Aperture & Time Machine, again
Aloha all. I have a problem that I can't find a solution to. I have set Time Machine to exclude any and all Aperture .( v2.1) files. Now Aperture won't start unless I have my external HD for Time Machine plugged in to usb port, and turned on. If I eject the external hd and shut it off, Aperture won't open, and freezes at the start screen. If I have it plugged in and turned off, when I start Aperture, the external hd turns on!
When I attempt to restart with the external hd off, Aperture seems to turn it on. I don't know if belongs here or on the Time Machine boards, so I'm posting it in both places. I have trashed the preferences for Aperture, it does no good. I have gone as far as reinstalling and up dating Aperture twice, but this strange behavior won't stop. Any help, tips info, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Mahalo in advance. JB
I still believe that this is not a copy process but a link verification test. In your log :
"Feb 15 13:34:10 housekat /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd2104: No pre-backup thinning needed: 45.07 GB requested (including padding), 53.94 GB available
Feb 15 14:31:23 housekat /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd2104: Copied 51001 files (37.4 GB) from volume HouseKat.
Feb 15 14:31:53 housekat /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd2104: No pre-backup thinning needed: 245.1 MB requested (including padding), 16.46 GB available"
look at the time taken to 'copy' 51001 files, its 30 secs resulting in a 'copy'-speed of over 1GB/s. Are your system capable of this speed?
Later in the log:
"Feb 15 14:31:53 housekat /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd2104: No pre-backup thinning needed: 245.1 MB requested (including padding), 16.46 GB available
Feb 15 14:33:02 housekat /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd2104: Copied 21453 files (43.2 MB) from volume HouseKat.
Feb 15 14:33:23 housekat /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd2104: Starting post-backup thinning"
here is a copy of 43,2MB taking 21 secs resulting in just over 2MB/s.
As I have stated in another thread, it looks like TMe is just backing up the change in Aperture, not the entire library.
Gunnar
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I hope there has been found a more efficiant solution for this, how can I restore a single image from an aperture time machine backup, I really hope I don't have to restore the entire library? that does not make sense
any suggestions?Did you try browsing your backups in the Finder ? That is, do not go and "Enter Time Machine". Instead, navigate to your Time Machine backup via Finder and then manually go to the time period (by folder name) you are looking for ... when you find your Aperture library you can then "Show Package Contents" and find the Master you are looking for.
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I am considering an external hard drive and would like to hear of peoples experience backing up Aperture via Time Machine
Hi Ed,
My method is as you have noted; I backup using Time Machine every morning while in the shower with no apps running. This used to work as intended with only the changed files being written to TM, however I had to restart my TM from scratch a few months back and now it seems to backup 20GB of data a day.
I just accept that as the reality of TM for now, and it's not really much of a problem for me. I found out a few months that Time Machine can actually fill a drive to capacity and refuse to add further backups after that - I got a message saying that there were some files which could not be deleted as they were essential to something-or-other, and after talking to other users on this forum, it appears that this is actually the case and that every 4/5/6 months I will have to erase my TM and start the process again.
My point is that these are examples of how TM isn't perfect, and that there are compromises we have to live with. The Aperture backup issue is one of those and I figure that I may as well just live with it.
I think we're spoiled by Apple in some ways; so much of the software and hardware they produce works so effortlessly and correctly that when the odd bugs show up we get worked up and complain and feel hard done by. I think we need to adopt a glass-half-full attitude and accept that what we get most of the time is really great software. That makes the occasional bug much easier to live with. -
How do I use Time Machine again after several weeks?
Hello,
I use Time Machine with 1 TB storage for backups of my iMac 27" (latest OS X 10.9.4). During 3 weeks I took my iMac with me on vacations and no backup took place. Now I'm back but every attempt to do a backup is cancelled because the available storage (298 GB) isn't sufficient for the backup the system say it needs (more than 700 GB).
It seems that the huge space needed is disabling the feature of "The oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full."
I don't mind loosing my backup history but I didn't find a way to use Time Machine from "scratch" again.
Does anybody know how to solve my problem?
Thank you in advance for any suggestion!
Regards
PeterBuy a suitable USB drive.. 2TB or 3TB are great value.
Plug it directly into your iMac and backup.. that is the fastest and most reliable way to backup. Even if your iMac is too old to have USB3 ports do nowadays only buy USB3 drives which are cheap and will work hugely faster once you do upgrade.
