Backup completes but certain files have not been backed up
I've been suspicious for a while that TM hasn't been backing up all new files but my fears were allayed because what appeared to happen was that they got backed subsequently. However now I have a file that didn't get backed up when I connected TM after that file was put in my Movie directory and despite repeated backups, still doesn't appear when I go into TM.
I've had a look at section D5 on Pondini's troubleshooting guide (Backups seem to run ok, but nothing gets backed-up):
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/D5.html
There's nothing in the exclusions box, I've tried a "full reset" and I've run disk repair on the external HDD that TM is on and also backed up after restarting my mac. I haven't yet tried with any test files though but one thought has struck me which is that I sometimes run a program called Applejack (which runs in Single User mode) which repairs permissions and a few other tasks. I've a hunch that if I re-start after running that, then perhaps TM will recognise the movie file I have in my movie folder as needing to be backed up.
However, any other suggestions gratefully received. Thanks in advance.
Linc Davis wrote:
Before you start doing anything destructive, such as deleting backups, please try any or all of the following:
1. Launch the Console application, select "system.log" from the list of logs, and enter "backupd" in the filtering text box. Then run a backup. What log messages appear?
Apr 5 09:19:33 Macintosh com.apple.backupd-auto[7796]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup - time machine destination not resolvable.
Apr 5 09:21:49 Macintosh com.apple.backupd[7838]: Starting standard backup
Apr 5 09:21:49 Macintosh com.apple.backupd[7838]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Apr 5 09:21:50 Macintosh com.apple.backupd[7838]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.17 GB requested (including padding), 151.31 GB available
Apr 5 09:21:52 Macintosh com.apple.backupd[7838]: Copied 7 files (15 KB) from volume Big Spinning Disk.
Apr 5 09:21:52 Macintosh com.apple.backupd[7838]: Starting post-backup thinning
Apr 5 09:21:53 Macintosh com.apple.backupd[7838]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2011-03-31-095136: 151.31 GB now available
Apr 5 09:21:53 Macintosh com.apple.backupd[7838]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Apr 5 09:21:53 Macintosh com.apple.backupd[7838]: Backup completed successfully.
2. Launch the Terminal application, enter "touch " without the quotes, but with the trailing space, and then drag one of the problems files into the window from the Finder. Some text will appear. Press the return key and quit Terminal. This will change the modification date of the file to the present. Now run your backup and see whether the file is backed up.
I tried this and Terminal indicated that permission was denied, ran the backup anyway but nothing was backed up (as you would expect).
3. Create a new file, type and content unimportant, in the same folder as one of the problem files. Does it get backed up?
Moved another 700+MB file into my Movie directory, just ran a back up and it wasn't backed up.
4. Turn off Time Machine. Move or delete the file
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
Turn TM back on, reset your preferences, and try a backup. Any change?
Moved the file from Movie folder to Desktop, deleted the plist file above; ran a backup and nope, no change (backup was 15KB).
Incidentally, there is also a file called com.apple.TimeMachine.plist~orig in that directory where the date modified corresponds to when I acquired my macbook and did restore from the last TM backup from my previous macbook, just mentioning in case that has any bearing on my problem.
Thanks for your suggestions, about to try your 5th.
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