My Time Machine recently has failed to back up

I have been using my time machine to back up my MACBOOK pro for awhile now, and in the past week I have been getting the message " Time Machine could not complete the back up- The back up disk imsage " / volumes/ My time machine-1/ My Name's MacBook pro.sparesbundle" is already in use.
I have no idea how to fix this problem any help would be great

You might have an actual OS issue or corrupt hard drive.
Do a verify of the local source drive and the TC sparse bundle.. See A5 in the same reference as mende1 gave.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
You can also do a reset of TM.. A4 which can help if you upgraded OS instead of clean install.
Load the widget A1 to get more info.. and finally connect the TC to the computer by ethernet.. do not use wireless.. full reset of the TC and do a backup in complete isolation and see if that works.. if so it can be wireless/network issues.

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  • Time Machine Always Has Something To Back Up?...

    Hi
    Recently Time Machine somehow always has something to back up - even when the only thing being done on my Mac is some internet browsing. Those backups are normally always around 30-60mb, I can't believe I'm creating that amount of new data each hour - I would surely see a dramatic dip in my Mac hard drive space!? Can anyone shed any light on what's contained within those back ups?
    Also, very occasionally, when TM attempts a back up my wireless connection for that particular Mac will fail, and my network prefs tell me that I don't have an IP connection. Other macs/devices are able to connect to the router just fine whilst all this is going on. Sometimes, after 10 or so minutes it reconnects of it's own accord, other times I have to restart the router.
    My set up is as follows: WD 1TB Drive connected to Netgear router.
    Any help / advice much appreciated - thanks in advance!
    Message was edited by: Parbinder Johal
    Message was edited by: Parbinder Johal

    Parbinder Johal wrote:
    Hi
    Recently Time Machine somehow always has something to back up - even when the only thing being done on my Mac is some internet browsing. Those backups are normally always around 30-60mb, I can't believe I'm creating that amount of new data each hour - I would surely see a dramatic dip in my Mac hard drive space!? Can anyone shed any light on what's contained within those back ups?
    As Baltwo says, those are very small. Among other things, your browser history is likely changing, perhaps some cookies were added, and if you've added a bookmark, all that will be backed-up, too.
    And there are some usually small things being updated by other processes.
    See #A2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for a couple of apps that will show exactly what's being backed-up.
    If those small backups seem to be taking too long, see #D2 there for some possible fixes.

