HT3275 time machine wireless backup
We have a network admin with 5 Mac Air Books that connect to an Aruba wireless network most of the time. When they are connected via wireless, their time machine backups fail. If they connect wired, it is successful. I am coming into this issue completely cold. I'm not even a MAC guy.. (that is to change very soon ) .
Any suggestions? What to look for? Does the agent point to the physical NIC and not the wireless ??
Thanks in advance,
Dan
It sounds like you are about to start either a massive sale of MBA.. or a Damascus Road conversion experience!!
The TM connects by AFP protocol.. (another new part of your learning curve.. yeap, apple have their very own protocol)... to the TC... which should be in bridge.
What appears to be happening is the Lion OS is having some issues remembering where the TC is.. even though internet is still working. This failure happens in pure Apple environment so I doubt your Aruba wireless is related at all. Generally it happens on both wired and wireless.. so your issue is a little different in only failing via wireless. Open a terminal (under applications, utilities, and use the arp -a command to see if the TC MAC address is lost)
There is some great info for you to read.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Installing the widget.. allows easier access to the logs which give fairly detailed picture of what has failed.. look at A1.
But I also recommend you read even if hastily survey the FAQ on the site and a bit of explanation of how Time Machine actually works and it own quirks.
The Log in the TC is also helpful.. I am assuming the MBA are all on Lion.. so make sure you download airport utility 5.6 for Lion as the installed version 6.0 is the latest but not so greatest version lacking the depth of the original v5 utility.
If you find a series of AFP connect and disconnect in the log.. this is a bug in Lion/7.6 firmware..
You might do better going back to 7.5.2 in the TC which was much more stable.
Good luck.
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Can I use an older (flat) Airport Express to attach an ext hard drive and backup time machine wirelessly? and how?
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.
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8/19/13 5:20:00.507 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:37ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:00.507 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:37ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:00.507 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:37ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:00.507 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:37ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:00.508 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:38ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:00.510 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:40ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:00.511 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:41ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:00.511 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:41ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:00.511 PM mds: (Warning) DiskStore: Ignored bogus fetch for <MDSQueryWithBlockTask: 0x7fd15ce03400>{taskID:0x0000103a age:41ms} (not live not complete) _kMDItemQueryPath=418546
8/19/13 5:20:20.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58091.976 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:20:51.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58122.985 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:21:22.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58153.992 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:21:53.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58185. 2 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:22:24.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58216. 14 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:22:55.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58247. 25 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:23:26.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58278. 41 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:23:57.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58309. 51 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:24:28.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58340. 59 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:24:59.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58371. 68 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:25:30.275 PM xpchelper: for uid: 501 -- timeout while waiting on FSEvents flush; clearing cache.
8/19/13 5:25:30.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58402. 82 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:26:01.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58433. 96 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:26:32.027 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/TMBackups/Backups.backupdb
8/19/13 5:26:32.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58464.112 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:27:02.653 PM com.apple.backupd: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/TMBackups/Backups.backupdb/David’s iMac size:37
8/19/13 5:27:02.657 PM com.apple.backupd: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/TMBackups/Backups.backupdb/David’s iMac size:37
8/19/13 5:27:03.000 PM kernel: USBF: 58495.121 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff800a927000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 7, EP: 1)
8/19/13 5:27:12.668 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 2
During this 9-minute timeframe Finder also was inoperative - according to Activity Monitor: "Not Responding".
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Recently upgraded to mountain lion in order to buy the new tall tower for time machine backups. had to get technical support to help with set up as it wouldn't play ball with two computers. all working fine up until last week when the iMac started getting backup error messages. then system restarts independently when using time machine on the time machine wireless network. only stops restarting when I switch the wireless network back to he bt one, which is a pain obviously as can't back up to time machine then. it has to be a problem with airport utility or something wireless but all says all up to date with software etc. all still works fine backing up from laptop on the wireless network, just the iMac is not happy. any help or thoughts very much appreciated.
Hi, many thanks Bob, what you say is not unthinkable at all, although it does answer the question
"what could I do *instead* of ..." rather than the one I actually asked, but seriously ...
Shutting down might be an answer, although it would clear out my tmp directory - which I might not want to have to sort through looking for things I want to save every time I go to work, and also, now that nvram doesn't seem to work for disabling the boot chime, it can get a bit embarassing booting up in a busy meeting if I have forgotten to mute before I shut down. There are all sorts of other issues, such as editing documents, loading web pages and so on that I would have to set up again.
Your suggestion of letting Apple know is a good one - thank you for the link.
Take care,
Mark -
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Has anyone noticed any incomplete or outdated files - that shouldn't be - in their number file back ups?Well, Time Machine unfortunately is bugged beyond use for some people. It is nearly impossible to tell if TM will work every single time until Apple will take a look at their programming and fix the darn thing.
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Try this:
1) Duplicate the file into the same folder with a different name
ex. filename.doc, and make a new file called filename_1.doc
2) Make sure that this file is in the same folder as the other file.
3) Back up
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I've browsed these forums and tried reading Console Messages, but they don't mean much to me.
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I've browsed these forums and tried reading Console Messages, but they don't mean much to me.
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Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
re: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275
"Messages you may see after clicking the red "i" include:"
I am getting a message not listed at this page. My Time Machine fails to backup to my USB3 Passport External Drive with the error code:
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backup to "2T PP".
The system date and time is incorrect."
I have the Date & Time preference set to:
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My mac wont connect to the time capule for backup - any ideas why this may happen and how to fix?
Hello stianlo
There are a few things that you can try that are located in the articles below to get you backing up again.
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3275
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1170
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hi
all i want to do is extend my home wireless network....
i have disabled my thompson wireless router TG782T and connected my time capsule to this via ethernet
how do i get the time machine to transmit a wireless signal?
do i have to reset unit?
will i lose all my backed up data?
i also want to connect an airport express to extend coverage ( i can connect this via ethernet or wi fi)
any assistance would be fantastic
Thanks in advance
Kerls71I am going to need a bit more info..
What OS are you running on the computer you are using for the setup and what airport utility??
When you say you disabled the Thomson wireless router.. do you mean you bridged it? Or just turned off wireless?
There are two scenarios.. each are pretty well equal..
Turn off wireless in the TG782T and run the Time Capsule (Time Machine is backup software on the computer). in bridge mode with create a wireless network.
Or bridge the TG782T and run pppoe client in the TC.. which will also create a wireless network..
Either scenario will be fine.
You do not have to reset the TC .. just set it in correct mode via the airport utility.
Even if you reset the unit.. you will not lose any data backed up on the hard disk.
An express can extend the wireless or use roaming network.. again either are possible setups.
Roaming is much faster but you need to run ethernet to the express. Otherwise setup extend wireless.. just use the instructions. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4259
Roaming instructions are here.
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