Back up problems with Time Machine since I have Mavericks
Since I upgrade to Mavericks Time Machine is not able to back up my MacBookPro.
Not only it is slow but it never ends.
Each time it seems to reach the end of the back up 150 or 200 mb are added to the amount to be saved.
Without end.
Before Maevroicks I had Montain Lion and it was fine.
With my iMac I have no probleme with Mavericks ????
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an 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.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message that corresponds to an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showning, 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 (command-V) into a reply to this message.
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.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.
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I requested help before, but so far nobody could help me solve this problem!
I noticed that I removed, in a file clean up, a log file: PKCS11.log."
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Another problem with Time Machine
This is the second time I have experienced the following problem with Time Machine. After 2 months of backups it gets to a point where backups fail and I cannot enter time machine. In each instance I have only used 110GB of the 500GB space.
Is there a better solution to fixing this problem than deleting the sparsebundle? That seems to be the only way to get it to back up again.backup is failing again:
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have a good day, i have been problems with time machine and parallels desktop, dont work in mac osx 10.8, i upgrate two mac´s (macbook air, imac), in the two machines shows problems, could you help me please.
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i am waiting for your help.
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You must understand the purpose and implications of encryption before deciding whether to use it.
Encryption locks your data with a password. If you forget that password, the data is lost beyond any chance of recovery. Neither Apple nor anyone else will be able to help you recover that data if you don't know the password.
By the same token, the password must be strong enough to provide the security you want. For example, if you're the potential target of industrial espionage by a government or large corporation, you need the strongest possible password. To create and manage such a password safely is a task in itself, not to be undertaken lightly.
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Problem with Time Machine back up
Hello all,
Grateful for anyone's help with this issue.
Firstly, a summary of specs:
Mac OS X 10.7.
Late 2007 Macbook 13inch
External hard drive - LaCie 1TB D2 Quaddra
Issue - When trying to back up my 2007 Macbook it fails! When I back up my 2011 MacBook Pro (to the same external hard disk) it works fine!
I have reviewed a whole load of advice on here, some I am able to understand others that I unable too! Sorry! Now stuck so thought I would post on here in the hope sometime might be able to give me some advice.
I have downloaded a widget which helped me view the error message details (found that advice on the excellent Pondini website).
The error message was:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.2 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.65 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/560DC4C6-DFCE-48AA-B430-457C461AEA0F/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS
Copied 9 files (774 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
To be honest this is pretty much gooblygook to me! But I did try to locate the file that was causing the problem (Address Book) and excluded it from the Time Machine backup, I then received this error message:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.62 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/adidas miCoach Manager.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/QtCore to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/65EE1FE8-D548-4CAD-AEC7-9B6A4C12FAD9/Macin tosh HD/Applications/adidas miCoach Manager.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4
Copied 12 files (2.7 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
So I then excluded miCoach, but it failed again! This time with this message:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.59 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe Flash Player 9/Install Flash Player 9 UB.app/Contents/InstallerData/Installer.data to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/B7A9D12A-B391-4AD7-907D-01828917DF39/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Adobe Flash Player 9/Install Flash Player 9 UB.app/Contents/InstallerData
So I excluded Adobe Flash Player, and....failed again, this time blaming the Calculator
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.59 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/Resources/Calculator.icns to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/60CC7EAA-FCE7-4FC3-B946-8B999E574797/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/Resources
Copied 2760 files (27.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
The way this is going I will not have any information left to back up!!
Any advice warmly received.
Merry Christmasmiketangokilo wrote:
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/Steel String Acoustic Guitar/50B-1GA1-B2.aif to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike Surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/8614198B-1C54-4CF1-8C24-DDD9692FB82C/Macin tosh HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/Steel String Acoustic Guitar
We don't know exactly what error (-47) means. Apple used to publish lists of error code, many years ago, before OSX, but very few now. It's clearly something to do with the file named, but just what isn't clear.
