Backup to my Nas suddenly fails
Timemachine has been running successfully for a couple weeks.
Suddenly it stopped working.
Target is a qnap TS-239 pro II with version 4.0.3 of the firmware on it, supposedly working as a timemachine target for mavericks. Well it was, untill now.
First thing i tried was throwing away the sparsebundle on the nas and disabling all services on it except those that are needed to get the backup done.
Then timemachine can start as normal, and starts pumping data very fast. It projects to be done in 46 minutes. Nice.
And then it stops, and i see these errors in the console:
06/12/13 21:50:42,720 mdworker[457]: (Normal) Import: Using too many resources after 1856 files (wired: 0 resident: 34858 swapped: 0 regions: 2070), hit usage threshold importing /Applications/Adobe Flash CS6/AIR3.2/runtimes/air/mac/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Resources/tr.lproj/PlayerUILocalizable.strings, exiting to clean up now.
06/12/13 21:52:05,283 diskimages-helper[374]: terminating disk2 - image is no longer available
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,320 com.apple.backupd[294]: Stopping backup to allow backup destination disk to be unmounted or ejected.
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,722 com.apple.backupd[294]: Copied 69479 items (8,74 GB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 0.
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,983 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,996 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,997 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,998 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,999 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,999 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:06,000 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:06,025 com.apple.backupd[294]: Backup canceled.
06/12/13 21:52:16,383 diskarbitrationd[20]: loginwindow [45]:37007 not responding.
06/12/13 21:52:17,000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Time Machine Backups on device disk2s2
06/12/13 21:52:17,700 com.apple.backupd[294]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TMBackup/Ellerts MBP.sparsebundle
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/TMBackup, flags 0, pid 483
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0xffffff80275feca0
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Detach: Reply queue not empty?
06/12/13 21:52:18,644 com.apple.backupd[294]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
I am quite in the dark what is going on here, or how to fix it.
- Update:
I switched off the screensaver and all other features that change the laptops behaviour when idle. After wiping the target disc again i managed to get a successful backup done in around 1 hour 40 minutes.
Backing up to any NAS other than a Time Capsule or an external hard drive connected to an 802.11ac Apple AirPort base station is not supported by Time Machine. It may seem to work for a while with other NAS devices, but is prone to sudden failure.
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Backup to my has suddenly fails
Timemachine has been running successfully for a couple weeks.
Suddenly it stopped working.
Target is a qnap TS-239 pro II with version 4.0.3 of the firmware on it, supposedly working as a timemachine target for mavericks. Well it was, untill now.
First thing i tried was throwing away the sparsebundle on the nas and disabling all services on it except those that are needed to get the backup done.
Then timemachine can start as normal, and starts pumping data very fast. It projects to be done in 46 minutes. Nice.
And then it stops, and i see these errors in the console:
06/12/13 21:50:42,720 mdworker[457]: (Normal) Import: Using too many resources after 1856 files (wired: 0 resident: 34858 swapped: 0 regions: 2070), hit usage threshold importing /Applications/Adobe Flash CS6/AIR3.2/runtimes/air/mac/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Resources/tr.lproj/PlayerUILocalizable.strings, exiting to clean up now.
06/12/13 21:52:05,283 diskimages-helper[374]: terminating disk2 - image is no longer available
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,320 com.apple.backupd[294]: Stopping backup to allow backup destination disk to be unmounted or ejected.
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,722 com.apple.backupd[294]: Copied 69479 items (8,74 GB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 0.
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,983 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,996 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,997 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,998 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,999 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,999 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:06,000 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:06,025 com.apple.backupd[294]: Backup canceled.
06/12/13 21:52:16,383 diskarbitrationd[20]: loginwindow [45]:37007 not responding.
06/12/13 21:52:17,000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Time Machine Backups on device disk2s2
06/12/13 21:52:17,700 com.apple.backupd[294]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TMBackup/Ellerts MBP.sparsebundle
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/TMBackup, flags 0, pid 483
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0xffffff80275feca0
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Detach: Reply queue not empty?
