No Incremental Backups - Can Only Force Backup
I waited until the patch was released before posting this message as I thought my issue may go away. It has not...
Time machine suddenly stopped working about a week ago. I get no incremental backups at all. I can force a backup with no issues.
Today I read all the help topics, I re-formated my Lacie Disk, my PC name is fine and so is the name of my Lacie drive. I still get no incremental backups. TM says that in an hour it will backup, it does not, TM then says it will backup in another hour, it does not.
The only thing I might not have done (newbie) is formatted to GUID? I dont know what that is. In disk utility I selected erase and used the MAC OS Extended (Journald) option, I then created 2 partitions, one for TS and one for storage.
Its starting to annoy me now. Any help would be appreciated.
Message was edited by: ShaggyRS6
I downoaded Bento demo. Then about 10 mins later TM backed up. I then downloaded an iTune and waited for the next schedule backup. That did not work. Strange
Nov 16 06:53:47 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
Nov 16 08:20:43 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
Nov 16 08:59:22 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Nov 16 08:59:22 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: Starting standard backup
Nov 16 08:59:24 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Nov 16 08:59:46 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 819.8 MB requested (including padding), 82.19 GB available
Nov 16 09:00:54 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: Copied 5043 files (612.4 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 16 09:00:55 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 153.3 MB requested (including padding), 81.57 GB available
Nov 16 09:01:00 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: Copied 443 files (49.8 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 16 09:01:01 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: Starting post-backup thinning
Nov 16 09:01:01 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Nov 16 09:01:01 host171 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[336]: Backup completed successfully.
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