Philippe Mingasson

Q: Time Machine extremely slow on Mavericks ?

Hi all !

I've installed Mavericks this morning on my Retina MacBook Pro.

Time machine seem to be SLoooooowwww !

When I clic "start backup", it takes forever to "prepare the backup" and then I when it finally starts to send the data over ethernet (via a thunderbolt adapter), it just doesn't get there. After half an hour, I got something like a few Mb transferered.

Anyone's got the same issue ?

 

Best regards,

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 10:27 AM

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  • by blackxacto,

    blackxacto blackxacto Oct 26, 2013 12:14 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas
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    Oct 26, 2013 12:14 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas

    I erased & reformatted w Disk Utility the firewire Backup partition, and started over. It took four hours to backup in Mavericks, but it did backup. Are you sure you needed a new drive? Or maybe I miss-understand. Sorry if so.

  • by PlotinusVeritas,

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Oct 26, 2013 12:19 PM in response to blackxacto
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    Oct 26, 2013 12:19 PM in response to 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

  • by squelcher,

    squelcher squelcher Oct 26, 2013 12:35 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas
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    Oct 26, 2013 12:35 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas

    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.

  • by squelcher,

    squelcher squelcher Oct 26, 2013 1:08 PM in response to squelcher
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    Oct 26, 2013 1:08 PM in response to squelcher

    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.

  • by PlotinusVeritas,

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Oct 26, 2013 1:14 PM in response to squelcher
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    Oct 26, 2013 1:14 PM in response to squelcher

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

  • by blackxacto,

    blackxacto blackxacto Oct 26, 2013 1:17 PM in response to squelcher
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    Oct 26, 2013 1:17 PM in response to squelcher

    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

  • by squelcher,

    squelcher squelcher Oct 26, 2013 1:56 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas
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    Oct 26, 2013 1:56 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas

    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.

  • by Protagonist,

    Protagonist Protagonist Oct 26, 2013 2:30 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas
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    Oct 26, 2013 2:30 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas

    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.   :-)

  • by yoshiMBP,

    yoshiMBP yoshiMBP Oct 27, 2013 3:13 AM in response to squelcher
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    Oct 27, 2013 3:13 AM in response to squelcher

    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!!

  • by blackxacto,

    blackxacto blackxacto Oct 27, 2013 3:16 AM in response to yoshiMBP
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    Oct 27, 2013 3:16 AM in response to yoshiMBP

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

  • by yoshiMBP,

    yoshiMBP yoshiMBP Oct 27, 2013 6:14 AM in response to blackxacto
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    Oct 27, 2013 6:14 AM in response to blackxacto

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

  • by blackxacto,

    blackxacto blackxacto Oct 27, 2013 6:27 AM in response to yoshiMBP
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    Oct 27, 2013 6:27 AM in response to yoshiMBP

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

  • by squelcher,

    squelcher squelcher Oct 27, 2013 8:12 AM in response to blackxacto
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    Oct 27, 2013 8:12 AM in response to blackxacto

    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.

  • by NielsR,

    NielsR NielsR Oct 27, 2013 11:59 AM in response to Philippe Mingasson
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    Oct 27, 2013 11:59 AM in response to Philippe Mingasson

    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.

  • by Philippe Mingasson,

    Philippe Mingasson Philippe Mingasson Oct 28, 2013 1:43 AM in response to NielsR
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    Oct 28, 2013 1:43 AM in response to NielsR

    That's not surprising. Remember Time Machine compresses or organizes the data before sending them to the drive. So it's rather obvious it will take a little longer than just a straight copy to the drive.

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