06/12/13 21:52:18,644 com.apple.backupd[294]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
I am quite in the dark what is going on here, or how to fix it.Hi there Ellert van Koperen,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3275
-Griff W. -
Backups All of a Sudden Failing
Hello I have a SBS 2011 Stanadard box and my Nightly Windows Backups have began to fail.
They have been running for months without a problem.
I get the following error: The Shared protection point operation failed with error 0x81000101.
I ran the list VSS writers command and got the following:
Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {ed3700af-6f79-462f-b48f-fa71cb26eab7}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'SharePoint Services Writer'
Writer Id: {da452614-4858-5e53-a512-38aab25c61ad}
Writer Instance Id: {62ebcaf8-17b5-4a3a-ac84-933b8c4453e0}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
Writer Instance Id: {2cfcc59e-7c4b-4b85-af62-51a67d14e844}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {86784a10-86c3-4873-9df3-e2b04bb052f3}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Instance Id: {ecd6f7a1-bc68-4211-942a-3892a093d1c1}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {7b3dd8dd-7be3-43c0-955b-f65994d18949}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
Writer Instance Id: {b7d95240-d156-4be1-9076-3235f9f51ebb}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {a310a688-c4fc-4503-ae0f-caf519399fae}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {623d57c6-522f-4c70-871a-4b1b5ae282ab}
State: [2] Waiting for freeze
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
Writer Instance Id: {dcb54c73-b1da-4669-bc5f-1ffa12ec33e1}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {56a15423-ee39-47df-8147-ba571f8cf836}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {5d593e20-32b0-4219-8f5d-4c02e38c2ce3}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'NPS VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {35e81631-13e1-48db-97fc-d5bc721bb18a}
Writer Instance Id: {fbccef24-d0c8-4622-92e9-f7370b50a66c}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {c950a77e-bca0-4f71-baca-12cc71f6d868}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Certificate Authority'
Writer Id: {6f5b15b5-da24-4d88-b737-63063e3a1f86}
Writer Instance Id: {21af64e7-833d-4cc5-979b-d8d09978d8b8}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'TS Gateway Writer'
Writer Id: {368753ec-572e-4fc7-b4b9-ccd9bdc624cb}
Writer Instance Id: {9c30390a-457e-46e9-9246-924bb7303c5a}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'NTDS'
Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Instance Id: {dcf7b0f2-c919-4ca5-bcec-d2371f559f32}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'MSSearch Service Writer'
Writer Id: {cd3f2362-8bef-46c7-9181-d62844cdc0b2}
Writer Instance Id: {84647b04-8a46-433f-8096-4fa616609738}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {170abcc9-7a57-40b7-a04e-1a61b9b668b7}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
Writer Instance Id: {bdc996d1-cba4-4100-816c-abd31c48fc3f}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Lots of Time Outs.
Any ideas?
Need help ASAP!Hi:
Have you seen this?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692290(v=ws.10).aspx
Also, have you recently run the psconfig command?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/05/24/you-must-manually-run-psconfig-after-installing-sharepoint-2010-patches.aspx
Larry Struckmeyer[MVP] If your question is answered please mark the response as the answer so that others can benefit. -
How to move existent Time Machine backups to a NAS?
Hello everybody
I am not sure if I am posting this discussion in the correct community, so please move it to the right one in case you need.
Currently I am using a 1TB external hard drive to store all my time machine backups. This drive also contains other information (movies, photos etc). I bought a Western Digital MyBook World Edition II which is a NAS. I want it to move my Time Machine backups to my NAS. How can I do it? Just copy over the backups folder from the external hard drive to the NAS?
Thank you!
GilsonThat's just crazy slow.
It won't be fast, as the data can't go directly from the old disk to the new one. It must pass through your Mac, so is on the network twice, slowing the effective speed by roughly half. But that's awful.
There could be any number of causes, from bad ports or cables to problems with either drive or controller. I don't have any experience with modern RAID systems, but some of the older ones were extremely slow when there was a problem with one of the drives.
