Greg, Is it possible you have a hardware problem? Perhaps the TM disk or the source disk is failing, and the backup is taking so long because of difficulties reading or writing files.
Is there any useful information in the Console app? The only time I've seen TM consistently take this long is on PPC hardware running 10.5. -Matt On Mar 7, 2012, at 12:46 PM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E]" <di...@niehs.nih.gov> wrote: > Both machines use an internal hard drive for the TM backups. Both TM backup > drives still have a lot of empty space, though the TM drive at home is larger > than the TM drive at work. > > I certainly have a few files at home that are larger than those at work, such > as videos, but I exclude the Movies, Music, and Pictures directories from my > TM backups, so that should not be the problem. > > Any other thoughts? > > Gregg > > On 7 Mar 2012, at 12:36 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > >> How big are your data sets (how full with how much data are your disks)? >> Is the one at home using a local TM disk or a TM disk on your network? Is >> the data set composed of LOTS of little files? >> >> On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On my Mac Pro at home, Time Machine runs for about 30 minutes of each hour, >>> even when I have not created any new files. I also have a Mac Pro at work >>> and it does NOT exhibit this behavior. Both are running the latest version >>> of Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Does anyone have an idea about why Time Machine >>> is running so much on one of these? I expect Time Machine to run for a >>> short period (maybe a minute or two), even without many files changing, >>> since I assume it still has to search for possible changes, but 25-30 >>> minutes seems really excessive when nothing much has changed. Any thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
