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Apple Computing Products:
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Time machine taking forever preparing backups
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<blockquote data-quote="McBie" data-source="post: 1578317" data-attributes="member: 54417"><p>Here is the trick.</p><p>open the console.app and look in the log files for events marked as " com.apple.backupd " and look at what time machine is doing.</p><p>If it is doing a deep traversal of your disk, or verifying it's database, that can take a long time.</p><p>Golden advice is to let Time Machine finish what it started, even if it takes a very long time.</p><p>If you interrupt it, the next time it will take even longer. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>So have a look at those logs and see what happens in the background.</p><p></p><p>Cheers ... McBie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McBie, post: 1578317, member: 54417"] Here is the trick. open the console.app and look in the log files for events marked as " com.apple.backupd " and look at what time machine is doing. If it is doing a deep traversal of your disk, or verifying it's database, that can take a long time. Golden advice is to let Time Machine finish what it started, even if it takes a very long time. If you interrupt it, the next time it will take even longer. :-) So have a look at those logs and see what happens in the background. Cheers ... McBie [/QUOTE]
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