Slow Lion Time Machine- 465,335 days remaining...

I have the early 2011 15 macbook pro. I am trying to do a time machine backup to a firewire connected drive. First timemachine backup on this empty drive. Lion logs everything out and the backup fails if I leave for more than 20 minutes. For the second time, backup failed because of not being able to index a file in the developer applications. Earlier the backup of 400 GB across a firewire 400 was slated for 5 hours. After the failure and restart it was slated for three days... erased the external and started again - but then another backup error at indexing.
Now a fourth attempt this one will be finished in 465,335 days.
I don't think this is funny. If Steve Jobs was still around I don't think he would sit back and let this happen. Looks like I won't be waitng for 1,273 years after all - another file indexing failed, on the iphone simulator software.
After many years of boosting mac to my friends, I am saddly going to have to start looking for alternatives. I expect more for the price I paid.

Hey Marlin, yes you are correct, it was not a question (I unchecked the "is this a question" checkbox)
Partly this is my method of documenting my (unfortunately many) issues with my 2011 15" macbook pro, and I think this is a better venue than shouting frustrations at the sky.
The external hard drive is a iomega 500Gb with room to spare, formated as Mac OS extended. Disk utility finds no problems before running time machine. After a failed time machine there were errors found, and I reformated and tried again.
The most frustrating thing is that the mac logs me out of the computer if I leave it alone while doing a time machine backup, causeing it to stop the back up! I have turned off the automatic log out in settings, but it still logs me out. This happens every time on a first time time machine backup.
Also really cool is the screen I see when I wake the computer - I call it the 'scratch away' screen, since moving the mouse 'scratches' away either black or a desktop. Ill see if I can attach a screenshot for you.
<hmmm cant seem to attach a 1.8 Mb foto taken with my iphone... click insert imager and nothing>
I will also include my console errors incase that helps. I have noticed the indexing fails on different files each time.
1/10/12 12:05:29.292 AM ReportCrash: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
1/10/12 12:05:30.015 AM com.apple.backupd: Indexing a file failed. Returned 1 for: /Applications/Max5/Cycling '74/object-palettes/jit.pwindow.svg, /Volumes/fb/Backups.backupdb/Robbie Hinman’s MacBook/2012-01-09-235541.inProgress/87143A64-A9FE-4E2F-B4E9-FB70EC3AA6E0/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Max5/Cycling '74/object-palettes/jit.pwindow.svg
1/10/12 12:05:30.015 AM com.apple.backupd: Aborting backup because indexing of file failed.
1/10/12 12:05:30.015 AM com.apple.backupd: Stopping backup.
1/10/12 12:05:30.561 AM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.metadata.mds[892]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
1/10/12 12:05:30.651 AM mds: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
1/10/12 12:05:30.706 AM com.apple.backupd: Copied 245822 files (9.9 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
1/10/12 12:05:30.707 AM com.apple.backupd: Copy stage failed with error:11
1/10/12 12:05:30.708 AM mds: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
1/10/12 12:05:30.734 AM mds: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
1/10/12 12:05:31.164 AM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for mds[892] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2012-01-10-000531_localhost.crash
1/10/12 12:05:41.413 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 11
1/10/12 1:02:00.685 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: ([0x0-0x66066].com.apple.systempreferences[715]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/10/12 1:02:00.689 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: ([0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.Console[268]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/10/12 1:02:00.768 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: (com.apple.talagent[269]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/10/12 1:02:00.770 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: ([0x0-0x1b01b].com.apple.AppleSpell[353]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/10/12 1:02:00.969 AM loginwindow: DEAD_PROCESS: 37 console
1/10/12 1:02:01.068 AM com.apple.backupd: Stopping backup to allow backup destination disk to be unmounted or ejected.
1/10/12 1:02:01.425 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed because the destination disk was ejected or disconnected unexpectedly!
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSGetNextEventRecord (Inline) connection 0x8e07, 16384 bytes
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: CGSShutdownServerConnections: Detaching application from window server
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: CGSDisplayServerShutdown: Detaching display subsystem from window server
1/10/12 1:02:01.944 AM UserEventAgent: XRHotKeyAgent:638 kCGErrorInvalidConnection
1/10/12 1:02:01.973 AM UserEventAgent: CaptiveNetworkSupport:UserAgentDied:139 User Agent @port=23303 Died
1/10/12 1:02:02.003 AM prl_naptd: Exiting Parallels Network Daemon
1/10/12 1:02:02.342 AM airportd: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “2WIRE950”. Bailing on auto-join.
