Restarting time machine

I am using Time Machine on an external disk drive subsystem (Thunderbolt) on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). No issues at all - however, know that I'm more comfortable with its operation (it is amazing how simple it is), I would like to restart Time Machine all over to backup the complete system image and to perform its background backup operation all over again. I just want to be sure I do this right. Anybody have any experience with this?
Is it as simple as (1) Stopping Time Machine, (2) Deleting and permanently removing Backups.backupdb and all of it subdirectories on the backup drive, and (3) restarting Time Machine?

First turn Time Machine off by using the slider in the Time Machine prefs.
Then open Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.app)
Select the drive name (not the partition name), click 'erase' to wipe the disk.
Unmount /eject the disk.
Remount the disk.
Go into Time Machine Prefs, flip the slider to 'On' and then tell it the name of the (newly erased) disk you want to use.

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How do I restart Time Machine back-up from scratch?

How do I restart Time Machine back-up from scratch? I have a MacBook Air that was my wife's - now given to my daughter for school. My wife never used Time Machine to back up (she simply copied files to an external drive), so before clearing her files off the Mac HD, I tried using Time Machine for the first time with an external HD. However, the Time Machine back up repeatedly failed after about 2GB of 28GB of files. I manually copied my wife's 28GB of files to another external HD and deleted all the files off the Mac HD. I then reformatted the external Time Machine drive. But when I try to use Time Machine to back up the MacBook Air as it is now with my daughter's files on the Mac HD to the external TM drive, Time Machine acts as if the 28GB of my wife's deleted files are still on the Mac HD and fails back-up after counting to about 2GB, even though there aren't even 2GB of files on the Mac HD now and nothing on the external TM drive. I don't need to save any back-ups of how the MacBook used to be - I just need to start from scratch with how the computer is now. Can anyone please tell me how to get Time Machine to think the MacBook is a brand new computer and act as if it's a first time ever back up? I tried updating to Yosemite, and tried renaming the computer in System Preferences>Sharing, plus (as noted above) deleting all the old files off the Mac HD and reformatting the external Time Machine drive - none of that worked. All I can do at the moment is manually copy my daughter's files to an external HD - very frustrating.

Hmmm.. Office is not hard to restore.
You have something major wrong (Yosemite being the primary one).
Do a verify of the source drive.. to do that you will need to boot to the recovery.. and run the disk utility from there.. it sounds like your main disk is corrupted.
Once that is complete, delete the current setup of TM and try again.. use the widget to find out why it is failing..
See Troubleshooting.
A1, A4 and A5 for further info.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Good luck with it..
I would also download carbon copy cloner.. it is $40, but you can use it free for a time.. forget if a week or a month??.. to try out.. and make a proper backup before you start.. CCC is far more reliable than TM.. and in fact you might decide to simply forget about TM if it works and pays the $40.. because you can produce a bootable clone on the external drive which is a heck of a lot easier to use than TM.

Restarting Time Machine from scratch?

If I want to restart Time Machine from scratch after a massive rearrangement of my system and external hard disks which are being backed up, is it just a matter of removing the Backups.backupdb and private folders from the Time Machine disk and generating a new backup and going on from there?
Thanks,
doug

Doug Lerner2 wrote:
But it's only a problem if it's a problem, right?
Is there something technically a problem with what I want to do?
That's what I'd like to find out. If all the Time Machine information is in those two folders, then is wiping them the same as restarting Time Machine from scratch on a newly formatted disk?
you'll have GREAT difficulty emptying trash if you delete those folders from finder. I strongly recommend against it. first they contain millions of files. emptying trash with that many files will take a LONG time under the best of circumstances. worse, TM backups are protected by some nasty ACLs and some items are locked. they'll give you a lot of grief when you try to empty trash.
this has been tried by many people before you as this is a natural enough thing to try to do.
that's why it's best to just erase the whole TM volume using disk utility.
Does anyone happen to know?
Thanks,
doug

How to restart Time Machine?

If I eject my external drive TM, is there a way to reinstall it from within Mac? What I have to do now is to either restart the computer or, completely unplug the hard drive and plug it back in.
Thanks

That worked. Thanks very much. When ejected, the Time Machine icon showed up in Disk Utility, but it was grayed out. When I clicked on it, the "Unmount" button changed to "Mount" and a click on this loaded it onto the desktop.
I assume that this can be done for any device that is attached to the mac if it does not show up under devices, but it would have to show up in Disk Utility even if grayed out. Is this correct.

Deleting and restarting Time Machine Backup

I just bought a new iMac and am giving my Mac Book Pro to my daughter. I deleted many of the applications and files on the Mac Book Pro. Can I go into the Time Capsule and delete the Mac Book Pro backup then have Time Machine backup so I get a fresh back up?

Can I go into the Time Capsule and delete the Mac Book Pro backup then have Time Machine backup so I get a fresh back up?
Yes, you can.
However, it will be much, much easier if you simply erase the Time Capsule disk rather than try to delete the MacBook Pro backup....which will take hours. The erase procedure will only take a few minutes in contrast.
This assumes that you do not have backups from other Macs on the Time Capsule.....which will also be wiped clean if you erase the Time Capsule disk.

