Time Machine Bogs Down System

I have an Imac with 2.5G Ram. Processor is Power PC. Hard Drive 250 with 80 GB currently free.

My external back up disk is an Iomega 500GB connected via USB.

When time machine starts and I monitor its CPU usage it ranges between 30 and 60%. If I running a memory intensive program on Safari my computer becomes nearly unusable.

The other issue it seems to take Time Machine almost an hour to prepare backup, backup and finish backup which means a backup is almost always running.

Any suggestions or tips as I want to keep the backups running?

Thanks,

Imac g5, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Apr 17, 2009 2:51 PM

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brd1207 Author

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Apr 25, 2009 5:42 PM in response to Pondini

What is the best way to archive and install. I have never done that before.

Thanks

Pondini

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Apr 25, 2009 5:48 PM in response to brd1207

brd1207 wrote:
What is the best way to archive and install. I have never done that before.

It's covered in the +Restoring your entire system+ post at the top of this forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1771551

brd1207 Author

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May 12, 2009 8:37 AM in response to Pondini

After the archive and install Time machine backups are taking around 20 minutes...

Thanks,

Bryn

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