Migration to new 3TB Time Machine/Time Capsule?

From an earlier posting, I think A Silverstone asked for a step-by-step procedure.
I have a similar issue I would like a procedure(s) on. Actually two identical issues.
1. I wish to purchase Apples new 3TB tower Airport/Time Machine to replace a 1TB Airport extreme/Time Machine. I want to migrate the old to the new using Apple processes/procedures without a lot of workaround. How can this be done? Does Apple have a procedure?
2. I have a desktop with four drives (three 2TB & one 1TB) and wish at least two of them to be Time Machine capable, i.e., backup every hour like the Airport/Time Machine does. Can this be done? Does Apple have a procedure?
I want to migrate the old Time Capsule data to the new Time Capsule and to two HD's in the desktop.
The idea is to have backups for a Time Machine backup in the event of a power disruption or a hacker that might impact the tower Time Machine. There are other reasons such as storage capacity using a daisy chain process.
One main problem is capturing the old "sparsebundle" in such a way to get it into the new unit and on to internal HD's. How to do this is the question.

1. Time Machine – Transfer Backup to a New Drive
Time Machine – Transfer Backup to a New Drive (2)
You can also use Disk Utility's Restore tab, which is often faster and less prone to errors. Note it will format the new drive.
2. Yes. Go to System Preferences/Time Machine, select Add a drive and you can have 2. They will alternate with each new backup.
OS X Mavericks: Use multiple backup disks

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How to safely remove all backups from Time Machine/Time Capsule?

I plan to 'clean up' my Time Machine/Time capsule completely, whereby I want to make it impossible for third parties to recover all or part of these old backups.
After I have accompished this I want to start from scratch backing up my Mac.
Can you please let me have a step by step procedure to accomplish my goal.
Thank you in advance!

Muizen wrote:
Thank you WZZZ.
1) I am now specifically looking for info regarding deleting emails from backups.
It is my impression so far, that this is not possible?
Delete all backups of <home folder>/Library/Mail, per Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #12.
And exclude that folder from future backups, per FAQ #10.
2) In addition I feel that being somewhat better in control of TM that it would be an advantage to really clean out TH completely and start a new back up, thereby systematically blooking certain matters from backing-up since there is no need for doing so.
How would I best accomplish this?
If the emails are all you're worried about, the procedure above will be fine.
But if you want to erase the TC's internal HD, see #Q5 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.

A Macbook/Time Machine/Time Capsule epic - still in progress. Please help!

I'll try and keep this to the point.
I decided to upgrade my Macbook's 160GB Hitachi hard drive to a 500GB Samsung model. I also have a 500GB Time Capsule that has has an ongoing Time Machine backup going back to June 13, 2008.
I figured that I would change out the HD, then use the 'restore' function in Time Machine to bring the system back to where I left it. I figured that's exactly why I purchased Time Capsule in the first place.
The drive installed and formatted (using 'zero fill' to check for drive errors) just fine, and the restore kicked off great. The estimation was for something like 28 hours (for 49GB of data) which was a bit alarming but apparently not unheard of.
A day later, I found it stuck at 71% or so, and checking the install log revealed that I was getting 'error -36' messages for several music and video tracks in iTunes. It literally got stuck for about 8 hours, taking about half an hour to realize that each song was going to be an 'error -36' before moving on to the next one, and so on.
It was clearly never going to finish, at least not this year.
I clicked on stop, clicked to confirm that I was sure...and then it hung. I tried quitting the installer, which also hung, so in the end I was forced to do a hard power down. When I rebooted using the Leopard DVD, I attempted another restore, thinking I'd choose another date from which to restore. This time, however, opening up the Time Capsule drive hung.
OK, Time Capsule's Time Machine backup file is now toast. End of story.
Here's my question: I figure my next step is to figure out whether the HD in Time Capsule is faulty or whether the backup file itself is corrupt. I'm now 'zero fill' erasing the TC's HD. Does this give you a surefire way to tell that the drive is in good condition? If it fails, I guess it's under warranty. If not, I'll start a new backup from scratch (I don't see what else there is to do at this stage, frankly) and try to restore that and see how that goes.
Does anyone know what an 'error -36' is, anyway? Can anyone tell me if I've missed something, or some reason why this may not have worked as well as it was supposed to? Or anything that I should do next that I may not have thought of?
Thanks so much,
Michael.

