Stellar performance of Time Machine on '18 MBP

[donawalt]

I knew Time Machine was slow, but wow.....I have a TB3 external SSD. I formatted as encrypted, then ran my first Time Machine. Current results as reported when you click on the TM icon:

8:20 am - 251 GB of 571 GB backed up, 1 hour remaining. At this point, it has been running less than an hour as I recall.

11:50 am - 385 GB of 571 GB backed up, 2 hours remaining. It has slowed down considerably, but it did around 40 GB an hour since 8:20.

5:10 pm - 400 GB backed up, 3 hours remaining! If the estimate trend continues it will never finish lol. That's only 15GB backed up in a little over 5 hours!!! With 170 GB to go, it won't be 3 hours it will be 12 or worse.

PS - nothing else running.

All I can say is wow - this is terrible.

 

[Lennyvalentin]

Nice troll topic title lol.

AFAIK, time machine has not been re-written to take advantage of the new APFS filing system; instead it's still the same old and insecure hackish hack that it has always been, and you might want to look at a different, more modern backup solution.

Personally I've always found time machine to be exceedingly annoying and difficult to use. I had problems with images stored on my Mac being corrupted, and I was hoping time machine would have stored copies of the uncorrupted images. I couldn't manage to make it show all versions of an image it had stored, it was friggin' hopeless. Personally I hate that damn crap to be quite honest.

 

[donawalt]

I think it's Mac OS extended not APFS...that's what I formatted as. Sorry about the title, this got me a little worked up

 

[Lennyvalentin]

I think it's Mac OS extended not APFS...that's what I formatted as.

I don't think it would matter what you format as; the application itself would need to be rewritten to gain support for APFS file versioning and stuff like that. And I don't think Apple has done that, and since they're so damn secretive they haven't said if they will either.