First back-up with Time Machine. I have a lot of pictures but not much else - but bout 80 GB. Not using encryption.
The back-up has now run for 24 hours - and has only managed to back-up 8 GB - reminaing time estimated to 8 days !
Back-up by wire to external hard disc (USB 3.0 for HD and 2.0 for Mac)
Is this normal?
Anything I could do to speed it up?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
You want Lion and MacBook Pro forums.
Yes TM is slow but it depends on the drive interface and disk drive and whether they have trouble with Mac or Lion (or ML)
I prefer to clone and use one partition for that, say 200GB out of your (1.5TB?) drive and use the rest for TM.
How to clone your system:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
http://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/
Time Machine stops backing up to external disk
Get to know the ins and outs of Time Machine.
USB-2 (the lowest common speed between your drive and your Mac) is notoriously slow, "only suitable for backups".
If you want better speed on a MacBook, you will need a drive with a faster interface, such as FireWire 800 or FireWire 400.
That said, it is possible your backup drive has some problems, such as Bad Blocks. You could erase it again with option: Security Erase: Zero all data, one pass. But that may take several days over USB-2.
The real determiner: ¿Is the backup making progress, however slow?
Yes - I finally got there.
Thanks for you support!
Back-up with Time machine is soooo slow.
