Backup Time Machine Once A Day?

Hello,
I'm looking for a Time Machine application that will let me backup once for twice a day instead every hour, any ideas?
Thanks for reading my post and your help.

HipDrummerDad wrote:
Thanks for the advise.
Is Time machine editor stable?
I don't use it myself, but some do. I have seen a few posts to the effect that if you decide to stop using it, you have to turn it off before deleting the app, otherwise it leaves it's last schedule in effect, and TM doesn't resume it's normal hourly backups. So check whatever instructions or Help there is. Other than that, I've seen no adverse reports.
May I ask why you want to alter the hourly schedule? Depending on how you use your Mac, those incremental backups are usually quite fast and don't interfere with normal activity. On my small (~30 gb) system, just as an example, TM's hourly backups rarely run over 30 seconds, and I usually notice them only if I happen to see the icon spinning.
There are, however, some OSX features and 3rd-party apps that cause large incremental backups, but there are also ways to minimize the effects.

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For the past several days, I have been getting this message during backups:
Time Machine could not complete the back up. The backup disk image "Volumes/Data/bhoppy2's iMac.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error-1). When I click on the 'help' icon on the message, it reverts to a blank page, and I cannot find anything online regarding the term 'sparsebundle.' In addition, I cannot access previous backups any longer.
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See C17 in Time Machine Troubleshooting by Time Machine guru Pondini:
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a Fusion Drive or a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
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Any body know how to change what older backups Time Machine keeps? I know how to change how frequently Time Machine backs up (sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int XXXX),
but what I want is for it to not save so many recent backups and keep more of the old ones. Right now it saves hourly backups for the last 24 hours, daily for the last month, and weekly for each month until you run out of space. I don't need all the daily stuff, and would really like to keep more of the monthly. The older the info, the harder it is to recover by other means. What I'd like to do is keep older backups and lose more of the intermediate ones.
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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.
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. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Post the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. 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 a message.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — edit that out, too, but don’t remove the context.

During backup, time machine quits unexpectedly...

During backup, time machine quits unexpectedly and says the external disk was removed (but it wasn't even bumped). This has happened repeatedly every time I attempt a backup. Any ideas?

There are a few things that might be causing this.
First, open the Energy Saver preference pane in System Preferences and uncheck the box labeled "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible," if it's checked. Some hard drives don't respond well to that setting.
The external drive should be plugged directly into a built-in port, not into a hub. Check that the data cable is securely inserted at both ends. If you're using a 3.5" external drive, it should have its own power supply.
To be on the safe side, launch the Disk Utility application, select the backup volume (not the startup volume), and run "Repair Disk" (not "Repair Permissions.") If any problems are found, you should repeat until the volume is clean. You should also give serious consideration to replacing the drive if that happens, because a volume should never develop directory damage unless there's a hardware fault.

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can I then connect a HD with itunes music and photos?
Now we are drifting from the original question.
Im alreadty using the HD attached to my Mac Pro...can I just connect it to the Extreme and access it wirelessly with any device on the wifi net?
You may get another opinion on this from another user, but I do not recommend this either, based on a number of experimens over the years with this.
Access to your data on the drive will be much slower. iTunes will tend to "lose" the library this way and you will have to re-point the iTunes application at the library on a regular basis.
Things are even worse with the iPhoto library. The experts over in the iPhoto support area strongly advise that you do not do this, since any break in communication between the iPhoto application and iPhoto library can easily corrupt the entire library. A wireless connection makes things even more dicey.
My advice......Use a drive connected to the Extreme for storage or other backup copies of data.....not for "working" files or libraries.
But, you may get some other opinions from users here.

Time Machine wants 16 days to do an initial backup. ps shows PRI = 33 with NI = 0.   But I can not get sudo renice to set PRI less than 15. And renice sets NI directly with strange behavior for PRI. Any suggestions?

