Don't you hate it when (Time Machine)

[michaelsanford]

Don't you hate it when a Time Machine incremental backup takes so long, over an hour in fact, that it starts the next backup immediately after ending the previous backup?

I need a new machine.

 

[bbloke]

Use your Mac less; the backups will be quicker.

More helpful information later.

 

[michaelsanford]

Ha ha!

Well, I suppose I compound the problem by renicing `backupd` (as it hogs my system resources).

But...still...

 

[Mikuro]

Yes, this drives me nuts. I made a thread about it myself. It doesn't shed much light on the subject, but here it is: http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-s...es-time-machine-take-incremental-backups.html

Since then it's been mostly good, but every now and then it takes about half an hour or more, for no apparent reason.

When it takes that long, I manually stop the current backup. Next time it goes it's usually reasonably fast.

 

[Satcomer]

Time machine just saved my butt.

I say this because by my own mistake I screwed up the internal SATA cable plug in the lower slot of my G5 when removing disk for internal cleaning. When screwing up I broke off some of the pins on the boot up drive. The other internal disk STAT was an older 10.4.11 disk. So when I went to a larger internal disk I just restored by last Leopard Time Machine backup (from earlier in the day) so I was able to get back all the new iTunes purchases I have gotten since going to Leopard full time. It also brought all my applications back with almost no problem.

Now after my vacation I have to take my G5 to an local Apple Specialist to get that STAT cable replace internally so I can use two internal disks again. This will probably cost me a pretty penny.

 

[VirtualTracy]

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[fryke]

About every other day, I come to the machine and it says "Time Machine backup failed" or something like that, without any further explanation. Hitting "create backup now" from Time Machine's menu item will do a nice incremental backup update, and all's well 'til a day or two later. Irritating, I find. Must say, though, even if I should lose an hour's work or something, I still simply _love_ the fact that my backup's (more or less) up-to-date every hour.

 

[g/re/p]

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Don't you hate it when (Time Machine)

...drinks all your beer and smokes all your cigars ??!!

 

[icemanjc]

My Time Machine backs up to my server from my MacBook and it goes from wireless to ethernet and it only takes about 10 or less min to back up 1 to 2 gigs.