Recently Time Machine takes forever to back to my 1TB external. There's still about 320GB of space, so I am not sure why this is happening.
I went ahead and deleted old backups that I can see in the TM folders. These are from ten years ago and not needed anymore. Even now, however, it seem to be taking too much time to backup.
The last backup said it needs 5 hours or more to complete, so I cancelled it when it was at 16 percent.
Do I need a new disk (this one seems fine but it is 8 years old and lightly used)?
Is there some TM setting that I need to know about to resolve this?
Thanks!
I went ahead and deleted old backups that I can see in the TM folders. These are from ten years ago and not needed anymore. Even now, however, it seem to be taking too much time to backup.
The last backup said it needs 5 hours or more to complete, so I cancelled it when it was at 16 percent.
Do I need a new disk (this one seems fine but it is 8 years old and lightly used)?
Is there some TM setting that I need to know about to resolve this?
Thanks!