Time Machine said it would take 16 days to do an initial backup, and indeed, after many days it is less than a quarter done.   (The problem started when I put in a new bank disk for Time Machine to write to for its backup file.)
Activity Monitor shows that the process name is   backups   with Process ID   6060.
Then putting this PID in Terminal UNIX command ps gave:
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ ps -l -p 6060
UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
    0 6060     1 1004004   0 33 0 2556488 29040 ...
Wow! A priority of 33!
Don't know how that happened, but the way to fix that (I thought) is with renice.
But renice doesn't work.
After a lot of playing with renice and ps, it looks as though renice can not make the priority better than (no less than) 15.
And the parameter you put in, that according to the man page that is supposed to be priority, turns out to be "nice index", with priority changed by sometimes subtracting or sometimes adding either this number or twice this number - down to a limit of priority no less than 15.
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ ps -l -p 6060
UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
    0 6060     1 1004004   0 33 0 2556488 29040 ...
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ sudo renice 5 -p 6060
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ ps -l -p 6060
UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
    0 6060     1 1004004   0 28 5 2555964 29028 ...
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ sudo renice -5 -p 6060
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ ps -l -p 6060
UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
    0 6060     1 1004004   0 38 -5 2555964 29028 ...
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ sudo renice -15 -p 6060
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ ps -l -p 6060
UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
    0 6060     1 1004004   0 48 -15 2555964 29028 ...
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ ps -l -p 6060
UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
    0 6060     1 1004004   0 48 -15 2555964 29028 ...
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ sudo renice -n -5 -p 6060
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$ ps -l -p 6060
UID   PID PPID        F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS ...
    0 6060     1 1004004   0 53 -20 2555964 29028 ...
EdsMacPro-1:~ ed$
This is with OSX 10.7.5 and Terminal 2.2.3 on an early 2009 Mac Pro with lots of memory.
What am I dong wrong, and any suggestions for how to fix my Time Machine process?

The backup file size is 1.67 TB.*
That's across the internal bus of a 2009 quad-core Mac Pro - which is pretty fast.
Copying an hour's worth of MPEG-2 HD takes about a minute.
I do a fresh backup from scratch about once a year, and the last time it finished over night.
This time the first Time Machine backup is only about 1/5 complete after many days, and Activity Monitor shows essentially no use of disk drives or of CPU. And in the first note I pointed out what is gleaned by using Terminal to execute the UNIX ps command. The priority of the running Time Machine process looks incorrect to me.
I could be wrong, but I think the problem is process priority, not file size.
I am unable to set priority to 0 or a negative number. Can someone straighten me out on how to do that?
[*The machine has four 1.5 TB disk drives in it plus lots of memory. Two of the physical drives are configured as one 3 TB backup drive (RAID concatanated).]

Time machine slow - 470 days to backup 150GB

Just installed a brand new 2TB for use with my wife's Mac Air. Time machine telling me it will take 470 days to backup...
I'm new to this, but that seems a little crazy. Tried restarting computer, no luck. CPU running 92% idle...
Any pointers where to start looking, what to try next?
Thanks

The backup file size is 1.67 TB.*
That's across the internal bus of a 2009 quad-core Mac Pro - which is pretty fast.
Copying an hour's worth of MPEG-2 HD takes about a minute.
I do a fresh backup from scratch about once a year, and the last time it finished over night.
This time the first Time Machine backup is only about 1/5 complete after many days, and Activity Monitor shows essentially no use of disk drives or of CPU. And in the first note I pointed out what is gleaned by using Terminal to execute the UNIX ps command. The priority of the running Time Machine process looks incorrect to me.
I could be wrong, but I think the problem is process priority, not file size.
I am unable to set priority to 0 or a negative number. Can someone straighten me out on how to do that?
[*The machine has four 1.5 TB disk drives in it plus lots of memory. Two of the physical drives are configured as one 3 TB backup drive (RAID concatanated).]

Slow Lion Time Machine- 465,335 days remaining...

