Lion bug with TimeMachine???

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  1. zjazz, Jul 22, 2011

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    After installing Lion my TimeMachine acts strange. It says "prepearing for backup" and that's it! Doesn't show the progress of backup or anything. Just stuck in "prepearing".... I stopped and restarted it several times with no change. Any ideas what might be wrong?
     
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  2. DePaulBlueDemon, Jul 22, 2011

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    My first full backup after Lion took an hour... It may be indexing your drive in preparation of the backup.
     
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  3. zjazz, Jul 22, 2011

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    I see...I'll try it again tonight...
    Thanks!
     
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  4. gblog, Jul 22, 2011

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    I had a previous backup of my entire MBP with Snow Leopard. Then I upgraded to Lion, and plugged in the Time Machine for the first time.. It took 45 minutes for the ´Preparing Backup´to go away, and then it started backing up things. It got stuck at 857 bytes for about 10 minutes.. then it continued backing up stuff at a 10mb per minute rate (Very slow compared to Snow Leopard) .. It took me 5 hours to backup 7gigs of stuff.

    After that, every backup started being faster, like it was on Snow Leopard..

    So don´t worry, the first backup is the worst.
     
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  5. zjazz, Jul 22, 2011

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    Ok, after an hour and a half it started backing up actually! So it works, but really slow, now it's at 36 GB of 67 GB. So probably in about two hours it'll be done. :)
    Hope next back ups will not take as slow....usually it's couple of minutes and it's done...
     
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