Slow back-up Time Machine to external hard disk?

[Gaven]

Anyone experiencing slow back-up time machine to external hard disk? 90GB and I'm seeing 15 hours....

I have searched through many websites links, and can't seem to find a solution..

 

[joshlalonde]

Try with a different external hard disk. It could be the disk itself.
I have not been experiencing slow backup times.

 

[ObsidianIce]

It's probably de to the indexing. You can turn it off through terminal or just let the machine take it's sweet time.

 

[Gaven]

It's probably de to the indexing. You can turn it off through terminal or just let the machine take it's sweet time.

Thank you for your input. So I will turn it off before I do the backup, and turn it back on once I'm done

 

[Hacks]

It's probably de to the indexing. You can turn it off through terminal or just let the machine take it's sweet time.

What is indexing? Should it be off all the time?

 

[AppleFan22]

Anyone experiencing slow back-up time machine to external hard disk? 90GB and I'm seeing 15 hours....

I have searched through many websites links, and can't seem to find a solution..

If this is your first back up, you'll need to let it do its business. You may have a lot of stuff on your MacBook, which all needs to be copied over, and blah blah blah. However, you may want to go into Disk Utility and see if maybe there is something that you can do to the disk; it may need a little bit of TLC.

 

[Gaven]

If this is your first back up, you'll need to let it do its business. You may have a lot of stuff on your MacBook, which all needs to be copied over, and blah blah blah. However, you may want to go into Disk Utility and see if maybe there is something that you can do to the disk; it may need a little bit of TLC.

Hi Applefan22,

Thank you for your input.

No it's not the first time, the first time took about 3 hours and I let it run.

I do a backup about 4 months once. So I'm really wondering how to speed up the back up to my external hard disk. I googled for solutions, regarding the "mdworker" issue I don't see it on my MacBook so yeah.

 

[AppleFan22]

Hi Applefan22,

Thank you for your input.

No it's not the first time, the first time took about 3 hours and I let it run.

I do a backup about 4 months once. So I'm really wondering how to speed up the back up to my external hard disk. I googled for solutions, regarding the "mdworker" issue I don't see it on my MacBook so yeah.

I suppose one thing you could do is completely Erase it, and start again, that may work... But then you may lose some data

 

[grahamperrin]

Console system log queries

Console is our friend.

Create a system log query, like in the attached screenshot. It'll help to focus on Time Machine-related messages.