NOTE: copy and paste this command to make sure its structure is intact. To do this, open the Terminal utility (in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder) and run the following command (provide your password when prompted): This issue may simply be a fault with the existing Spotlight index on the hard drive, so you might first try removing it to see if upon rebuilding the index the system will respond faster when both indexing and backing up. In addition, others who have played around with the problem have noticed the slow activity with both services appears to be primarily when Spotlight indexing is active, suggesting the problem is specific to that service instead of to Time Machine.Īnd in fact, users have found that at least for now you can get Time Machine backups to work by disabling Spotlight indexing of the drive, so if you are having troubles with Time Machine being slow then you might try one of the following approaches: In addition to Time Machine running slowly, those experiencing this problem have noticed Spotlight also takes forever to update its index of the hard drive.Ī few people have tried reverting to OS X 10.7.4 by restoring a backup of their system, and noticed Time Machine and Spotlight immediately started working at expected speeds, suggesting the issue is with the OS X 10.7.5 update. People report this issue occurring with a variety of Mac models and backup setups, including backing up to local drives and to Apple's Time Capsule devices. In some cases the backups only run at a few kilobytes per hour, with text claiming that the backups will take between days to weeks to complete.
After installing the latest OS X 10.7.5 update for Lion, a number of users are finding their Time Machine backups are taking forever to complete.
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