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time machine slow.

I have a MBA, its all up to date- anyway: I restored the computer to a week prior state to sync restore my phone to a prior OS. Then I restored the MBA to the latest backup (about 10 minutes before I went backwards), it all went fine.

Now when I try to re sync time machine it takes a very long time. after about 20 minutes it had written abou 8K of the 25 gigs it says need to be sent to the time machine.

I use a 500 gig external disk.

I canceled the update, and will wait a few days, or a response to re-try. I think maybe the time machine, and my machine to reindex the changes since the restore. any ideas/information will be appreciated.

Regards,

Liam

MacBook Air (11-INCH, MID 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 11, 2013 8:17 AM

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wcrowder Author

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Feb 11, 2013 4:06 PM in response to Pondini

Starting manual backup

Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb

Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD

Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|

Finished scan

Found 534589 files (23.77 GB) needing backup

29.3 GB required (including padding), 418.61 GB available

Copied 81503 files (5 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.

Backup canceled.

Starting manual backup

Backup failed with error: 19

Starting automatic backup

Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb

Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD

Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|

Backup canceled.

Starting manual backup

Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb

Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD

Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|

Finished scan

Found 534591 files (23.76 GB) needing backup

29.3 GB required (including padding), 418.61 GB available

Copied 25512 files (8 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.

Backup canceled.

wcrowder Author

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Feb 11, 2013 4:07 PM in response to wcrowder

here is the current backup log:

Starting manual backup

Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb

Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD

Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|

Finished scan

Found 534592 files (23.76 GB) needing backup

29.3 GB required (including padding), 418.44 GB available

Pondini

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Feb 11, 2013 4:12 PM in response to wcrowder

wcrowder wrote:

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Backup canceled.

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Backup failed with error: 19

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Backup canceled.

. . .

Backup canceled.

Did you cancel all those, or did they fail?

And you still haven't clarified how you got to this point:

wcrowder wrote:

I have a MBA, its all up to date- anyway: I restored the computer to a week prior state to sync restore my phone to a prior OS. Then I restored the MBA to the latest backup (about 10 minutes before I went backwards), it all went fine.

Are you saying you did two separate restores?

Were both "full system restores," starting from your Recovery HD? If not, please clarify.

The fact that TM is trying to back up 25 GBs sounds like something may have gone wrong, or you didn't do full system restores. How much data is on your Mac's internal HD?

wcrowder Author

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Feb 11, 2013 4:16 PM in response to Pondini

I took the hard drive and added it to things not to index, waited a second, and removed it. It re-indexed, and i plugged my drive in, its moving regular speed now. Before I could even post this - it was done.

just go to settings>spotlight>privacy.

just add the entire HD to the do not indext list, and wait it out. then remove it.

thanks for all the help you guys.

mmasek

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Aug 22, 2013 8:11 AM in response to wcrowder

I just wanted to post what solved my issue of Time Machine backing up extremely slowly to not at all in case it help someone else.

I have a MacBook Pro with Retina and have been using Time Machine for my backups with no issues for about six weeks and then all of the sudden Time Machine brought everything to a halt. Not only would it say, "Backing Up: 0.0 kbs of xxx GB" for hours but my entire machine would crawl along and become unresponsive. One thing to note is that I am backing up to a 2.5 TB external USB drive.

Here was my solution and, I hope, will help anyone else out there experiencing this.

I navigated to my external drive and dug through Time Machine's folder structure. For me it was:
- Backups.backupdb > Michael's MacBook Pro >
- At this level I could see many folders with dates representing the different snapshots or backups.
In this folder there was one file named, "2013-08-18-060247.inProgress" which I deleted.
After deleting the file I manually told Time Machine to Backup Now.
It has now backed up 25.86 GB in the short time it took me to post this 🙂

Here is what happened in my opinion. My last backup on August 18, 2013 was not completed and Time Machine was using this file to resume where it had left off. This has never been a problem for me in the past, stopping and resuming a backup, but for whatever reason, this time it was an issue. My guess is that the file was damaged or corrupt.

Anyway, I hope this helps someone because I have been going out of my mind trying to research a solution.

time machine slow.