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Comment by TexanFeller

> "Preparing backup..." taking an unreasonable amount of time is a regular occurrence,

TM heavily throttles disk I/O used for backing up in order to ensure that normal user activity isn't affected. That makes it appear that TM is dramatically slower than you would expect which greatly annoys me. This becomes obvious after you run this command which will make both the preparing and transferring phases go closer to the theoretical speed you'd expect:

sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0

parent TexanFeller 6 months ago

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