But we do know that SrcErr:NO means the error is not on the "source" -- ie, your Mac. It seems to be a problem writing the file to the TM drive.
So first, if you haven't yet, run Repair Disk on that TM partition, just to be sure it's ok.
Also, be sure the disk has either the GUID (preferred) or APM partition map scheme. Click the top line in Disk Utility's sidebar, and that will be shown at the lower right. If it's MBR (Master Boot Record), that's a Windows setup, and sometimes doesn't work well with Time Machine, especially if there are multiple partitions.
Prior to OSX, error -47 meant the file was busy. If that's still true, something may be trying to access it while it's being written. If you're running any anti-virus apps on that Mac, or anything else that might be looking at the backup drive, exclude the TM drive from it, or, better, turn it off. Antivirus apps can interfere with TM backups -- some can even damage them. -
Time Capsule as external hard-drive, as back-up drive with Time Machine
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I understand that I can use the Time Capsule as an external hard-drive while using it as my back-up location, using Time Machine. It has been suggested that to do this, it is best to partition the Time Capsule to prevent the TM program from confusing the files it manages, the data files from the backed-up files. (I hope I got that right.) I believe I read in this forum that one can partition the TC after the fact, and not destroy any data on it. Is this possible? A clerk at the Apple Store in San Francisco told me that I would want to partition, but that it would require that I erase the TC. Which to believe?
Secondly, how does TM create the back-ups? I have used SuperDuper and appreciated the difference in how (and what) it backs up. My example: my first back-up involved having an 80gb external drive attached to my computer and TM backed up both my HD and the External Drive. I then turned off the TM. Today I turned it on and allowed it to back-up every hour as it is designed to do, but without the 80gb External drive attached. When I checked the newer back-ups, they all showed the original configuration of HD and 80gb external drive.
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O.K. a third request. Has anyone published a manual on TM and/or TC with this level of understanding so we can make the most of it's 1 TB storage capacity?
Thanks in advance, LeRoyLeroyHoward wrote: So, does this mean that TM never deletes a file?
It will when it starts to run out of space and it should likely be the oldest deleted files first.
As I understand it, as long as I have a multi-linked file icon on the TM, I have the original data. And everytime the TM backs-up, it recreates every multi-linked file icon on the previous back-up. Right? So, if you delete a file by mistake, you can go back and find it. But I see a contradiction here. If you delete it on your desktop, shouldn't it be deleted from the back-up of that desktop? We expect it to be on earlier back-ups, but not the most recent one right? So, eventually as the TM fills up and begins deleting earlier back-ups, that data will be lost.
The newest timeline will not point/display the deleted file(s), but it still exists on the backup until the backup drive fills up and needs to erase deleted data.
I'm trying to understand this aspect of the TC and TM, because we want to use it as both an external HD and as one of our back-ups. Any light you can shed on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, LeRoy
Read Glenn's response to dedicating TC to TM backup and the difficulty in partitioning the TC HDD.
Glenn Carter wrote:
However, this is not an option for Time Capsule users as there is not an easy way of partitioning the Time Capsules’ internal had disk without elaborate effort. In this case, use the Time Capsule hard disk solely for Time Machine backups. Then attach an additional hard disk to the Time Capsules USB port and store additional files there. This added disk will still be available to all Macs that can access the Time Capsule.
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Hi all,
Last week I had a new hard drive fitted into my iMac 8,1, after which Snow Leopard was reloaded (10.6.3 from the disc, updated to 10.6.8), followed by the restoration of data via Time Machine from my external hard drive. Whilst my Mac is now running beautifully, I am having problems backing up with Time Machine.
When I run a backup, it prepares about 100,000 items, then starts to backup, usually about 650mb. It crawls along in kb until it gets to about 1mb, then jumps quickly to the end, but then it adds extra mb on the end. Then it suddenly starts again "preparing x items....." and off it goes again.
