Hi all,
I recently bought a WD My Book Essential 2TB hard drive with the purpose of partitioning it and using a portion for Time Machine and a portion for media storage. This is my first time using Time Machine and have found it extremely frustrating. I am backing up my internal drive that is 120GB but currently using about 112GB, it is a MacBook Pro from 2007. Let me start with this timeline.
Last night I formated the hard drive but forgot to do 2 partitions. I started backing up using Time Machine and left it on over night. After 12 hours of backing up it had only gone 17GB out of 112GB. I was disappointed in this and also realized that I had failed to do the 2 partition set up. So I re-partitioned it (and lost that saved data) and started searching the net for solutions to speed up the back up.
I found that turning off virus scanning software helps, but alas, I do not have any virus software. So that wasn't it.
Then I found that disabling spotlight can speed up the process, so I disabled spotlight while I used TM to back up.
I also read somewhere that turning off airport could help, so I did that as well.
Well, when I started the back up again, I left the room for about 20 minutes to come back and find that it had only backed up 128MB! I don't understand how it can be moving so slow. Can anyone give me advice on how to truly speed this along?
Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
I recently bought a WD My Book Essential 2TB hard drive with the purpose of partitioning it and using a portion for Time Machine and a portion for media storage. This is my first time using Time Machine and have found it extremely frustrating. I am backing up my internal drive that is 120GB but currently using about 112GB, it is a MacBook Pro from 2007. Let me start with this timeline.
Last night I formated the hard drive but forgot to do 2 partitions. I started backing up using Time Machine and left it on over night. After 12 hours of backing up it had only gone 17GB out of 112GB. I was disappointed in this and also realized that I had failed to do the 2 partition set up. So I re-partitioned it (and lost that saved data) and started searching the net for solutions to speed up the back up.
I found that turning off virus scanning software helps, but alas, I do not have any virus software. So that wasn't it.
Then I found that disabling spotlight can speed up the process, so I disabled spotlight while I used TM to back up.
I also read somewhere that turning off airport could help, so I did that as well.
Well, when I started the back up again, I left the room for about 20 minutes to come back and find that it had only backed up 128MB! I don't understand how it can be moving so slow. Can anyone give me advice on how to truly speed this along?
Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