And it may get worse -- if the backups are damaged, the copy will fail and the result won't be useable.
About all I can recommend is the usual: it's always prudent to keep secondary backups. If you don't have any, I'd strongly recommend getting a (plain) external HD and making a "bootable clone" on it ASAP (that will probably slow the copy down somewhat). See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #27 for details and some suggestions.
It wouldn't have to be a 2 TB drive, just the same size as your internal HD (or at least 10% larger than the data on it). You might consider getting a portable drive, so you can take it to a secure off-site location once you get your TM backups working to the new WD box. Then update it periodically. -
External USB Maxtor One-Touch 3 suddenly fails to mount on MacBook Pro:
External USB HD suddenly fails to mount on MacBook Pro:
My One Touch III 600GB drive, external power supply, suddenly will not mount and is not recognized by the system profiler or Disk Utility, however, drive, connected USB, appears under windows XP.
1. Power cable and usb cable working.
2. Using external AC adapter(not relying on USB power).
3. Other USB devices, mice, flash drives work on both USB ports.
4. Drive works on Windows, folders and data integrity ok.
5. Drive format is NTFS.
6. No Maxtor software installed.
7. No humming or strange noises emanating from drive.
8. No problem to January 14, 2008,
9. Mac OS 10.4.10 updates last downloaded and installed Jan 20, 2008.
10.1 blip of the light on "The One Touch Button", then light turns solid white.
Questions:
1. Does Apple set sleep or lock switch for devices (drives)?
2. If so, can it be reset manually?
3. Does Apple have configuration profile for devices, like a registry key?
4. If so, where is it located?
Configuration:
Dual 2 GHz MacBook Pro 15”
2 GB DDR SDRAM
OSX 10.4.10
2 USB Ports Left and RightNOTE: This Update is required when using a OneTouch Drive as a bootable device. Seagate suggests that you dismount and disconnect your FireWire Drive before continuing.
Users have identified issues when connecting OneTouch External Drives to FireWire Ports on their Mac G4 and/or G5 computers. These Problems range from system hangs, kernel panics to slow data transfer rates. The cause of these problems has been traced back to the FireWire Driver. Seagate has resolved these problems through updated FireWire Drivers.
I am using USB and not trying to use drive as a boot device. -
Trying to use a new, larger external hard drive for my Time Machine backup. However, every time I start the backup, it gets started then fails. And, I can't delete the few files that did save on the external. Sort of a catch 22. Any ideas?
Is it a USB hard drive? USB hard drives have the problem of not giving full speed if they are hooked up on the same bus as keyboards and mice. Double check your profiler to make sure that is not a problem. If it is Firewire, make sure there aren't other firewire devices in use at the same time. I recommend not only keeping a Time Machine backup, but also a clone, and if you do use Time Machine, to make sure the Time Machine drive or partition is at least twice the size of the original drive.
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How can I force Time Machine to make a complete backup of my Hard Drive. I just installed a new external drive for Backup since my previous one failed. Now when I back up, Time Machine only backs up my data folder and the Users folder.
When I start a backup. Time Machine says "Oldest Backup: None; Latest Backup: None", so it seems like it should do a complete backup, but it only does a partial.Hi I'd like to jump in here. Your app showed me this:
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 749.3 GB Disk used: 453.81 GB
Destinations:
Plastic Wrapper [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 999.86 GB
Total number of backups: 64
Oldest backup: 2013-07-24 23:25:11 +0000
Last backup: 2013-11-17 01:40:47 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 999.86 GB < (Disk used 453.81 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
/sbin excluded from backup!
/usr excluded from backup!
/System excluded from backup!
/bin excluded from backup!
/private excluded from backup!
/Library excluded from backup!
/Applications excluded from backup!
Aside from the size of my backup drive, which I will increase at some point, I'd really like to have time machine backing up all system folders, especially Applications. How to I reset this hidden exclusions?