  • Time machine crashing and failing to back up

    I have 5 intel macs all running snow leopard 10.6.5. I have a macmini server running 10.6.5. I have 4 of the five successfully backing up via time machine to the server.
    One fails to back up. It has about 230GB of data on it. If I blow away the current backup and run time machine, it backs up about 25GB and then crashes. Subsequent attempts show that there is 205 GB to back up, it starts, backs up a few GB, maybe 4 or 5, and then crashes. Does the same thing consistently. I thought maybe corrupt files on the client so I have run Disk Warrior on it and Disk Utility. They report all fine now but there were some issues originally. Still the same problem though.
    The console report follows and then the crash log. If anyone can translate it form me and suggest a cure, I'd be most grateful.
    thanks
    Mark
    14/12/10 9:21:14 PM com.apple.backupd[769] QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
    14/12/10 9:22:12 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[872]) Exited with exit code: 255
    14/12/10 9:22:45 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd[769]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault
    14/12/10 9:22:47 PM com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[918] 2010-12-14 21:22:47.126 ReportCrash[918:2a03] Saved crash report for backupd[769] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/backupd2010-12-14-212246localhost.crash
    Process: backupd [769]
    Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd
    Identifier: backupd
    Version: ??? (???)
    Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
    Parent Process: launchd [1]
    Date/Time: 2010-12-14 21:22:43.101 +1100
    OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)
    Report Version: 6
    Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
    Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x0000000127346ffc
    Crashed Thread: 2
    Thread 0: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff815142da machmsgtrap + 10
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8151494d mach_msg + 59
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff868f6932 __CFRunLoopRun + 1698
    3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff868f5dbf CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575
    4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff868f5b46 CFRunLoopRun + 70
    5 backupd 0x000000010000f90a 0x100000000 + 63754
    6 backupd 0x00000001000046cc 0x100000000 + 18124
    Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8152d16a kevent + 10
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8152f03d dispatch_mgrinvoke + 154
    2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8152ed14 dispatch_queueinvoke + 185
    3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8152e83e dispatch_workerthread2 + 252
    4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8152e168 pthreadwqthread + 353
    5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8152e005 start_wqthread + 13
    Thread 2 Crashed:
    0 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff839ef24b CSStoreGetUnit + 84
    1 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff87c69379 _LSBundleFindWithNode + 282
    2 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff87c61c55 _LSFindOrRegisterBundleNode + 219
    3 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff87c61b09 _LSCopyItemAttributeForRefInfoWithOptions + 201
    4 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff87c63a53 prepareAttributeValueForKey(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFString const*, void const**, __CFError**) + 79
    5 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff87c639b8 prepareDistinctLocalizedNameValue(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFError**) + 36
    6 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff87c6398f prepareLocalizedNameValue(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFError**) + 9
    7 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff87c63798 LSPropertyProviderPrepareValues(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFString const* const*, void const**, long, void const*, __CFError**) + 51
    8 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff83a0010c prepareValuesForBitmap(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, _FilePropertyBitmap*, __CFError**) + 264
    9 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff839febf5 _FSURLCopyResourcePropertiesForKeys + 980
    10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff868fe592 CFURLCopyResourcePropertiesForKeys + 98
    11 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88f41a4f TCFURLInfo::FetchProperties(bool) + 91
    12 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88f418a3 TCFURLInfo::Initialize(__CFURL const*, bool, bool) + 183
    13 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88f9fdd3 TCFURLIterator::NextRaw(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo>&) + 79
    14 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88f9fe6e TCFURLIterator::Next(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo>&) + 40
    15 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88fa129b TDeepCFURLIterator::NextInternal(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo>&, int&, int&, bool&) + 87
    16 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88fa13e3 TDeepCFURLIterator::Next(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo>&, int&, int&, bool&) + 49
    17 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88fa7409 TCopyReader::GetNextItem() + 1039
    18 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88fa7d8c TCopyReader::Read(unsigned long long, TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo> const&, TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo> const&) + 128
    19 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88f92b27 TFSCopyOperation::CopyToTarget() + 607
    20 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88f9499f TFSCopyOperation::DoCopy(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo> const&) + 595
    21 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88f8a71a _NodeOperation + 469
    22 backupd 0x0000000100018a34 0x100000000 + 100916
    23 backupd 0x0000000100017ea8 0x100000000 + 97960
    24 backupd 0x000000010001249b 0x100000000 + 74907
    25 backupd 0x000000010000ce2a 0x100000000 + 52778
    26 backupd 0x0000000100007265 0x100000000 + 29285
    27 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff817250a5 _NSThread__main_ + 1429
    28 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8154d536 pthreadstart + 331
    29 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8154d3e9 thread_start + 13
    Thread 3:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff81551092 setattrlist + 10
    1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff83accb94 corePropertyProviderSetValues(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFString const* const*, void const**, void const**, long, void const*, __CFError**) + 4312
    2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff83acba58 _FSURLSetResourcePropertyForKey + 158
    3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff869a0d4c _CFCarbonCore_FSURLSetResourcePropertyForKey + 92
    4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff869a118a CFURLSetResourcePropertyForKey + 122
    5 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88f9d8d3 TCFURLInfo::SetFileSecurityRef(__FSFileSecurity*, bool) + 117
    6 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88fa9eb1 TCopyWriter::WriteExtendedAttributes() + 511
    7 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88fab4ec TCopyWriter::Write() + 178
    8 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff88fab756 TCopyWriter::WriteTaskProc(void*) + 72
    9 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff839eb411 PrivateMPEntryPoint + 63
    10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8154d536 pthreadstart + 331
    11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8154d3e9 thread_start + 13
    Thread 2 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
    rax: 0x0000000020000000 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x0000000107347000 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
    rdi: 0x00000000bc010000 rsi: 0x0000000000000020 rbp: 0x00000001006e08a0 rsp: 0x00000001006e0880
    r8: 0x00000000d2dddddd r9: 0x00000000000000d6 r10: 0x00000000100501c7 r11: 0x0000000100538f3c
    r12: 0x0000000127347000 r13: 0x0000000100158660 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x00000001006e092c
    rip: 0x00007fff839ef24b rfl: 0x0000000000010246 cr2: 0x0000000127346ffc
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    Thanks Stanley.
    I have already tried Disk Utility from an external firewire disk. It finds no errors now. I will try a new cable later today and am considering cloning off the disk via SuperDuper doing a low level format and then restoring.
    Given it seems to crash at the same point every time file corruption/media damage seems the most likely problem? Does the crash log confirm this? Makes no sense to me. Gibberish...
    Thanks
    Mark

  • HT3275 I recently bought a new Time Capsule and the following message is shown:- "Time Machine could not complete the back up. The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data-1/Brian's iMac.sparsebundle" is already in use." Can anyone help?

