Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-17 Thread Ashley Aitken
Unfortunately, I think something is wrong with your iMac (and I am sorry I have no solution, have my own problems at the moment ;-) A On 17/02/2013, at 2:05 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: My iMac takes about an hour to prepare, backup and cleanup. This happens every hour. Oh -

Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-17 Thread Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]
Hi Kevin, I had the same problem a while back. By the time one Time Machine backup completed, it was just about time to start the next one, so it was virtually always backing up. My memory is not the greatest, but I'm pretty sure the problem went away when I replaced the Time Machine disk.

Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-17 Thread LuKreme
Kevin Callahan opined on Saturday 16-Feb-2013@23:05:10 My iMac takes about an hour to prepare, backup and cleanup. This happens every hour. Oh - add spotlight indexing to that. This is very odd. Backups should not take more than a few (3-4) minutes unless there is a massive amount of data

Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-17 Thread Kevin Callahan
On Feb 17, 2013, at 7:40 AM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]" di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote:Hi Kevin,I had the same problem a while back. By the time one Time Machine backup completed, it was just about time to start the next one, so it was virtually always backing up.My memory is not the greatest, but

Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-17 Thread Macs R We
On Feb 17, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: On Feb 17, 2013, at 7:45 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: Kevin Callahan opined on Saturday 16-Feb-2013@23:05:10 My iMac takes about an hour to prepare, backup and cleanup. This happens every hour. Oh - add spotlight indexing to

Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-17 Thread Macs R We
On Feb 17, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: In the last hour and a half (while working on a simple Xcode project). Note 3:04:49 and then 3:04:50. 96,932 files! But also note those larger chunks in the 800+ MB range at 1:37 and again at 2:42 2/17/13 1:37:35.868 PM