I cannot backup my macbook on time machine
Good afternoon,
I recently purchased an iomega 500gb portable hard drive with HFS+ already formatted for use with time machine.
I started a backup and it would stop at around 25 - 30 gb and say the following:
"The backup disk ran out of space unexpectedly. Time Machine will try to make more space available by removing expired backups during the next scheduled backup."
I checked time machine buddy and the following message was there:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Iomega_HDD/Backups.backupdb
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 139.97 GB requested (including padding), 438.12 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error: (-34) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/EGW CRE.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Estate/EGW Research/Folio/Books/egw-index.nfo to /Volumes/Iomega_HDD/Backups.backupdb/Craig Gooden’s MacBook Pro/2011-06-13-084745.inProgress/B476AC82-0B4F-4BCB-915E-7416EFEE854A/Macintosh HD/Applications/EGW CRE.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Estate/EGW Research/Folio/Books
Copied 20 files (599.3 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:28
Backup failed with error: 28
In the error section it mentions some software i have. I do also use 'Parallels desktop 4.0' to use PC software.
ANY HELP ANYONE?
Ok so I've tried excluding a number of files, parallels has been deleted off of my machine. i've tried to use time machine again and i have received another error message similar to the one above:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Iomega_HDD/Backups.backupdb
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
Backup content size: 112.5 GB excluded items size: 8.7 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 124.57 GB requested (including padding), 437.81 GB available
Indexer unavailable (200)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-34) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/about/mike.jpg to /Volumes/Iomega_HDD/Backups.backupdb/Craig Gooden’s MacBook Pro/2011-06-19-222915.inProgress/1BEA3F42-F476-4522-9DC8-68BB882FFAAB/Macintosh HD/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/about
Copied 20 files (314.5 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:28
Backup failed with error: 28
PLEASE I NEED SOME HELP
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