Time Machine extremely slow on Mavericks ?

blackxacto

Are you sure you needed a new drive?

need no, but Ive got 100 hard drives laying around to use. If someone has an extra HD and wants to save a LOT of time in backup, a fresh TM backup is quicker that way

Since my drive can do either USB or FW I switched it to USB. Data transfer rates were even worse. I'm going to wipe the drive and start fresh and see if that helps.

Reformatting the drive seems to have helped quite a bit. It's connected via FW but has now backed up 10GB in an hour and data transfer rates look more like what I'd expect. It's a pity I had to wipe out my previous backups since I don't have a spare drive sitting around but I'll take what I can get.

10gig in an hour? thats not right. Ive backed up 4 machines at 180gig in under 40mins.

In Mavericks, after the firewire partition reformat, the first backup was slow: 4 hrs for 275GB. But after the first backup, the incremental backups are blazing fast, or so they seem as I watch the indicater in my menu bar, which by the way, DOES NOT spin any longer. The only indication a backup is going is a small triangle or arrow appears on the TM logo. When it finishes the arrow disappears.

iMac(10,1), 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 12gig RAM, OSX10.9, 1 TBHD

Yeah, 10 gig in an hour is pretty slow. I'm hoping that this will only be the case for the inital backup. It's way better than what I got last night (11hrs for 5.75gig). Data transfer rates seems to be slowing, however. I'm going to let this run since I don't need the MacBook Pro until Monday morning. My iMac backups (also connected via FW) are happening much faster. Hopefully Apple releases a fix soon.

Uh, my initial backup was to a new volume so that seems to not be a sure fire solution. And I always suggest both TM and clone backups. Redunduncy can be a real life saver in a crisis. :-)

I hope Apple can fix it soon! My update is crawling. Before I went to bed it was at ~32GB and 10h later it had backed up only a couple of MB more.

After formating the USB disk and tryting again it has become even slower. It's not getting bast 1.4 MB of over 300GB.

So frustrating!!

Did you erase/reformat the backup drive? Only way mine worked.

I already tried that. Reformated as Journaled. Did you choose to enrcypt your backup?

No, I never encrypt my home computer. Im the only one here, and it's never long out of sight much.

I reformatted my drive, reconnected via FW (USB was even worse) and started an encrypted backup (it's a laptop for work and I have stuff on there that needs to be encrypted). I had the same results as yoshiMBP. I got 10Gb in the first hour, 9.5 in the second, 8 in the third to where I had 30Gb backed up after 10 hours. Data transfer rates had dropped to a few hundred KB/sec. I killed it and am now running at risk until Apple can fix this. Very irritating.

Today I deleted my Time Machine Backup on my external FireWire 800 including creating of a new HFS+ partition.

The full backup of my iMac (300GB) was completed in about 1h 40 Min.

I have a Mac Pro. I took a new external HD, reformatted it and started the Time machine process. I am backing up 717GB of data.

While I expected the process to be slow for the initial backup, I gave up after 30 hours when only 25GB had been backed up. I did notice that Spotlight turned itself on after 6 hours trying to index the INTERNAL drive and I assume this is part of the reason for the slowness of the backup. (What would only take a couple of minutes for spotlight was taking HOURS... even though Spotlight did index my system after Mavericks was installed.)

Anybody else seeing this happen?

Curtis