    I recently bought a new Time Capsule and the following message has started to show:-
    "Time Machine could not complete the back up. The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data-1/Brian’s iMac.sparsebundle” is already in use."
    Can anyone help?

    Pondini is the resident Time Machine expert on the forums, and he has all the answers.
    Check is excellent Time Machine - Troubleshooting support document
    http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
    See # C17 in particular

  • I've used an external drive for time machine which has important files on it. After trying to back up my computer, it suddenly needed to be "repaired" by utilities. Now it's not being "seen" at all! How do I recover my important files off the drive?

    I've used an external drive for time machine which has important files on it. After trying to back up my computer, it suddenly needed to be "repaired" by utilities. Now it's not being "seen" at all! How do I recover my important files off the drive?

    If the external drive can be seen at all in Disk Utility, follow the instructions for repair here.

  • I recently deleted imovie 9 .and i don't have a cd and i have not made backup from time machine ..i want it back.plz help me..

    i recently deleted imovie 9 .and i don't have a cd and i have not made backup from time machine ..i want it back.plz help me..

    It depends how you installed it.
    If you installed from your iLife 11 DVD, then you can insert the DVD and install it again.
    If you purchased it from the Mac App Store, you can open the Mac App Store, go to the Purchases tab, and reinstall from there.

  • My Time Machine backup keeps failing...how do I find out why?? MacBook Pro 5,1 OS 10.5.8, 6GB ram backing up to new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 2TB

    Forgive my clumsiness ---
    My Time Machine backup keeps failing...how do I find out why?? MacBook Pro 5,1 OS 10.5.8, 6GB ram backing up to new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 2TB

    Have you formatted the disk to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?
    Caio.

  • My Time Machine backup keeps failing.  I get a message the "Volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup".  Please advise.

    My Time Machine backup keeps failing.  I get a message the "Volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup".  Please advise.
    Thanks, Howard

    You can change the case sensitivity of the sparsebundle.. but I really doubt the error is real.
    See A8 here.
    http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
    The sparsebundle should have case sensitivity turned on.
    I cannot even fathom how it could have changed.
    Let me recommend before you start fooling around with the sparsebundle.
    Do a full network start.
    Power everything off.. start up modem.. wait 2min.. power up the TC.. wait 2min.. power up any other network gear like switches.. wait..
    Now power up the computer and try it.
    If the error is the same.. I would do a factory reset of the TC.. give it all short names, no spaces and pure alphanumeric. Then reset TM .. see A4 in the same reference as above.. and do a verify of the backups.. A5 above and try the backup again..
    No luck..
    Then erase the TC and start over.. it is sometimes necessary as TM does get itself in a knot.

  • Time Machine: why doesn't it back up Applications?

    I have nothing excluded in Time Machine Preferences.
    My backup external drive failed about a year ago: I replaced it and backups continued.
    Had to restore an application recently: found the applications folder in Time Machine was empty, however far back I went.
    Does Time Machine know that I replaced the backup drive? If not, perhaps /applications has not been backed up since nothing has changed since I replaced the drive - ? But I have been told that the backup information is stored on the backup drive, so Time Machine should know that the drive was replaced and do a full backup as the first one - ?
    If that is the problem, how do I force Time Machine to do a full backup?

    the last iPhone update said that it "significantly reduced" the back-up time for the iPhone, and for a while it did. I've noticed it get steadily longer and longer to where now i am having the same issue you are, it taking forever to backup even if it's just a standard sync. It's possible that the different applications that are on the phone, especially if they take a lot of memory and/or use a lot of the phone's RAM may cause the backup to take a lot longer than intended, but that's just my guess.

  • I recovered my back up via a wired connection. now Time Machine does not recognise older back ups wirelessly and wants to do a first back up

    I recovered a back up from my time machine via a wired connection after getting the 'white screen of death'. Now Time Machine does not recognise any back ups on the time machine when connected wirelessly and wants to do a first back up of the whole machine. How do I get my mac to recognise these older back ups? It connects to the wifi network the time machine creates fine, with the same name and password.

