Problem following full system backup recovery from TM

Hi All,
In addition to other Mac computers I also own an iMac G5. The original hard drive that came with the machine was starting to show signs of "fatigue" so I decided to get a replacement drive.
After putting in the new drive (500gb) I booted my computer using the Leopard install DVD and selected the "restore from time machine backup" under utilities. I went through the process of finding my time capsule->backup->restoring the full thing. I left it going over night so I don't actually know how long it took. Nevertheless, in the morning the process was done. Happily, I restarted my mac and got the grey screen with the apple logo in the middle. The spinning progress circle appeared and started going around. After ~10-15 seconds the screen went black and the mac rebooted itself. The same thing happened over and over and the only way to stop this was to physically turn off the computer.
Here is some additional information for those with a good idea what is going on:
1) If I install a clean Leopard system everything works. The system gets installed and the computer boots normally.
2) After restoring from time capsule (computer continues to reboot itself) I tried doing an "archive and install" from the install DVD. I reasoned that the problem likely lies somewhere within the system booting process so if that is corrupted in one way or the other putting only a new system (and archiving the old one) may allow me to boot the machine and access my user data. Long story, after going through the full recovery process I get an error that the system was installed but that there was some error so the user information could not be used. Regardless, the computer still continuously reboots itself upon startup.
3) I ran Diskwarrior on the recovered time capsule backup. Some very minor errors were found and corrected in personal files that have nothing to do with the boot process (actually, files I have not touched in ages). Directory structure etc. was fine. This did not help however to solve the problem.
4) If I boot my Mac in "safe" or "verbose" mode the screen goes black and I start getting the details of the boot process. (I do not have a copy of the text). Rather quickly it reaches a point where it say something about the HD. It seems to be checking something since the process is "hanging". Afterwards there is a whole quick list of things that the Mac goes through and then follows the dreaded reboot. This goes too fast to actually see what is the last step. (is there a way to slow/freeze the process?)
Is there anyone out there that has an idea on how to solve this issue?
thanks
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.5.5) 1GB RAM

Thanks for your post.
I did forget to mention in my initial post that I did try to recover my time machine backup from older dates. I tried a backup from one week, one month, and two months ago. The problem persists.
I am avoiding the second option you raised (installing a clean system and migrating my data) and keeping that as a last option. The main reason is that in addition to the data I have I would like to avoid having to install all the applications.
If worse comes I'll take that route. Hopefully, a good suggestion will come up.

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Simplify with Java Stored Procedures
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Directory exist because I can backup single tablespace, into the same directory, I just can't backup whole database.
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You can't copy Time Machine backups that way, unless you used asr(8), which I don't think you did.
The "GoFlex" device accounts for a disproportionate number of reports on this site of problems with Time Machine. I suggest you stop using it for backing up.
Delete whatever you copied to the Time Capsule and start a new backup. I strongly recommend that you also back up to a locally-attached hard drive (not the GoFlex) at least some of the time, as network backups are less reliable. You should have more than one backup anyway.

Backup recovery from dead Windows 7 32-bit machine to new Windows 7 64- bit machine.

My windows 7 32-bit laptop (Toshiba Satillite) stopped working suddenly due to a damaged motherboard. Having been told that a new motherboard would cost more than a new computer i decided to buy a new laptop. My new laptop (also a Toshiba Satillite) has
windows 7 64-bit installed on it.
Having setup my new laptop, i need to restore some files (Emails, internet favourites etc) from the last backup i made of my broken laptop. This backup was made in November 2011 and is saved on my external harddrive.
Can anyone tell me how i get these files from the backup onto my new Windows 64-bit computer?
Thanks for you help

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Why is time capsule not doing a full system backup?

It's only backing my users folder and nothing more. Their is nothing excluded from time machine in the options. Also I have my time capsule set up the right way.

Reset Time Machine.
See A4 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Verify local disk and wipe the TC and start over.

[SOLVED] Problems after full system update

Hi, today i've issued pacman -Syu and after reboot, my X refuses to start (says it has no device) and also i have no network interfaces, just loopback. Everything worked well before update. Any ideas?
Last edited by ancrouter (2011-10-21 15:11:30)

ancrouter wrote:Strange... i've just updated again to latest linux-3.0.7-1 package, and everything works fine. There had to be some problem during updating.
You could have run
lsinitcpio -a /boot/initramfs-linux.img
on the old image to see what modules did it include.
Re-running mkinitcpio probably generated a correct image so it's working now.

Time Machine will not complete a system backup and terminates with "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume. This follows a problem when Time machne terminated when the volume was almost full.

On 11/1/2011, Time Machine (TM) terminated with an error message I did not record. I noted that the drive was full and decided to do a separate complete bootable system backup using Carbon Copy Clone (CCC), before clearing the TM volume and trying to start it over clean. Part way through the full system backup CCC put up a message that there was a Physical Problem "Library/Application Support/Techtool Protection/McIntosh HD/Directory Backup 2011-11-01-16-28-16". That was about the time that TM malfunctioned, so I assumed they were related. After starting CCC over a couple of times, and getting the same error message, I let it go through to completion of the backup, which took three or four hours. I then ran tests using Disk Utility and verified that there was nothing physically wrong with both the internal hard drive and the TM volume. I also erased and reformatted the TM volume. However, every time I started Time Machine, it would record a few GB and terminate with "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume". I restarted the computer with no change in results. Note that prior to starting the CCC backup, I "Repaired Permissions", "zapped the PRAM" and "re-set the SMC", hoping to have a clean bootable system on the backup. I ran Techtool and no problems were found.
I'm running this on an Intel iMac under 10.5.8 and recording to a 500GB My Passport drive. My hard drive is only about half full at 246 GB. My assessment is that something happened at 16-28-16 on 11/1/2001 to screwup the Backup Directory in the file at "Library/Application Support/Techtool Protection/McIntosh HD/Directory Backup 2011-11-01-16-28-16". My question is, how do I fix it?
I had just completed writing everything above here, explaining the problems I had been encountering for the past 24 hours. I had the Time Machine window standing open on the desktop where I could see it, having recentlycleared it after the last termination. As I was proofing what I had written, I looked at the window and noted that the clock had started a new run for a full back up, since all prior efforts had failed and the TM volume was empty. As I watched and waited for it to fail again, as it had been doing at about 13 GB, it kept going and going until it just finished a complete backup, about 4.5 hours later, with my having done nothing. Now my question would have to be - what could possiibly have happened to make it perform this way? It will be interesting to see if it continue to operate normally, or if the problem will return, in a later backup run.

jcm21 wrote:
CCC put up a message that there was a Physical Problem "Library/Application Support/Techtool Protection/McIntosh HD/Directory Backup 2011-11-01-16-28-16"
You should not keep those files for long, and probably shouldn't back them up (if you need them at all -- since you do regular backups, I'm doubtful just how worthwhile that feature is).
"Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume".
One of Apple's maddeningly incomplete messages. Most likely, there's a problem with a file (quite possibly the one CCC didn't like). See #C3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for details and instructions on finding and fixing it.
If you continue running the Directory Protection app, be sure to exclude your Time Machine drive from it (as it will just take up lots of room, and won't help repair your backups if there's a problem); and exclude the folders it creates from being backed-up by Time Machine (as they'll create large backups, and you probably can't use the backed-up folders anyway), per #10 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

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