Initial Time Machine Backup. Event Store UUIDs Don't Match.

This is an initial backup and 25% (about 100 GBs) of the backup completed in 1 Hour. The remaining 75% (about 300 GBs) is stuck at the same place for 9 hours now.
I'm working on a MBP Mid-2009 15", 3.06 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X 10.5.8.
All software is up-to-date.
Backup Drive is a Seagate 2GB (USB), Formatted for Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
No 3rd Party Backup Software or 3rd Party Security installed.
Spotlight has already been re-indexed.
Name of Computer is: MBP 2013
Time Machine Buddy indicates only that the Event Store UUIDs Don't Match. No error messages. Other discussion posts say wait. Any other suggestions? Is there a way to reset the Event Store UUIDs?

Well, I dislike TM myself, never use it due to all it's quirks, & even IF it appears to work, when it comes time to use it/relly on it, you may find more quirks or nearly impossible to use.
If you wish o continue trying TM, I'll certainbly try to help, or even ask for help from others, but...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Or SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
Does everything TM & the others can do & much more.

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Hi Norm,
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
(Repair both Drives)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

Initial Time machine backup was interrupted

I interrupted my initial Time Machine backup. How do I reinstate the initial backup?

Turn off TM, erase the external with Disk Utility, turn on TM and re-select the external HD.

HT201250 How long should an initial time machine backup of tack for 675 GB?s with a USB external hard drive?

How long should an initial time machine backup of tack for 675 GB?s with a USB external hard drive?

Not much faster than 40 GBs-60GBs per hour. So, minimally, around 12 hours.

Initial Time Machine Backup Stuck on "Indexing Backup"

I have Mac Mini running 10.7.2. I just got an external hard drive and am trying to run an initial back up using Time Machine. I am running my computer in Safe Mode as it won't start in regular mode. I formatted the HD and began to run Time Machine back up. HD is connected via USB 2.0 wire.
It has now been 12 hours and is still on Indexing Backup... Is this normal for initial back up? I know it takes a long time for initial but this doesn't seem right.What do I do to correct if it isn't correct? Should I stop and try again?

Thank you very much. With your info I gave up on the back up and ran Disk and Permission Repair for the 3rd or 4th time and crossed my fingers and restarted my machine and it WORKED! I ran time Machine back up and when I woke up this morning it was all done! Yeahhhh!
I wasn't sure what was causing it not to start in regular mode and as I'm not too much of a techie I was scared that I was teetetering on the brink of losing everything. The machine would run so I didn't think it was a hard drive issue, but not knowing for sure I was concerned and after losing everythign once before years ago, I was worried. I have it backed up on line but wanted a 2nd (local) version that wouldn't entail tying up bandwidth for days. In the end it worked out!
But the short answer is, Time Machine Backup does NOT work in Safe Mode...

Initial Time machine backup to Time capsule results in kernel panic

I recently purchased a Retina display MacBook Pro (running Lion at the time) and transferred the data from an external hard drive with my Time Machine backups from my previous MBP. I also bought a new Time Capsule.
The first time I tried to back up to the Time Capsule from the Retina MBP via an ethernet connection it got to 40GB of 140GB before it shut down from a kernel panic. Interestingly, the Time Machine backup was successful when I used the external hard drive I was previously using for my Time Machine backups (connected via USB).
I don't think there is an issue with the Time Capsule because Finder can locate the Time Capsule and I can copy and paste files from the Macintosh HD to the Time Capsule disk.
I've done the following steps in order to try and fix the problem:
1. Repair permissions
2. Verify and Repair Macintosh HD
3. Updated the operating system to Mountain Lion (at which point I successfully completed a Time Machine backup to the external hard drive I was using for Time machine backups but was unable to backup to the Time Capsule without the computer crashing from a kernel panic)
4. Used Airport Utility to erase the sparse disk image bundle that had been created on the Time Capsule then tried to back up via ethernet to the time capsule - kernel panic ensued at 40GB of 140GB
5. Used Disk Utility to erase Macintosh HD and re-installed Mountain Lion. Transferred data from the external hard drive Time Machine backup from step 3.
6. Erased the sparse disk image bundle on the Time Capsule again.
7. Tried to backup to the Time Capsule again via Ethernet - kernel panic.
For each of the attemtps to back up to the Time Capsule I've used a different ethernet cable (Cat 5 and 5e) and plugged it into a different ethernet port on the Time Capsule each time. I've also tried using both Thunderbolt ports on the MBP (with an Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor).
I'm out of ideas on how to trouble shoot this problem and would greatly appreciate any ideas!!
If anyone knows how to read error logs, here's the readout from one of the kernic panics:
Thu Aug 9 23:58:29 2012
panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff80002c4794): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80003c0da3, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000130, CR3: 0x0000000000100000, CR4: 0x00000000001606e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff80ebcc0500, RCX: 0x000000000000000a, RDX: 0x0000000000004000
RSP: 0xffffff80f3bebd60, RBP: 0xffffff80f3bebef0, RSI: 0xffffff80008cd400, RDI: 0xffffff80ebcc0500
R8: 0xffffff80ebcce29c, R9: 0xffffff80f3bebc50, R10: 0xffffff80f1b73cb8, R11: 0x00000000001c3b08
R12: 0xffffff80ebcce200, R13: 0xffffff80ea22d000, R14: 0xffffff80ebca2400, R15: 0xffffff8013e85388
RFL: 0x0000000000010207, RIP: 0xffffff80003c0da3, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
CR2: 0x0000000000000130, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Faulting CPU: 0x6
Backtrace (CPU 6), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80f3beba10 : 0xffffff8000220792
0xffffff80f3beba90 : 0xffffff80002c4794
0xffffff80f3bebc40 : 0xffffff80002da55d
0xffffff80f3bebc60 : 0xffffff80003c0da3
0xffffff80f3bebef0 : 0xffffff80003c269d
0xffffff80f3bebf10 : 0xffffff800036523f
0xffffff80f3bebf60 : 0xffffff8000343c9b
0xffffff80f3bebfb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
11E2620
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Wed May 30 20:13:51 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.31.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 25EC645A-8793-3201-8D0A-23EA280EC755
System model name: MacBookPro10,1 (Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 824267354982
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Any or all of the following third-party system modifications may be contributing to your problem:
LaCie drive software
VirusBarrier
I suggest you uninstall them according to the developers' instructions, reboot, and see whether there's any improvement. If there is, you can experiment with putting them back, one at a time, to identify which one is at fault. "VirusBarrier" is harmful and should not be reinstalled in any case.
If there's no improvement after making the suggested changes, post again.