I will remember to try to repair the TC disk via Disk Utility next time - I didn't even know you could do that until now! Thanks for that. In that case, I agree that I wiped the drive, because it would have been a great opportunity to try out the repair function and see if it could have made it work.
Well, the good news is that I have succeeded with my original intention, which was to replace my internal HD with a larger one, using Time Machine/Time Capsule to bring everything back. It worked perfectly, and I now have a Macbook with a 500GB drive. Awesome! By the way, I can recommend the Samsung drive if anyone is thinking of making the switch. So far, excellent performance, near-silent operation, and loads of storage space - for now!
The solution to the problem became clear once I erased the TC's HD and wanted to start over. My idea was that I would make a complete Time Machine backup, then change out the drive, then restore.
After the erasure, I found that the backup would not start, and everything about the Mac was sluggish! I cycled the power on the Time Capsule, and everything was like new once again. I restarted the backup and without delay, it started backing up - and fast.
Once this completed, I did a restore, and the estimated time was 8 hours. Big improvement from 24! After just 80 mins, it had restored 25% of the system - and this is wirelessly (using 'N')! Clearly, everything had become jammed up and during my previous restore attempt, it pretty much ground to a halt.
So everything is great now. It is possible that I didn't even have file corruption after all, perhaps just a refusal by the system to go any further. I won't know now, but should it happen again, I will power cycle first as well as run repairs on the disk via Disk Utility. I suspect that this is all that was needed.
Thanks for the responses again, and hopefully this post may help someone in the future.

What is the best way to store my photos off my mac without using time machine, time capsule?

I heard alot of negative reviews about time machine / time capsule.

Time Machine is about the only way to create a full system backup with a Mac.
Nope, bootable clones is another option and vastly superior actually to TimeMachines basic backup only and undelete ability.
A clone is just that, a exact copy of OS X, bootable, accessible and everything just like the orignal.
Make as many as you need, clone everything in OS X to a larger drive too.
Read about them here
Most commonly used backup methods

Time Machine/Time Capsule issues

I have had a never ending series of Time Machine/Time Capsule issues. There's little to configure, so there's not much I could be doing wrong.
One thing I have especially noticed, is that Time Machine is interfering with iTunes. iTunes has frozen for a time or locked up when Time Machine is backing up.
Another problem I have seen is the console log flooded with some sort of waiting for index error. Yet another are messages like -
"Jul 14 14:43:56 MJBook /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[176]: StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47"
The only thing I have ever found odd about my situation is that I am running a Time Machine and three other Airport Express devices. One of the Airport Express units uses WDS, and I heard that could create issues.
Any ideas?

I have the same question and I see you posted yours in March. So this forum is REALLY helpful...
My Mac consultant doesn't use either so is not much help. He says to erase T.C. and start over, but it also contains all my backups for my other Mac which have worked perfectly. When I select T.C. in T.M. the only option is to Remove Disk; I want to save the MacBook backups. I also tried wireless as he suggested but got the same warnings as above so went back to Ethernet. Plus nobody can tell me how to access T.C. in Disk Utility to try to fix it.

My Time Machine / Time capsule gets the error: The backup disk image could not be mounted

My time machine / time capsule gets the error: The backup disk image could not be mounted.

Reboot the TC.
If you normally have multiple computers backing up, under Lion there seems to be some issues.. you need to force other users off the system. You can do that through the Airport utility, manual setup, disks, disconnect all users. Note carefully if you use Lion you probably need to download the real airport utility.. 5.6 to accomplish anything useful.

