OS X Mavericks Time Machine Issues

After installing OS X my Time Machine has been unable to complete a backup. I'm getting an error indicating "sparsebundle could not be accessed (error(null))." I have powered the Time Machine down and back up again with no change in status. Any ideas on further options?

Most likely, the Time Machine backups are corrupted, but there are other simple causes for this error.
Try #C17 in Pondini's Time Machine Troubleshooting
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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Mavericks time machine issues

After installing Mavericks, the Time Machine icon on upper right banner no longer rotates when backing up to Time Capsule. Also, the Time Machine Icon is no longer showing on desktop when backing up. In system preferences, Time Machine, I can see that it is backing up. Also, it is checked to show Time Machine in menu bar. How do I get it to show on desktop when backingup and how do I get the Time Machine Icon on upper right menu bar to rotate? MBP early 2011.

For better or worse it's not "missing". It's just the new look for Mavericks.
It is animated in Finder as before.
If you look very carefully at the menu bar you will see a slight change when it's backing up. (Two Arrows in the "clock face")
it's subtle to say the least but it looks like this:

Since I upgraded to Mavericks, Time Machine no longer finds the Time Capsule Disk on my network

Hi,
Since I upgraded to Mavericks, Time Machine no longer finds the Time Capsule Disk on my network.
Five minutes before upgrading it however performed successfully a last backup.
I found several posts on this forum and proposed solutions:
- restarted both the mac and capsule
- deleted the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist (twice rebooting in between)
Still have the issue.

What brand of drive is it?
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After upgrading to OS X Mavericks Time machine stops working

After upgrading to OS X Mavericks Time machine stops backing up and sometimes hangs on ,,preparing,, for o days and sometimes stops inmediatly. Report says:
Backing up to /dev/disk1s2: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:]: index 0 beyond bounds for empty array'

Is this a Firewire or Thunderbolt connected disk? There are know issues with that in Mavericks. If so try connecting the drive by USB as you continue.
Is it a WD drive? There appear to be issues with those drive on Mavericks.
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http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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Time machine issue after Yosemite install

After performing a clean install of Yosemite and migration from my TimeMachine backup I experienced the following:
I opened iTunes and selected some music to play, then got a dialog box saying the files could not be found. Spotlight couldn't find them either... they were just gone. Naturally I went to my Time Machine backups and was surprised the music was gone from the backups, all the way back to the first backup. Very wierd. During the migration I went through the "Cleaning up old backups" process, not sure exactly what this process is.
I was pretty bummed that I had permanently lost a lot of music, some was recordings of friends playing live that could never be replaced. I then remembered that some time ago, just for the **** of it, I copied my sparsebundle backups to an external drive and stashed it in a drawer. I browsed it, and lo and behold there were the missing files. So I narrowly escaped a big problem, but wy did this happen? What are they doing over at Apple?

Hatrabbit wrote:
Naturally I went to my Time Machine backups and was surprised the music was gone from the backups, all the way back to the first backup. Very wierd.
This is really bad luck. And what can be seen here, it is not related to Yosemite but Mavericks, since I asume your backups were made with Mavericks. Though, it is possible that this bug still persists with Yosemite.
I have a similar problem. I am still on Mavericks. I see missing files in ~/Library/Preferences on a regular basis. When I come aware of it, I fix it manually by excluding Preferences folder from backup, run backup, include folder Preferences and finally backup again. But this fix does not last for long. Suddenly after some weeks I see a again missing files in that folder, when browsing the "Latest" backup.
I have found some related discussion:
Time machine missing files
http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/509489/potential-time-machine-issue-maverick s-leaving/
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/130955/some-files-are-gone-after-recove ry-from-time-machine-backup-why/150230
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/136453/time-machine-not-detecting-chang es-in-certain-folders
https://twitter.com/ThatDJJP/status/526429152153714690
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No solution until today. Very frustrating.
My feeling is, that many users do not recognize, that they are victim of this horrible bug, cause in most cases only few folders are hit by this bug.
And now since Yosemite is out, people are actually using there backups for the first time since Mavericks and run into a disaster.
Atm I am trying to test, if maybe fsevent daemon is the problem, in the past there have been issues like http://openradar.appspot.com/10207999
I did a check on my drive, and I found issues with realpath()/readdir(). Though, those issues may just be old and have not been detected by me for a very long time. My MBP is 5 years old and I upgraded all the way from 10.5 to 10.6 to 10.9.
With 10.6 I never had such an issue.
But more likely, the issue is related to the "Cleaning up old backups" process. Cause I also have the feeling, that when my backup drive gets full and the shrink process took place, then the result are missing files in younger backups then the ones cleaned. If that is true, then maybe the hard-link-approach of Time Machine is somehow involved.

After upgrade to mavericks: time machine keeps asking for my back up disk and won't open unless i plug in the disk. any solutions?

after upgrade to mavericks: time machine keeps asking for my back up disk and won't open unless i plug in the disk. any solutions?
before the upgrade, i could open time machine without the need for having the back up disk plugged in.

