2011 MBP with SSD/Time Machine Issues

Early-2011 MBP (MacBookPro8,2)
8GB RAM
240 GB OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD (newly installed)
750 GB HD (original boot drive, now with the user folder on a 500 GB partition and a 250 GB Windows boot camp partition)
I replaced my 750 GB boot drive with the OWC SSD recently and put a fresh install of Mavericks (10.9) on the new drive. I used the OWC bracket and moved my old 750 GB drive to the optical drive bay. Erased and reformatted the 500 GB partition (on the 750GB drive) as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive. I moved my Home folder to the Mac partition. I've since reinstalled apps and replaced my Home folder contents from a clone I made.
When I try to run Time Machine (either via a directly connected HD or via Time Capsule) I end up with the machine freezing up. It doesn't always totally freeze up, but once I try to click around or open the Finder or an Application I end up with the beach ball and end up having to do a hard reboot (hold power button til it shuts down). If I don't wait awhile before restarting sometimes the machine won't find the startup disk. It does seem like Time Machines starts... as it does start writing the backup record. It never finishes though.
Based on some of the other threads I've read I ran the following command:
find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 -o -acl $ 2> /dev/null | wc -l
And was given the number "235".
Any pointers?

There's no simple or easy way to do that, and it depends on your circumstances. See Transferring Home Folders not on a Startup volume for some suggestions.

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OK, but in general I can use this one device as both file storage and Time Machine.
I thought that (for some reason) once I set up the Time Capsule to act just as Time Machine storage I would be unable to access it as a plain file storage.
I have just tested it now, and it seems it can work as both - file storage and Time Machine. I can see the Time Machine backup file on it and folders where I can dump regular files.
The only thing I would need to occasionally do is delete some old backups to keep Time Machine segment below 1 TB just so I have plenty of space for regular files.
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Time Machine issues with OS 10.6.8

Hi all,
after updating to 10.6.8 I noticed a Time Machine issue.
Backup takes very long but only a few MB were backed up.
And after it was finished, Finder crashed and I had to do a hard reset.
There´s also a "in progress" file on my USB Backup HDD after finishing.
Checking my HDD´s and repairing it wasn´t the problem.
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After a few hours it was finished, but only 7,8MB were backed up and still there is an "in progress" file on my new Backup HDD.
Here´s a troubleshoot:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/My Book/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Backup content size: 368.5 GB excluded items size: 75.7 GB for volume Macintosh HD
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Waiting for index to be ready (101)
CarbonCore.framework: coreservicesd process died; attempting to reconnect but future use may result in erroneous behavior.
Copied 7.2 MB of 292.8 GB, 5 of 1058420 items
Copied 11 files (27.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 930.52 GB available
Copied 165 bytes of 0 bytes, 4 of 0 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying / to (null)
Copied 7 files (236 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Error -50 deleting backup: /Volumes/My Book/Backups.backupdb/Computer/2011-07-19-180247.inProgress
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
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A whole lot about Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.
There are two important errors noted in the backup:
I-O error -36 « fuzzybrain|daisychain|blogdrain
The following comes from the LaCie web site but is applicable to any other external drives whether home brew or commercial.
Getting error -50 when copying data in OS X.
Some LaCie drives ship out formatted FAT32 so they will be ready to use on either a Mac or a PC. If you are getting error -50 when copying to a LaCie drive, or any drive formatted for PC, it is because of the following:
Certain characters that can be used in a Mac OS X filename are not allowed in MS-DOS filenames. This can prevent the file from being copied, and can occur when a filename contains non-printing ASCII characters, or any of these characters: ? / \ < > " | > *.
Either copy the data off of the drive and use Apple's Disk Utility to erase the drive in Mac OS Extended format, or change the filenames of the documents that cannot be copied.

