Speed up Time Machine backups

Time Machine backups are great, but very slow when a large amount of data/files needs to be transferred (such as the initial back-up). As desgined by Apple the Time Machine background proces is running in a very low CPU priority, giving all other running applications en services priority.

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Enable Reminders debug menu and force a manual update

Some of the built-in macOS applications have the possibility to activate a ‘special’ debug menu. One of these applications is Reminders, the debug menu gives you the option to manually Update/Refresh with your iCloud account.

Quit the Reminders application and start a Terminal window, apply the following command:

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Toggle Safari DNS Prefetching

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To improve performance Safari will attempt to prefetch DNS information. In some circumstances this can result in slow or partial webpage loading, or webpage cannot be found errors.

If you are experiencing those problems, apply this tweak to disable DNS prefetching.

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