Ok. I got it to work, sort of....
As I mentioned before I tried the "disk password" and the "Time capsule Password" options to see if I can start the back up again or start a new backup. Neither worked. So I tried the firmware down grade, but like you said that did not work. I then decided to try the "Account password" option and I have never used this option before becasue it states that if there is data on the drive it would not be acessable after creating an account. Since I wiped out the disk that was nno problem. When I created the new account and choose the drive it asked for the user name and password. I entered the info for the new account I just created(FYI this has nothing to do with your login username and password), bingo! It worked!
Now I have two partitions on the TC disk. The old one and now the new account. I am guessing this is to be used if I have multiple computers, which I don't.
I any case, I am going to wipe out everything again and try again to do a backup the way I had it before.

Time Machine issues (16030) sparsebundle" is already in use for Time Capsule backup

Time Machine issues (16030) sparsebundle” is already in use for Time Capsule backup process. Just started happeing been using it for over two years.

First, restart the computer and the Time Capsule. In most of the cases, this solve the problem.
If it doesn't work, see > http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html

Time Machine issues with OS 10.6.8

Hi all,
after updating to 10.6.8 I noticed a Time Machine issue.
Backup takes very long but only a few MB were backed up.
And after it was finished, Finder crashed and I had to do a hard reset.
There´s also a "in progress" file on my USB Backup HDD after finishing.
Checking my HDD´s and repairing it wasn´t the problem.
Today I tried a new USB HDD to make a fresh Backup via Time Machine.
After a few hours it was finished, but only 7,8MB were backed up and still there is an "in progress" file on my new Backup HDD.
Here´s a troubleshoot:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/My Book/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Backup content size: 368.5 GB excluded items size: 75.7 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 351.34 GB requested (including padding), 930.54 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
CarbonCore.framework: coreservicesd process died; attempting to reconnect but future use may result in erroneous behavior.
Copied 7.2 MB of 292.8 GB, 5 of 1058420 items
Copied 11 files (27.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 930.52 GB available
Copied 165 bytes of 0 bytes, 4 of 0 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying / to (null)
Copied 7 files (236 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Error -50 deleting backup: /Volumes/My Book/Backups.backupdb/Computer/2011-07-19-180247.inProgress
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Can anyone help me?

A whole lot about Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.
There are two important errors noted in the backup:
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The following comes from the LaCie web site but is applicable to any other external drives whether home brew or commercial.
Getting error -50 when copying data in OS X.
Some LaCie drives ship out formatted FAT32 so they will be ready to use on either a Mac or a PC. If you are getting error -50 when copying to a LaCie drive, or any drive formatted for PC, it is because of the following:
Certain characters that can be used in a Mac OS X filename are not allowed in MS-DOS filenames. This can prevent the file from being copied, and can occur when a filename contains non-printing ASCII characters, or any of these characters: ? / \ < > " | > *.
Either copy the data off of the drive and use Apple's Disk Utility to erase the drive in Mac OS Extended format, or change the filenames of the documents that cannot be copied.

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Mavericks Time Machine Backup in Yosemite?

They say there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who backup and those who wish they did. I am the backup person, but when I did a clean install of Yosemite on my HD for a number of reasons, I cannot find my iphoto files (1000s of pictures). And I can't seem to utilize Time Machine at all. I have been able to manually drag files (music, documents, etc.) from the backup folder on the disk to the new system. But nowhere are my iphoto pictures....
So, where do I get the iPhoto files so I don't lose all my pictures? Is there a way to access a Mavericks Time Machine in Yosemite? Any help would be appreciated.
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While in Time Machine, press the key combination shift-command-C. The front window will show all mounted volumes. All snapshots should now be accessible. Select the one you want and navigate to the files you want to restore.
If you need to restore from a backup of the hidden user Library folder, first select a snapshot, then press shift-command-G. A Go to Folder dialog will open. In it, you'll enter the path to the folder. The dialog will help you by automatically completing the parts of the path when you start to type them.
The path begins with slash character ("/"). Enter that. The rest of the parts will be separated by slashes.
The next part is the date and time of the current snapshot. Enter a "2", and the rest of the date should be filled in automatically. Press the right-arrow key to jump to the end of the path. Enter a slash to start the next part.
Next is the name of the volume (usually "Macintosh HD" unless you gave it a different name.) Start to type that, then jump to the end and enter a slash.
The next part is "Users", followed by a slash.
Next is your (short) user name, which is also the name of your home folder.
Finally, enter "Library", then press return. You should now be in the Library folder. From there you can get around as in the Finder.

Can I have mavericks time machine on one partition of a WD external hard drive and snow leopard data on another

can I have mavericks time machine on one partition of a WD external hard drive and snow leopard data on another

If you want to and it is so large that it has room (350% is a good estimate for TimeMachine), then use a partition(s) to hold system restore images or bootable clones. Or VM images.
Using SSDs most Mac Pro models can easily hold 6 or more storage devices inside, except the nMP cylinder 6,1's; which do need external Thunderbolt and USB3.
System drive / data / scratch / backup data / backups of system / ....
I recommend a couple system backups, especially when faced with dual boot situations as well as an OS that is still undergoing updates and changes.

