Hello,

I have a Time Machine share set up on my server to backup my MacBook Pro too but it's unbelievably slow.  Any suggestions how to speed it up or figure out why it's slow?

 

I'm using a 2017 13" MacBook Pro running Catalina 10.15.2. Connected via Ethernet as well.

 

All suggestions very much welcome!

 

Thanks,

Neil

I too am having problems with Time Machine backups on my Unraid server. AFP is off. SMB has Enhanced macOS interoperability enabled. My backup share is Exported as Time Machine. Time Machine Backups are fine with these settings on 6.7.2. Unraid 6.8 and above all have the same slow backup problem. Backups take days and more or less never complete.

On 2/1/2020 at 4:15 AM, rctneil said:

Any suggestions how to speed it up or figure out why it's slow?

 

14 hours ago, lawr1000 said:

I too am having problems with Time Machine backups on my Unraid server.

 

Please try turning off hard link support: Settings/Global Share Settings/Tunable (support hard links)

27 minutes ago, limetech said:

 

 

Please try turning off hard link support: Settings/Global Share Settings/Tunable (support hard links)

 

Just disabled that option and doing some tests. Will report back.   May I ask how this will help?

On 2/2/2020 at 5:52 PM, limetech said:

 

 

Please try turning off hard link support: Settings/Global Share Settings/Tunable (support hard links)

@limetech Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think it's working as i've left my machine doing a TM backup all day since 7:30am and it's done less than 5Gb and this is over a wired connection.  Something else must be wrong here.  Any ideas?

1 hour ago, rctneil said:

@limetech Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think it's working as i've left my machine doing a TM backup all day since 7:30am and it's done less than 5Gb and this is over a wired connection.  Something else must be wrong here.  Any ideas?

I moved this to Bug Reports.  Please edit your first post and include diagnostics.zip during a time when your TM backup has been running for a while.