Setting up time machine/time capsule after fitting a New Hard Drive.

I have replaced my hard drive in my imac 24inch and restored the system from my time capsule. My question is now my time machine is trying to back up to my time capsule but it is already 3/4 full from the old drive in my imac. How do i best set up my time capsule with time machine after installing a new hard drive in the imac. I was hoping that i would restore the system and I would still be able to (after pointing time machine to my time capsule) access old files if needed in time machine. It has presently deleted a lot of older backups but still cannot fit it all in as it just sees a new hard drive worth of info and is attempting to back it all up on my time capsule.

wjosten wrote:
Me, I would never use Time Machine to do this. What I'd suggest you do is get an exterior enclosure for your new drive. Then use either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone your existing drive to your new drive. Once done, verify your clone is bootable & all of your data present. Then swap drives & use your old drive for Time Machine backups(after erasing it). Then get another drive & exterior enclosure to regularly clone your new drive to.
Unless he was swapping for a lower capacity HDD or to a lower capacity SSD, then the old drive would make a lousy Time Machine disk. However, whenever I swap out a disk I do exactly what you do. CCC to get the ol drive onto a new one. Test by starting up to the new (but still external drive). Then replace the internal drive.
I usually just sell the old drive on eBay. My Time Machine backup is always 2X the size of the internal drive, which I believe is a bit above recommendations, but works for me. The price of large external drives is almost the same as smaller internal ones.

Time Machine/Time Capsule with Old Computer

I have migrated all of the contents of my old, slow MacBookPro to my new MacBook Pro. My time capsule keeps giving me messages that I have exhausted available space and must delete old backups. I would like to delete the thirty backups for my old computer but cannot figure out how to do so.
If I open up Time Machine on my old computer, I see a folder entitled BACKUP OF MY HARDDRIVE. If I open this folder up, I see a subfolder with the title BACKUPS.BACKUPDB. This subfolder contains about thirty backups dating back to 2009. Can I simply delete all of these backup folders and subfolders without hurting the Time Capsule OR the Time Machine settings for my new computer?

Delete old backups.
http://pondini.org/TM/12.html
If you no longer want any of the old backups which is actually fine.. as long as you have migrated all your personal info, just erase the TC drive.
Open the airport utility .. go to the disk page, select erase and use quick erase. Do not use any other erase .. they will take from hours to a month.
Then you can start over with TM..
Erase will delete only files from the hard disk.. not settings on the TC and certainly impossible for it to delete TM settings which are in your computer.
I think you are confusing Time Machine.. software.. and Time Capsule.. hardware. They are actually totally unrelated.. TM uses TC as a backup target.. but it could be any external or suitable network drive.

Time machine & time capsule

I had to set up my computer completley new after a hard disk crash. I was able to set up my iMac from a time capsule back up and everything is running fine. Unfortunately I was then unable to access the time machune and the computer tried to set up a complete new backup. I then decided to reformat the time capsule and started a fresh and new back up. Unfortunately this backup runs extremly slow. The system tells me it will take 64 days!!! for 424 GB. After 3 hours he mad 1 GB progress - so 54 days seems correct.
Can anyone give any tipp what I can do differently to speed up the process? I use a 1TB TC and this is conected with a network cable to a Fritzbox (latest model) and zhen again with a network cabel to my imac.
Appreciate any help.

Cologne_1 wrote:
I had to set up my computer completley new after a hard disk crash. I was able to set up my iMac from a time capsule back up and everything is running fine. Unfortunately I was then unable to access the time machune and the computer tried to set up a complete new backup.
If you did a full system restore, Setup Assistant, or Migration Assistant, you should have been given an option to "reuse" the old backups, per #B5 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.
I then decided to reformat the time capsule and started a fresh and new back up. Unfortunately this backup runs extremly slow.
Are you sure it's using the Ethernet cable? Turn WIFI off for a moment to see.
But even if it's using WIFI, that's terribly slow.
I use a 1TB TC and this is conected with a network cable to a Fritzbox (latest model) and zhen again with a network cabel to my imac.
I'm not big on networking, but can you connect the TC directly to your Mac? That may be faster, too.
(Hopefully one of the networking gurus here will have some advice.)
Otherwise, try the things in the green box of #D2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Can't fully restore my Time Machine/Time Capsule Backup to my newly-wiped SSD/HDD