I have the early 2011 15 macbook pro. I am trying to do a time machine backup to a firewire connected drive. First timemachine backup on this empty drive. Lion logs everything out and the backup fails if I leave for more than 20 minutes. For the second time, backup failed because of not being able to index a file in the developer applications. Earlier the backup of 400 GB across a firewire 400 was slated for 5 hours. After the failure and restart it was slated for three days... erased the external and started again - but then another backup error at indexing.
Now a fourth attempt this one will be finished in 465,335 days.
I don't think this is funny. If Steve Jobs was still around I don't think he would sit back and let this happen. Looks like I won't be waitng for 1,273 years after all - another file indexing failed, on the iphone simulator software.
After many years of boosting mac to my friends, I am saddly going to have to start looking for alternatives. I expect more for the price I paid.

Hey Marlin, yes you are correct, it was not a question (I unchecked the "is this a question" checkbox)
Partly this is my method of documenting my (unfortunately many) issues with my 2011 15" macbook pro, and I think this is a better venue than shouting frustrations at the sky.
The external hard drive is a iomega 500Gb with room to spare, formated as Mac OS extended. Disk utility finds no problems before running time machine. After a failed time machine there were errors found, and I reformated and tried again.
The most frustrating thing is that the mac logs me out of the computer if I leave it alone while doing a time machine backup, causeing it to stop the back up! I have turned off the automatic log out in settings, but it still logs me out. This happens every time on a first time time machine backup.
Also really cool is the screen I see when I wake the computer - I call it the 'scratch away' screen, since moving the mouse 'scratches' away either black or a desktop. Ill see if I can attach a screenshot for you.
<hmmm cant seem to attach a 1.8 Mb foto taken with my iphone... click insert imager and nothing>
I will also include my console errors incase that helps. I have noticed the indexing fails on different files each time.
1/10/12 12:05:29.292 AM ReportCrash: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
1/10/12 12:05:30.015 AM com.apple.backupd: Indexing a file failed. Returned 1 for: /Applications/Max5/Cycling '74/object-palettes/jit.pwindow.svg, /Volumes/fb/Backups.backupdb/Robbie Hinman’s MacBook/2012-01-09-235541.inProgress/87143A64-A9FE-4E2F-B4E9-FB70EC3AA6E0/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Max5/Cycling '74/object-palettes/jit.pwindow.svg
1/10/12 12:05:30.015 AM com.apple.backupd: Aborting backup because indexing of file failed.
1/10/12 12:05:30.015 AM com.apple.backupd: Stopping backup.
1/10/12 12:05:30.561 AM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.metadata.mds[892]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
1/10/12 12:05:30.651 AM mds: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
1/10/12 12:05:30.706 AM com.apple.backupd: Copied 245822 files (9.9 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
1/10/12 12:05:30.707 AM com.apple.backupd: Copy stage failed with error:11
1/10/12 12:05:30.708 AM mds: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
1/10/12 12:05:30.734 AM mds: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
1/10/12 12:05:31.164 AM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for mds[892] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2012-01-10-000531_localhost.crash
1/10/12 12:05:41.413 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 11
1/10/12 1:02:00.685 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: ([0x0-0x66066].com.apple.systempreferences[715]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/10/12 1:02:00.689 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: ([0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.Console[268]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/10/12 1:02:00.768 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: (com.apple.talagent[269]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/10/12 1:02:00.770 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: ([0x0-0x1b01b].com.apple.AppleSpell[353]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/10/12 1:02:00.969 AM loginwindow: DEAD_PROCESS: 37 console
1/10/12 1:02:01.068 AM com.apple.backupd: Stopping backup to allow backup destination disk to be unmounted or ejected.
1/10/12 1:02:01.425 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed because the destination disk was ejected or disconnected unexpectedly!