Time Machine not showing backups

Time Machine stopped backing up earlier this month and I have done numerous things to get backups again. Yesterday after upgrading memory on my iMac, not as a fix for Time Machine, I restarted Time Machine and it appeared to be backing up just fine. This morning when I looked at Time Machine preferences it does not display oldest or latest backup and when I open disk it shows 2015-01-24-083208.inProgress and if you look inside package it appears to have backups all the way back to when I started Time Machine back up. I have reformatted the drive during the process of trying to get backups working again and run disk utility and drive checks out fine. When it does a backup it shows progress bar and when complete tells when next backup is. I browsed through the folders in the 2015-01-24-083208.inProgress package and they do appear to be complete backups.
Yosemite 10.10.1
iMac 27-inch, Mid 2010
2.93 GHz-intel Core i7
24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB
Console log from 8:32:04-9:43:03 showing backup attempt.
1/24/15 8:32:04.131 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Starting manual backup
1/24/15 8:32:04.557 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Backing up to /dev/disk1s2: /Volumes/Time Machine BU/Backups.backupdb
1/24/15 8:32:08.588 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Wizard" (device: /dev/disk2s2 mount: '/Volumes/Wizard' fsUUID: 90AAAA7F-5054-3CE9-BFDC-6F2A296AE9D8 eventDBUUID: 5066E8AA-4CE4-4A8E-A360-9D6546C82672)
1/24/15 8:32:08.588 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Donald" (device: /dev/disk4s2 mount: '/Volumes/Donald' fsUUID: 13CE64DB-2C3E-3F6F-A827-3EE10B21A844 eventDBUUID: 76DB19EA-D1CA-4B48-B616-7D6C321B9D26)
1/24/15 8:32:08.589 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Silver Dragon Video" (device: /dev/disk0s4 mount: '/Volumes/Silver Dragon Video' fsUUID: ABFCA956-C38E-3AC0-80DF-D52E1ABCF9F6 eventDBUUID: 903ECE34-9CCA-4637-B355-AD61E5212FC9)
1/24/15 8:32:08.589 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Taz" (device: /dev/disk5s1 mount: '/Volumes/Taz' fsUUID: A611E0E4-C531-39E8-BB24-90450700206B eventDBUUID: 8F7AA85E-B50F-4E5C-89A4-589016079C06)
1/24/15 8:32:08.589 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Merlin" (device: /dev/disk0s2 mount: '/' fsUUID: BCBE1184-5CA9-3D20-8995-ED3AF3E02A0C eventDBUUID: FF840539-4135-4352-BA92-16328A442D1F)
1/24/15 8:32:08.626 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Warning: Bytes to copy estimate was negative (-4194304)
1/24/15 8:32:08.686 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Found 1225204 files (104.9 MB) needing backup
1/24/15 8:32:08.690 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: 5.63 GB required (including padding), 833.76 GB available
1/24/15 8:32:11.014 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Copied 2 items (Zero KB) from volume Wizard. Linked 15.
1/24/15 8:32:33.017 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 8:32:37.791 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Copied 294 items (128.5 MB) from volume Donald. Linked 24.
1/24/15 8:32:39.672 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Copied 22 items (Zero KB) from volume Silver Dragon Video. Linked 60.
1/24/15 8:32:41.850 AM com.apple.backupd[28455]: Copied 2 items (2.1 MB) from volume Taz. Linked 0.
1/24/15 8:33:07.072 AM sandboxd[18325]: ([26495]) mdworker(26495) deny file-read-data /Users/dlounds/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist (import fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:10000025E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.apple.application-bundle plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 31286509)
1/24/15 8:33:09.563 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 8:36:41.213 AM lsregister[28718]: LaunchServices: Begin database seeding
1/24/15 8:36:41.213 AM lsregister[28718]: LaunchServices: Completed database seeding
1/24/15 8:36:45.000 AM kernel[0]: process backupd[28455] thread 257272 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 88%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 99.779860 seconds, (74.551965 user, 25.227895 system) ledger info: balance: 90001144384 credit: 99190919689 debit: 9189775305 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 101582629679
1/24/15 8:36:45.838 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[28725]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash.DirectoryService
1/24/15 8:36:47.662 AM spindump[18461]: Saved cpu_resource.diag report for backupd version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/backupd_2015-01-24-083647_Donalds-iMac-2.cpu_re source.diag
1/24/15 8:37:14.877 AM com.apple.backupd-helper[50]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
1/24/15 8:37:16.686 AM WindowServer[174]: WSBindSurface : Invalid surface 1048152452 for window 393
1/24/15 8:37:26.000 AM kernel[0]: low swap: killing pid 28455 (backupd)
1/24/15 8:37:26.000 AM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 18482 [soagent]
1/24/15 8:37:26.028 AM com.apple.dock.extra[354]: SOHelperCenter main connection interrupted
1/24/15 8:37:26.030 AM SystemUIServer[291]: Attempt to use XPC with a MachService that has HideUntilCheckIn set. This will result in unpredictable behavior: com.apple.backupd.status.xpc
1/24/15 8:37:26.030 AM com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[1168]: Attempt to use XPC with a MachService that has HideUntilCheckIn set. This will result in unpredictable behavior: com.apple.backupd.status.xpc
1/24/15 8:37:27.306 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 8:37:28.515 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.backupd[28455]) Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9
1/24/15 8:39:33.394 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 8:40:19.069 AM WindowServer[174]: Display 0x42735c0 captured by conn 0x221db
1/24/15 8:40:19.590 AM apsd[58]: Peer [pid=294] requested push wake but lacks APSPushWakeEntitlement
1/24/15 8:40:19.591 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>: notification observer: com.apple.FaceTime   notification: __CFNotification 0x7fe504332490 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbEnabledNotification}
1/24/15 8:40:19.591 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>: notification observer: com.apple.iChat   notification: __CFNotification 0x7f8960d2a550 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbEnabledNotification}
