Kernel error on startup after trying to backup with Time Machine

Hi there,
So last night I was using time machine to back up my macbook hard drive to my external hard drive. As this was happening, my machine was slowing down and such which I attributed it to having a couple of programs running at the same time as backing up. A little bit into this, I got the spinning pinwheel that would not stop or go away so I decided to let it go all night because maybe it would go away as usual. This morning it was still spinning so I shut down the computer. I didn't know if Time machine had finished or not. I tried restarting it an I got a kernel error. I tried to reset the PRAM and the NVRAM but I still got Kernel errors. I would try to do an archive and install of Leopard, but I left my disc in my dorm and I won't be able to get to it until next month. I do however have my Tiger start up disc that came with the MacBook when I first got it. Now I was thinking of doing an archive and install downgrade to Tiger just until I could reinstall Leopard next month. I don't know if that would be a good idea or not. I just want to make sure my data is ok by hopefully reinstalling Tiger to copy my data to my external HD. Is there a way to do this and not mess anything up? I don't think it's my hard drive because I already replaced it once to a non-Apple hard drive. Is there anything I haven't tried yet or should try again to try and get things going again?
Thanks so much.

This means that your NAS does not support the required encryption. Update your NAS to the latest firmware or ditch it and buy a Time Capsule (they are the most reliable when using TM).

Similar Messages

HT3275 Since updating OS to Mountain Lion from leopard, I get the following error message when trying to backup with time machine on external drive. Could not complete backup to media share. The network backup disk does not support the required AFP feat

Since updating OS to Mountain Lion from leopard, I get the following error message when trying to backup with time machine on external drive. "Could not complete backup to media share. The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features." What are AFP features and how do I get Time Machine to backup to my current external backup?

This means that your NAS does not support the required encryption. Update your NAS to the latest firmware or ditch it and buy a Time Capsule (they are the most reliable when using TM).

Repeated error: 11 problems while trying to backup to time machine

A few months ago I purchased a 750GB NESO external hard drive and have never been able to back up using time machine on it. I can manually back up files no problem, but I have yet to get time machine to finish a complete backup, despite trying every fix I could find on the internet.
This includes reformatting the external, making sure there is a separate partition for the Time machine backup, making sure that partition is formatted as Mac OS extended (journaled) and GUID.
Every time I try to back up I get the same error message: "An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume". This happens at various time during the backup process. Sometimes after a few MBs, sometimes after 1.5 Gigs have been backed up.
This is what I get from the system log every time-
*Feb 3 18:34:59 Computername com.apple.backupd[1228]: Copied 137 files (1.2 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.*
*Feb 3 18:34:59 Computername com.apple.backupd[1228]: Copy stage failed with error:11*
*Feb 3 18:35:04 Computername com.apple.backupd[1228]: Backup failed with error: 11*
*Feb 3 18:35:05 Computername UserNotificationCenter[1282]: Error loading /Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX Decoder: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX Decoder, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:\n /Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX Decoder: no matching architecture in universal wrapper*
*Feb 3 18:35:54: --- last message repeated 37 times ---*
I have tried excluding the divx decoder.component file I located in the Quicktime folder, I have excluded the whole Divx application, I have even excluded the entire Quicktime folder. I also reseted the time machine setup including erasing the existing "/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/nameOfComputer/date.inProgress" file as advised in the troubleshooting guide in this forum after excluding each. Still the same error every time.
After having tried all suggested solutions including those listed in the troubeshooting guide here I am truly baffled as to what the problem is. Please advise.

