TM Backups painfully slow - anyone else? (10.5.2)

[~J~]

"Preparing" now takes in excess of 20 minutes for a regular backup. Used to take 1-3 minutes, depending on how much I've added since last backup. Anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas why?

 

[itsallinurhead]

My still chugs along at the same speed.

FW 400.

 

[nemex]

Yes, the preparing stage now seems to take forever...

 

[Jeremy1026]

Preparing took about 15minutes for me, but I havn't backed up in over 80days prior. When it got to backing up, it backed up 37GB in about 20-30mins.