareUp] clearing CS_VALID
8/2/13 12:44:08.810 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[11723]) posix_spawn("/Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Resources/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory -
Extremely slow time machine backups
I have problem that prevents me from making Time Machine backup at all. First, some information about my environment:
- MacBook MB404 (late 2008)
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- External USB hard disk drive (Samsung)
I'm using this configuration for years, before Lion everything was working pretty well. Unfortunately, on Lion from time to time I have to erase my external disc drive which contains Time Machine backups and start taking a new backup. Otherwise backups are extremely slow and taking couple hours just to save about 100MB on external drive. That's not a big problem for me, so every two or three months I'm erasing my external drive using Disk Utility, configuring TM from scratch and taking first backup again.
Yesterday was the day TM starts working very slow, so I decided to repeat mentioned process. Everything went good to the moment Time Machine started making a new, first backup on a erased drive. It is still so slow, it wont be done in a week or more. I know, that this is the fist and clean backup, and TM have to copy over 60GB of data from MacBook's hard disk drive to external disk drive, connected by USB, so it have to be time-consuming, but it wasn't take more than 6-8 hours before for the same amount of data! I have already fixed permissions on the disk using Recovery HD partition, but I didn't help, TM is still so slow it almost impossible to make a backup. I have checked MacBook's disk and external Samsung disk - both seams to be in good shape, there are no errors in S.M.A.R.T, Disk Utility says that everything is OK. What else can I do to fix this issue?I just added a TM backup disk and TM says it will take about 7 DAYS to backup.
iMac Intel i5 mid-2011, Mac OS 10.7.5 (1163), FW800 connection
It looks like the 1163 build of 10.7.5 didn't fix the problem of Spotlight slowing down TM backups. I'm going to dl the supplement (even though Apple says it isn't needed) and see if it will fix it. -
Add'l ideas to cure slow Time Machine backup
Over the past 10 days, the average duration of my Time Machine backups has gone from 1 minute to :42-:45 minutes. There's been no significant shift in my computing behavior during that time. To fix, I've tried nearly everything recommended in Pondini's terrific site -- can you see something that I've overlooked?
* iMac8,1 4GB, running OS X 10.6.8
* TM drive: Seagate GoFlex 1TB, 30 days old, was freshly formatted and 100% dedicated to TM; have tested both Firewire and USB; 356GB used
* Fusion virtual machines excluded from TM via Preferences
* no virus program running
Review of backupd items in system.log shows, after the first few weeks of speedy TM backups, a gradual decay -- can't pinpoint a cliff (that could be blamed on an installation, etc.) And there's no other TM-related messages ("deep traversal," etc) in the log. When I watch Activity Monitor during a TM cycle, I see low CPU usage by TM, and slow read/write speeds for disk activity.
Yes, I have:
* repaired permissions (frequently)
* done disk verify and repair on both internal and TM drives (nothing found)
* set drives to "no sleep"
* disabled Spotlight
* relaunched Finder (and, of course, rebooted the whole system)
* tested in Safe Mode (no improvement)
* run daily/weekly/monthly maintenance scripts and purged caches, using Cocktail (Ironically, it got dramatically worse yesterday after I did this!)
No, I have not yet reformatted the TM drive, nor reinstalled 10.6.8. Am I forgetting something else?
thxHi there
The same problem here:
17.07.12 17:17:17 com.apple.backupd[12749] Starting standard backup
*means: com.apple.backupd[12749]
17.07.12 17:17:17 * Starting standard backup
17.07.12 17:17:17 * Backing up to: /Volumes/TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb
17.07.12 17:17:48 * No pre-backup thinning needed: 703.6 MB requested
(including padding), 1.37 TB available
17.07.12 17:22:43 * Copied 34006 files (639 bytes) from volume DATEN.
17.07.12 17:23:54 * No pre-backup thinning needed: 704.0 MB requested
(including padding),1.37 TB available
17.07.12 17:27:14 * Copied 10482 files (639 bytes) from volume DATEN.
17.07.12 17:29:47 * Starting post-backup thinning
17.07.12 17:33:29 * Deleted backup /Volumes/TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/
pmg5/2012-07-03-121520: 1.37 TB now available
17.07.12 17:37:05 * Deleted backup /Volumes/TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/
pmg5/2012-07-03-114951: 1.37 TB now available
17.07.12 17:37:05 * Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
17.07.12 17:37:06 * Backup completed successfully.