On receiving my leased, Bootcamp-enabled MacBook Pro, I saw that there were no installation discs for Windows or OSX, and that there were 2 partitions (or so I thought) for Mac and Windows: 375GB each. As I produce music using software in both OSs, I wanted to create a 185GB FAT-32 partition to store my sound samples, projects etc. I attempted to create this partition by resizing (halving) my Bootcamp partition in OSX Disc Utility. The first time I attempted it, resizing was possible, but after the new partition was created, I had problems booting and so had to edit my GPT in order to boot again. Once ‘fixed,’ (by deleting the new partition) I couldn’t resize the Bootcamp partition to fill the 185GB gap, and that 185GB was ‘lost.’ The Bootcamp partition was 375GB but its used space + free space added up to 190GB
So the other day, I tried to follow what I thought was a more logical approach, which I was *sure* would work. My plan was to:
Use Windows Backup (and/or Clonezilla, or Disk Utility) to store an image of my Windows partition.
Uninstall/wipe the Windows partition using BootCamp Assistant, creating 1 big OSX partition
Use BootCamp Assistant to re-partition the HDD for Windows, OSX and ‘shared,’ and then re-install Windows, leaving 175GB for shared music production files
Restore the image/backups (approx 70GB) and carry on as before.
During the process, I deemed that this wasn't possible on my system for a variety of reasons: My laptop already had 4 partitions (Windows Recovery, Bootcamp/Windows, Mac Recovery HD, and Mac) and my understanding is that the MBR of my SSD only supports 4 partitions in its Bootcamp + OSX-compatible state. I have never got this '5 partition' strategy working.
I was unable to restore my Windows partition after re-installing Windows via Bootcamp. As a solution, I then decided to wipe the OSX partition (at that point the only 'visible' partition on the disk) and in-place re-install Mac OS X, with a view to installing Windows after OSX.
Once I wiped my hard drive, however, restoring my files and settings, didn't work as expected. Time Machine backups etc were inaccessible after a normal re-install. Re-installing with file transfer at setup froze at the 10% mark, with an estimated 200 hrs to go. The option to try a full-system restore via Time Machine is greyed-out. Even the Migration Assistant failed at a similar point. On the occasions where it claimed to complete successful (most recent situation) it seemed to neglect files, etc., and I'm now stuck at this stage.
I can view files/backups in Time Machine but I can't completely restore my computer to the state it was on 18th May...and 11 days without a fully-functioning laptop is really annoying. I wasn't able to ‘clean’ *or* ‘in-place’ re-install OSX using my existing settings and so I'm frustrated that Time Machine isn't a flawless backup & restore process. Migration Assistant didn’t transfer everything. Can I get things back to the way they were?
Things that haven’t restored correctly:
None of my icon customisations at the top of the screen were there (DropBox, Evernote, Google Drive, Kuvva, the way battery icon was displayed
Safari: Top Sites, History, Plugins
Logic Pro: Downloaded sounds, presets (10+GB), recent items, plugin settings/AU manager
Mail: Settings (and I’m assuming, the downloaded/cached mail: 7GB)
Trash can: Empty
All recent item lists apart from cloud-based services like Evernote, Notes, contacts
iTunes library
Dock view and settings
Settings for most programs
And I'm sure there are more!