    I recommend the following.
    1. Reset the TC to factory.
    Universal Factory Reset.. any model TC or AE.
    Unplug your TC/AE from power or turn off at the power point.
    Hold in reset. and power the TC/AE back on..  all without releasing reset and keep holding in for about 10sec. (this is often difficult without a 2nd person or a 3rd arm).
    Release it when the status light flashes rapidly. If it doesn’t flash rapidly you have missed it and try again.
    Note..
    Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel..  add no more pressure after that.
    TC/AE will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations of the router.
    No files are deleted on the hard disk in a TC.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
    2. Rename the TC to SMB standard.
    That means short names.. 2-20 characters but less than 10 is excellent. eg TCGenx (use number for x that is actual generation of the TC)
    No spaces.
    Pure alphanumeric. No apostrophe.
    3. Ensure IPv6 is set to link-local..
    Do the same thing for ethernet if that is used.
    4. Manually mount the TC disk in Finder.
    Use Go in the top menu.. connect to server.
    Type in
    AFP://TCname.local (where TCname is your new short name for the TC and local is default domain .. it helps using the domain I found).
    You will then find the computer either can or cannot find the network resource.. if it fails something else is wrong with the actual network and you will need to fix that.
    It will request the password if it is found.. password is public by default unless you changed it.. type in the password and check to keep it in your keychain.
    5. Delete current TM setup and redo it with the newly named TC.
    See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
    If your backups cannot be found, try B6 again, now that you actually know that the disk has been properly discovered.

  • Restore from Time Machine backup is failing

    The internal drive on my daughter's iMac has failed for the second time in less than two years. I'm not able to restore from the Time Machine backup. The Time Machine restore process failed last time as well. Not surprisingly I'm now questioning whether Time Machine is an appropriate backup solution.
    First question: *Is Time Machine a reliable backup and restore solution?*
    - I get no errors whatsoever during backup from Time Machine
    - Have yet to successfully be able to restore system (TM is 0 for 2 for us)
    Second question: *Is it an issue with my setup?*
    Based on the Macs and other items I already had, the setup that the local Apple store recommended to me for backup is what I followed. Here's a summary:
    - 4 Macs on a network with Airport Extreme for router/wireless access
    - Mac mini with 10TB of external storage has one 2 TB drive setup as a centralized Time Machine drive, which all the Macs on the network connect to
    Backups all work with no error messages. Restoring individual files here and there through Time Machine has worked fine. Never really needed, but I tested it a few times from each Mac just to ensure everything was working fine.
    Unfortunately, when my daughter's iMac internal drive failed I discovered that the restore not work. First issue was that restoring the system during OS X install was not an option because I was not able to get it to use the network drive. I was told to go ahead and install OS-X and then use the migration assistant, which unfortunately didn't work. Summary of what happened:
    - My account on the iMac was successfully restored
    - The main account with all the critical data (my daughter's) was created, but none of her data (iTunes music, school work, photos, etc) were restored
    - No error message at the end of the restore
    I know the Time Machine backup for her account was working as I had specifically checked to make sure that her iTunes music and photos were included in the backup just a week ago. Since the backup was being done to a drive connected to another Mac on the network, her iMac's backup was stored as a sparsebundle. In speaking with Apple support this morning, they had me try to mount the backup by double-clicking on the sparsebundle, which results in an error message indicating that it is corrupt. ARG!
    After two failed restores, I'm convinced I need to change the setup either moving to drives directly connected to each Mac (seems like a waste) using Time Machine or switch to another backup tool.
    What are your recommendations?

    It may be helpful for others for me to post the approach I've decided to take, which seems to be working well.
    Background:
    I've confirmed with an Apple genius and with support, that the likely issue with both of the failed TM restores is that the TM backup was corrupted by the drive failures. Files get corrupted and are backed up to the drive. That is why in both cases it is the specific account that was running (also the highest priority for restore) is the one that is corrupted.
    In nearly 3 decades of computing, I've yet to ever need to restore a single file or folder that I accidentally deleted. It's just not a scenario I care about. TM seems to fit this requirement well and has a very cool user experience to do it. Unfortunately, it also seems to have a tendency (0 for 2 in my case) to fail at restoring after drive failure.
    Decision: no TM in my back up approach.
    My primary need is for backup in case of drive failure. I also have some files that are extremely important that I want redundant backup for.
    Decision:
    1. ChronoSync for bootable backup clone of drives scheduled monthly and done over the home network. Can easily be triggered manually if there is a big change (SL install, etc) that I want to make sure is included
    2. ChronoSync based sync of just critical files to a shared network drive that syncs daily. This is actually a large amount of data and includes family photos (Lightroom catalog and all photos), iTunes libraries, PLEX media library and other user created files.
    Pluses:
    1. Allows me to keep drives centrally located, which is definitely preferable for me
    2. Easy rotation of drives with critical files for offsite storage
    3. Over the network sync is fully supported by ChronoSync
    4. Easy yet highly configurable UI. Unlike with TM I'm finding I can get the software to do precisely what I want, when I want.
    Cons:
    1. $40 cost for ChronoSync
    I also looked at SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner.
    I tried implementing the above first with SuperDuper, but found the setup confusing and the overall execution and sync was not what I expected. For example, SuperDuper encountered some file errors and just halted the sync as a result.
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