Many years everything with TimeMachine was fine. No problems, no effort. Works quiet and effectiv in the background.
2 months ago I recognised first changes. TM needs long and longer. Thousands of files - big number with low volume - TM copied to my external HDD. "Preparation" and "reworking" take a long time.
I controlled the backup with TimeTracker - a much smaller number of files was listed.
I read other threads:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3144862?start=15&tstart=0
and jump to Pandinis website. No success with this.
So long
iPille -
Extremely slow time machine backup
Hi,
I tried my first backup on snow leopard and I found it extremely slow compared to leopard. What used to take 20 minutes in leopard now takes 3 to 4 hours.
This was my first backup on snow leopard.
Is there any known issue for slow TM backup? If not, this must be a bug in this new OS.
If there is any assistance needed (i.e. logs etc) do let me know.
Thanks,
ApurvaHi every one had the same problem for a while and had tried everything but discovered a solution that has helped me out and hope that it helps others as hours have been burnt trying to get this running.
so here we go.
Restart your Mac with the boot up media/ CD/ DVD
open disk utility
repair back up drive
repair local disk
repair permission local disk
boot back in to SL
go to your back up drive
open Backups.backupdb folder
find your back up folder (it will be named the same as your machine)
locate your current backup temporary file (this is not a folder but a file that is used to store and create your latest backup of your system it will look different so don't remove the wrong one)
move it to the trash
empty the trash (this will take a while depending on the size of temp file)
once completed run time machine again.
this time time machine will run a lot faster in determining the backup required, the the actual back up process will be a lot quicker once the first back up is created.
I went from waiting over 24 hours for a backup which ended up either failing or crashing my system to a 1st time complete back up in less than an hour and the incremental backups are much quicker.
for some reason the temp file gets corrupted no idea why but this has seemed to fix it for me.
I am backing up over 150 GB on my local disk and about 350GB on another external disk drive to my back up drive.
Drives is connected by Firewire 800
let me know if I can b of further assistance.
""Cheers -
Extremely Slow Time Machine Backup after upgrading to 10.8.3
Time machine backups are taking an extremely long time on my retina MacBook Pro 13 inch after upgrading to 10.8.3. It's taking many minutes just for a kilobyte to be backed up. I've tested transferring something to the disk and it's lightening fast so there's nothing wrong with the disk.
Is anyone having similar issues or know of a fix?I had the same problem with slow backups. Called Apple 5 times and went through all the hoops checking plists, airport, and then erasing using my airport utility and the first backup of about 25-30 gigs went fine, but the second backup would take between 1-2 hours. By the time it was finished it was ready to do another backup.
After looking at community fixes I found that my Comcast Norton Anti Virus was the problem. Upon speaking for the 6th time to Apple I was told that should have been the first thing they asked, since antivirus programs check each file going to the time capsule. Even unchecking the scan external drives did not help.
I removed the Norton AV from my system and replaced it with the IAV from apple store (free) and my backups are back to normal. I timed a 100 meg using Ethernet/LAN and it took 9 minutes 32 seconds from clicking backup now, searching for backups, preparing backup, backingup, and cleanup. My Wifi connection on 10 megs took only 1 minute 29 seconds.
Now my backups run so fast I don't even see them working. Also the constant updates to Norton were casuing my backups to be 100 megs or more each time due to daily Norton updates. Now I get backups in the order of 10-20 megs - depending up what I have put on the machine. If I put music on it increases the size of the files installed.
I recommend anyone having this slow time capsule problem to turn off your full antivirus program no matter what you are using and watch the difference in speed. I am so happy! No more 2 hour backups and 45 minutes to 1 hour preparing backup! good luck -
I am running OSX Maverics version 10.9 on my mid 2009 15" MBP. I've noticed lately that my backups are taking longer than usual, even before the upgrade to the new OS. I've even hard wired my MBP into my Time Casule A1355 which seemed to help the first few backups, but now it's running slow again. Right now it says backing up 1.1 MB of 1.2 MB with no calculated time. I have over 300 GB remaining on my Time Capsule that started as 1 TB. Just wondering what's going on and if anyone had any insight or the same problem. Thanks
I did a simple Google search for "time machine slow backups" an dthis is the site I found which explained what to do. It worked for me.
http://www.vitarara.org/cms/node/149
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