Thanks,
Darcy -
Time Machine Backup *from* basement (NAS)?
Hello:
I read multiple times that it is currently not possible to backup from a NAS via Time Machine. I have two questions:
1/ Can anyone explain why this is so?
2/ I have my iMac in my living room and would like to put an external hard drive with all my media files on it in the basement, because a) it is noisy and b) for security reasons. There is a network cable going to the basement, but obviously I cannot run a USB cable down there. I have a 2TByte-Time Capsule for backup and WiFi. Does anyone have a suggestion, what to do?
Thanks,
HalThank you for the feedback, William. I am not sure how your suggestion would help with my problem, maybe I did not explain well enough. I do not want another hard drive in my living room, but rather in my basement. If I understand correctly, Time Machine only backups *from* the internal hard drive or external hard drives directly connected via USB, F/W, eSATA etc., but not network drives. Does your suggestion imply that I use a different backup software?
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How to recover a TM backup from a NAS drive
I am using a MBPro from 2011. I lost a lot of family pictures due to my iPhoto library loosing the connection to the original hi-res files. At the moment I try to recover those with Data Rescue4 but it looks I lost quite a lot.
Now, I do have the following situation:
Until March 2014 my iPhoto Library resided on my Mac HDD
The HDD broke and had to be exchanged
So I moved the iPhoto Library onto a newly bought 2TB external HDD that I connect via USB (a WD MyPassport Ultra)
Now due to the situation described above, I need to recover the last iPhoto Library that resided on my Mac, but which was never used in iPhoto since the hardware crash
When I open iPhoto and then TimeMachine, it does not offer me to recover pictures from that last backup, which is from March 2014 and is about 135GB large. I assume the reason is that I haven´t used it in iPhoto, so iPhoto can´t know.
The TM backup on my NAS, a 4TB Seagate Central is 1,2 TB large. The seagate central cannot be connected to a Mac via USB or wire. According to it´s description, the only way to get data on and off is via ethernet. Having read that TM does not support backing up from a NAS, I assume I need to copy the 1,2 TB backup TM file onto another external HDD that I can attach via USB. Is this correct ? Does this help ?
And then I would need to recover it - but how given the situation above ??
I am pretty desperate meanwhile as I´ve been working on this for the last four weekends...
Within the process of data recovery I bought iPhoto Library Manager, PhotoSweeper and DataRescue4 in order to help recover the data. But I don´t know if this helps here. I´ve tried everything to recover my old files with those tools already.
I would very much appreciate your advice on how to recover my TM backup.You can or should be able to recover the iphoto library directly from the NAS.. you do not need to copy it to a disk.
TM cannot create a backup from a network source.. but it is very happy using a network target.
Our friend Pondini wrote extensive notes on recovery of various important files using TM
See Q15 here. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
There is a link in there to recovery of iphoto in particular under various OS.. but the guy died before Yosemite was inflicted on the Apple Community.
TM has never worked particularly well since Yosemite.. so I can only offer my hope that the method still works..
Here is an example of recovery manually of iphoto library from TM backup I did to show how it is done.
Can't access old files on time capsule
In Yosemite you might be able to simply right click on the file in Finder.. and it bring up an option to recover it from TM.. of course that would assume TM was going to actually work and that is a bridge too far for Yosemite.
In the end.. you can of course do a full recovery to a USB drive plugged into your computer.. I have also used that method to get around issues with finding stuff from old backup.. however IMHO the manual method of digging through the backup offers you the best chance of recovery.
Do protect the TM sparsebundle.. in the end that is the only connection back to you files you have.. so saving a copy of the sparsebundle to a USB drive is not a bad idea.. Certainly do nothing in terms of manipulating the sparsebundle.. you can extract files from it.. copy it to another location.. but make no changes to original sparsebundle on the network drive whatsoever.. so do not continue backups to it or anything like that.
