Time machine is will only actually copy over those files that have changed in the last hour. Try purchasing an album or ripping an album into iTunes and then force time machine to run a back up and see if that still run quickly.
Also, are you running your macintosh with more then one non-backup disk? Jon Jonathan C. Cohn [email protected] On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to back up my system. Two things are happening that seem strange. > the first is that it's taking less than five seconds to perform a back up. > The second is that in the brief period I see a message that says something > like "backing up 0 of 465 KB." Can someone tell me what's wrong and how I > can fix it? > thanks, > Donna > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