1/24/15 8:40:19.869 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>:    NC Disabled: NO
1/24/15 8:40:20.061 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>:   DND Enabled: YES
1/24/15 8:40:20.061 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>:    NC Disabled: NO
1/24/15 8:40:20.061 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>: Updating enabled: NO   (Topics: (null))
1/24/15 8:40:20.081 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>:   DND Enabled: YES
1/24/15 8:40:20.081 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>: Updating enabled: NO   (Topics: (null))
1/24/15 8:41:59.025 AM apsd[58]: Peer [pid=294] requested push wake but lacks APSPushWakeEntitlement
1/24/15 8:41:59.026 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>: notification observer: com.apple.FaceTime   notification: __CFNotification 0x7fe502e04a50 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbDisabledNotification}
1/24/15 8:41:59.027 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>: notification observer: com.apple.iChat   notification: __CFNotification 0x7f89633025e0 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbDisabledNotification}
1/24/15 8:41:59.326 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>:    NC Disabled: NO
1/24/15 8:41:59.459 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>:   DND Enabled: NO
1/24/15 8:41:59.459 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>:    NC Disabled: NO
1/24/15 8:41:59.459 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>: Updating enabled: YES   (Topics: (
    "com.apple.ess",
    "com.apple.private.ac"
1/24/15 8:41:59.474 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>:   DND Enabled: NO
1/24/15 8:41:59.474 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>: Updating enabled: YES   (Topics: (
    "com.apple.private.alloy.icloudpairing",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.encryption",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.activity",
    "com.apple.ess",
    "com.apple.private.ids",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.phonecontinuity",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.activity.public",
    "com.apple.madrid",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.auth",
    "com.apple.private.ac",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.idsremoteurlconnection",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.sms",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.screensharing",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.maps",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.callhistorysync",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.tethering"
1/24/15 8:42:00.346 AM WindowServer[174]: Display 0x42735c0 released by conn 0x221db
1/24/15 8:42:13.951 AM WindowServer[174]: Display 0x42735c0 captured by conn 0x221db
1/24/15 8:42:14.258 AM apsd[58]: Peer [pid=294] requested push wake but lacks APSPushWakeEntitlement
1/24/15 8:42:14.258 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>: notification observer: com.apple.FaceTime   notification: __CFNotification 0x7fe504374770 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbEnabledNotification}
1/24/15 8:42:14.258 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>: notification observer: com.apple.iChat   notification: __CFNotification 0x7f89633025e0 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbEnabledNotification}
1/24/15 8:42:14.273 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>:    NC Disabled: NO
1/24/15 8:42:14.273 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>:    NC Disabled: NO
1/24/15 8:42:14.283 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>:   DND Enabled: YES
1/24/15 8:42:14.283 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>:   DND Enabled: YES
1/24/15 8:42:14.283 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>: Updating enabled: NO   (Topics: (null))
1/24/15 8:42:14.283 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>: Updating enabled: NO   (Topics: (null))
1/24/15 8:42:24.552 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook[28903]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
1/24/15 8:42:27.274 AM apsd[58]: Peer [pid=294] requested push wake but lacks APSPushWakeEntitlement
1/24/15 8:42:27.274 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>: notification observer: com.apple.iChat   notification: __CFNotification 0x7f896311a8d0 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbDisabledNotification}
1/24/15 8:42:27.274 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>: notification observer: com.apple.FaceTime   notification: __CFNotification 0x7fe502c0e790 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbDisabledNotification}
1/24/15 8:42:27.289 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>:    NC Disabled: NO
1/24/15 8:42:27.290 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>:    NC Disabled: NO
1/24/15 8:42:27.300 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>:   DND Enabled: NO
1/24/15 8:42:27.300 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>:   DND Enabled: NO
1/24/15 8:42:27.300 AM imagent[363]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fe502f046d0>: Updating enabled: YES   (Topics: (
    "com.apple.ess",
    "com.apple.private.ac"
1/24/15 8:42:27.300 AM identityservicesd[371]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8963009d90>: Updating enabled: YES   (Topics: (
    "com.apple.private.alloy.icloudpairing",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.encryption",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.activity",
    "com.apple.ess",
    "com.apple.private.ids",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.phonecontinuity",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.activity.public",
    "com.apple.madrid",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.auth",
    "com.apple.private.ac",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.idsremoteurlconnection",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.sms",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.screensharing",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.maps",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.callhistorysync",
    "com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.tethering"
1/24/15 8:42:28.301 AM WindowServer[174]: Display 0x42735c0 released by conn 0x221db