Having issues with my Time Machine backups...

my mid-2009 MacBook Pro seems to be having an issue with time machine.
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then, last Friday, it wouldn't complete a backup. I wasn't sure what the issue was so I (foolishly) erased the drive and just began again as a new TM. now it's still having issues backing up.
I've tried repairing the disk permissions of my internal drive, and that actually seemed to help the TM complete a backup.
usually it will just stop backing up, and sit there for ages without doing anything. I choose "skip this backup" in order to end it, and then try to force another backup right after. the problem, then, is that it will start but won't do much after it reaches 4kb backed up or 23kb. that's not a typo - it really says kilobytes!!
not sure what the issue is at all, or how I can fix it. I have completed a backup since I erased the drive, but it's doesn't seem to want to carry on with regularly scheduled backups.
is it an issue with the time machine harddrive, or something deeper with my computer? are the backups that I have done safe? as I said, I was able to perform an initial backup after I erased the drive... if I end up replacing this computer, will I still be able to restore from the back up?

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes.) You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard."
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the timestamp of the last "Starting" message that corresponds to the beginning of an an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showing, and scroll back in the log to the time you noted. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

2011 MBP with 8GB of RAM, generally slow under Lion, possibly thrashing

I have a 17" 2011 MBP with 8GB of RAM and the fastest CPU available at the time. It came with Snow Leopard, and it was really fast with basically everything I threw at it.
Since the upgrade to Lion, it has a general tendency to get really unresponsive. My workload hasn't fundamentally changed. Rather than just hope it's bugs in Lion that will get fixed, I'd like to see if anyone can advise me on things I might investigate, either to fix things myself, or to be more intelligent about identifying bugs I can report.
One thing I notice is that Time Machine backups will bring the system to its knees. Everything will be going along just fine, and then TM will kick on, and all my apps will stop responding. Once TM has finished, things will slowly come back to normal. There's a lot of disk activity, which I have assumed was swapping. Another thing that causes trouble is that mds (and a whole bunch of mdsworkers) will frequently kick on, and will slow down the system.
CPU load is always quite low, but free memory is always very low. (However, in some OS's Free Memory is misleading, because a lot of disk blocks are cached in RAM, so it's not really "used" either..)
What I can't really distinguish for sure is if the system is slow because of swapping/thrashing (which is what I assume) or if it's slowed down for some other reason related to disk activity.
Here are the apps I typically run:
- NetBeans (which is a pig, taking up over 1GB or real memory)
- Safari (which is also a pig, often taking up more than 1GB between the main Safari process and the Web Content process)
- Sometimes Parallels (2GB for the VM, and probably another 1GB for other stuff, because it's also a pig)
- kernel_task typically reports taking up over 1GB of real memory
- WindowServer also reports using 280MB
- various other small apps like Mail, NetNewsWire, Preview, Terminal, Adium, Smultron, Colloquy, none of which use much memory
I got the 8GB, because I knew I was going to use a lot of memory for stuff, and it was great under Snow Leopard. But with Lion, it just doesn't seem to be enough. Even with all of those huge processes, I can't believe that their working sets are really as big as their virtual and physical memory footprints seem to be. I mean it's not unusual for a process to have 2GB of virtual space but only a few 100MB of real memory, and some of that is shared object libraries, where the same physical memory is mapped into multiple processes. (Have shared object libraries stopped being physically shared under Lion?)
Are other people having similar trouble? Any suggested remedies? Any suggestions on how to investigate so I can see if there are any actual bugs?
I would like to understand why my system went from zippy to slow after I upgraded to Lion. Actually, quite a few things have broken. Time Machine has become a pig, bluetooth doesn't work reliably anymore, airport doesn't connect reliably anymore, and lots of little annoying bugs. But this is common for early point releases of new OS's, so I can't complain too much. But for Lion to have really regressed in memory management is definitely not good.

Safari, for what ever reason, has become a huge memory
pig. The longer you are using it the more memory it
gobbles up.
In Activity Monitor, check the Page outs and Swapped used.
This will tell you how much memory swapping is going on.
As for Time Machine, you may want to set your Parallels
HD image not to get backed up by Time Machine. May
help since it is a huge collection of files. But there have been
issues reported with Time Machine and Lion. I don't
use it myself and opt for the cloning methodology and
seperate data backup strategy. Also, in Spotlight
preferences under the Privacy Tab, I have added
my Windows VM folders, for same reason. Unless you really
need to find something on the windows VM volumes when you
don't have the Windows VM active, it just eats up alot
of disk access time.
For solving airport issues check this article:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20117247-263/fixing-airport-problems-in-os- x/?tag=mncol;txt
For Bluetooth devices, try removing them, and have them rediscovered if you
can.
Hopefully, this gives you a start on cleaning things up.

