Error while creating back up directory ....

My TM has been working flawlessly for a year or so, but suddenly it is very slow to mount and I get a message saying "Unable to Complete Back Up. An Error Occurred While Creating a Back Up Directory." What do I do now? (Have tried rebooting. Unplugging.)

garagecapital wrote:
It's a 500 Time Machine, I think.
This is a bit confusing. Do you have an external disk drive, connected directly to your Mac via a Firewire or USB cable; or do you have a Time Capsule? We need to be sure, as the difference is very important.
When I highlight the external drive and hit repair, it says it cannot be unmounted and does nothing. When I try without it mounted, it does not appear in the disk repair box to repair.
Most likely, it can't be unmounted because some other process is trying to use it.
As posted, turn TM off.
Exclude it from any anti-virus scanning.
Also exclude it from Spotlight indexing, via System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy.
If it's a Time Capsule, can you mount the Sparse Image? If so, drag that into the sidebar of Disk Utility, select +*First Aid+* then +*Repair Disk.+*

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Maybe I have the answer for you, TommorowNeverKnows. Somewhere on the forum in the many emails about this subject, someone proposed a solution and yesterday it worked for me. (I'm sorry that I can't find it right now, but I do remember it).
He (or she) proposed first using Onyx to see whether that solved the problem. If not, then download the combo updater for 10.5.2 and try that. He was unable to run it, however; and I couldn't run it either -- a message about it's not being able to run on "this machine." That might be because the machine was already running 10.5.2.
In that case, he proposed doing an archive and install from the original system disc (being sure, of course, to save your settings). Well, I dreaded doing that, just because of the time it took, but by yesterday evening I was so frustrated that I bit the bullet. So I archived and installed and was back to 10.5. Then I ran the combo updater and it worked. Then I did a Software Update, and there was loads of stuff to be updated. After all that, I turned on Time Machine and went to bed.
When I woke this morning, the machine was fully backed up to the Time Capsule with no errors (about 92+ gig). And when I looked at my Time Machine files, everything was just fine.
So, if you haven't tried this yet, I would say that it's definitely worth an attempt.
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" An error occurred while creating the backup directory"

Hi all,
I recently bought an external drive because my mac was just about full.
It's made by Lacie, model # P'9231... (1TB)
I got it working, for moving and accessing files (I moved the iPhoto library-and that works fine)... but...
I told Time Machine to use it as the backup disk, but TM often tells be that the backup failed. I get this message;
"Backup failed. An error occurred while creating the backup directory"
I don't understand this. I did some experiments with Time Machine, and I've been able to restore some things, but I still keep getting this message.
I don't know what is getting backed up and what is not..
Did I do something wrong? Or, more importantly, what is the fix?
Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Jim

I'm having the same problem. I just got the drive Saturday at the local Apple store.
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TM Error - An error occurred while creating the backup directory.

mmm
Got the TC last Wednesday. Connected 1 brand new iMac and a one year old mini, both on 10.5.2 with Airport Utility updates.
The mini just started getting errors (Sunday lunch)
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exactly what I am seeing as well. I had one complete backup before I started seeing the exact error you are getting. I have tried everything I can think of from watching here and spending as much time on hold as I can afford. Hold times to talk with someone who actually might be able to help,that means not the first tech you will speak with but who they transfer you to may understand the TC/TM errors and fixes that work. That means 1 hour plus on hold,almost an hour before the first tech will finally give up and transfer you deeper and 30 minutes to 45 on hold there. Add another hour for them to get caught up with your case. These times are kinda like TC/TM themselves,very slow. I am connected via ethernet and shut down everything when trying to get this to work thus I have lost over 100 hours work time because of trying to get this to work without any interruption. It is such a generic error message it so totally reminds me of windoze daze. All I can do at this point is follow the leader on on the Apple death and dying forums. I am toast on trying and have seen that exact error screen more times than I am willing to admit. I am gonna get something that works as soon as I recover from spending 299 on a new wireless router! Please any of you seeing this error and somehow overcome it please post back and gives us losers something to chew on?

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Time Machine Error: Unable to complete backup. An error occured while creating the backup directory.
I back up to wirelessly to a Time Capsule. I get these errors often. I'll go for a few days with everything working and then encounter these errors. I've even completely erased the Time Capsule drive and started over. It'll work fine for a few days and then start the errors over again. Interestingly, when the errors occur, the Time Capsule drive can not be unmounted even if clicking the eject button. I am on 10.5.8 but it happened in 10.5.7 as well. I have another Mac that doesn't seem to have any issues with the same Time Capsule.
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Nancy H wrote:
I used it as it came, supposedly formatted for a mac.
It may or may not be right.
I'd be inclined to start over, per #5 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum.
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