different "time capsule slow"

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  1. sb1805, Jun 19, 2009

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    Whenever my time machine backups to a time capsule are decently large, I get transfer rates over wireless of 2-4 MB/s...which seems to be the norm. But what I don't understand is when I only have very small backups taking place (ie if nothing really has changed since the last backup and I get 300kB or 2MB backups) they take much longer to complete than i'd expect given the speeds above. For example it might take 4 mins from 'backing up 2kB of 400kB' until it gets to the end at 'backing up 400kB of 400kB'. Has anyone else noticed slowdowns like this?
     
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  2. rkdiddy, Jun 19, 2009

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    That is really odd. It shouldn't take that long - I wonder if the sparse file has become corrupt?

    I know I was having issues and I just deleted all back-ups and re-ran a full backup. If you decide to do this, just make sure you don't need those back-up files. :apple:
     
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  3. sb1805, Jun 19, 2009

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    yeah it's weird...right now it's doing the same thing again. is there some way to repair the drive, or have os x check if everything is ok?
     
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