Time Machine issues, restoring from iPhoto '09

I have a mid 2010 15" MBP which has been a trusty steed up until October 2014, where the logic board failed. I did the depot repair, and I mistakenly reset my Time Machine as well since I somehow forgot the password and started, I think, a new network and data.
I just started to look at ways to restore my old files that I had backed up with my Time Machine pre-October 2014. I browsed and browsed websites and forums, but no matter what, I was stuck with the new backup starting from October 2014.
Last night, I used Migration Assistant (I know, why didn't I use that first?) and success, I was able to access my files I had backed up to Time Machine before my logic board failed. But here's the issue. Somehow, my photos cannot be found. I did update the iPhoto to the newest version, but I cannot find the old iPhoto library pre-October 2014. I even went into Time Machine, but for some reason, it goes back to the post-October 2014 backup, even though I migrated everything from the pre-October 2014 backup. I know it sounds confusing, but I should have everything from the pre-October 2014 backup if I did Migration Assistant and every files seems accounted for.
I guess if anyone could help me find the iPhoto library, that'll be great. Under Pictures, there is an iPhoto library icon, but it is grayed out. Hope this is helpful. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

If this helps, if I manually type in the file name of the images in Finder, I can only access the thumbnails. Is this a good thing?

Time machine issue after Yosemite install

After performing a clean install of Yosemite and migration from my TimeMachine backup I experienced the following:
I opened iTunes and selected some music to play, then got a dialog box saying the files could not be found. Spotlight couldn't find them either... they were just gone. Naturally I went to my Time Machine backups and was surprised the music was gone from the backups, all the way back to the first backup. Very wierd. During the migration I went through the "Cleaning up old backups" process, not sure exactly what this process is.
I was pretty bummed that I had permanently lost a lot of music, some was recordings of friends playing live that could never be replaced. I then remembered that some time ago, just for the **** of it, I copied my sparsebundle backups to an external drive and stashed it in a drawer. I browsed it, and lo and behold there were the missing files. So I narrowly escaped a big problem, but wy did this happen? What are they doing over at Apple?

Hatrabbit wrote:
Naturally I went to my Time Machine backups and was surprised the music was gone from the backups, all the way back to the first backup. Very wierd.
This is really bad luck. And what can be seen here, it is not related to Yosemite but Mavericks, since I asume your backups were made with Mavericks. Though, it is possible that this bug still persists with Yosemite.
I have a similar problem. I am still on Mavericks. I see missing files in ~/Library/Preferences on a regular basis. When I come aware of it, I fix it manually by excluding Preferences folder from backup, run backup, include folder Preferences and finally backup again. But this fix does not last for long. Suddenly after some weeks I see a again missing files in that folder, when browsing the "Latest" backup.
I have found some related discussion:
Time machine missing files
http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/509489/potential-time-machine-issue-maverick s-leaving/
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/130955/some-files-are-gone-after-recove ry-from-time-machine-backup-why/150230
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/136453/time-machine-not-detecting-chang es-in-certain-folders
https://twitter.com/ThatDJJP/status/526429152153714690
missing mail after installation
No solution until today. Very frustrating.
My feeling is, that many users do not recognize, that they are victim of this horrible bug, cause in most cases only few folders are hit by this bug.
And now since Yosemite is out, people are actually using there backups for the first time since Mavericks and run into a disaster.
Atm I am trying to test, if maybe fsevent daemon is the problem, in the past there have been issues like http://openradar.appspot.com/10207999
I did a check on my drive, and I found issues with realpath()/readdir(). Though, those issues may just be old and have not been detected by me for a very long time. My MBP is 5 years old and I upgraded all the way from 10.5 to 10.6 to 10.9.
With 10.6 I never had such an issue.
But more likely, the issue is related to the "Cleaning up old backups" process. Cause I also have the feeling, that when my backup drive gets full and the shrink process took place, then the result are missing files in younger backups then the ones cleaned. If that is true, then maybe the hard-link-approach of Time Machine is somehow involved.

