Slow time machine backups (hours and days vs. minutes) AND already in use errors
I am still fighting slow time machine backups, hourly incremental that use to take 5 minutes or so, taking 12 hours or more. I had another post under the topic of slow, but the staff helping there, just stopped responding. There was a NAS software update that I installed yesterday, so I tried using timemachine again and while it complete a 6 gig of backup it took 9 hours to do so (gigabit wired network, all runs are less than 15 feet).
When I tried a nother back up this morning, it "looks" for the drive, "prepares" the back up, and then errors that they "disk image is already in use".
It is not mounted on this MAC or on the two laptops, so how is it in use?
also,
When I click select drive, the time machine is listed twice. once at the top (though not labled, i would guess this is the current destination for backups, it is list with the same name as an Availalble disk. If I mouse over both of them the path listed is slightly different.
The current one's path : afp://readyNAS@NASNAMEHERE._afpovertco._tcp.local/timemachine
The Available one's path : afp://NASNAME.local/timemachine
Thank you in advance for anwsers to those and suggestions.
Re: Slow time machine backups (hours and days vs. minutes) AND already in use errors
Update:
A NAS reboot, and my second attempt to lauch a backup was sucessful. So far: an hour and a half has netted 400MB of 715. It estimates 38 more minutes, but that is unlikely.
Re: Slow time machine backups (hours and days vs. minutes) AND already in use errors
Its a ReadyNAS 314 and just upgraded to ver 6.6.1. I have had TM automatic backups turned off as they seemed to constantly be running for hours. I retry after each update hoping that Netgear solves the problem--if even by accident.
Re: Slow time machine backups (hours and days vs. minutes) AND already in use errors
Update: a total of two backups ran late yesterday afternoon and after that the "drive already in use error returned". If I have to reboot the NAS each time an hourly back up happens, I will need a different solution.
