I tried backing up today and Time Machine looked like this for ten minutes (in other words, it was preparing for ten minutes), before actually backed things up:
Same... I just let it go... eventually it finished its task and TM is up and running.
The first set-up seems to involve building a "directory" that TM will use to determine which files were changed and when, etc (has to look at ALL your files to accomplish this). It seems to do all this before it even starts the process of copying files to the TM hard drive (the first one will take a long time.)
Permissions repair behaved the same as well... but it finished a 250GB drive in about 4 minutes.
Don't forget that Time Machine works in a very friendly way with respect to other tasks. For me it always takes a long time, even with only a few MB of incremental backup, but then I have never noticed it working in terms of hangs, pauses, slowdowns. So basically - who cares about the time it takes - just have to expect it.
I think Apple has done a super job with Time Machine.
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Any ideas or similar problems? Anyone?
The first set-up seems to involve building a "directory" that TM will use to determine which files were changed and when, etc (has to look at ALL your files to accomplish this). It seems to do all this before it even starts the process of copying files to the TM hard drive (the first one will take a long time.)
Permissions repair behaved the same as well... but it finished a 250GB drive in about 4 minutes.
I just didn't know if the time it was taking to do it was normal.
But I guess it's all good
I love my apple!
I think Apple has done a super job with Time Machine.
Apple did an awesome job with Time Machine.
I just wasn't sure if it was normal, but I just let it do it's apple magic, all will be well