Larry Nolan
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Q: time machine slow in 10.7.5

Since updating to 10.7.5 using the Combo updater, Time Machine on my iMac seems much slower.  Anyone else seeing this behavior?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), iMac 21.5 in.; i5; iPad 32Gb iOS 5.

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 7:23 AM

by Larry Nolan,Solvedanswer
Larry Nolan Larry Nolan
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A:

Well I installed the 10.7.5 supplement.  Here's my first backup (with Spotlight running) with Time Machine.  Noticed that the indexing took a little while and it wasn't as fast as usual.  After this first backup I duplicated a small JPEG file on the desktop and did another backup that went quickly.  So far so good.

 

 

10/4/12 4:37:07.796 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup

10/4/12 4:37:07.916 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Larry Time Machine/Backups.backupdb

10/4/12 4:37:09.199 PM com.apple.backupd: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD

10/4/12 4:37:09.343 PM com.apple.backupd: Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|

10/4/12 4:42:29.548 PM com.apple.backupd: Finished scan

10/4/12 4:43:31.075 PM com.apple.backupd: 1.51 GB required (including padding), 21.26 GB available

10/4/12 4:43:31.231 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (101)

10/4/12 4:47:15.871 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 15059 files (369.3 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.

10/4/12 4:47:17.977 PM com.apple.backupd: 1004.6 MB required (including padding), 20.89 GB available

10/4/12 4:47:28.248 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 2117 files (104 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.

10/4/12 4:47:34.621 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning

10/4/12 4:48:16.940 PM com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/Larry Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Nolan iMac/2012-09-04-182017 (279.4 MB)

10/4/12 4:48:33.831 PM com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/Larry Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Nolan iMac/2012-10-02-173549 (27.2 MB)

10/4/12 4:48:33.831 PM com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed

10/4/12 4:48:33.958 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.

10/4/12 4:49:03.708 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup

10/4/12 4:49:03.713 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Larry Time Machine/Backups.backupdb

10/4/12 4:49:04.521 PM com.apple.backupd: 1006.8 MB required (including padding), 21.19 GB available

10/4/12 4:49:09.709 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 1102 files (1.5 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.

10/4/12 4:49:09.902 PM com.apple.backupd: 1005.0 MB required (including padding), 21.19 GB available

10/4/12 4:49:14.018 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 955 files (8 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.

10/4/12 4:49:16.397 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning

10/4/12 4:49:16.397 PM com.apple.backupd: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist

10/4/12 4:49:16.480 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.

Posted on Oct 4, 2012 2:53 PM

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Q: time machine slow in 10.7.5

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  • by titan3025,

    titan3025 titan3025 Sep 29, 2012 12:30 AM in response to Francisc Pop
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    Sep 29, 2012 12:30 AM in response to Francisc Pop

    This did not do the trick for me. Still more than 3 days left to index :-(

  • by GusFas,

    GusFas GusFas Sep 29, 2012 1:12 AM in response to Larry Nolan
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    Sep 29, 2012 1:12 AM in response to Larry Nolan

    Finally, for me the solution was go back to 10.7.4,

     

    is easy, starting from osx dvd, then reinstall my last time machine backup with 10.7.4 (you can choose from a detailed list) in my case is from 4 days back, and everything works perfect again in a few ours!

    about 3 in total for me, spotlight works fine now and time machine too!

    My emails, and personal things are safe and updated in a few minutes with icloud!

     

    Best regards!

     

    Gustavo

  • by yannig,

    yannig yannig Sep 29, 2012 5:31 AM in response to GusFas
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    Sep 29, 2012 5:31 AM in response to GusFas

    It seems that I found something.

     

    I cleaned caches with Lion Cache Cleaner application.

     

    A light cleaning works for me.

     

    But I ran it on safe mode.

     

    It seems to work peferly for me. Only a few minutes to reindex my local drive.

     

    I expect this will work for many.

     

    regards

  • by rmsrnn,

    rmsrnn rmsrnn Sep 29, 2012 6:50 AM in response to yannig
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    Sep 29, 2012 6:50 AM in response to yannig

    Thank you, I was struggling with this from this morning, your solution is working fine, I still have to wait 36 minutes for spotlight to finish it's job, hope I will be able to restore Time Machine as well.

