The time machine feels incredibly sluggish.
The time machine feels incredibly sluggish.
Time machine is struggling to save data at a slow pace on my Mac. It took all night to back up 60GB of 1.1TB. I’m transferring over a gigabit network to a NAS that can handle gigabit speeds, but my Mac only manages around 5MB/sec, sparingly every few seconds. I’ve turned the backup priority down and even rebooted into safe mode without improvement. What could be causing this?
Did you perform a check on the Mac storage? Many times it turned out the drive was bad. Extracting files manually was quicker than relying on Time Machine. Would you recommend using a particular NAS with certain drives?
Running diagnostics through disk utility worked without issues. The report showed everything normal, and the system is now backing up at about 100KB/s. Your NAS uses 7200RPM SATA hard drives, and it’s brand new—built on Wednesday with almost no files on it.
The tool uses the bike in MRI mode. It’s been a while, but I believe you press Command + Shift + R when starting up. It could be D instead of R, though it’s quite similar. The Apple site mentions it’s only for technicians, but anyone with three fingers can use it.
TimeMachine over networked storage has consistently lagged behind internal/external drives that connect directly to your device. It’s also optimized for minimal system impact, so it rarely leverages the full capacity of your drive for backups. When backing up a drive for the first time, TimeMachine spends a long time indexing the data. The system performs best during updates or changes to existing files rather than bulk transfers. Unfortunately, I don’t have any ways to accelerate the initial backup process.
It functioned properly with the full time capsule on the network. I believed disabling the feature by setting sysctl values resolved the issue. Since the drive was backed up to that capsule, it shouldn’t require separate actions per backup.