You can also plug a USB into your TC.. archive it, so you have a backup of your existing backups.. and then erase the TC and start again.
I think you are unique.
During 3 weeks I took my iMac with me on vacations
27" iMac are not exactly portable. -
Purchased a new, larger solid state drive to replace my old drive. I installed OSX then I had Time Machine do it's magic.
Now when I want to do a backup using Time Machine, it tells me that the external HD is full. When I did so prior to upgrade, it would erase old backups and then do a new backup.
Please help. I am worried about losing files, and am tired of seeing the "Time Machine hasn't backed up in xxx days" Error Message.
Thanks.it thinks yours is a new machine so it doesn't want to start deleting another machine's backups
see the bottom of this page
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I migrated from old machine with Leopard to new machine with Lion. After migration, I had all photos, music, applications, etc. This morning there is no music, no photos and missing programs. I have now downloaded the fix they put out yesterday. Can I simply redo a new migration from Time Machine to get those things back?
Monty,
If you used Migration Assistant what has probably occurred is it created another user account. Log out of your current account and see if there is another account, if so log into that one and see if your information is there. -
The OS does not detect the drive when I start the system, but Disk Utility shows the disk as an external drive. I seem to be going around in circles. Please take a look at the following screen grabs for the errors I am getting.
But When I verify The sub-partition in the Disk (disk4s2), it asks me to repair disk. When I try to repair disk, it gives me this error.
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Time Machine on Snow Leopard just doesn't work.
So I've had huge nightmares over the past few days over Time Machine.
So I've always been a big proponent of Time Machine. I always tell everyone that you NEED a backup solution, and while Time Machine may not be the be all and end all, it's a great starter solution for those that don't want any fuss.
But perhaps not anymore.
It just works, right? Well apparently not.
So a little while ago I performed a Time Machine-assisted hard drive swap for a MacBook (not mine). That is, I install a new drive, boot from SL DVD, perform a HD wipe, then restore from Time Machine. It seemed to go well.
Fast forward to more recently, I went on a trip overseas (Taiwan). While there, I obviously took a lot of photos, and it became that time again - purchase a new hard drive with more capacity for my MacBook Pro! HD were a little cheaper where I visited, so I not only bought a new drive for my MBP, but also a new drive for my wife's MB, as well as new external drives to upgrade our Time Machine drives.
While I was there, I decided to update my own Time Machine first - following the instructions from Apple's own knowledge base on the matter:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
I transferred my existing backups to the new drive to continue my Time Machine. I didn't notice any problem at the time.
Then I returned to my home country (New Zealand). First thing I did when I got back was to perform the Time Machine-assisted HD swap after making sure the OS were up-to-date as were their respective backups, on both my own MBP and my wife's MacBook.
That's when the troubles started.
First off, I noticed that a few images from my Aperture Library were missing. The album data and everything were there, but the actual files were not. They also did not exist anywhere on the Time Machine drive and as such never made it over to the new HD. Weird, I thought. They were there, clear as day on my original drive. They simply weren't backed up.
Now I'm aware of a few TM niggles, such as the false backups after verifying a disk, but I hadn't done that.
The second issue was much more major. My Wife's MB would be endlessly stuck on the white boot screen with the grey Apple logo. As it turns out, it's exactly this issue here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2738620?threadID=2738620&tstart=74
In short, the fresh Time Machine backups I made before transferring to the new HD showed no sign of updating the /System/Library/Framework/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security package, which is REQUIRED for the Mac to boot into 10.6.7 (it had an old one from before).
Great, I thought, but maybe I can fix that by installing a fresh 10.6.7 combo update on the MB via target disk mode.
No dice. On trying, it goes all the way to the end, and then fails installation. I had to resort to copying over the correct, more recent security package just to get it to boot.
After booting, what to do? Who knows what other files Time Machine failed to update, and what consequences they would have. After putting back the original security package, I tried updating 10.6.7 again. Nope, no dmgs would open - i HAD to use the new Security package for anything to open. Fair enough, but even with that, the installation would inevitably fail.
Problem with the package? Nope. Tried a fresh download, and checked the SHA and everything.
Time to do some blitzing. I pulled out my trusty Snow Leopard DVD and did a reinstall on top. That's gotta get my problem, right? Well, nope. After resetting to 10.6.0, the 10.6.7 combo updater STILL failed on installation. Furthermore, the updater no longer worked on MY MBP either.