1/24/15 8:43:54.553 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 8:44:44.275 AM lsregister[28981]: LaunchServices: Begin database seeding
1/24/15 8:44:44.290 AM lsregister[28981]: LaunchServices: Completed database seeding
1/24/15 8:45:03.759 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 8:45:54.174 AM Skype[29024]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.1 instead of 10.10.1. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
1/24/15 8:45:54.266 AM Skype[29024]: 0   CarbonCore                          0x905c37e7 ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 135
1/24/15 8:45:54.266 AM Skype[29024]: 1   libdispatch.dylib                   0x941d8130 _dispatch_client_callout + 50
1/24/15 8:45:54.266 AM Skype[29024]: 2   libdispatch.dylib                   0x941d80b5 dispatch_once_f + 251
1/24/15 8:45:54.266 AM Skype[29024]: 3   libdispatch.dylib                   0x941d90d8 dispatch_once + 31
1/24/15 8:45:54.266 AM Skype[29024]: 4   CarbonCore                          0x90555fb8 _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 1050
1/24/15 8:45:54.266 AM Skype[29024]: 5   CarbonCore                          0x90555b69 Gestalt + 150
1/24/15 8:45:54.266 AM Skype[29024]: 6   Skype                               0x00ecfa0c Skype + 15526412
1/24/15 8:45:55.853 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to create AccessSession
1/24/15 8:45:57.738 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to create AccessSession
1/24/15 8:45:57.739 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to create AccessSession
1/24/15 8:45:58.591 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to create AccessSession
1/24/15 8:45:58.591 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to create AccessSession
1/24/15 8:46:04.279 AM discoveryd[57]: Basic DNSResolver Re-Binding to random udp port 54721
1/24/15 8:46:05.627 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to create AccessSession
1/24/15 8:46:06.290 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to create AccessSession
1/24/15 8:46:07.971 AM WindowServer[174]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Skype" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
1/24/15 8:46:08.360 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to create AccessSession
1/24/15 8:46:08.370 AM WindowServer[174]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Skype" after 1.40 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
1/24/15 8:47:23.262 AM Skype[29024]: Failed to get contents of directory "/Users/dlounds/Library/Logs/Skype". The file “Skype” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file.
1/24/15 8:49:56.361 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 8:50:00.372 AM com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper[29157]: Failed to obtain sandbox extension for path=/Users/dlounds/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper. Errno:1
1/24/15 8:50:00.408 AM com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper[29157]: Failed to obtain sandbox extension for path=/Users/dlounds/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper. Errno:1
1/24/15 8:50:00.460 AM com.apple.SecurityServer[61]: Session 100045 created
1/24/15 8:50:01.092 AM sandboxd[18325]: ([29157]) com.apple.Safari(29157) deny file-issue-extension /Users/dlounds/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper
1/24/15 8:50:01.157 AM sandboxd[18325]: ([29157]) com.apple.Safari(29157) deny file-issue-extension /Users/dlounds/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper
1/24/15 8:51:50.732 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 8:57:29.577 AM WindowServer[174]: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 1048885458 for window 439
1/24/15 8:57:41.189 AM WindowServer[174]: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 1232358664 for window 443
1/24/15 8:58:57.113 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 9:01:22.309 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 9:02:57.112 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 9:03:29.463 AM 2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits.onepassword4-helper[396]: 510034 [EXT:0x7fde80523ef0:<OP4ExtensionClient: 0x7fde80487fe0>] S sendAction:payload: | [ES4 0x7fde80487fe0] safari-extension://com.agilebits.onepassword4-safari-2bua8c4s2c sendAction: 'fillItem'
1/24/15 9:03:29.617 AM WindowServer[174]: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 1061728151 for window 452
1/24/15 9:03:29.617 AM WindowServer[174]: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 1061728151 for window 452
1/24/15 9:04:38.739 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 9:05:57.020 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 9:08:57.924 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 9:10:19.453 AM Mail[1191]: Could not load x-msg URL
1/24/15 9:11:34.070 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 9:13:01.695 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning] ====== IDS Traffic Usage:
1/24/15 9:13:01.695 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning]    Service: com.apple.madrid
1/24/15 9:13:01.695 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning]      queries: 3
1/24/15 9:13:01.696 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning]      query-requests: 8
1/24/15 9:13:01.696 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning]      incoming-messages: 100
1/24/15 9:13:01.696 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning]
1/24/15 9:13:01.696 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning]    Service: com.apple.ess
1/24/15 9:13:01.696 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning]      query-requests: 4
1/24/15 9:13:01.696 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning]
1/24/15 9:13:01.696 AM identityservicesd[371]: [Warning] ====== Done
1/24/15 9:15:13.961 AM com.apple.iCloudHelper[29936]: objc[29936]: Class FALogging is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyCircle.framework/Versions/A/FamilyCircl e and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyNotification.framework/Versions/A/Famil yNotification. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
1/24/15 9:15:13.968 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 9:15:14.567 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 9:15:42.713 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 9:15:52.863 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 9:16:03.000 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 9:19:17.860 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook[30069]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