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSGetNextEventRecord (Inline) connection 0x8e07, 16384 bytes
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: CGSShutdownServerConnections: Detaching application from window server
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: CGSDisplayServerShutdown: Detaching display subsystem from window server
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: XRHotKeyAgent:638 kCGErrorInvalidConnection
1/10/12 1:02:01.973 AM UserEventAgent: CaptiveNetworkSupport:UserAgentDied:139 User Agent @port=23303 Died
1/10/12 1:02:02.003 AM prl_naptd: Exiting Parallels Network Daemon
1/10/12 1:02:02.342 AM airportd: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “2WIRE950”. Bailing on auto-join.
1/10/12 1:02:04.345 AM loginwindow: Login Window Application Started
1/10/12 1:02:05.042 AM loginwindow: **DMPROXY** Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
1/10/12 1:02:05.795 AM com.apple.launchctl.LoginWindow: com.apple.findmymacmessenger: Already loaded
1/10/12 1:02:06.016 AM airportd: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “2WIRE950”. Bailing on auto-join.
1/10/12 1:02:06.383 AM com.apple.SecurityServer: Session 100013 created
1/10/12 1:02:06.385 AM loginwindow: Login Window Started Security Agent
1/10/12 1:02:06.856 AM SecurityAgent: Echo enabled
1/10/12 1:02:06.856 AM SecurityAgent: Echo enabled
1/10/12 1:04:28.312 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 1:04:28.312 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 1:04:38.328 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 2:04:28.218 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 2:04:28.218 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 2:04:38.234 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 3:04:28.127 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 3:04:28.128 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 3:04:38.143 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 4:04:28.027 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 4:04:28.028 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 4:04:38.043 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 5:04:27.935 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 5:04:27.936 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 5:04:37.951 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 6:04:27.832 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 6:04:27.832 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 6:04:37.848 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 7:04:27.734 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 7:04:27.735 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 7:04:37.750 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 8:04:27.633 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 8:04:27.634 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 8:04:37.649 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 9:04:27.531 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 9:04:27.532 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 9:04:37.547 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 9:53:16.898 AM SecurityAgent: User info context values set for robbie
1/10/12 9:53:16.898 AM SecurityAgent: User info context values set for robbie
1/10/12 9:53:17.419 AM authorizationhost: Failed to authenticate user <robbie> (error: 9).
1/10/12 9:53:20.064 AM SecurityAgent: User info context values set for robbie
1/10/12 9:53:20.064 AM SecurityAgent: User info context values set for robbie
1/10/12 9:53:20.831 AM SecurityAgent: Login Window login proceeding
1/10/12 9:53:20.831 AM SecurityAgent: Login Window login proceeding
1/10/12 9:53:21.210 AM loginwindow: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
1/10/12 9:53:21.254 AM loginwindow: USER_PROCESS: 1088 console
1/10/12 9:53:21.255 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_naptd: QKqueueFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: open: No such file or directory
1/10/12 9:53:21.255 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_naptd: QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /Library/Managed Preferences
1/10/12 9:53:21.326 AM applepushserviced: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.iCalPush': unknown error code
1/10/12 9:53:21.328 AM applepushserviced: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.AddressBook.PushNotification': unknown error code
1/10/12 9:53:21.328 AM applepushserviced: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.syncdefaultsd.push': unknown error code