brocktoon4 wrote:
Any idea how this is possible? Did the smaller partition isolate the defect? Thank you again for all your suggestions and help. I am relieved to finally get time machine working. If you can shed some light on this little mystery as well I would be grateful.
I don't have a lot of expertise there, but yes, if there's a bad spot on the disk, in the area where TM was trying to put new backups, that could do it.
Partitions aren't like folders, where their data may be scattered; each one is on a +*physically separate+* part of the disk.
Usually, if there's a bad spot, it will be discovered when writing to it; any time you do a write, it's automatically read back and compared. If there's a problem, it's retried a certain number of times, and if it still fails, the sector is marked "damaged" so it won't be re-used, and a different sector used.
I would strongly* recommend that you not trust your backups to a drive that's had such trouble, especially if they're your only backups.
I learned many years ago (the hard way, of course ), not to trust my backups to a single app or piece of hardware. No app is perfect; neither is any hardware.
You might want to keep a secondary backup, such as a "bootable clone" of your system, on a separate external disk. This is commonly done with CarbonCopyCloner (which I use in addition to full Time Machine backups) or SuperDuper. There are variations, but typically a clone is an exact copy of your system, with none of the previous copies of things you've deleted or changed, like Time Machine keeps. Unlike Time Machine, you can boot and run your Mac normally (but a bit slower) from them.
This gives you the advantages of both types of backup, and protects you from a problem with one of them (external drives fail, too). Some folks do the "clone" to a portable external HD, and take it to their safe deposit box, workplace, relative's house, or other secure location periodically. Others have a pair that they swap weekly or so. Thus they're also protected against fire, flood, theft, direct lightning strike on their power lines, etc.
CCC is donationware, so you can use it free for a while. If you decide to keep it, send them some $$ so they can keep it up to date. SD has a free version, but to do updates (rather than a full replacement) or automatic scheduling, you need the paid version (about $30).
Either is available via Google, VersionTracker.com, or MacUpdate.com.

Trying to backup my time machine..

I am trying to backup my time machine but keeps coming up with error 6584 can anyone help please
<Re-Titled By Host>

First, if this is your only backup, you must make another full backup to a locally-attached external hard drive. One backup is never enough to be safe, and backing up over a network is less reliable than backing up locally. Then try each of the following steps that you haven't already taken.
1. Restart the backup device. You can do that by disconnecting and reconnecting the power cord.
2. Hold down the option key and select Verify Backups from the TM menu in the menu bar (not the Dock icon.) This operation may take a long time. If the menu-bar icon (a clock that runs backwards) isn't showing, check Show Time Machine in menu bar in the preferences.
3. Erase the backup device. With a Time Capsule, you do that from within the AirPort Utility application; see its built-in help for details. All backups will be lost, so don't do this until you've backed up to another device. After erasing, select the TC again as a backup destination in the TM preference pane. The first backup should be made over a wired connection, if possible.

I have already used time machine backup and I last used on june 2012 . Today when I tried to backup the time machine is still stuck on preparing my backup?What shallI do?

I have already used time machine backup and I last used on june 2012 . Today when I tried to backup the time machine is still stuck on preparing my backup?What shallI do?

See Section C here > http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
From Here > http://pondini.org

HT3275 can't backup with time machine

I can't backup with time machine and I do not receive any errors, time machine just stays in the 'looking for backup disk' mode and will not go any further. I went as far as buying a new usb backup disk to replace the old one and still the same issue occurs. I've tried using different usb ports on my mb pro and that doesn't work. No amount of restarting, ejecting discs or checking preferences helps. Disk utility states the drive is fine (even the new one), the permissions or sharing haven't changed.
My system is up to date with the latest updates, and this all just happened out of the blue one day. I suppose I could do a system restore but I'm afraid of losing my data; and I'm not 100% sure how to do that.
I'm running OSX 10.8.2, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, 4GB memory

There is good advice available about Time Machine. Go to Pondini's paper(s) before you do anything so drastic as a system restore.
Time Machine - Troubleshooting
Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions

My external hard drive (1TB WD My Book Essential) suddenly has no room to backup with Time Machine! I am using Maverick OS and wondered if it is because of a bug in the system software.

My external hard drive (1TB WD My Book Essential) suddenly has no room to backup with Time Machine! I am using Maverick OS and wondered if it is because of a bug in the system software. I purchased a new external drive with 3 TB and wonder if I will run into a problem installing it. I don't know how to transfer my files from the previous HD to the New one. I was told to use a cable, but how do I do it? Do I connect them both to the computer and drag the old into the new? How is it done? Why did this happen, the overloading of the Time Machine?

