Are your Time Machine Backups slowing down?

[Gazza]

We regularly read in forums and other sites about previously fast Time Machine backups now taking an unbearably long time to do the job. A contributor published on macosxhints.com a solution he has found, speeding his backups to his previous good levels - from 100KBps back up to 5MBps.

A look at Activity Monitor showed almost all the CPU usage due to Finder, and a look at the Open Files and Ports by Finder showed it accessing the Applications folder in the backup, crawling through all the application packages over and over again.

So to alleviate the situation, "wayfarer" quit the Finder application via Activity Monitor and according to his post, directly following that action, write speeds were back to 5MBps. So, if you are having issues with your Time Machine backup, it may be worth attempting to quit Finder using Activity Monitor.

I haven't had this issue so cannot try out the hint but it would be good if some of our members could try it out and report their findings back here.

[pmoeser]

We have four machines accessing a 1TB TM in our office. The bakups take forever now that the drive is nearly full.
Each time it does a "deep traversal" to determine what it can delete to free up more disc space