Time Machine is broken after 10.7.5 update?

[YoungGourmet]

Fixed by the Fix

Apple just released a fix for this problem! You can download it either through Software Update or directly from their website at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1599.

Hooray! (... do I now confess to the salesperson that upgraded my backup drive that it wasn't a hardware issue after all?)

 

[Minicube]

Still broken

Hey everybody!

Apple just released a fix for this problem! You can download it either through Software Update or directly from their website at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1599.

Quoting the patch notes, "Resolves an issue that may cause Time Machine backups to take a very long time to complete."

Additionally, for users who downgraded to 10.7.4, or simply didn't update to 7.5 in the first place, the new 7.5 update and Combo update will include this fix, so it won't be necessary as a separate download for those users.

I'm not sure if the update will automatically turn Spotlight back on if you turned it off manually in order to run an update under the broken 7.5 patch, as I turned mine back on via the Terminal before I ran the new update. I can confirm that the patch works, and Spotlight and Time Machine are back to normal! Hooray!

Wish it was true. I've installed the supplemental update on a 2009 MBP, repaired permissions, rebooted, ran Disk Warrior, etc. and Time Machine is still saying it will take 22 hours to back up to a connected USB hard drive (I've also tried an FW800 drive and the backup "hung" a quarter of the way through).

UPDATE: I tried backing up to 3 different hard drives. A FW800 GoFlex, a standard 5400 USB, and finally a 7200 in a FW800 MacAlly case, which WORKED. I also had a USB time machine backup hang on Mountain Lion running on a new Air. I stopped the backup, rebooted, and then it mysteriously worked. Time machine seems to be more sensitive to backup drives nowadays.