Why has the TimeMachine drive run out of space?
With the limited amount of information you've provided it is hard to answer this question. TimeMachine should continue making backups until the drive is full and then it should erase the oldest backup(s) to retrieve enough space for the next backup. Unless your computer's hard drive has close to 1TB of space on it, you shouldn't see a message saying TM cannot backup because it is full. However if you do have more than 500GB (1/2 a TB) then I can see how that message might occur. Also, if you are using the TM drive for double duty (backing up more than one computer or storing data other than TM) you could get that message.
Will you have this problem with a 3TB drive?
I always recommend that people look at how much they'll be backing up in total, add a bit extra for the future, and then multiply that by at least 1.5 and even better to double it. That indicates how large the TM backup drive should be. The TM drive should only be used for TM backups. It is ok to use one drive to back up more than one computer but if doing so, add up the contents of all the computer drives, adjust for the future and then double it.
Moving Forward
Disconnect the old TM drive for now. Connect the new drive and let TM do its job. I don't recommend that you try to transfer the TM backup from the old drive to the new one. Keep the old drive around for a couple months just in case you find you need it and then after a few months, if you like, you can erase it and use it for something else.

I have just upgraded to Mavericks and have been using Time Machine on an external disk with Snow Leopard. Can I continue to backup with Time Machine on the same external disk or do I need a new disk since the operating system has changed?

I have just upgraded to Mavericks and have been using Time Machine on an external disk with Snow Leopard. Can I continue to backup with Time Machine on the same external disk or do I need a new disk since the operating system has changed?

Hi there,
I found that Time Machine in Mavericks will sort it all out for you. You shouldn't need to buy another backup drive, unless you have insufficient space left and can't afford to delete whats on there. It should just work fine.

Backup with Time Machine for 6 iMacs

I want to to use an external drive to backup with Time Machine my 6 iMac's. I know that Time Capsule is good for this kind of stuff but I would prefer to be able to plug my Storage Device with an Ethernet cable. And Time Capsule is offering 2 or 3 TB, I would need minimum 5 TB. Any idea what should I buy and what is good for that purpose?
Thanks a lot

Time Capsule has 3 Eth ports so only 3 iMacs via cable.
You can do it with two 3TB Time Capsules if you wish.
With 6 iMacs you may need to think about small business solution.
On Mac networks we use Gigabit switches and NAS drives such as Buffalo TeraStation III 8TB on RAID5.
Those support Apple Time Machine, have dual Gigabit Eth port which can be trunked with manageable switches and all works very well and fast.
There are many scenarios you may want to consider.
Let me know if you have any questions regarding the above setup.

How to do a backup with time machine?

Hi Communitieee,
I dont know how to make a backup with time machine. Can anybody help me?
And i have another question.. whats wrong with library? when i start my mac the message is popping up but i dont know what it means..
Thanks
KR

Ok thanks mende1.
Whats with time machine? I already take a look to the link but i could not find the answer of my problem. Can you please take a look of this screenshot?!
I dont have an extern hard drive. i just want to save my pics and the other data of my mac.

I have a Sony PC with M/E. Can I useit as backup with Time Machine?

I have a Sony PC with Windows m/e. Can I use it as backup with Time Machine?

Time Machine will only work on Macs running the Leopard or Snow Leopard operating sysem.

Wireless Backup with Time Machine using Fritzbox

I have
Modem: Fritzbox 7170
Macbook white
Lacie External HD 500GB
On the back of the Fritzbox is an USB access..I would like to connect my Lacie External HD to the Fritzbox and want to split the HD into
1 part to store my music/photo's on
2nd part to use for Time Machine backups
Currently I have connected the Lacie to my Macbook using the USB cable, but I wonder if I can do it wireless by using the Fritzbox.
Message was edited by: Jaap74

Thanks for your reply. I’m not sure if I understand what a NAS is….My Modem is a Fritzbox 7170 Fon WLAN. It has a USB host for USB printers or USB mass storage media in the network. The manual says it supports FAT and GAT32. So I think I can use it for storage….but not for backups with Time Machine. That would be so convenient…not having to plug in my external HD every time I want to make a backup.

Can't backup with Time Machine: "sparsebundle is already in use"

Can't backup with Time Machine suddenly. Message says "back up disk image ...'/Volume/... /myMacname.sparsebundle' is already in use".
I have no idea what this means. Can someone please help? Please note that I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion.
Thanks.