1/10/12 9:53:21.328 AM applepushserviced: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.safaridavclient.push': unknown error code
1/10/12 9:53:21.365 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
1/10/12 9:53:21.392 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua: load: option requires an argument -- D
1/10/12 9:53:21.392 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua: usage: launchctl load [-wF] [-D <user|local|network|system|all>] paths...
1/10/12 9:53:21.399 AM airportd: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “2WIRE950”. Bailing on auto-join.
1/10/12 9:53:21.721 AM UserEventAgent: CaptiveNetworkSupport:CNSServerRegisterUserAgent:187 new user agent port: 24655
1/10/12 9:53:21.740 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: (com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[1398]) Exited with code: 1
1/10/12 9:53:25.763 AM WindowServer: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
1/10/12 9:53:30.335 AM com.apple.dock.extra: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.335 AM com.apple.dock.extra: 2012-01-10 09:53:30.334 com.apple.dock.extra[1440:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.335 AM com.apple.dock.extra: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: 2012-01-10 09:53:30.335 com.apple.dock.extra[1440:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: 2012-01-10 09:53:30.335 com.apple.dock.extra[1440:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: 2012-01-10 09:53:30.336 com.apple.dock.extra[1440:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:38.695 AM talagent: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSFlushSurfaceWithOptions: Invalid window 0x15
1/10/12 9:53:38.695 AM talagent: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
1/10/12 9:53:40.651 AM prl_naptd: Starting Parallels Network Daemon
1/10/12 9:53:40.652 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy: QKqueueFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: open: No such file or directory
1/10/12 9:53:40.892 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy: QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /Library/Managed Preferences
1/10/12 9:53:49.821 AM MIDIServer: MIDIServer [1474] starting; arch=x86_64
1/10/12 9:53:51.578 AM MIDIServer: PlugIn EmagicUSBMIDIDriver.plugin -- file://localhost/Library/Audio/MIDI%20Drivers/ does not contain a supported architecture.
1/10/12 9:53:51.578 AM MIDIServer: MIDIServer relaunching because a 32-bit driver was found
1/10/12 9:53:51.962 AM MIDIServer: MIDIServer [1474] starting; arch=i386
1/10/12 9:53:53.059 AM com.apple.midiserver: PreSonus FireStudio MIDI Driver - 3.5.6.11675 - i386 - Aug 16 2011 05:08:10
1/10/12 9:53:56.288 AM sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=robbie ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist
1/10/12 9:53:56.360 AM sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=robbie ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl start com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy
1/10/12 9:53:57.000 AM kernel: nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
And here is the latest failure console message
1/10/12 12:11:26.311 PM ReportCrash: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
1/10/12 12:11:27.927 PM com.apple.backupd: Indexing a file failed. Returned 1 for: /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Components/Components Sampler/2D Girls Dog.skp, /Volumes/fb/Backups.backupdb/Robbie Hinman’s MacBook/2012-01-09-235541.inProgress/BAF8FBEC-430F-4846-8215-4CC53EB109DC/Macin tosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Components/Components Sampler/2D Girls Dog.skp
1/10/12 12:11:27.927 PM com.apple.backupd: Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
1/10/12 12:11:27.927 PM com.apple.backupd: Stopping backup.
1/10/12 12:11:28.949 PM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for mds[1647] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2012-01-10-121128_localhost.crash
1/10/12 12:11:29.093 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.metadata.mds[1647]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
1/10/12 12:11:29.156 PM mds: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
1/10/12 12:11:29.203 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 101076 files (5.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
1/10/12 12:11:29.204 PM com.apple.backupd: Copy stage failed with error:11
1/10/12 12:11:29.483 PM mds: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
1/10/12 12:11:40.093 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 11