What gives?
As it turns out, it was related to this:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11317470?messageID=11317470
In short, some files had the user immutable flag switched on, preventing changes from being made to those files (manifests as a little lock icon on the file icon). They included (and I'm sure not limited to) the Acknowledgement.rtfs in /Library/Documentation/, as well as a majority of the fonts in /Library/Fonts.
Checking back in the backup drives, it was clear that Time Machine was the culprit - instances of those files in the backups were also locked. When did that happen? Looking back, it looks like it happened when I transferred the backups from one Time Machine drive to another. But it wasn't all at once - in the first backup on one drive, one of the Acknowledgement.rtf files was locked, and the other one wasn't, but in the second onwards, both were. It was clear that Time Machine seemed to be doing it to those files. Which files and why? I have no idea.
So removing the uchg flag with "sudo chflags -R nouchg /" in terminal finally allowed me to apply the 10.6.7 combo update without failure.
So were the troubles over then?
Nope.
While checking if everything was fine, I noticed iPhoto on the MB had all the thumbs missing - after rebuilding, they weren't back, and only a .plist trashing fixed it (I consider this pretty normal - probably looking for the files on the old UUID drive or something).
But what gives? ALL the photos taken on the trip were gone! Not just the thumbs - the actual files were missing from the iPhoto Library! The data in the albums existed, just the actual files, just like my instance in Aperture on my own MBP.
Checked the Time Machine - again, it was clear Time Machine had completely stuffed up - the files were nowhere to be found on the Time Machine drive.
So currently, I've returned the original internal drive to the MacBook, performing a FRESH on new reformatted disk Time MAchine, and will use THAT to restore.
Nightmares, indeed. It's several days of work doing all the restores, considering I have limited drives to work with. And yes, rest-assured, I was doing enough permission repairs, and PRAM resets to ensure they weren't issues.
It occurs to me there are several faults with the most recent version of Time Machine (maybe 10.6.6 or something as that's when people had some of the issues above):
1) At some point in time, Time Machine may not update a necessary Security package (and probably other files too - I believe the files around it were also not updated), meaning that if you use that Time Machine to restore, the outdated package will cause your computer to fail to boot.
2) Transferring your backups to a new destination Time Machine drive may cause certain files to become user immutable or 'locked', with one consequence being you cannot update the OS.
3) Time Machine may fail to backup image files with the Aperture or iPhoto Library. Trying to remember back, I *think* this may be related to the fact that we changed time zones, as the unupdated image files were after the zones were changed. Strangely, every other file within the Library packages were updated, as album data was updated - just not the actual image files and folders.
Conclusion? I no longer trust Time Machine. The basic foundation of a backup service is that you trust it to do what it's supposed to do. After all this, how can I?
You might think they are isolated incidents, but they were occurring on two Macs that I have, and they same errors can be found in others.I think I have detailed some root causes, but who really knows.
At any rate you should keep an eye on at least these files I have detailed. Would love to hear Pondini on the matter, as I know he knows a lot about Time Machine.Someone has suggested just installing Snow Leopard on the machine. Will that work?
If you can find a copy of the workstation version of Snow Leopard shipped with the same model of Mac mini, yes. Apple has not, to my knowledge, shipped a retail version of Snow Leopard new enough to boot your mini.
I've also heard there is a way to install SL while connected to my old Powerbook in order to suck the entire old drive onto the new machine in an operable manner. Is this accurate, and can this be done if my old machine is the Powerbook on the old apple chip when the new machine is intel based
No, it's not accurate. The OS on your PowerBook will not boot your mini.
what are the differences between the single pack and the family pack?
If you mean single and family pack of Mac OS X, the single pack is licensed for installation on one computer only, while the family pack is licensed for installation on up to five Macs.
Regards.
