Crazy slow time machine backups

[rob_potvin]

We have our users use a backup disk at home and we are finding that with 10.7.5 users are having crazy slow backup time (lockups even) when trying to backup to their backup drives. If we disable spotlight a 9MB backup takes seconds. If we enable spotlight then we find that same 9MB backup would take 1 to 2 hours. For a 60GB backup it says a few weeks and we are only seeing this when both spotlight and time machines are enabled.

Anyone else out there have the same issue?

[jhalvorson]

I haven't seen the issue with Time Machine personally. When I was searching for reasons why devices with 10.7.5 reportedly take 12 to 4 weeks to index with Spotlight, I found a lot of complaints on the Apple discussion board. Looks like the two issues of slow to index and slow to backup with Time Machine are related. The indexing takes a long time even on devices that don't have Time Machines enabled.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4324046

A quick google search for "10.7.5 time machine slow" has lots of matches.

The work around for TM is to disable Spotlight indexing by adding hard drives to the privacy tab in System Preferences > Time Machine. But when you enable indexing again, sounds like the problem returns.

[rob_potvin]

I searched, getting no where, though I would then try here incase there is also some info here :S

I have been checking google, adding the drive to the privacy tab doesn't seem to fix it.

[andyinindy]

This fixed the extremely slow spotlight indexing issue on 10.7.5 for me:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/65667

It seems that this is related to your time machine issue. Hopefully this helps.

--Andy

[carlo_anselmi]

I have found this discussion and what "Christopher Murphy" suggests at page 5 seems to fix never ending Spotlight indexing
I have no idea if "sudo rm -Rf /var/folders/*" can affect something else, though.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4322106?start=60&tstart=0
Cheers
Carlo

[bentoms · Accepted solution]

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1599

[rob_potvin]

Yeah was pretty excited when I woke up this morning and read the update news :)

Thanks

[jhalvorson]

It is not needed if you install the Mac OS X Lion v10.7.5 Update (build 11G63).

Does this mean they have released a new 10.7.5 InstallESD.dmg that will include the update built in?