Time machine last 7 days

Both iMac and MBP backup to the TC via TM.
If I browse the TC I can see backup folders for the iMac going back to September 2011 when I bought the TC; back about six weeks for the MBP (as I zapped it and started again).
Anyway, using time machine I can only go back 7 days on the iMac. The list of dates is shown on the right side of the screen but I can't select them.
I don't fancy lugging a 27" iMac and TC into the apple store so hoping someone here may be able to shed some light on it?

i have the same problem and i have tried everything, i think mine will be going back to. let me know how you get on and if you manage to resolve the problem.
sorry this isn't of any help
regards steve

Backups, time machine and share server screen

I've used Time Machine for point in time server backups, and a firewire external drive with Silverkeeper for cloning.
Firstly, Silverkeeper will not be supported in Lion... so maybe I should be mocing to something else? Intego Backup assistant came with the drive... as well as Silverkeeper.... I have no idea how reliable these are for cloning the drive, nor why I would need both... but no doubt Intego is a light version of something I would need to buy... so the quesiton would become... what should I buy?
Secondly..... Share Server Screen...
When I entered time machine using "Share Server Screen" from my imac (running lion).. time machine seems to run ok.. but the graphic interface isnt really usable... the time line down the side for instance..... does not appear.... and neither does the "today" bar across the bottom.... and of course... none of those star trek style flying stars we have all come to love so much.... So... I'm thinking that time machine is not compatible with "share server screen".... or I have doen something silly.... so which is it? :+)
Gaz

A lot of people prefer and use Carbon Copy Cloner for cloning drives, it is Lion compatible.
The animation (graphics) when you enter Time Machine is quite demanding, I have managed to view it using Timbuktu Pro a remote control package similar to Screen Sharing but it did struggle. Have you tried this more than once to confirm it is not working? A smaller screen resolution might help it cope.

How to backup time machine to DVD

I have a 3TB external hard drive which I use for Time Machine. Recently, Yosemite has been failing to back up to it and TechTool Pro not only says the directory structure is defective but that it can't repair it. I'd like to back up as much as possible to data DVD. (I have about 55GB of backups, so I know that's a lot of DVDs.) The disk is encrypted.
Is there a way to accomplish this without having to manually drag DVD-sized chunks to a burn folder? That is:
1. I'd like to tell it to back up the Time Machine to DVD and have it just tell me when to insert the next DVD.
2. Will I be able to decrypt it once I get the data onto a new external drive from the DVDs?
Or is this a quixotic venture?

You cannot use TM to back up to DVDs; see some info here (especially # 2):
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Why don't you copy your important files to an external drive?

Time Machine once worked, now external hard drive is "read only"

I have a 2005 iMac G5, running OS X 10.5. Had some power issues, and reinstalled (and archived) my OS a couple of time.
Recently purchased Western Digital 1TB external hard drive for back up. It worked once or twice, but now shows "read only" status.
Disk Utility won't do anything, because it's read only (can't repair, erase, partition or convert).
Hard drive works on PC running Windows 7, and newer Mac with Snow Leopard, just not the one computer I need it for. Any suggestions?

This may help:
What to do if Time Machine reports you don't have permission
This was posted in the Apple Discussions by V.K. I have only modified it slightly to be more generic.
The problem seems to be that 10.5.6 changes permissions on a file so that even the root user doesn't have write peivileges. I have no idea why they did this. The workaround suggested in [an]other post will probably work, too, but i did something less drastic. Instead of deleting the file I changed permissions on it, and it worked just fine. An added benefit is that the permission change seems to stick, so you don't have to delete the file every time you change a drive.
[Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt [enter] the following command:
sudo chmod 644 /volumes/"TM drive name"/.xxxxxxxxxxxx
The name of the file .xxxxxxxxxxxx is based on the MAC address of your computer and will be different for every computer. Put the name of the TM drive in the above and keep the quotes.
You'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see) which is normal.
This was edited by Kappy just for cleanup.
Enable Finder to Show Invisible Files and Folders
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following command line then press RETURN.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
To turn off the display of invisible files and folders enter or paste the following command line and press RETURN.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
Alternatively you can use one of the numerous third-party utilities such as TinkerTool or ShowHideInvisibleFiles - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Also visit the User Tips found at the top of this forum's Topics list: Time Machine User Tips.

HT201250 if I used external hard disk for backup time machine, is it possible to use that external hard disk to save another else from diffrent computers?

If I used external hard disk for back up time machine, is it possible to use that external hard disk to save another else from diffrent computers?

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You can do this, but you should make a new volume on your external disk. Time Machine needs a volume that is only used to store backups, so you can't store other data in the same volume as the one you are using for making backups.
If you want to create another volume on your external disk, use Disk Utility to do this > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU3.html Anyway, you should get another external disk to store other files, but if you don't want to, you can create another volume in it

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