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Here's the ordeal. I'm running a 2007 MacBook Pro 17 inch with Lion OS. When I converted to Lion, I didn't have enough room on my harddrive to convert to the new FileVault, so I remained on the old system. Less than a week ago I reboot my computer because iPhoto seems to be stuck on "cataloging" my photos, though after days of letting it run, it doesn't do anything. After the reboot, my computer appears as if it had been reset to factory settings with all my programs gone, etc. I'm like, hey, I've got Time Machine, I'll restore it. After the restore is run, when I go to login, I get the dreadful error message, "You are unable to log into the FileVault user "John" at this time. Logging into the account failed because an error occurred". I searched the internet via my iPhone for suggestions and followed everyone of them, all the way down to erasing my harddrive and reinstalling Lion. So I get back into my computer and think I'm golden. I go to restore my computer via Time Machine and wham....I'm right back to that error message. I think, ok, I'll do it again. This time it messes us even more, giving me two login screens, one for the new Lion like before I restored the computer and then a second, as if it were restored, but unable to login. On top of that, I couldn't get back to the Command-R page! I thought I was really screwed! Well, I finally figured a way back, or maybe it was just that it finally decided to cooperate, I don't know, but I erased my harddrive again, and reinstalled again and thought, well, I'll rebuild manually by selecting what I want to restore from the Time Machine drive. I was able to get all my applications back and running, but to my dismay, I seemingly have lost all my iTunes music (except that which Apple has graciously setup to redownload now "thank you!) plus all my iPhoto's and even worse, all my DOCUMENTS!!!! Here I thought Time Machine from backing all this stuff up, but with over a years worth of back-ups I cannot locate any photos, music, or my documents on my drive to extract! Needless to say, I will never be using Time Machine again to back up my computer, I'll find another program or at least do it all manually. But my question is: am I looking in the wrong places for this files? Are they hidden under some unknowning folder that doesn't list it as music, photos or files? I can manage with the music, I can live with the photos because my wife has many of them on her computer and I have many uploaded to Facebook, but my files! My documents, thousands of them, many with information I won't be able to compile again, seemingly gone unless someone out there has any ideas?!!!
I even had iPhoto search the drive for photos and after hours of the barber shop pole spinning I cancelled the command for I figured it wasn't going to find anything.
If anyone has any suggestions, or if Apple, you are reading this and can provide some direction, I would greatly appreciate it.Also - my battery has been telling me "service battery" for a LONG time and then it switched to "replace soon" som time ago. Can't really see what this has to do with anything but whatever.
That could conceivably explain all the problems you're describing. Replacing a Mac's battery should not be postponed since a failed battery will cause other problems to occur. It is also possible that its hard disk has failed, which means the information on it may soon become unrecoverable.
... my latest TM back up was from April 2014, can I just run this when I have rescued everthing and then it might not be as slow?
If that Time Machine backup remains intact, it may be the only viable means of recovering that Mac's information. I suggest you do not attempt to restore its contents to your ailing Mac.
Given that you are having trouble creating a newer Time Machine backup you should stop using that Mac immediately and have it serviced as soon as you are able. Do not take it to anyone other than Apple or a service facility authorized by Apple, for the very reasons you explained. If there are no Apple Stores in your vicinity search for an Authorized Apple Service Provider using the Contact Us link below. Use one of the options that appear under Contact Apple Support. The language on that page will be different for your location. -
How can I restore my Address Book from Time Machine, iCloud keeps overwriting
This was all done on my MacBook Pro, using Mavericks updated. With the Address Book, and iCloud.
Ok, this is really a mess. I have close to a 1,000 contacts in my address book. I'm not going to manually sort them. I have a bunch of groups in my address book. These groups are very important, and not something simple to sort out. I have already read this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18790074?searchText=How%20can%20I%20restor e%20my%20Address%20Book%20from%20Time%20Machine,%20iCloud%20keeps%20overwriting# 18790074
My situation is similar, and yet a little different.
I accidentally deleted a group in my address book. So, with my handy dandy Time Machine backup, I quickly went into Time Machine, and restored the group. However, I was connected to the internet, and iCloud promptly deleted the nicely restored group. So I went into Time Machine again, and restored the username/Library/Application Support/Address Book folder. Again, opened the Address Book, was content to see my group was intact and there. After about 20 seconds it disappeared before my very eyes. I was now starting to get frustrated. iCloud had again erased my ‘restored’ group.
I promptly disconnected from the internet, restored my address book, and exported a copy in abbu format. I then reconnected to the internet, and as I expected, iCloud once again deleted my ‘restored group’. I then imported my abbu ‘backup’ file, and everything was once again intact… for about 20 seconds before iCloud again deleted my group.
Ignorantly, I deleted everything in my address book (while connected to the internet). I then allowed iCloud to update everything. After it seemed like it was done (it doesn’t tell you what is going on). I went ahead and imported my abbu file. This again resulted in nothing in my address book. I again disconnected from the internet, and imported the abbu file. I then exported all my contacts and each group in the vcf format. I started importing each group into iCloud.com online, and everything was working smoothly. Then, it started getting errors, and not importing all the contacts.
