I have two different problems now. First, the Time Capsule at work is preparing forever. No one really has a resolution to this. I’ve run it for 24 hours and it never stops preparing. I really don’t want to lose my backups, but not sure what to do. Maybe take it home over the weekend [...]
Time Capsule is “preparing” forever, diagnostics and also hangs
July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Time Capsule
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Time Machine Slow Initial Backup
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
We’ve found Time Machine incredibly, incredibly slow on the initial backup. Even with gigabit ethernet, it would backup may 3GB after 2 hours. With the way we use machines at work, it would just start over all the time. Macrumors.com has some advice about what to do:
Turn off Time Machine
If you aren’t using a Time [...]
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