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Old 03-03-2019, 11:13 AM
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Lightbulb Workaround for 100% CPU usage by sdbackupbytime

First, I want to mention that I've used SuperDuper! for years and consider it a great product. I'm currently using SuperDuper! 3.2.4 (v 118) on macOS High Sierra.

This morning I awoke to find SuperDuper!'s sdbackupbytime process using 100% of CPU time. After quitting the process via Activity Monitor or restarting the computer, the process restarts and resumes using 100% of the CPU. (Well, 100% of one core, anyway.)

This appears to be due to a bug in SuperDuper! when a backup is scheduled to start during the hour after the switch to Daylight Savings Time. In my case, I had a backup scheduled to start at 2:00 am on Sunday March 10, which is the exact time that the DST switch occurs. (Interestingly, although the scheduled time was 2:00 am, the time in the description of the backup was "Every Sunday at 3:00 am…". That sort of makes sense because 2:00 am doesn't really exist; DST causes the time to skip from 1:59:59 to 3:00:00.)

The workaround is to change the schedule so the backup starts before 2:00 am or after 3:00 am. Then all is well. Setting it to start at 2:00 am, 2:05 am, or 2:55 am triggers the problem.
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Old 03-03-2019, 11:17 AM
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This is happening in v118? I'd fixed the problem in October, so I'm rather surprised it would be back.

I'll take a look - thanks for the report.
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Old 03-03-2019, 11:28 AM
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Yes, v 118.

I emailed details to support@shirt-pocket.com, including spindumps, etc. if you need them.
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Old 03-03-2019, 08:34 PM
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Thanks. It's a slightly awkward time to have this happen, because I'm out of the office for another week, but at least we have a workaround and it only happens to people whose backups land in that hour.
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Old 03-07-2019, 08:28 PM
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This is happening in v118? I'd fixed the problem in October, so I'm rather surprised it would be back.

I'll take a look - thanks for the report.
I noticed high memory usage of sdbackupbytime today. I forced quit. It reappeared automatically and started using a lot of memory again.
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Old 03-07-2019, 09:09 PM
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Change the backup time so it's not in the 2-3am range (eg use 3:05).
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Old 03-09-2019, 12:12 AM
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this is happening for me, but I don't currently have ANY scheduled backups.
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perhaps this will go away once we've traveled into the future on Sunday?

I'm running SD 118 and Sierra 10.12.6

Keeping Activity Monitor open to Kill sdbackup like a cockroach...
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Old 03-09-2019, 12:05 PM
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I was finally able to keep the sdbackupbytime cockroach under the fridge by deleting all my past scheduled backups from the library and restarting my machine.

Lost 3 days of computer usability to this runaway memory hog process. Had started to price new systems...

I blame Ben Franklin and his daylight "Savings" concept...
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