Thanks Pondini; I'd hoped you'd reply. I'm still getting used to this tech, no can't even quote here.
Pondini wrote:
AkaraE wrote:
Time Machine backups etc were inaccessible after a normal re-install.
If you mean you installed OSX and created a user account, then couldn't find the backups, that's because they're treated as being from a different disk, until you either transfer your data or do a manual "associatedisk". See the blue box in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #19 for details.
Yet to try the associatedisk...didn't realise this was possible until reading your guides. The explanation makes sense now. On installing OSX it said transfers were possible after installation, so I put off transferring as the first 'restore' had frozen on 10%, thinking I'd do it afterwards.
Re-installing with file transfer at setup froze at the 10% mark, with an estimated 200 hrs to go
That sounds like damaged/corrupted backups. Try to Repair them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Yet to try...didn't realise this was possible until reading your guides
The option to try a full-system restore via Time Machine is greyed-out.
You mean, on the Mac OS X Utilities menu on the Recovery HD? I've never heard of that. That should always be selectable, so you can specify where the backups you want are located. Nothing happens when you click it? Can you click the other options there?
Even the Migration Assistant failed at a similar point. On the occasions where it claimed to complete successful (most recent situation) it seemed to neglect files, etc., and I'm now stuck at this stage.
Also sounds like directory or file problems on the backups.
This is just when I go into Time Machine/Star Wars. I can't just go to the latest backup and click "Restore" (which I assume would just restore my whole computer/HDD, although I have no experience in this). I can only select files and restore them individually.
Time Machine isn't a flawless backup & restore process.
There has never been any such thing.
I bought into the Time Machine 'hype' and thought it was an easy and reliable tool, but was a lot more difficult to do a full restore than I thought.
Trash can: Empty
Correct. Time Machine (like most backup apps) don't back up trash.
All the rest should have been backed-up and restored. Do you see them in the backups? What, if anything, was excluded from being backed-up?
As a non-native Mac user, I'm not sure where all these things are stored...perhaps in Library? I think that not having the full hard-drive just restore annoyed me...I felt that backing up my whole hard drive every hour should've allowed me to restore everything to as it was without a hitch, and when it didn't work I just tried a few things before posting on here.
If repairing the backups finds and fixes things, you might want to try again.
Gonna try now
If not, and if you can see the missing items via the Time Machine browser (the "Star Wars" display), you should be able to restore them selectively.

Time Machine, Time Capsule, Keychain! I am totally lost!

Hi,
I desperately need some help here! I had my Time Machine setup correctly for a while and have been doing manual backups to Time Capsule without any issues until recently, my backup failed!
The first error I get from Time Machine is:
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Time Machine Error
The network backup volume could not be mounted because there was a problem with the network username or password.
Open system preferences and choose time machine then re-select the Time Machine backup destination to enter the correct username and password.
===
I went to the preferences and selected change disk and re-selected my TC. I was prompted for a password and I entered the correct one. Now I get another error:
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Keychain error -25299 occurred while created a system keycahin entry for the username "*" and URL "afp://**@***.local/**"
You can try using the keychain Access Utility to edit or repair your system keychain.
===
After searching the forums, here is what I did so far without any different outcome:
1- Did keychain first aid scan and repair (tested - same errors)
2- double checked all password files related to TC in system and login (tested - same errors)
3- Deleted all password entries related to TC & Network drive from Key Chain to recreate them automatically again (tested - same errors)
4- Reconfigured Airport and TC and changed device pass to disk pass (tested - same errors)
I should also mention that the TC mounts as a disk through the finder without any problems. Only when it is mounted in the finder TM is able to pick it up and display the blue disk icon, but still same errors and backup fails.
What do I do now?
Will I loose all my previous TM data?
Can I get TM to work again and continue where the last TM backup left off? Or do I need to backup my machine completely again?
It doesn't make any sense that an error like this could happen so easily! It kills the purpose of TM!
Any help would be appreciated ...

Thanks Bob & tomvs for your quick replies. I tried both solutions but no change. I also tried changing the TC name so new password items will be created in the keychain, no change.
If I dont get any new suggestions or solutions, I might as well try resetting my keychain! but I dont know if I will lose my passwords and security notes if I do! But I think it leaves a copy of it somewhere, right?
by the way, after I changed the TC name, all password entries were successfully created in KC, or thats at least what it seams to me.
any ideas?

