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 mhIIKKA,

    mhIIKKA mhIIKKA Sep 9, 2013 7:03 AM in response to alchait333
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    Sep 9, 2013 7:03 AM in response to alchait333

    Time machine was the culprit for me too!

    Thank you for posting!

  • by Caliko,

    Caliko Caliko Sep 11, 2013 11:32 AM in response to Larry Nolan
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    Sep 11, 2013 11:32 AM in response to Larry Nolan

    So I plugged in a new drive last night and the time estimate went from months to years and literally kept rising, I stopped it at about 5,000,000 days.

     

    I unplugged my unused ecternal drives. Keeping only the Time Machine drive connected, restarted the computer and when Time MAchine began to backup it went from 12 hours to 5 hours in about 15 minutes and finished backing up about 5 hours later.

     

    Screen Shot 2013-09-10 at 11.45.20 PM.png

  • by spadra,

    spadra spadra Jan 11, 2014 10:47 AM in response to Larry Nolan
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    Jan 11, 2014 10:47 AM in response to Larry Nolan

    My issue was with 10.7.5 (11G63) and Time Machine simply stopping at 1.59 gb ~ It would progress no further.

     

    Took a look at the Console and saw that a MDImporter file housed within /Library/Spotlight/ was throwing continious error messages:

     

    Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)

    Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000000b0186ff8

     

    I nuked the file and TM chuggs along as usual now.

  • by Matthew Ellsworth,

    Matthew Ellsworth Matthew Ellsworth Mar 15, 2014 11:45 PM in response to spadra
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    Mar 15, 2014 11:45 PM in response to spadra

    Hey Spadra,

     

    Would you mind posted instructions on how you did that?

     

    Thanks!

     

    Matt

  • by spadra,

    spadra spadra Mar 16, 2014 8:40 PM in response to Matthew Ellsworth
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    Mar 16, 2014 8:40 PM in response to Matthew Ellsworth

    Hey Matt ~

     

    Here is what I did:

     

    1. Quit all programs, turn off wi-fi, blue-tooth, etc. Let the computer be idle as much as possible.

     

    2. Fire-up Console: Applications --> Utilities --> Console

     

    3. With the computer idle, you should see very little activity in Console's "All Messages" main window. If you are seeing repeating lines with nifty words like "Bad", "Failure", etc. there is file out of sorts that may be causing your problem. In my case, the file (which I found through a Spotlight search) was for some Finale music software that I don't use very often.

  • by sbock,

    sbock sbock Sep 6, 2014 11:42 PM in response to spadra
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    Sep 6, 2014 11:42 PM in response to spadra

    YES!! IT WAS THE FINALE FILE THAT DID IT FOR ME TOO!

     

    Had the same issue, where my 300GB backup would stop at 23.38GB each time. I thought it was an issue with my drive..until I popped in a different one and it stopped at the exact same transfer amount—then I knew it was a TM issue.

     

    Anyways, this solution did it! In my SSD/Library/Spotlight folder, I had some Finale file that was doing it. As soon as I deleted it, the backup continued on, as if it had never ceased.

     

    THANK YOU!!!

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