Initial Time Machine backup 60 GB smaller than HD content?

Hello,
I've just performed an initial backup with TIme Machine on an external HD. The result is that TM's backup's size is 360 GB, but my internal HD that has 420 GB of data...
I had no problems during the backup, no warning messages. I don't understand, so I'm not very confortable pursuing with this backup.
The only explanation could be that I've a lot of duplicates on my iMac (2x big iTunes library with same files...) at the moment: does TM save only one copy of same files that are in different directories of the source HD?
Thanks :)

You can verify your Time Machine backup.
Launch the Terminal 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, press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy – do not type – the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
sudo tmutil compare
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
The command will take at least a few minutes to run. Eventually some lines of output will appear below what you entered.
Each line that begins with a plus sign (“+”) represents a file that has been added to the source volume since the last snapshot was taken. These files have not been backed up yet.
Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
Files that you’ve excluded from backup, or that are excluded automatically, are ignored.
At the end of the output, you’ll get some lines like the following:
Added:
Removed:
Changed:
These lines show the total amount of data added, removed, or changed on the source(s) since the last snapshot.

Initial Time Machine Backup with Time Capsule

Hello,
I just started to back everything up with Time Capsule and Time Machine. The backup is 45 GB so it's going to take a while. Two questions:
1. There is a Volume created on my Desktop called "Backup of [My Computer Name]". Is this supposed to happen?
2. In the actual drive, there is a Sparse file, not the usual backups.backupdb folder that is created when attaching a drive via USB. Is this supposed to be like that as well?
Thanks!

Thank you for the response. I have a couple more questions.
1. Is there a way to manually go through the files? I used to be able to when it was backing up locally through USB.
2. If I change the folder name of the location of the Time Machine backups, do I have to start my backups all over again?
Thanks!

10.5.8 Time Machine Backup Failed Due to Cookie Not Matching?

Been using Time Machine with no problems with 10.5.6 and 10.5.8, but have first problems since 10.5.8. After my iMac wakes from sleep, sometimes I get the error message that the external USB drive that I'm using for Time Machine was removed incorrectly, which is not correct. If I do not get this message and everything looks okay, the next Time Machine backup normally fails and if I check the logging in the widget it tells me that backup failed because the cookie didn't match and it may not be the correct drive. If I restart my iMac, Time Machine works again without problem until the next sleep. Before installing 10.5.8 Time Machine was perfect! Any ideas anyone?

Hi again:
Not really. A restart can be therapeutic at times as a lot of things are reset. I have worked with computers for over 50 years and there are still some things that happen that defy logical explanation!
Trashing a preference file sometimes helps things. A corrupt preference file (rare, but it happens) can cause all sorts of odd behavior.
Barry

Initial Time Machine Backup never ends

Hi all folks,
I try to backup my PB12 Disc (120 GB) to a external 500 GB Disc, connected via FW400, but the backup never ends, I think.
The backup starts with 100MB/min but after 20h (80GB are store to a external Disc) it slow down to 1MB/min.
With the "Activity Monitor" I see only some disc activities and a "mds" and "mdworker" process use some cpu time only (more than 10%).
Where can I get some detail information, a log file, about the Time Machine activity from.
Thanks for any help,
Lutz

Hi all folks,
the initial Backup ends after 2 days (nice to to see, :-(),
but on the boot volume I can go the time walk only.
I split my disc into two partitions, sorry.
Bye, Lutz
p.s.
With CCC I spend 4-6 hours to back up my disks only (100GB).

