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Accidental Tech Podcast
How to Make Time Machine Not Be as Slow as Balls When Backing Up to an External Drive
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Carson brown has been experimenting with time machine setups and noticed that backing up to an SMB share is very slow compared to an external drive attached via USB. The only thing that actually Has any effect whatsoever is if you globally disable like uh IO throttling for background processes in in macos, right? Mac OS does not apparently have a way for you on a per process basis Especially in already running process like backup the year whatever to make it not be throttled by default.
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