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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1851273" data-attributes="member: 396914">Time Machine runs with very low priority so that the impact is minimal. If you use the machine while it is backing up, that low priority means that it will try to &quot;sneak in&quot; a quick file transfer while you are not actively doing something and stop as soon as you do anything. That low priority is nice when it does the hourly backup, but it also means the first backup is dead slow. If you want to see what is going on, open Activity Monitor and look at the &quot;Disk&quot; tab for reads/writes. You should see activity there as TM is doing the backup for you. To speed up the first backup, just leave the machine running but don't do anything while the backup is going on.As for the sidebar, the reason it shows yesterday is that was when you started the backup. It cannot create history from before you first used it, but you started yesterday so the backup is as of yesterday. Once the first backup is done, it will then go into the hourly cycle and you will see those on the sidebar.Once the first one is done, the hourly incremental should finish in minutes, depending on how much you change in an hour. If you don't need hourly backups, look at TimeMachineEditor for a way to control TM to backup on the schedule you want. It lets you set the interval between backups to what you want/need.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1851273, member: 396914"] Time Machine runs with very low priority so that the impact is minimal. If you use the machine while it is backing up, that low priority means that it will try to "sneak in" a quick file transfer while you are not actively doing something and stop as soon as you do anything. That low priority is nice when it does the hourly backup, but it also means the first backup is dead slow. If you want to see what is going on, open Activity Monitor and look at the "Disk" tab for reads/writes. You should see activity there as TM is doing the backup for you. To speed up the first backup, just leave the machine running but don't do anything while the backup is going on. As for the sidebar, the reason it shows yesterday is that was when you started the backup. It cannot create history from before you first used it, but you started yesterday so the backup is as of yesterday. Once the first backup is done, it will then go into the hourly cycle and you will see those on the sidebar. Once the first one is done, the hourly incremental should finish in minutes, depending on how much you change in an hour. If you don't need hourly backups, look at TimeMachineEditor for a way to control TM to backup on the schedule you want. It lets you set the interval between backups to what you want/need. [/QUOTE]

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