Can i restore my mavericks time machine to a snow leopard os?

I want to downgrade to SL from Mavericks. Can I restore my mavericks time machine files for use on a snow leopard?

I don't think there's any difference in the way TM operates, so 10.6 should be able to read the backup: however, note that many of your OS preference files will have been overwritten with new syntax that only Mavericks understands. So many of your settings won't work and the files may cause problems.
It's also worth mentioning that if you are downgrading because of crashing, slowness, or something like that, then Mavericks almost certainly isn't the cause in itself, but rather some incompatible third-party software doesn't work well in 10.9.
If you're just downgrading because you don't like some of the features, well, that's fair enough.

Time Machine Issue -- Error not found anywhere

I am having a Time Machine issue in which the error displayed cannot be found anywhere: Google, Bing, Apple, etc.
The error message is: "Time Machine couldn't find some of its settings on the backup disk "BACKUP". Make sure the backup disk is connected, and that other connected disks don't use the same name as the backup disk. Last success backup: 6/21/10 at 2:52 PM"
The other odd thing is that my Time Machine folders are empty. The directory structure is: BACKUP > Backups.backupdb > TIGERMASTER > {empty}. (TIGERMASTER is my MacBook Pro's name.)
When I do a Get Info on the directories, it reports Zero kb on disk with 0 items. When I do a Get Info on BACKUP, it reports 833GB used, with about 140GB free (it's a 1TB external HDD).
Disk Utility sees folders and files, however: "Number of Folders:583,061 / Number of Files:3,725,350"
Um, help?!
My Mac's Info:
*Model Name: MacBook Pro*
*Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1*
*Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo*
*Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz*
*Number Of Processors: 1*
*Total Number Of Cores: 2*
*L2 Cache: 4 MB*
*Memory: 4 GB*
*OS: 10.6.4*
*Ext. HDD: LaCie 1TB*

Here are the last few lines of the error output. The entire output was laden with red text, which indicates errors:
+Invalid node structure+
+Invalid record count+
+Rechecking volume.+
+Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.+
+Invalid node structure+
+The volume could not be verified completely.+
+Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.+
The most common output error (there must have been over a hundred) looked like these:
+Overlapped extent allocation (id = 10715055, /.HFS+ Private Directory Data+
+/dir_10712993/Mobile Backups/8884195JY7H/Structured/4eea38a1ac5f110bcb3d0a10ce4d571300ab85aa.mddata) +
+Overlapped extent allocation (id = 10715056, /.HFS+ Private Directory Data+
+/dir_10712993/Mobile Backups/8884195JY7H/Structured/4eea38a1ac5f110bcb3d0a10ce4d571300ab85aa.mdinfo) +
+Overlapped extent allocation (id = 10715057, /.HFS+ Private Directory Data+
+/dir_10712993/Mobile Backups/8884195JY7H/Structured/4f01e5e3411040bbec70277a704bfeb5b735d336.mddata) +
+Overlapped extent allocation (id = 10715058, /.HFS+ Private Directory Data+
+/dir_10712993/Mobile Backups/8884195JY7H/Structured/4f01e5e3411040bbec70277a704bfeb5b735d336.mdinfo) +
I tried to mount the disk, but it gives me the error: "The disk BACKUP could not be mounted. Try First Aid on the disk and then retry mounting." Of course, I can't back up any of the files because I can't mount the disk.

Time machine issue: always full backup after upgrade to Mavericks

I just upgraded to OS X Mavericks - since then, each Time Machine backup is a full back (Instead of just backing up the differential between backups) - I couldnt find the answer on the web, pls help! Thanks

Claude Crider wrote:
You say you think indexing is now done. Is that because everything else seems to be working with no delays?
Because you said "The CPUs stayed maxed and machine hot for about 3 more hours." That sound like it was done indexing your internal HD.
To be sure, look at the Spotlight index at the right of your menubar. If it has a tiny dot inside it, it's indexing something. Click it to see what. If not, it's caught up.
Oddly, the indexing of your backups may or may not appear there.
And when you say leave it for awhile, are you thinking more like 4 hours? or more like maybe 20 hours?
It depends on how large your backups are, and how you're connected. Ethernet will be faster than WiFI, of course, but will still take a while. The indexing may be done at the beginning of the backup, during it, or after it seems to be done (if the backup says it's done, but it doesn't eject the Time Machine Backups disk image, it's probably still being indexed).
I'd guess a few hours, again depending on how large your backups are.
At what point should I give up on it?
When you run out of patience?

OS X Mavericks time capsule issue.

After the OS X Mavericks upgrade, my time capsule keeps failing to back up. Anyone else having this issue?

I solved the problem I was having with Time Machine backups. I used the info at http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html, in particular the final section, "If your backups are on a network". In terminal I used the command "sudo tmutil inheritbackup", spedifying the sparsebundle on my backup disk. (I may have created the problem in the first place and I don't believe this was caused by Mavericks.)

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