OBVIOUSLY there is a bug, or problem, or something wrong here. iCloud is being extremely stubborn, and extremely un-friendly to it’s user. I’m kind of at my wits end with this. If anyone has any ideas, I really could use some help I think that iCloud could use some help too. Perhaps some lessons in politeness. Perhaps a lesson in ‘restoration.’ Perhaps a compatibility with Apples own Time Machine??? Please any help would greatly be appreciated!
ShaneI don't know why you moved the app. Move the application back into your "Applications" folder which is where it belongs and should always stay. Then drag the app down to your Dock, if the Dock icon is not there already.
Now, open AddressBook. The click on the TM icon on your Dock. Now do you see the TM screen with AB open? Good. Use the TM time arrow back button until AB appears the way it used to be. Then click restore.
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Restoring Mail from Time Machine
Mail on my MacBook Air hung last night (I did a reply/send and then went to bed) and when I returned this morning, it was still sending. I tried a normal quit but it wouldn't quit. After waiting a while (something like 30 min) and it was still displaying the spinning ball, I decided to do a force quit (it didn't display the "not responding" so decided wait another 30 min)...finally did a force quit (and generated the report for Apple). I then did a permissions repair (just incase) and restarted the computer. When I attempted to open Mail, the icon in Dock indicates that it is open but no windows open. I did this repeatedly but to no avail.
I then opened Time Machine and backup are all there so I canceled TM and did an Option>Go>Library and opened Time Machine again. Only this time, TM displays "Now" but won't let me go back in time to a date when Mail was working.
Am I doing this correctly? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.Thanks Eric. When I click on Mail in the Dock, it indicates that it is open (little pointer underneath) but Mail does not appear in the Menu bar above. Here a couple of Grab screen shots. The first one is a pop up when I click Mail in the Dock.
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How can i RECOVER a time machine file from the trash
I hope someone can help me... I have spent hours and hours reading forums but none that have addressed my problem.
My daughter gave me her old backup drive. She also has a MAC so she had Time Machine backups on the drive already. I started backing up onto this drive about a year ago. Backups have been done now for a year or so. Last night I got the message that I was running out of space so I looked at the drive and realized that her backups were still on the drive so I moved them into the trash. Then Time Machine wouldn't work anymore and I realized that not only did her backups get moved but all of mine did as well. I need the backups because after I upgraded to Mavericks many of my photos dissappeared from iPhoto. These are photos that I can't recreate - I sell jewelry and take pictures before I send the piece out. Everything is one-of-a-kind so it's very important for me to get these back. I realize now that I never should have moved the backups into the trash as I will have a problem deleting it once I separate her backups from mine but I will deal with that after I figure out this problem.
Is there anything I can do to move the backups back from out of the trash and into Time Machine again? (BTW - I don't know which version of Mavericks I have - I have done all available updates so I assume it is 10.9.3)As long as you don't delete the trash, the files should be recoverable.
I suspect using the Put Back command could take a long time, so be patient.
If your Time Machine backups are mixed with your daughter's backups you might want to buy a larger drive and move the Time Machine files to the new drive.
Regarding missing photos in iPhoto...There might be options to rebuild/recover that data from iPhoto rather than trying to revert to a Time Machine backup.
Check out this third party app, iPhoto Library Manager. It has a demo.
http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/
Options for a larger drive.
I like the Seagate USB 3.0 Backup plus drives. Works on USB 2.0 ports. They come formatted for PC but easy to format in Disk Utility.
I don't recommend Western Digital because of the boot problem with some of their drives.
LaCie makes good drives.
All Mac formatted drives will cost more and it’s easy to reformat with Disk Utility. Do not use the software that comes with the drives. It’s recommended that you use Apple’s Disk Utility.
Prices vary but this gives you an idea of what you’ll find. As you notice the second and third TB is usually only $15 more per TB. Normally, you’ll find these prices but right now the 1T is more than the 2T
Seagate Backup Plus 1 TB USB 3.0 $85
Seagate Backup Plus 2 TB USB 3.0 $99
Seagate Backup Plus 3 TB USB 3.0 $115
I have seen the 3T on sale for $99.