Been having the same problem on mountain lion
Most forums say you must disconnect the users in AirPort Utility, but v6.1 no longer has this feature
So simply open “Finder” on the left under “Devices” you should see your “Time Capsule”. If not then it should be under “Shared”. Click on it and then select “Disconnect”. Then simply reconnect and that should be it
You can also restart the Time Capsule just by using Airport Utility.
Open Airport Utility and select the Time Capsule. Then up on the top bar select Base Station and click on Restart
Mine is now all working again

Freezing/crash of iMac under Snow Leopard when backup with Time Machine

Hi!
The backup on my external hard drive with Time Machine cannot be completed.
After few ten Go out of 360Go the backup stops suddenly and the computer freezes/crashes.
I have got an iMac Intel Core 2 Duo with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 − 64 bit. The external hard drive is a LaCie 500Go.
Also, backups for another Apple computer can be done with this LaCie external drive. So, it is not the cause of the freezing/crash of the iMac.
I tried to solve this problem applying the following steps:
1- I started with the installation disk.
2- I repaired the internal iMac drive and the permissions with the Disk Utilities soft on the installation disk. All was OK.
3- The LaCie drive was erased, formatted again with one GUID partition (500Go) and the disk verified. All was OK.
4- I re-install the OS with the installation disk -> 10.6 Snow Leopard
5- Updates to 10.6.8, etc… security update 2012-004 and the 13th Java update to v1.6.
6- I deleted in the folder /Library/Preferences the file com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
7- I deleted the file com.apple.finder.plist in the administrator account Preferences folder.
8- The iMac was shutdowned as well as the external LaCie drive.
9- I restarted and changed the name of the external LaCie drive.
10- I choose the LaCie backup drive with Preferences System > Time Machine with right exclusions.
Unfortunately, the problem remained and the backup was again unsuccessful followed by another freezing/crash of the iMac.
So how to solve this problem?
Here is what I obtained from the system.log with the Console utility (crash/freezing at: 10:48):
=============================================================================== ==============================
Tue 4 09:58:24 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Starting standard backup
Tue 4 09:58:24 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Backing up to: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb
Tue 4 09:58:24 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Tue 4 09:58:25 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Backup content size: 343.5 GB excluded items size: 2.3 GB for volume iMac
Tue 4 09:58:25 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 409.52 GB requested (including padding), 465.02 GB available
Tue 4 09:58:25 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Tue 4 09:58:25 imac mds[40]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb
Tue 4 10:00:32 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x10083f704, p = 0x10083f70c, pEnd = 0x10083f70d)
Tue 4 10:00:32 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x10101b304, p = 0x10101b30c, pEnd = 0x10101b30d)
Tue 4 10:00:33 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x1007c6f94, p = 0x1007c6f9c, pEnd = 0x1007c6f9d)
Tue 4 10:07:49 imac /System/Library/CoreServices/CCacheServer.app/Contents/MacOS/CCacheServer[202]: No valid tickets, timing out
Tue 4 10:14:53 imac mdworker[242]: multibyte IDs are unsupported.
Tue 4 10:17:05 imac backupd[233]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Tue 4 10:17:05 imac mdworker[243]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Tue 4 10:22:00 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x10377e518, p = 0x10377e556, pEnd = 0x10377e557)
Tue 4 10:22:01 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x10393e518, p = 0x10393e556, pEnd = 0x10393e557)
Tue 4 10:30:38 imac mdworker[242]: Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Tue 4 10:30:38 imac mdworker[242]: JPEG datastream contains no image
Tue 4 10:30:39 imac mdworker[242]: Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Tue 4 10:30:39 imac mdworker[242]: JPEG datastream contains no image
Tue 4 10:32:10 imac mdworker32[452]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Tue 4 10:38:16 imac mdworker[243]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Tue 4 10:38:16 imac mdworker[243]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
=============================================================================== ==============================
Waiting for a solution....
Bye
JacRb

See the problem and its solution:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21491140#21491140

Problems after doing full restore with Time Machine

If I reinstall Leopard and and do a complete restore with time Machine, I have to erase my Time Machine backup drive and do a complete TM backup from scratch because TM will not pick up where it left off doing incremental backups. It wants to start over like it's never done any backups at all. It's a pain because it take me 4 or 5 hours to back up 270 GB. I've had to do this twice so far because once I had a problem with my startup drive and just today I made an external hard drive with leopard and restored all my files via TM.
Is there anyway to get out of starting over from scratch when I do a full restore with TM ?