1/24/15 9:26:03.633 AM Finder[28424]: CreateWithFileInfo failed to create URL with FSRef, falling back to blank icon.
1/24/15 9:28:32.395 AM WindowServer[174]: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 1171077509 for window 537
1/24/15 9:28:36.290 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook[30360]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
1/24/15 9:29:34.533 AM WindowServer[174]: WSBindSurface : Invalid surface 1071767117 for window 539
1/24/15 9:33:34.734 AM 2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits.onepassword4-helper[396]: 510034 [EXT:0x7fde80523ef0:<OP4ExtensionClient: 0x7fde80487fe0>] S sendAction:payload: | [ES4 0x7fde80487fe0] safari-extension://com.agilebits.onepassword4-safari-2bua8c4s2c sendAction: 'fillItem'
1/24/15 9:36:59.222 AM networkd[181]: -[NETClientConnection scrubParametersForEntitlements:] client com.apple.WebKi.27501 setting source application without entitlement
1/24/15 9:36:59.441 AM networkd[181]: -[NETClientConnection scrubParametersForEntitlements:] client com.apple.WebKi.27501 setting source application without entitlement
1/24/15 9:37:13.590 AM 2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits.onepassword4-helper[396]: 510034 [EXT:0x7fde80523ef0:<OP4ExtensionClient: 0x7fde80487fe0>] S sendAction:payload: | [ES4 0x7fde80487fe0] safari-extension://com.agilebits.onepassword4-safari-2bua8c4s2c sendAction: 'fillItem'
1/24/15 9:37:13.774 AM WindowServer[174]: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 1081537237 for window 555
1/24/15 9:37:13.774 AM WindowServer[174]: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 1081537237 for window 555
1/24/15 9:37:14.886 AM com.apple.backupd-helper[50]: Attempt to use XPC with a MachService that has HideUntilCheckIn set. This will result in unpredictable behavior: com.apple.backupd.status.xpc
1/24/15 9:37:45.895 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Starting automatic backup
1/24/15 9:37:47.378 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Backing up to /dev/disk1s2: /Volumes/Time Machine BU/Backups.backupdb
1/24/15 9:37:50.501 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Wizard" (device: /dev/disk2s2 mount: '/Volumes/Wizard' fsUUID: 90AAAA7F-5054-3CE9-BFDC-6F2A296AE9D8 eventDBUUID: 5066E8AA-4CE4-4A8E-A360-9D6546C82672)
1/24/15 9:37:50.501 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Donald" (device: /dev/disk4s2 mount: '/Volumes/Donald' fsUUID: 13CE64DB-2C3E-3F6F-A827-3EE10B21A844 eventDBUUID: 76DB19EA-D1CA-4B48-B616-7D6C321B9D26)
1/24/15 9:37:50.502 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Taz" (device: /dev/disk5s1 mount: '/Volumes/Taz' fsUUID: A611E0E4-C531-39E8-BB24-90450700206B eventDBUUID: 8F7AA85E-B50F-4E5C-89A4-589016079C06)
1/24/15 9:37:50.502 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Silver Dragon Video" (device: /dev/disk0s4 mount: '/Volumes/Silver Dragon Video' fsUUID: ABFCA956-C38E-3AC0-80DF-D52E1ABCF9F6 eventDBUUID: 903ECE34-9CCA-4637-B355-AD61E5212FC9)
1/24/15 9:37:50.502 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Merlin" (device: /dev/disk0s2 mount: '/' fsUUID: BCBE1184-5CA9-3D20-8995-ED3AF3E02A0C eventDBUUID: FF840539-4135-4352-BA92-16328A442D1F)
1/24/15 9:37:50.509 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Warning: Bytes to copy estimate was negative (-4194304)
1/24/15 9:37:50.514 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Found 1225204 files (104.9 MB) needing backup
1/24/15 9:37:50.518 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: 5.63 GB required (including padding), 831.93 GB available
1/24/15 9:38:00.127 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Copied 2 items (Zero KB) from volume Wizard. Linked 15.
1/24/15 9:38:24.993 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Copied 294 items (128.5 MB) from volume Donald. Linked 24.
1/24/15 9:38:26.967 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Copied 2 items (2.1 MB) from volume Taz. Linked 0.
1/24/15 9:38:30.274 AM com.apple.backupd[30647]: Copied 22 items (Zero KB) from volume Silver Dragon Video. Linked 60.
1/24/15 9:38:46.237 AM com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64[30683]: Failed to connect (colorGridView) outlet from (NSApplication) to (NSColorPickerGridView): missing setter or instance variable
1/24/15 9:38:46.237 AM com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64[30683]: Failed to connect (view) outlet from (NSApplication) to (NSColorPickerGridView): missing setter or instance variable
1/24/15 9:39:02.699 AM sandboxd[18325]: ([27615]) mdworker(27615) deny file-read-data /Users/dlounds/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist (import fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:10000025E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.apple.application-bundle plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 31286509)
1/24/15 9:39:06.135 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
1/24/15 9:42:23.000 AM kernel[0]: process backupd[30647] thread 284195 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 92%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 100.024649 seconds, (73.979556 user, 26.045093 system) ledger info: balance: 90001969500 credit: 99452116670 debit: 9450147170 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 97615636534
1/24/15 9:42:23.149 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[30796]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash.DirectoryService
1/24/15 9:42:24.342 AM spindump[18461]: Saved cpu_resource.diag report for backupd version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/backupd_2015-01-24-094224_Donalds-iMac-2.cpu_re source.diag
1/24/15 9:43:03.000 AM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 18798 [aslmanager]
1/24/15 9:43:03.000 AM kernel[0]: low swap: killing pid 30647 (backupd)
1/24/15 9:43:03.754 AM com.apple.backupd-helper[50]: XPC error for connection com.apple.backupd.xpc: Connection interrupted
1/24/15 9:43:03.754 AM com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[1168]: Attempt to use XPC with a MachService that has HideUntilCheckIn set. This will result in unpredictable behavior: com.apple.backupd.status.xpc
1/24/15 9:43:03.755 AM com.apple.backupd-helper[50]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Failed to send message to backupd