I have tried repairing the backup disc, and it appears to be ok. I even erased it and started again. Time Machine did a full backup (139gb) in about 2 hours, then immediately added another 640mb at the end - strange, but I do at least have a full backup from yesterday. But now, everytime I run backup, it looks for the same sort of figure (650-700mb) and then goes round in circles.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks, DavidHi Eric
Thank you for your reply. Here are the screenshots for each change:
Having prepared about 95,000 items, the backup of 612mb begins
14 minutes later a message appears
Another 3 minutes and another message. You will see from this screenshot that the backup figure has changed to 613.1mb
Another 30 seconds and it all begins again....
And finally, 7 more minutes pass, another 96,000 items are prepared, and another 604.8mb backup begins.
I might add, that between posting this morning, and your reply, I also went into disk utility, chose the top leve of the external drive, clicked on the partition tab, charged current to 1 partition, renamed the drive, erased it, and did a full back up of 139GB. After 137GB it started again, looked for 602mb, backed them up and finished the backup, which is why TM states that the last back up was at 18:16 today.
Thanks again
David -
Back-up fcpx with time machine on external disk?
Hey there,
I just started with editing in FCPX on a Mac Book Pro, and I'm trying to make a back-up on an external hard disk with Time Machine and I work from my internal hard disk. So every time I'm done editing in FCPX I let Time Machine make a back-up on my external hard disk.
So that seemed a good idea, but when I'm trying to open a project from my Time Machine-back-up, FCPX gives the error: 'The document “CurrentVersion.fcpproject” could not be opened."
Is any one familiar with this problem? I just want to be sure that this way of backing-up my projects is doable. It would be a great help!
Grtz,
ChloeOpps! The program is Event Manager X. Sorry for the mistake. Google it to get to web site.
When you use "Duplicate Project" from within FCP X it will create an exact copy of your project. Options are included for events used in the project. I select the option to also copy all events actually used in the project. You have to select the hard drive where you want the duplicates stored. I put the duplicate on my backup hard drive. Now I have both the original project and the duplicate project showing in the Project Library. I also have a new event showing in the Event Library called "Clips for .... Project".
Now I want to "hide" my backup (duplicated) projects and events from FCP X so neither of us gets confused and inadvertently messes up the backup project. That's when I use Event Manager X. It will show you a list of all your projects and events on all your hard drives. You simply uncheck the project and events you want to hide. When FCP X opens back up those projects and events will not show up in your libraries.
To restore a backup project you simply repeat the process except check the projects and events you want to return to active status.
This, in my opinion, is a not only a good backup procedure, it's also an easy way to reduce clutter and mess in your workspace by "hiding" projects and events that you aren't using. There's also some evidence that having large numbers of projects and events showing in your library adversely affects FCP X performance.
You can schedule Time Machine to backup at certain time intervals; however, I'm thinking that it's pretty much backing up stuff as you work, so you need to turn it off manually. Not sure about this. Anyone else know how Machine Works?
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Problems with Time Machine restore
Hi - am hoping someone can help me.
My laptop got stolen last week and I bought a new one yesterday. The old one was kind of messy - I'd had it for a while and had been living with some weird error messages and that sort of thing - so I only wanted to transfer certain files - photos, music, movies and a few documents - to the new one from Time Machine via an external hard drive.
I set up as a new user and chose to use Migration Assistant to transfer the files afterwards. It seemed to work fine but on closer inspection no files created after 2008 (ie any new music or photos) transferred. It's the photos I'm mostly worried about as I used Senuti on my iPod to recover the music and the video files were saved to the same external hard drive Time Machine was using but seem to be accessible. When I 'browse other Time Machine disks' and go into the last backup the Pictures folder has the little red minus/stop symbol on it, so I'm thinking it might be a permissions issue? I've tried restoring that folder but nothing changes.
I'm wondering if I need to go back to migration assistant and start again but transferring everything this time? Will that even make a difference? Am hoping the files aren't lost forever (I'm a mum)!
