Fix Lion slow TimeMachine backups

After upgrading to Lion, my TimeMachine Backups takes FOREVER to complete.

after 2 days of googling, I discover the solution:

Be sure to disable TimeMachine using System Preferences
Mount TimeMachine disk
Launch a terminal and go to the TimeMachine Disk
now rm -r .Spotlight-V100
Now go to the Startup Disk
rm -r .Spotlight-V100
At this point restart your Mac

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2 Responses to Fix Lion slow TimeMachine backups

nortexoid says:

25 July, 2011 at 10:29

I tried this and it didn’t work. All it does is delete the spotlight indexing database so everything has to be reindexed. After reindexing, it’s still taking forever to backup.

The next thing I’ll try is a full wipe of the time machine drive and start from scratch. This is crazy.

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- Mauro says:
  
  25 July, 2011 at 10:41
  
  The very first time, spotlight will re-index all the files in your mac.
  after indexing is completed, start time machine and wait… wait…
  but
  the very next backup, will be really fast.
  at least, it worked for me.
  
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