! was trying to do a backup for my Mac OS 10.6.8 so I can upgrade to OS 10.7. I was using Time Machine. After 12 hours, it still hadn't finished, so I canceled it. I have thousands of documents and pictures. Could it just be slow, or do I have to do something else, other than couble click on the application icon to get it started? It displays on the lower right different dates, including Now.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Is this your first back up with Time Machine. If not, and it has been quietly backing up in the background, 12 hours is unreasonable. How did you set it to back up, by the hour, the day, the week?
Thaks for your reply. I just turned on hard drive, connected it to computer, and double-clicked and the appliction went to "Now". I haven't backed up the computer for two years. I'm a retired prof, and have thousands of documents and pics.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
If it has been that long since you backed up, that may not be an unreasonable amount of time if a lot of the files have changed since the last time you backed up.
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Thank you. It turned out that the Time Machine had backed up everything (I discovered this when I looked into the backup folder—I had earlier manually copied various files, which threw me off), and then it went into a restore mode, for some reason, instead of telling me it had finished. I don't know how long it took to do the backup.
You are welcome. You really should have 2 or more backups as hard drives do fail. A clone program can give you a second backup.
Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner (Often recommended as it has more features than some others)
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Backing up computer with Time Machine
