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Time Machine super slow

Why is Time Machine soooo slooowwww?

I've backed up many times before in Lion.

Is it the recent .5 update that's making it so slow?

It's been an hour or more and it's only done 68 MB of 4.28 GB.

I did a clone on a different partition of the same drive and it was quick.

I am using USB, not Firewire.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), iLife '08 Alesis IO|14 FW Interface

Posted on Sep 26, 2012 2:03 AM

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Posted on Sep 26, 2012 2:11 AM

This is a problem of Spotlight in 10.7.5 which causes Time Machine to be slow, too.


Please see the many discussions about this problem that are already open.

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Time Machine super slow

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