Time MAchine issue or had WD HDD died?

For the last two years I have had My Book Premium 500gb External HDD partitioned (using Disk Utility) into two equal volumes that I have named MyBook 1 and 2 respectively. I use My Book 1 for for my Time Machine backup drive and My Book 2 for odds and ends and my iTunes library. My Book 2 get
Recently my iMac has been slow booting up. I checked all my volumes (including my iMacs internal HDD) over for errors and found a number of serious errors in Mybook 1. I was prepared to reformat this volume and start over with the Time Machine backups because this volume had corrupted before about a year ago. Anyway Disk Warrior got my MyBook working again for about a week. However I recall that it mentioned DW reporting that it had made 'Volume Wrapper repairs where necessary" or something similar.
Anyway the other day both volumes disappeared from my desktop. I fired up Disc Utility, then Disk Warrior but neither programme could see the MyBook Drive. Then my iMac refused to boot up. I got the 'white screen of death'. The MyBook began making a faint clicking noise about once every second or so. The only way to get my iMac to boot up was to disconnect my MyBook Premium HDD from the Firewire connection. I couldn't even boot from my Disk Warrior DVD unless the MyBook disconnected.
So I am thinking my My Book has died. and wondering whether there any way to recover it even though my iMac won't start up with it connected?
Anyway, next day I got the external HDD working again.
The iMac was off but I noticed that the MyBook was still spinning after several hours so I pulled the power cable out of the drive. The spinning stopped but for some reason the round blue display on the front remained lit up. In fact it only went out when I removed the Firewire cable from the MyBook leaving the iMac end in situ . The MyBook was quite warm but not hot.
I decided to leave it alone overnight and went away. Came home from work this evening. Pondering about the problem I turn off Time Machine in the System Preferences pane and wrote the above account.
An hour later I plugged the MyBook back in with the iMac running. Nothing happened but I didn't expect it too. So, on a hunch, I restarted my iMac. Lo, it fired up immediately. Not very very slowly or stuck at the grey screen. Both volumes appear on the desktop. The only difference is both have the yellow and white Firewire icon, presumably because I have turned off Time Machine.
So my hunch is that Time Machine has an issue - not necessarily with Snow Leopard.

I got it working again by removing and then replacing the cable firstly at the HDD end, without success and then at the Mac end. This time all booted up and both volumes appeared on the desk top.
The Hdd then spent over an hour transferring about 140 gigs (MyBook2) to my internal Hdd. No problems that I could discern. The external HDD spun down but a short while later it was spun up continuosly again. By way of an experiment I went to the Desktop and ejected both volumes. The external HDD spun down.
Now however I'm back to nothing on the desktop and a continuously spun-up External HDD.
I'm looking through the WD Support pages now with a view of interrogating them about this. Hopefully it is only a matter of updating the firmware as was mentioned earlier I think.
Thanks

Time Machine Issue -- Error not found anywhere

I am having a Time Machine issue in which the error displayed cannot be found anywhere: Google, Bing, Apple, etc.
The error message is: "Time Machine couldn't find some of its settings on the backup disk "BACKUP". Make sure the backup disk is connected, and that other connected disks don't use the same name as the backup disk. Last success backup: 6/21/10 at 2:52 PM"
The other odd thing is that my Time Machine folders are empty. The directory structure is: BACKUP > Backups.backupdb > TIGERMASTER > {empty}. (TIGERMASTER is my MacBook Pro's name.)
When I do a Get Info on the directories, it reports Zero kb on disk with 0 items. When I do a Get Info on BACKUP, it reports 833GB used, with about 140GB free (it's a 1TB external HDD).
Disk Utility sees folders and files, however: "Number of Folders:583,061 / Number of Files:3,725,350"
Um, help?!
My Mac's Info:
*Model Name: MacBook Pro*
*Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1*
*Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo*
*Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz*
*Number Of Processors: 1*
*Total Number Of Cores: 2*
*L2 Cache: 4 MB*
*Memory: 4 GB*
*OS: 10.6.4*
*Ext. HDD: LaCie 1TB*