My strong recommendation btw since Yosemite or even Mavericks was to use Carbon Copy Cloner.. and make a bootable backup of your main operating system and any other drives.. You would not be in this mess if you had .. so for future reference.. TM is not really adequate. -
My time machine backup external hard drive has failed. I have a newer external drive already connected to my MAC but can't figure out how to get Time Machine to set up on it
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I want to use my TC to store back-ups of another NAS drive which holds all my Itunes library.
I know that you cannot use Time Machine to do this.
Can anyone recomend software which I can set to backup from the NAS to TC (using the TC as a NAS)?
Also, I guess that the process involves copying the data from the NAS to the TC via a computer? If that is the case, I would probably use an old WinXP desktop to run the software.
Any thoughts?You did not restore the new iPhone.
The first time a new iPhone is connected to iTunes on a computer that is used to sync with another iPhone or iOS device or that was used to backup another iPhone or iOS devide, you are prompted to transfer the backup for the other iPhone or iOS device, or set up the new iPhone as a new iPhone.
Since the old iPhone was synced with iTunes on a different computer, all iTunes content on the new iPhone (which is none at the present time) will be erased first.
The warning message should indicate all iTunes content will be erased from the iPhone, which is iTunes content only.
If you are syncing contacts with a supported address book app on this computer and the supported address book app on this computer includes any contacts, you will be provided a merge prompt for the contacts, which you want to select. Otherwise the contacts on the iPhone will be replaced with the contacts in the address book app on the computer with the first sync. -
Under Snow Leopard I used a WD My World NAS to back up my Mac Pro (Mid 2010). When I upgraded to Lion I am unable to access the backup because the NAS does not yet support AFP. I have now bought a Time Capsule and want to transfer the old backup onto it.
How can I recover the NAS back up to put on my new Time Machine.
Talking to Apple Support Adviser was a waste of time on case number 239647273
Any thoughts or pointers?Keep the old OS around and just kick the tires and test new OS. Apple has a history and habit of breaking support in things like this.
You can use TimeMachine as one level of backup, and even there there were changes with Lion, I would always recommend foremost backup clones of every volume. And clone (SuperDuper etc) can be stored on something like HP NAS Media Server which also was supporting TimeMachine, iTunes - until Apple made that harder and more their own proprietary format.
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Rather than "upgrade" I would clone the system, and do a clean install, then allow Setup Assistant to import your files.
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Two Macbook pros circa 2009 in our temporary household in Turkey suddenly failed to boot and got stuck on the grey screen. They were able to boot at the Apple store, but not when we brought them back to our apartment. Could this be a coincidence? A
THank you Ogelthorpe. When my wife's computer I went on line to the site that you sent and tried everything But nothing worked. When my son came to visit and his MacBook Pro did exactly the same thing we became suspicious - too much of a coincidence. We took both computers somewhere else, out of our apartment, and they both booted. We ran disk utility on both, but the report in both cases was that there are no issues with the hard drive. Back in our apartment neither will boot up. My MacBook Pro is a later model with a solid state drive and it seems to work fine here.. I tried an external drive and it works fine. We think that this has something to do with some kind of magnetic interference in our apartment to which the 2009 drives are susceptible. It is indeed a mystery!
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My display suddenly failed. In the right room light, I can see the display working very, very, very faintly. So I'm thinking (hoping) it's just a backlight. If so, where can I get a replacement, how much should it cost, and where can I find installation directions?
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Please advise.
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A password used for years has suddenly failed to unlock my MacBook. Any suggestions?
You have done exceedingly well to get 4years.. that is about double the normal lifespan.
Apple did have an extended warranty for them but since all TC made in 2008 have now passed 3years the program is finished.. no warranty is offered for product older than 3years.. it is well and truly past its useby (at least so Apple think).. Repair is possible but the price of a new one is perhaps 3x the repair cost unless you DIY. Which I also encourage. The exception of course is where you have vital data.. stored under the erronous idea that the TC was reliable storage.. a full repair to the TC ends up cheaper than any other form of data recovery.. plus you get a working TC out of it you can keep or resell.
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