Initial Time Machine Backup - Extremely Slow/Freeze

Hello,
I recently switched my external HDDs and began utilizing a different HDD in conjunction with Time Machine. I have used this HDD in the past with Time Machine and never had a problem. The initial backup is proceeding at an extremely slow rate and often freezes - as of writing, it is currently standing at 125.3MB of 1.07TB - About 1,172 days. I have erased and reformatted the drive (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)), tested data transfer rates to it by transferring files myself (normal rate), repaired permissions, verified my disks, tried the initial backup while spotlight was off and have forced a spotlight re-index, allowing it to go to completion before attemtping a backup - however, no solution has thus far worked. I have not made any large changes to my computer since I switched the HDDs either.
Does anybody know what could be causing such a problem and how to fix this? Many thanks for any help,
- Cptbigt

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. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
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. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
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 this discussion.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

HT201250 Why is the initial time machine backup 13GB when my HD is 22GB used?

Hi,
I setup time machine to backup my mac but for some reason the initial backup is 13GB (it says backing up 13GB).
When I click on my hard drive in Finder and do show information my disk usage for my mac is 22GB.
How is this possible when time machine uses no compression and I am not excluding any folders?
Bit worried I wont be able to restore my mac if the time comes

Mikael Behrens wrote:
Howdy,
I started the initial backup of my MacBook Pro to my TimeCapsule, and it now says that it has backed up 4.1 GB of 159.5 GB. But the internal HD of the MacBook Pro is only 80 GB, and 31.4 GB are free!
Does anyone know what's up with this?
My primary user account is encrypted with FileVault.
I don't use FileVault, but I suspect that is the culprit. Since FV can only be backed up after you log out, it might be causing the problem. I know from reading the posts that FW and TM do not play very well together. It might be calculating your home directory twice. Just a thought.

How long for an initial Time Machine backup?

The HD I using for Time Machine crapped out on me, and I had to reinitialize with Disk Utility. The HD is FW800, connected to a 2010 iMac.
The amount of data in the initial TM backup is 823 GB. It looks like it's going to take nearly 2 days for everything to copy over.
Does this amount of time sound right? The reason I ask is that when I first did this procedure 2 years ago, I don't remember it taking this long. My data has definitely grown since then, but not by much. Don't recall exactly, but I want to say maybe 500-600 GB?
TIA in advance for any help.

You're right. The HD in question is a LaCie Quadra 1GB. It's one of two I swap out weekly for TM backups. It should still be in warranty, so I'll try to take adavantage of that.
What's interesting, though, is I just searched for something Spotlight. Apparently this disk, and another I use for SuperDuper! backup are both indexing while the copying is going on. The TM HD needs another 60 hours to index and the SuperDuper! one needs 9.
I've never noticed this before; never though to check, really. Especially regarding SuperDuper. Need to look into how Spotlight indexing works. Oh, well. The important thing is I do have a cloud backup of important data running every four hours, so the work is safe.
Thanks again for your help.

Time to create initial time machine backup on time capsule

I am using a Time Capsule for my wifi service. Am attempting to use it for Time Machine for an iMac that has (with attached hard drives) ~ 268GB of stuff to back up. Time Machine says it will take 5 days. It never makes it past two before the computer crashes. Any ideas?

Things will go much much faster if you connect the iMac directly to the TIme Capsule using an Ethernet connection.
Connect from the iMac to one of the LAN <-> ports on the Time Capsule. Turn off wireless to insure that the wired connection will be used.
On average, about 30 GB per hour will transfer using Ethernet, so this should take about 9-10 hours or so.
Once the first backup is done, you can switch back to wireless since the incremental backups should only take a few minutes each hour.

Initial Time Machine backup never finishes

I started the first backup and left my macbook on over night to let it continue. I had tried to sync it via an ethernet cable but for some reason it won't backup any way other than via wireless. It recognises that there is a connection via cable but still won't sync that way so I let it use the wireless link. However, someone managed to turn off the power to the time capsule later on and I had to continue the backup the next day. It said it had about 22.9gb left to go but seems to stick at 13.1 of 22.9gb. That message is in the main window but the small box at the bottom says 3.7mb of 3.7mb and never seems to close or finish.
Is there a way to get it to disgard all backups it may have done (i.e. reformat it) and make it start again so I can try for an uninterrupted backup?

Same here. I have a 120 Gb HFS+ HD hooked to my AEBS, The drive mounts, the disk image mounts, Time Machine recognize the drive and starts its first backup but hangs always about 5.23 - 6 Gb done with an error message.
Wassup????

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