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Time Machine not working after upgrading to Lion

I have a Time Machine 1.2 which worked perfectly on my old iMac OSX. A few months ago I purchased a new iMac which came with Snow Leopard, and it worked well. But when Apple came to upgrade me to Lion, the Time Machine no longer works. Is it not compatible with Lion??
At one stage I was told there was no room on the disk. I then tried to delete most of the previous backups, leaving only a handful of backups - but still no luck. I think I might have messed up things by then trying to edit the "do not back up" list. I tried to exclude some programmes applications , and now I am told there are no disks available to be backed up.
It is not very clear on the "options" screen, what one should do. What does the + and - indicate, and is it necessary to remove any files at all if I want a simple regular backup procedure on my home computer.
Lastly - if I wanted to uninstall and reinstall the Time Machine - is there a procedure?? I can't find one.
I hope someone can put me right.

I was brave and did what you said. (Thanks for being patient - I am an old lady).
I erased the external drive (called Time Machine Backups) in the diskutility.app.
Now - when I restarted Time Machine I am still told that there are no disks available to be backed up, and that this can happen if all disks are in the “Do not back up” list.
So maybe I really did mess up the list of items to be excluded from backups?
How do I restore the list now to what it should be?

Time Machine/AirPort can't find my Time Capsule

I have a Time Capsule; I have had it for a year or so working fine with Time Machine backing up onto it. Abruptly it stopped working: the light flashing amber slowly, and Time Machine saying "could not complete backup". I tried disconnecting the Capsule from the power supply and turning off and restarting Time Machine. At this point Time Machine and AirPort Utility stopped being able to "find" the Capsule. I tried soft- and hard-resetting it; after a hard-rest it would show up in AirPort Utility again but when I went through the setup and it tried to restart the Capsule it lost the connection again. After another hard-rest, Time Machine could find it as a nameless Capsule but when I try to back up to it Time Machine asks for a password and the one I'd previously set up no longer works. I've tried several times now. Connecting the Capsule via Ethernet cable or wirelessly makes no difference. Please, can anybody help? ...Thanks.

Time Machine could find it as a nameless Capsule but when I try to back up to it Time Machine asks for a password and the one I'd previously set up no longer works. I've tried several times now. Connecting the Capsule via Ethernet cable or wirelessly makes no difference. Please, can anybody help? ...Thanks.
What role and how does it connect to your broadband??
If you did a hard reset you cannot use it until you complete the setup.. and the previous password will be wiped.. so you cannot use it anyway.
Isolate the TC completely from the network.. plug in ethernet LAN port to a single computer.. which is also totally isolated from the network. Press the reset and start again..
Are you using Snow Leopard as per your list of products or have you updated recently to ML.. this is a common issue after an update.

Time Machine disk won't Auto Mount

I am able to create a time machine backup using a Network Attached Storeage drive (WD MyBookLive) for my MacBook Pro via a wireless connection. My initial backup works fine. However once the computer sleeps or is restarted Time Machine is unable to connect to the disk where the backup is.
Strangely the disk is available if I select it under Shared in the left hand column of finder or if I manually connect to with "Connect to Server" from "Go" in finder. I can see all my manually saved files in one folder as well as my Time Machine folder but Time Machine itself cannot find it.
I can only reestablish a connection if I reset my router, NAS and my Macbook Pro.
Settings I have changed:
Router - Reserved static IP address for NAS rather than DNS
NAS - Disable Sleep Mode
Mackbook Pro - no changes yet, hence the post.
Any ideas?

I am able to create a time machine backup using a Network Attached Storeage drive (WD MyBookLive) for my MacBook Pro via a wireless connection. My initial backup works fine. However once the computer sleeps or is restarted Time Machine is unable to connect to the disk where the backup is.
Strangely the disk is available if I select it under Shared in the left hand column of finder or if I manually connect to with "Connect to Server" from "Go" in finder. I can see all my manually saved files in one folder as well as my Time Machine folder but Time Machine itself cannot find it.
I can only reestablish a connection if I reset my router, NAS and my Macbook Pro.
Settings I have changed:
Router - Reserved static IP address for NAS rather than DNS
NAS - Disable Sleep Mode
Mackbook Pro - no changes yet, hence the post.
Any ideas?