Can I restore a single photo/photo folder from Time Machine/Time Capsule

Hi
So I'm usuing Time Machine to back up my MacBook to Airport Time Capsule.
If I somehow lost a couple of photos and its taken a few months to realise, can I retrieve just these photos/photo folder or do I need to restore my whole photo library going back to a past date - and then how can I be sure which date to restore back to - is there anyway of actually viewing the photos for a certain date before restoring?
And if the only way is to restore the whole library, what happens to any new photos that were added to the library between present day and the date I would be restoring back too?
Would it be better to move my photos from the app Iphoto to a documents folder for future use? This is assuming that in a documents folder you can view and just retrieve a single document... Havent tried it yet but that was my understanding...
Hope this makes sense
Many thanks in advance

Learn from Pondini, who knew more about Time Machine than anyone.
http://pondini.org/TM/15.html
See the green box for links for iPhoto instructions according to the version that you might have.
Would it be better to move my photos from the app Iphoto to a documents folder for future use?
No. Even if you did this, you would not be able to retrieve individual photos since iPhoto is a special type of package file.

Can't back up using Time Machine/Time Capsule

I just bought a new macBook (13") and it set up perfectly.
My only problem is that I cannot seem to get Time Machine to run (or even connect) to my Time Capsule. I can see the device and can select it. I input the TC password etc. and after about 10-15 seconds of trying to connect, it errors out saying it "The backup disk image could not be created."
It is a Time Machine error, not a Time Capsule error.
Anyone else having this problem and any ideas on how to fix it?
Thanks.

The warranty entitles you to complimentary phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.

Time Machine + Time Capsule problems

Hi,
I'm having this issue for a coiuple of years now. Recently updated from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and thought to give it another try. Same outcome.
Back then I even brought it to the Genius guys and the time machine worked fine.
I created everything from scratch. Set up File sharing in Airport Utility with new name, etc.
When I select the new backup disk (my Time Capsule with different name - no facny characters, etc.), Time Machine spends some time first "preparing backup", then I see a volume created (disk image), called Time Machine Backups, and then Time Machine displays: Looking for disk (or similar).
That goes on for a while and then I get the error message:
"Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “Time Capsule”
The backup disk image “/Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule/Intel Mac mini.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1)."
And the Time Machine Backups disk image is still sitting on my desktop, doesn't unmount.
In the meantime I do see a sparsebundle file has been created and it is with every try exactly 872.5MB large.
here is the log:
Starting manual backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[email protected]/TomsTimeCapsule
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule using URL: afp://[email protected]/TomsTimeCapsule
Creating disk image /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule/Intel Mac mini.sparsebundle
Failed to hide extension on /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule/Intel Mac mini.sparsebundle, error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "The file “Intel Mac mini.sparsebundle” doesn’t exist." UserInfo=0x7ff0cd04b8e0 {NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule/Intel%20Mac%20mini.sparsebundle /, NSFilePath=/Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule/Intel Mac mini.sparsebundle, NSUnderlyingError=0x7ff0cd03fa00 "The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory"}.
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule (FSVolumeRefNum: -122; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule (FSVolumeRefNum: -122; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule (FSVolumeRefNum: -122; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Giving up after 3 retries.
Backup failed with error: 21
[SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef] FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: 0; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
Failed to eject Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TomsTimeCapsule/Intel Mac mini.sparsebundle
Thank you!

