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Time Machine is painfully slow
I just got a new Ultra 4 (RNDU4220) and am finding Time Machine so slow as to be unusable. I've read various threads here, but am not finding a solution. I'm not well-versed in networks, but if I ...
Using Snow Leopard is good. It's the most reliable version of Mac OS X for Time Machine backups at this time. Have you installed the latest 10.6.x update?
Time Machine does backup lots of small system files so performance is going to be a lot lower than transferring large files. Also TMs backups with versioning does have overheads. However your speeds do appear to be terribly slow.
I would try with a diskless model choosing your preferred disks from the HCL
Insert one disk, ensure the NAS is running the latest firmware, then put all disks in and do a factory default (http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu)
This will ensure you have a clean setup on the latest firmware.
Then configure Time Machine and see what the backup performance is like.
Time Machine does backup lots of small system files so performance is going to be a lot lower than transferring large files. Also TMs backups with versioning does have overheads. However your speeds do appear to be terribly slow.
I would try with a diskless model choosing your preferred disks from the HCL
Insert one disk, ensure the NAS is running the latest firmware, then put all disks in and do a factory default (http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu)
This will ensure you have a clean setup on the latest firmware.
Then configure Time Machine and see what the backup performance is like.
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