HT3275 Time Machine Breaks in Mountain Lion after 1st backup

I have been having great problem within both Lion and Mountian Lion and Time Machine. After only a single backup the next backup will ALWAYS FAIL!. When I run Disk Tools to repair the disk for it, I am also always have to do a force eject to remove it from the desk top in order to repair it. It alway finds some errors. I had thought that perhaps the disk may have bad sector but checked this with Drive Genious 3 and fouund this was not the case. I even used a brand new drive and this problem sitll occurs.
This same problem is present on both my Mac Pro and a mac mini that are runnning 10.8.2. I am so frustrated at this point I have been investigatin commercial back up products. I wish and hope that Restropect is still around. It is a day I thought that would never happen to see Apple go down hill so far with the qality of thier software.
I have tried all trouble shooting steps provided by apple at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US and none of this will fix this problem. If anything is accomplished, the next back up will work only once and then fail on next back up.

lukemac77 wrote:
I would like to perform a clean install of Mountain Lion
Why? That rarely accomplishes anything good.
I do not wish to use setup or migration assistant.
Why not?
If you want to leave apps behind, do the clean install, then use Setup Assistant to transfer your home folders, but omit Applications. You can also omit some broad categories of things in your home folders if you want. See Using Setup Assistant on Mountain Lion or Lion.
1. After the clean install, will I be able to browse AND copy filed from the old backups manually?
If you mean via the TM browser (the "Star Wars" display), perhaps. If the user account(s) you set up have the corresponding UIDs as on the backups, yes. (See the pink box in Problems after using Migration Assistant for an explanation.)
2. If I do copy the files, will I have permission errors?
If you copy them via the Finder, possibly. Especially if the UIDs don't correspond, the new user account may not have permission to change or delete things. You may be able to put default permissions on them via
Resetting Password and/or User Permissions.
Basically, I wish to copy only select files from the Home Folder and re-install everything else anew.
If you skip Applications, and reinstall them, your best bet is to use Setup Assistant, omitting any broad categories you can. Otherwise, let it all transfer, then delete what you don't need.
After that, I want to restart Time Machine in Mountain Lion and start a new backup.
If you don't use Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant, the next backup will be a full one. Plus, the previous backups will be treated as if they were made from a different disk. You can still see them, but via the procedure in #E3 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
You may be able to avoid that by manually telling Time Machine to "associate" the erased drive with the old backups, per #B6 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Since upgrading to Mavericks, my Time Machine is stuck on "Preparing Backup".

Since upgrading to Mavericks, every time I attempt to run a Time Machine backup, I can only get it to go as far as "Preparing Backup". I've left it like that for hours just to see if it's slow. I've also stopped and restarted Time Machine multiple times to no avail....it just gets stuck at that point. Please help.

Since upgrading to Mavericks, every time I attempt to run a Time Machine backup, I can only get it to go as far as "Preparing Backup". I've left it like that for hours just to see if it's slow. I've also stopped and restarted Time Machine multiple times to no avail....it just gets stuck at that point. Please help.

Time machine - external not large enough - now I can't access preferences to just select certain items to back up with time machine

How do I access preferences when restarting my external hard drive? When I tried the first time to use Time Machine it failed because the external hard drive was too small. When I ejected and restarted Time Machine I am not now able to access preferences to select only certain files for Time Machine to back up. How do I access preferences to change the back up to selected files instead of the whole hard drive to the external drive?

I'm not sure I've got the right answer, but always willing to help out a fellow Portlander. You should be able to set your preferences for Time Machine by going to the apple symbol on your upper left screen, selecting "System Preferences" in the drop down menu, and then selecting Time Machine icon in the window that opens. In the bottom right of the preference window, "Options" allows you to select what is included or excluded in the backup by using the + and - buttons at the bottom of the display. Clicking plus will open a finder window and allow you to select and add files. Note also that you can check "Show Time Machine in Menu Bar" which will then display the icon on the top right side of your screen by the volume and date and time. Clicking on the icon once it's displayed takes you to the Time Machine preference window directly.
Hope that helps.
David

Time Machine Failure - Unable to create backup directory

I've been using time machine for months with no problems. It seems like since I went to the 10.5.2 update I started having problems.
Time machine fails and says a problem occurred creating a backup directory. I'm running an external drive formated to the MAC Extended Journeled. I also set my computer share name with no punctuation and no spaces.
Today I got the failure and I ran repair disc in disk utility and it could not repair the disk. So I erased it, rebooted and reconfigured time machine.
Started running the backup and about 30 minutes into it stopped with the same error.
Any thing I can try?

Seems I have same problem, I came here for the answer, only to find there appears to be none!
I started off with a new 250Gb internal drive, 50 "Real" Gb to Boot Camp, rest to Mac. Re-installed from original Apple install disks to TIGER, then upgraded to LEOPARD with the Apple upgrade disk that came with the machine as an uninstalled upgrade. All firmware and software updates up to date.
First tried a Maxtor 4+ ext 750Gb Firewire drive for Time machine, 400Gb to Time Machine, other partition for other stuff. Every backup failed with Time Machine, same as the unfortunate gentleman in the pages above. Super-Duper backup to that same drive/partition worked perfectly.
So I bought a 250Gb 2.5" Western Digital drive, put it in a USB/Firewire case and tried that, but every time same problem. It would stall once 123.85Gb of 143.8Gb completed, and get no further. After a few days a reboot or forcequit was needed to stop the process, and on attempting to restart time machine later would only get to about 32kb and fail stating there was not enough space on the drive. (123Gb already backed up, only 19Gb to go, and 106Gb free on the backup drive)
I have re-formatted (Standard Mac extended/journalled format) the drive several times now, and always same result. I have checked the drive, repaired it, and written it over with Zeroes after formatting even, still same resuly, exactly 123.85Gb into the backup it stops and goes no further. I have tried with both the firewire, and the USB plugged into the drive, same result. Time Machine does not even have the courtesy to report which file it got stuck on, so that I could manually delete it if that was the problem. Anyone found the answer to this yet?

Time Machine always switches to my home directory. What to do?