I have a Comcast cable modem: Arris Model#: TM702G/CT.
TC functions as a router
Mini uses Ethernet, but I tried with wireless as well.
Will try the isolated setup next.
in the meantime I found somewhere somebody erased all contents of his Library/System Configuration folder as well as the Library/Cache folder. Also deleted the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file.
Then rebooted and tried again - this time I got the following error log:
(IntelMacMini is my file sharing name)
Macintosh is the hard drive name
Starting manual backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Thomas%[email protected]/TimeCapsuleBackup
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup using URL: afp://Thomas%[email protected]/TimeCapsuleBackup
Renaming /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup/Macintosh.sparsebundle to /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup/IntelMacMini.sparsebundle
detach: could not open /dev/disk2
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup (FSVolumeRefNum: -106; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup (FSVolumeRefNum: -106; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup (FSVolumeRefNum: -106; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Giving up after 3 retries.
Backup failed with error: 21
[SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef] FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: 0; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
Failed to eject Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TimeCapsuleBackup/IntelMacMini.sparsebundle

Time Machine/Time Capsule problems - won't backup

Hi,
Hope someone can help! I have Time Machine working with a Time Capsule that also serves as my Wifi Access point (i.e. normal setup. Its been working perfectly since I bought it back in March. 2 days ago however its stopped working properly and every hour when it attempts to do a backup I get the following error message:
"Time Machine Error: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume"
I therefore initiated another manual backup and recorded the following from the console. (I'm not techy in the slightest so can't interpret what this means, so can anyone help me please!!) :--
Tuesday, 15 July 2008 14:12:45 Europe/London
Jul 15 14:12:55 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Backup requested by user
Jul 15 14:12:55 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Starting standard backup
Jul 15 14:12:55 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Network mountpoint /Volumes/Data-1 not owned by backupd... remounting
Jul 15 14:12:56 Macintosh kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/Data, pid 2125
Jul 15 14:12:56 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Data
Jul 15 14:13:08 Macintosh hdiejectd[2135]: running
Jul 15 14:13:12 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/Steve Gerrard’s iMac G5_000d934cdcde.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Steve Gerrard’s iMac G5
Jul 15 14:13:13 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Steve Gerrard’s iMac G5/Backups.backupdb
Jul 15 14:13:44 Macintosh mds[21]: (Error) Server: machmsgdispatch: (ipc/send) invalid destination port [msgh_id 14016]
Jul 15 14:14:45 Macintosh mds[21]: (Error) Queue: _queueCount not zero (or retire > pushed)! journalRetire:7 total-pushed:0 total-retired:7 queueCount:0
Jul 15 14:14:56 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[2125]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 2128 PPID 1 check_afp
Jul 15 14:16:06 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 326.3 MB requested (including padding), 304.42 GB available
Jul 15 14:17:13 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Stopping backup.
Jul 15 14:17:13 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Error: (-43) copying /Library/Mail to /Volumes/Backup of Steve Gerrard’s iMac G5/Backups.backupdb/Steve Gerrard’s iMac G5/2008-07-14-051449.inProgress/5F2C36F2-1F8B-44D4-84C9-113FF010560B/MAC HD/Library
Jul 15 14:17:13 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Copied 131 files (15 KB) from volume MAC HD.
Jul 15 14:17:13 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Copy stage failed with error:11
Jul 15 14:17:19 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Backup failed with error: 11
Jul 15 14:17:30 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[104]: StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47
Jul 15 14:17:30 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Jul 15 14:17:31 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[104]: StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47
Jul 15 14:17:31 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[326]: StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47
Jul 15 14:17:34 Macintosh kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/Data, flags 0, pid 2165
Jul 15 14:17:34 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[104]: StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47
Jul 15 14:17:34 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[326]: StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47
Jul 15 14:17:34 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2054]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.

I'm not sure what all the Console messages mean, but try these things:
From Disk Utility, Repair Permissions on your startup drive and then Verify your startup drive. If errors are found you will need to reboot from Leopard Install DVD and repair using Disk Utility from there.
Also force a new Spotlight index for both your startup drive and Time Capsule. In System Prefs/Spotlight, select Privacy tab and add your startup drive and Time Capsule to "Prevent Spotlight from searching...". Then log out and log back in and go back to Spotlight prefs and remove those two items from the privacy list. Spotlight should now re-index those directories. It will take a while, but it will help.

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