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Time machine taking forever preparing backups
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<blockquote data-quote="villapossu" data-source="post: 1683440" data-attributes="member: 362367"><p>For me, it took 40 minutes to prepare the backup (for 152 GB of changes — I hadn't backed up to Time Machine for a few months) and backupd wrote absolutely nothing to the logs for that entire time, only when it started and after it was ready to start the actual transfer.</p><p></p><p>So don't give up if you don't see any evidence in the logs that backupd is doing something. (In Activity Monitor it was consuming 30 to 40 percent of one core all the time, which seemed reasonable.) I very much agree with this: "Golden advice is to let Time Machine finish what it started, even if it takes a very long time."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="villapossu, post: 1683440, member: 362367"] For me, it took 40 minutes to prepare the backup (for 152 GB of changes — I hadn't backed up to Time Machine for a few months) and backupd wrote absolutely nothing to the logs for that entire time, only when it started and after it was ready to start the actual transfer. So don't give up if you don't see any evidence in the logs that backupd is doing something. (In Activity Monitor it was consuming 30 to 40 percent of one core all the time, which seemed reasonable.) I very much agree with this: "Golden advice is to let Time Machine finish what it started, even if it takes a very long time." [/QUOTE]
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