[Time Machine unbelievably slow]

Interesting, I haven't experienced this. All my backups today have completed in good time.

 

[Time Machine unbelievably slow]

Just thought I'd add my experience with this in case it helps others. I had a ~250GB time machine backup trying to complete, the last one having been made back in June sometime. Every time I ran it, the speeds were painstakingly slow and it eventually just failed. I would come back to it in the morning and it had just stopped.

 

Based on this thread, the things I did that finally got this working:

 

• Turned off hard link support (Settings/Global Share Settings/Tunable (support hard links))
• Changed the Time Machine share to use private authentication, with my username/password combination, rather than public
• Turn on "Case Sensitive": (Settings > SMB > SMB Extras and add "case sensitive = yes", then save.
• Also turned on "Case-sensitive Names" on the Time Machine share itself: (Shares > Time Machine > SMB Security Settings > Set Case-sensitive Names to "Yes" and save
• Deleted the entire Time Machine backup (but kept the share) and started the backup on my Mac from scratch

 

I didn't do anything with pools/single disk etc. Can't say which of the above specifically solved this, but I'm just happy that it's now working. I started a 341 GB backup around 10am yesterday, and  by 3:30pm it had done 150GB, completing at 8:51pm all over wi-fi. Screenshots attached