Here are the last few lines of the error output. The entire output was laden with red text, which indicates errors:
+Invalid node structure+
+Invalid record count+
+Rechecking volume.+
+Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.+
+Invalid node structure+
+The volume could not be verified completely.+
+Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.+
The most common output error (there must have been over a hundred) looked like these:
+Overlapped extent allocation (id = 10715055, /.HFS+ Private Directory Data+
+/dir_10712993/Mobile Backups/8884195JY7H/Structured/4eea38a1ac5f110bcb3d0a10ce4d571300ab85aa.mddata) +
+Overlapped extent allocation (id = 10715056, /.HFS+ Private Directory Data+
+/dir_10712993/Mobile Backups/8884195JY7H/Structured/4eea38a1ac5f110bcb3d0a10ce4d571300ab85aa.mdinfo) +
+Overlapped extent allocation (id = 10715057, /.HFS+ Private Directory Data+
+/dir_10712993/Mobile Backups/8884195JY7H/Structured/4f01e5e3411040bbec70277a704bfeb5b735d336.mddata) +
+Overlapped extent allocation (id = 10715058, /.HFS+ Private Directory Data+
+/dir_10712993/Mobile Backups/8884195JY7H/Structured/4f01e5e3411040bbec70277a704bfeb5b735d336.mdinfo) +
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I want to set up the Time Machine and I would love to use the Time Capsule but since I already have a wireless router I need suggestions on what other external disks Apple could recommend to use with the Time Machine and how to configure that disk

I want to set up the Time Machine and I would love to use the Time
Capsule but since I already have a wireless router I need suggestions on
what other
external disks Apple could recommend to use with the Time Machine and
how to configure that disk.
A complication that I need to resolve is the fact that I am using Vmware
Fusion to be able to use Windows on my Mac. Now it seems that Time
Machine is not backing up my files
on that virtual Windows without additional configuration and my question
is whether you can advise me here or whether this is only a matter for
the Fusion virtual machine.

If you want to use Time Capsule you can.. you simply bridge it and plug it into the existing router.. wireless can be either turned off or used to reinforce the existing wireless.. eg use 5ghz in the TC which is much faster than your 2.4ghz.
You can also use a NAS.. many brands available but the top brands are synology, qnap and netgear readynas series. These will all do Time Machine backups although how well always depends on Apple sticking to a standard. There are cheaper ones.. I bought a single disk zyxel which was rebadged and sold through my local supermarket. It actually works very well for TM at least on Snow Leopard. Major changes were made in Lion and again ML so do not instantly think it will work on later versions. I haven't tried it yet with those versions.
Any external drive can be plugged into the mac. Use the one with the fastest connection or cheapest price according to your budget. USB2 drives are cheap and plentiful. But no where near as fast as USB3 or FW800. So just pick whichever suits the ports on your Mac. Interesting Apple finally moved to USB3 on their latest computers.
TM should exclude the VM partition file.. it is useless backing it up from Mac OS side.. and will slow TM as it needs to backup that partition everyday for no purpose.. TM cannot see the files inside it to backup just the changes.
You need to backup windows from windows. Use MSbackup to external drive.. if you have pro or ultimate versions you can backup to network drive. But MSbackup is a dog.. at least until the latest version it cannot restore the partition without first loading windows. There are about a zillion backup software versions for windows.. look up reviews and buy one which works for you. I use a free one Macrium Reflect which does full disk backups and is easy to restore.. to do incremental backups though you have to pay for it.

The disk drive in my iMac 8,1 has stopped working, so I now use an LG 8x Slim Portable that works. However, every time I use the LG drive, I lose contact with my Time Machine back-up drive that has to be deleted and reinstalled. Help!

The disk drive in my iMac 8,1 has stopped working, so I now use an LG 8x Slim Portable that works. However, every time I use the LG drive, I lose contact with my Time Machine back-up drive that has to be deleted and reinstalled. Help!