D'oh, need to restore a file, which happens to be in a root folder of my iMac's HD.   No prob, Time Machine is on duty!
The usual procedure: In Finder, bring the containing folder to the front, select the file, go to the clock icon at he upper right, pull down, and choose "Enter Time Machine". TM takes over the display with the distinctive Star-Field background and offers to restore in that folder.
Up until today that that's worked in every version of MacOS that includes Time Machine.
Today: No matter what I do --including after a system restart-- Time Machine switches the front-most window to display my home directory, first, THEN goes into Star-Field mode.
Note 1: Yeah, I can work-around by navigating to my HD and then to the specific file I need to restore.
Note 2: This problem occurs even when the file I need to restore is in the hierarchy of my home directory.
So: Why does TM now insist on switching to my home directory and what to do about it?   Without endangering my existing files or TM backups?
TIA

Link Dupont wrote:
I'd plug in and run a Time Machine backup about once a day, on average. I've been scouring the logs, and the only thing I notice is the "deep traversal" message, which I'd expect occasionally as it needs to reindex files (especially after a restore).
This also happens if the TM disk isn't dismounted, etc., exactly the way TM expects; or if there's an abnormal power-down. It means TM isn't sure about just exactly what is where, so it looks at every file and folder to be sure.
I've run long S.M.A.R.T. scans on the drive (via smartctl on a Linux LiveCD and SeaTools via a Windows installation), I've run Repair Disk (via Disk Utility) and I've defragmented the filesystem (iDefrag). All the diagnostics come back healthy, and iDefrag had little to do. My gut tells me the drive is failing, but I can't actually prove it. My next step is to reformat the drive and create a new filesystem; I'll see if Time Machine is happy with a clean start.
I'm a MobileMe subscriber, so I downloaded and set up the old .Mac Backup.app, and will be running that daily to shove my important files up to my iDisk (and probably to various other locations), in case backupd decides to choke again, at least I have a backup to my backup.
Good plan. I run CCC daily, in addition to TM's hourly backups, and use Backup to iDisk daily for fairly small stuff, plus others to DVD/RWs kept in my safe deposit box. May seem like overkill, but I've learned, usually the hard way, that when it comes to backups, paranoia is prudent!

Time machine taking too long (indexing)

I run my time capsule to back up both of my computers
a Imac 2GHz intel core duo running 10.6.8 and
an Imac 3.4GHz intel core i7 running 10.7.4
both are connected wirelessly to the Time Capsule
Recently, on the older machine, backups have stalled. I can work on it for a while, doing disk repairs and disk permissions with the Snow Leopard installation disk utility and 'fix' it for multiple backups - and all is well. Then it stalls on 'indexing backup' again. Meanwhile, the new machine running Lion is just fine. I just noticed it again.
Last successful backup was 0517 this morning (EST) and this was at approx 1700 (5 evening). I sat at the computer and was working away when Snow Leopard became really slow and I noted that the Time Capsule was indicating indexing backup, I let it run for 45 minutes and it was still indexing backup, so I quite Time Machine and restarted at 1845 (645 evening). The restart of Time Machine allows Snow Leopard to regain its usual speed, Time machine reported a file count of 202 files that had changed and went to 'indexing backup' a half hour later it is still at 'indexing backup' (about 9 emails were received - how that relates to 202 files I am not sure)
Why does it work multiple times just fine and then all of a sudden stall? When it does stall it simply (over time I presume) eats up all available memory (1.5 gb) with page swaps each one getting bigger and bigger until all memory is gone. I can 'free memory' and recover to about 600 free (running email and browser app in the background) but the time machine does it all over again if I allow it to run.
As I said, I have used Disk Utility (with the Snow Leopard Installation disk to allow repair of the boot volume) and have repaired the disk and repaired permissions - several times. (some disk permissions are repaired - no disk repairs reported) After each time, I go back and restart Time Machine and 'poof' within an hour it performs a backup with no problems. I note that backups are performed on schedule for the next few days with no problems, and then bingo, the system is totally bogged down again, and Time Machine is stuck on indexing backup once again. I have not noticed any commonality as to when the problem occurs - sometimes after a day, sometimes after several days. And meanwhile, the Lion machine is performing flawlessly
At the moment my kludge to work around is to turn off Time Machine so as not to use up all the memory and then periodically use the installation disk routine to 'repair' (disk and permissions) and then backup, but this is NOT solving the problem long term of course.
The first time I noticed this (about two months ago) the disk repair did note a disk error the system was claiming 2 bytes less free space than there was, but after that time, all the disk repairs report fine.

Indexing can take a long time over wireless. You would do much better with ethernet connection.
Maybe the hard drive is failing.. The fact that the disk passes tests does not mean it is ok. As a disk ages it can have issues reading, where the same sector has to read multiple times.
I guess the ideal would be replace the machine.. it is several years old and really due for replacement.
Or at least the hard disk... although the cost of doing that job might not be worth it.
As a test I would do a backup using TM to a USB local disk plugged into it... that is good practice anyway when you are getting poor reliability on backups.
You can create a disk image using a other tools.. CCC or superduper.
A clone of the existing drive again can be worth it.
You can set to boot from FW drive and ignore the internal.. see if the problems go away.
Pondini is usually helpful although he doesn't have specific on this indexing issue.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Restarting time machine

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