Please don't tell me how hopeless I am at all this or get narky - I know it and I'm already in a world of misery about the stolen mac and missing pics...Supermonk61 wrote:
I recently had to do a restore all with time machine. I made sure everything was backed up before hand and ran the Leopard install disk. Went to utilities and did a restore all from time machine backup with no problem. Chose the date I wanted of March 24, 2009 and began running the restore which took about 2 hours. When everything came back up it seemed to have restored no problem but it used one of my backups from a year ago.
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The problem manifests after a Time Machine backup.
I have an iMac 24-inch, Early 2008. iMac 8,1
Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM.
Last week I purchased two 4-Terabyte G-technology G-Drives. Each drive is equip with FireWire 800 and USB 3.0/2.0. In general use they seem to work fine on the iMac.
I designated one drive as a Time Machine Volume. This is where the problem happens.
Time Machine will do the initial backup just fine. Then it runs once per hour with no problem. Intermittently however, Time Machine will fail and report :
“Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “hard disk name”.
Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.”
Interestingly enough if I try to open a folder on the Time Machine volume using the Finder I get:
“The operation can’t be completed. An unexpected error occurred (error code -50).
If I try to eject the volume I get the irksome “Cannot eject volume because it’s currently in use by one or more programs.”
To resolve this I’ve tried everything, from the banal verifying permissions, to swapping the two G-Drives around, swapping out all the cables, etc.. When the error occurs I go into the shell and check with lsof and always find no software apparently holding or using that volume.
Very frustrating
I can force eject the volume, then remount the volume and things are back to normal. Same with restarting.
This happened under OS X Mountain Lion and is now happening under a clean install of Mavericks.
I thought that even though I don’t see any MDS related processes using the drive, it might be spotlight, so I told spotlight not to index the volume. Problem still happens.
I’ve found that one person had almost this exact same problem at:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4756742
His solution turned out to be replacing the G-Drive with another brand new G-Drive.
Unfortunately, I cannot return the drives to the Apple store because the boxes were tossed out. I also don’t relish trying to explain that the drives work just fine until some glitch that occurs either just before or just after a Time Machine backup.
Does anyone have any suggestions?You can also contact G-Drive while the drives are under warranty (one year I believe).
I have the same problem using Time Machine with the 2T G-Drive and my MacBook Pro. G-Tech emailed me a Firmware Update Utility app and, when that didn't solve the error message problem, they sent me a replacement drive and new cables, twice. The problem persisted; I get one or two backups each day and then the error message. I also can't copy anything to the drive and have to force eject it, so G-Tech suggested I see how well it worked with the USB cable.
Time Machine works flawlessly with the USB cable and the G-Drive, so G-Tech suggested it is a problem with my Firewire 800 port. I worked with Apple Care over the phone, doing all the tests suggested in Eric's post - testing with Disk Utility, Time Machines interface with my User Accounts, the Operating System, then resetting Time Machine, etc. and then I took it to the Genius Bar so they could run the tests themselves. All looked like it should be fine (but they were using a 1T G-Drive and all testing was done within 30 minutes)...when I got home, after two good backups, I got the error message again.
Apple Care finally suggested I make a Genius Bar appointment and sit at the store working with my MacBook, the G-Drive and Time Machine running until I got the error message, to prove the only thing left that could possibly be the cause of the problem, is the port. I did this last Wednesday.
It is 9 days later and I got my computer back this afternoon...the logic board was replaced because the Firewire 800 port is attached to it...I got my first Time Machine back up at 5:34pm...and the error message again at 7:34pm.
The only solution, it seems, is to use the USB cable instead of Firewire. USB and Thunderbolt seem to be the direction Apple is taking, which is why so many people have been posting about this problem, here and elsewhere, with no real solutions from Apple. See this article: http://www.infoworld.com/t/mac-laptop/how-cope-the-end-of-firewire-205957
I hope the USB works for you too. -
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