It's not Logic that can't find them, it's your Komplete apps, though if you did exaclty as you say I can see no reason why they can't.
Do you know where the apps installed them in the first place? I chose a non-standard locarion for mine, but I'm sure it installs sounds to your documents folder/native instruments/name of app.
Go into the prefs of each app and choose the library location button on the library tab and point it to the relevant folder in documents/native instruments and see if that works
jake

Time Machine issues (16030) sparsebundle" is already in use for Time Capsule backup

Time Machine issues (16030) sparsebundle” is already in use for Time Capsule backup process. Just started happeing been using it for over two years.

First, restart the computer and the Time Capsule. In most of the cases, this solve the problem.
If it doesn't work, see > http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html

Western Digital My Book World EditionI have bought a WD My Book World Edition to use for back-up of my iMac, but when I try and log onto the drive with Apple time Machine (back-up software) or connect in any other way i get the message 'There was a proble

I have bought a WD My Book World Edition to use for back-up of my iMac, but when I try and log onto the drive with Apple time Machine (back-up software) or connect in any other way I get the message 'There was a problem connecting to the server "MybookWorld.local" The version of the server you are trying to connect to is not supported. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the problem'
It is a brand new iMac and running Lion OSX
Any ideas on how to solve would be gratefully received?

Followed the directions on this page and it worked!
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1102423
Part One - Turn on SSH (in the admin panel)
[1] Go to to http://mybookworld.local
[2] login: username will be admin, password will be whatever you have setup. If you can't remember it should be in your Mac OS X keychain (Utilities > Keychain Access, search for "mybookworld"). If you have not changed if from the default the password will be admin as well.
[3] Switch to advanced mode.
[4] From the System tab, pick Advanced.
[5] Enable SSH Access, and click submit.
[6] Click on the network tab and then the LAN button
[7] Make a note of the IP address
Small, maybe obvious, but nevertheless important point: For the install to work, your NAS needs to be connected to a router with internet access.
Part Two - Install netatalk2.2
[8] Open Terminal.app (Utilities > Terminal)
[9] Enter the following command (substitute in 127.0.0.1 for the actual IP address you noted down in step 7), then hit return:
Code:
ssh [email protected]
[10] When prompted, enter the ssh password (will be welc0me).
[11] You are now going to download the installer. Enter the following command, then hit return:
Code:
wget http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/local--files/netatalk2-2-on-whitelight/install_netatalk.sh -O install_netatalk.sh
[12] Once completed, you will need to run the installer. Type:
Code:
sh install_netatalk.sh
[13] You will be asked a number of question during install, answer yes to all. When asked about the "DHX2 login process", I opted to install the modified version, so I can confirm it works.
[14] Once the box has restarted, you should be able to connect to your afp shares and continue to use Time Machine.

HT201250 Unexpected problem with Mac time machine!

Hi every one!
I'm having an unexpected problem with my time machine! the moment I hook up the back up drive my Mac crashes and the only thing I can do is to force restart. I'm not sure if the problem is with the back up disk or the Time Machine itself. I've successfully used the app since now and this just happens! I can neither access the disk in finder nor fix it by disk utility... would you please help me?
PS. the disk is encrypted, I doubt that might be causing the problem?!
Thank you!
chargar

Launch the Console application by entering the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Enter the name of the crashed process in the “Filter” text field. Post the messages from the time of the last crash, if any -- the text, please, not a screenshot.
Then, still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash logs related to the process. Select the most recent one and post the contents -- again, not a screenshot. For privacy’s sake, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)

My Time Machine says there is no backup disk available. I've never had any problems with my time machine. I'm not technologically savvy, so if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it!

My Time Machine says there is no backup disk available. I've never had any problems with my time machine completing backups. I was away from house with my laptop for about 9 days so I'm wondering if there is something I need to do now that I'm home to get it working again. I'm not technologically savvy, so if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it!
Thanks,
Jana

You can lose your ability to backup through TM for any number of reasons, but the most common is what happens after a update. If your drive still works, your best approach is to read this:
http://www.chriscolotti.us/technology/how-to-fix-osx-mountain-lion-time-machine/
The attached link contains helpful graphics, so don't worry if you're not tech savvy.

2011 MBP with SSD/Time Machine Issues

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