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RupertGiles
Aug 24, 2020Apprentice
Does running the Antivirus service slow down Time Machine backups?
After the recent Mac OS update to Catalina 10.15.6, I began to experience major issues with Time Machine. Backups would take forever to run, and the "Cleaning Up" process even longer. I ended up comp...
StephenB
Aug 24, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Maybe try disabling Antivirus for a while, and see if that resolves your performance issues.
However, I would also download the log zip file from the NAS, and see if you have see any disk-related errors in system.log and kernel.log.
RupertGiles
Aug 24, 2020Apprentice
Thanks for your feedback. I actually did examine the logs, and thankfully there were no errors. I'd actually replaced the drives about a year ago, for increased capacity.
Good suggestion on turning off Antivirus. Thanks!
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