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At my wits end with Time Machine
I had Time Machine running flawlessly over from November right up until February of this year. Then being naive, I never really payed much attention to it, as it was working 100%. I even performed a completed system restore in March of this year. However, since around mid-March, it stopped backing up.
I did notice that it was complaining about running out of space, and it told me it was going to clean up the drive to make room. Pretty much from that point onward, it has not worked. I have even gone so far now as to completely repartition the drive and start clean again. However, each time, the backup hangs at about 1.97GB of 95.96GB. The external drive is 320GB. I have read through the forums, and cannot seem to see what do next (outside of a complete reload of my iMac).
Thinking it may have been a drive issue, took the external drive to my Windows Media Center, and tested it from there copying over 50GB with no issues.
I am not running antivirus software on my iMac, and I even uninstalled Paralells...but no go...
If anyone can provide me with suggestions on what else to try I would appreciate it. Checking the System.log, there are no errors visible....I have run Disk Utility several times on both the iMac drive and the external drive. No errors are ever reported.
I have since backed up my data to a Windows Server, and reloaded the iMac from the ground up, applied all of the updates, and attempted to start Time Machine again. The problem still persists. Yet this drive will work flawlessly in Windows. There must be something that came down in the last update that broke my Time Machine for some reason.....I have no other explanation. -
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I recently had to restore my iMac from a time machine backup as I had my hard drive replaced. (Running OS X 10.8.2)
Since doing this I have been unable to do any new backups. The time machine drive would mount briefly then unmount and I would get a notice saying the backup had failed.
After attempting a number of times and methods I turned off time machine and de-selected my backup disk. Now however my backup disk does not appear in the list of availalbe drives even if `i mount it first (although when I mount it manuualy I can explore the existing backups through the "Browse other backup disks" option in the menu).
My backup disk is hosted by an old iBook running Os X 10.5.8. I have another machine, running the same OS version as My iMac, backing up to the same disk without issue.
Any help would be very much appreciated.Deanoy2k wrote:
With what message? If you don't remember, use the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to display the backup messages from your logs. Locate the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages here.
I'm afraid I dont remember exactly and can no longer get it to mount at all now that the drive has disapeared from the list of drives when I try an setup time machine again.
It doesn't matter whether the disk is mounted or not -- the log files are on your internal HD.
It sounds like the backups may be corrupted. See if you can repair them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
I have already done this and it did find some errors. No change in the situation though.
Did it repair everything (did a message saying the disk "appears to be ok" in green appear at the end? If not, run it again.
It sounds like you backed-up over your network, to the external HD connected to your iBook. In that case, the backups for your iMac are in a sparse bundle disk image on the external HD. That's what you need to repair. See the A Shared drive connection to another Mac section in #A5 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting. -
Time Machine no longer backing up from Macbook Pro
I've been successfully using Time Machine to backup my Macbook Pro via my wireless network for a couple of years. I was also using it to backup my wife's Macbook Pro until she had to be away for a while. While she was away she used a Passport backup device connected via a USB. Now she's home again I tried to backup her computer to Time Machine again.
However, Time Machine does not recongnise any past bakups and when I try to complete a backup on it it either hangs while searching for the backup disk or at the "Preparing Backup" stage. Moreover, exactly the same thing happens when I try to backup my Macbook Pro.
Please, how do I fix this issue/Rightbrainer wrote:
Hi, I tried all of that...thanks, but no cigar :((. Still won't work. Did the verify of internal HD and followed all other instructions. Any other ideas? Could it be the formatting of the HDD?
Doubtful, since it backs up the other Mac. But it won't hurt to check it; it should have either the GUID or APM *Partition Map Scheme* and any flavor of +Mac OS Extended+ Format.
A clue might be lurking in your logs. See #A1 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for a handy widget that will display the backup messages from your logs. Copy and post the ones for one of these "hung" backups here.
It's a long shot, but something may have gone wrong with the 10.6.4 update. You might try downloading and installing the 10.6.4 "combo" update. Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1048 Be sure to do a +Repair Permissions+ via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.
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Hi all. I was wondering if someone could help me figure this out: how can I programmatically find out what path a given jsp is in from within the jsp? if I use currentPath = new File("./"), it defaults to the /config folder (Iplanet WS). Any advice i
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Hello, I'm pulling data from an MS access 2003 database that has a "?" character embedded in some of the column names. The data will be inserted into an Oracle 11.2 staging schema. The column [Se ha mudado?] is an ms access text field. The Access dat