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Time machine

After upgrading to Sonoma 14, the time machine is stuck in preparing for the backup for too long (hours).

The blue bar keeps "running" from side to side...

Is it normal?



Posted on Sep 29, 2023 5:01 AM

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Dec 21, 2023 5:05 AM in response to Alonf1

I can say that TM under Sonoma for me was essentially useless. It would back up but take literally an entire day or more to complete incrementals. After getting nowhere and waiting forever for a fix I finally decided to delete the partitions on my external backup drive, reformatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled and then set up at a TM drive with encryption. The initial backup of about 1TB took around 6 hours. But incrementals now go quickly and TM seems to be back to running normally. Just my 2¢. Hope it's helpful.

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