The following procedure works for me if your restore happens to be from the last backup that Time Machine completed. (I'm not sure if it would work just as well if you restore from an older point in the Time Machine history -- but it certainly should!):
After you complete the full restore (which will force a Restart when it completes), log in and then immediately go to System Preferences / Time Machine and Turn Off Time Machine to prevent any premature additional backups.
Now go to System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy and drag the icons for all your hard drives (including your main hard drive and the Time Machine hard drive) from the Desktop into the Privacy list. This will stop Spotlight indexing of all these drives to speed things up for what follows. You will do the indexing later (see below).
If you have any sort of automatic virus protection active, disable it at this point to speed up what follows.
Then Restart again (to get things into a fresh state), and then immediately do a Repair Permissions for your main hard drive (using Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility). Be patient. This will take 30 minutes or more and the progress bar may not advance until the very end. Do not be alarmed when several hundred notifications come up, as most of them are minor tidying up items, but some are significant. For example, you will see the ownership get adjusted for every help file in every language for every Lexar printer the system knows about (minor). You will also see the permissions adjusted for the root directory of your main hard drive (significant).
And all of these permission and ownership repairs will happen EVEN THOUGH the files you backed up into your Time Machine may have had no such problems. They are, apparently, a result of the method that Time Machine uses to rebuild your file system during the restore.
When the permission repair eventually completes, Quit Disk Utility and Shut Down the computer.
Now reset the Parameter memory (PRAM). PRAM holds copies of certain system settings for rapid access. To do this, hold down the 4 keys Apple-Option-P-R continuously and press and release the power button. When you hear the SECOND startup chime, release those 4 keys. The system will continue to boot up normally. This makes sure the system's Parameter memory is in sync with the System Preferences resulting from the restore you just completed. It probably would have been anyway, but this makes sure. Among other things, this makes sure the system takes proper note of your "computer name" (System Preferences / Sharing) which is crucial to Time Machine's ability to recognize and use your previous backup database on the Time Machine hard drive.
Now log in and fire up Mail to let it automatically finish the restore of its mailboxes by importing the necessary mail lists. Quit Mail when it finishes.
If you have any other, application specific tasks to perform to complete the restore for any other applications, now is the time to do them.
Finally, go back into System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy, select the line showing your main hard drive in the list, and click the "-" on the bottom to remove it from the list. Repeat this for every other hard drive EXCEPT for your Time Machine hard drive. Exit System Preferences. Spotlight will now begin to re-index those hard drives from scratch. Watch this by clicking on the Spotlight icon in the menu bar. Wait for indexing to finish.
Your restore is now at the point where you can let Time Machine do a new backup.
I suggest you Restart again to get things into a fresh state (not truly necessary, but it is what I do). Then go into System Preferences / Time Machine and, at long last, Turn On Time Machine again. Then do a Back Up Now (right click on the Time Machine icon in the dock and select Back Up Now from the pop up menu).
Because of the restore, Time Machine will now do a Deep Traversal of your entire file system looking for EVERYTHING that has changed compared to the last backup on its hard drive (rather than depending on the file system transaction logs as it normally does to make incremental backups happen much faster). The "Preparing" stage for this will take a long time -- about as long as a Repair Permissions pass in Disk Utility. Eventually Time Machine will start transferring files. This will be a backup of significant size because all the permissions repairs you did above, etc., count as changes as far as Time Machine is concerned, not to mention that certain portions of the file system are rebuilt during the restore. But it should be WELL SHORT of actually doing a complete backup of everything on your system. I.e., it is just a particularly large, but nevertheless incremental, backup added on to the previous stuff on your Time Machine disk.
Crucial to this is that Time Machine recognizes the prior database on its hard drive as applying to your computer. Thus the permissions repair and PRAM resetting steps above.
When that backup eventually completes, go into System Preferences / Spotlight and remove your Time Machine drive from the Privacy list. Exit System Preferences and wait for Spotlight to finish re-indexing your Time Machine drive.
Restart once again, just to get things into a fresh state, and then re-enable any antivirus "live protection" stuff you disabled above.
You are done.
From this point on, Time Machine should do "normal" incremental backups, and the previous history of Time Machine backups should be accessible and used by Time Machine just as before.
--Bob
Message was edited by: BobP1776

Kernel error on startup after trying to backup with Time Machine

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for