Resolved Time Machine Backup Not Working

[Kyle2595]

Hi, I just installed Mavericks yesterday and I have everything running smoothly except for one thing. When I plug in my external hard drive to do a Time Machine backup, it just says "preparing backup" and never goes anywhere.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks.

 

[maflynn]

Give it time, because you upgraded the OS, its probably going to go through a full back up as opposed to an incremental one and that will take time to clean up enough space on the target disk and/or start indexing what to back up on the source.

 

[guitarman777]

Hi, I just installed Mavericks yesterday and I have everything running smoothly except for one thing. When I plug in my external hard drive to do a Time Machine backup, it just says "preparing backup" and never goes anywhere.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks.

maflynn is spot on. It'll take a while, just let it run until it finishes. If it's 24 hours and it's still working, either you've got a lot of stuff on your hard drive, or something really is wrong.

 

[Kyle2595]

Ok, everything is working well now. Thank you for the help.

 

[Quackers]

Yep, my first backup after installing Mavericks was very slow to begin but completed ok.