  • by norbertm,

    norbertm norbertm Sep 29, 2012 8:13 AM in response to yannig
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    Sep 29, 2012 8:13 AM in response to yannig

    sorry, cleaning the caches (/Library/Caches/   ~/LibraryCaches) via the terminal (I don't have Lion Cache Cleaner) and restarting did NOT help.

    Screen Shot 2012-09-29 at 29.9. 17.10.00.jpg

  • by Tevseric,

    Tevseric Tevseric Sep 29, 2012 8:43 AM in response to yannig
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    Sep 29, 2012 8:43 AM in response to yannig

    Hi, which cache(s) did you clean?

  • by rmsrnn,

    rmsrnn rmsrnn Sep 29, 2012 8:47 AM in response to Tevseric
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    Sep 29, 2012 8:47 AM in response to Tevseric

    I have chequed all the 3 boxes... I'm at home now, I had the problem on my office macpro. Strangely no problems on my home imac.

  • by pdugg,

    pdugg pdugg Sep 29, 2012 8:50 AM in response to norbertm
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    Sep 29, 2012 8:50 AM in response to norbertm

    I tried re-applying 10.7.5 via DMG (turn off Spotlight, delete Spotlight directory, re-apply 10.7.5, enable Spotlight) and indexing was estimating 6 days to complete -- I consider that a failure.

     

    Then I deleted the contents of both caches: system at /Library/Caches , user at ~/Library/Caches. I used the Finder to delete the contents and then emptied the Trash. During emptying some items would not delete so I "continued" anyway. Reboot and then delete the Trash again, to get rid of any leftovers.

     

    After 15 - 20 minutes of estimating (that's a guess), I was at 8 hours remaing to index. Then dropped to 4 hours. Now it's at 5 hours.

     

    That seems to be success to me. I'll try to repost in 5 hours to give my results.

  • by yannig,

    yannig yannig Sep 29, 2012 9:17 AM in response to pdugg
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    Sep 29, 2012 9:17 AM in response to pdugg

    If spotlight seems to be working, timemachine continues to do not work properly.

    It is very slow, and sometimes, back-up looks blocked.

     

     

    y.

  • by acabrera,

    acabrera acabrera Sep 29, 2012 9:21 AM in response to Larry Nolan
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    Sep 29, 2012 9:21 AM in response to Larry Nolan

    I turned off spotlight, deleted its cache, then started up my time machine and things went blazingly fast.  Once it was done I turned spotlight back on.  YMMV

  • by yannig,

    yannig yannig Sep 29, 2012 9:33 AM in response to acabrera
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    Sep 29, 2012 9:33 AM in response to acabrera

    Yes, same for me.

     

    But that's not NORMAL.

  • by Todman21,

    Todman21 Todman21 Sep 29, 2012 10:05 AM in response to Larry Nolan
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    Sep 29, 2012 10:05 AM in response to Larry Nolan

    If i downlaod  OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client Combo) will my lndex and time matching work like normal?

  • by FatMac>MacPro,

    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro Sep 29, 2012 10:20 AM in response to Todman21
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    Sep 29, 2012 10:20 AM in response to Todman21

    Todman21 wrote:

     

    If i downlaod  OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client Combo) will my lndex and time matching work like normal?

    No, because if you're already at 10.7.5, the 10.7.4 update would be a downdate and wouldn't install.

     

    We all wish it was that simple.

     

    The best solution seems to be reverting to a backup of your 10.7.4 installation if you have one. Or reinstalling Lion and updating it to 10.7.4. On that, though, I'm not sure if the currently available installer would allow you to do that; the 10.7.4 installer was Version 1.0.21 created in May while the most recent installer is Version 1.0.33, created in September.

  • by Todman21,

    Todman21 Todman21 Sep 29, 2012 10:11 AM in response to Larry Nolan
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    Sep 29, 2012 10:11 AM in response to Larry Nolan

    Darn. Apple need to hurry up and come out with an update.

    I was able to use time matching and it worked normaly once i turned the index off.

  • by Todman21,

    Todman21 Todman21 Sep 29, 2012 11:12 AM in response to FatMac>MacPro
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    Sep 29, 2012 11:12 AM in response to FatMac>MacPro

    Thanks for the info but im kinda stuck. just did my first backup yesturday and dont want to reinstall and lose everything.

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