1/10/12 1:02:04.345 AM loginwindow: Login Window Application Started
1/10/12 1:02:05.042 AM loginwindow: **DMPROXY** Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
1/10/12 1:02:05.795 AM com.apple.launchctl.LoginWindow: com.apple.findmymacmessenger: Already loaded
1/10/12 1:02:06.016 AM airportd: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “2WIRE950”. Bailing on auto-join.
1/10/12 1:02:06.383 AM com.apple.SecurityServer: Session 100013 created
1/10/12 1:02:06.385 AM loginwindow: Login Window Started Security Agent
1/10/12 1:02:06.856 AM SecurityAgent: Echo enabled
1/10/12 1:02:06.856 AM SecurityAgent: Echo enabled
1/10/12 1:04:28.312 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 1:04:28.312 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 1:04:38.328 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 2:04:28.218 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 2:04:28.218 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 2:04:38.234 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 3:04:28.127 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 3:04:28.128 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 3:04:38.143 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 4:04:28.027 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 4:04:28.028 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 4:04:38.043 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 5:04:27.935 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 5:04:27.936 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 5:04:37.951 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 6:04:27.832 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 6:04:27.832 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 6:04:37.848 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 7:04:27.734 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 7:04:27.735 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 7:04:37.750 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 8:04:27.633 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 8:04:27.634 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 8:04:37.649 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 9:04:27.531 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
1/10/12 9:04:27.532 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
1/10/12 9:04:37.547 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
1/10/12 9:53:16.898 AM SecurityAgent: User info context values set for robbie
1/10/12 9:53:16.898 AM SecurityAgent: User info context values set for robbie
1/10/12 9:53:17.419 AM authorizationhost: Failed to authenticate user <robbie> (error: 9).
1/10/12 9:53:20.064 AM SecurityAgent: User info context values set for robbie
1/10/12 9:53:20.064 AM SecurityAgent: User info context values set for robbie
1/10/12 9:53:20.831 AM SecurityAgent: Login Window login proceeding
1/10/12 9:53:20.831 AM SecurityAgent: Login Window login proceeding
1/10/12 9:53:21.210 AM loginwindow: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
1/10/12 9:53:21.254 AM loginwindow: USER_PROCESS: 1088 console
1/10/12 9:53:21.255 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_naptd: QKqueueFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: open: No such file or directory
1/10/12 9:53:21.255 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_naptd: QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /Library/Managed Preferences
1/10/12 9:53:21.326 AM applepushserviced: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.iCalPush': unknown error code
1/10/12 9:53:21.328 AM applepushserviced: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.AddressBook.PushNotification': unknown error code
1/10/12 9:53:21.328 AM applepushserviced: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.syncdefaultsd.push': unknown error code
1/10/12 9:53:21.328 AM applepushserviced: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.safaridavclient.push': unknown error code
1/10/12 9:53:21.365 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
1/10/12 9:53:21.392 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua: load: option requires an argument -- D
1/10/12 9:53:21.392 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua: usage: launchctl load [-wF] [-D <user|local|network|system|all>] paths...
1/10/12 9:53:21.399 AM airportd: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “2WIRE950”. Bailing on auto-join.
1/10/12 9:53:21.721 AM UserEventAgent: CaptiveNetworkSupport:CNSServerRegisterUserAgent:187 new user agent port: 24655
1/10/12 9:53:21.740 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503: (com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[1398]) Exited with code: 1
1/10/12 9:53:25.763 AM WindowServer: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
1/10/12 9:53:30.335 AM com.apple.dock.extra: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.335 AM com.apple.dock.extra: 2012-01-10 09:53:30.334 com.apple.dock.extra[1440:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.335 AM com.apple.dock.extra: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: 2012-01-10 09:53:30.335 com.apple.dock.extra[1440:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: 2012-01-10 09:53:30.335 com.apple.dock.extra[1440:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:30.336 AM com.apple.dock.extra: 2012-01-10 09:53:30.336 com.apple.dock.extra[1440:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/10/12 9:53:38.695 AM talagent: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSFlushSurfaceWithOptions: Invalid window 0x15
1/10/12 9:53:38.695 AM talagent: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
1/10/12 9:53:40.651 AM prl_naptd: Starting Parallels Network Daemon
1/10/12 9:53:40.652 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy: QKqueueFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: open: No such file or directory
1/10/12 9:53:40.892 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy: QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /Library/Managed Preferences
1/10/12 9:53:49.821 AM MIDIServer: MIDIServer [1474] starting; arch=x86_64
1/10/12 9:53:51.578 AM MIDIServer: PlugIn EmagicUSBMIDIDriver.plugin -- file://localhost/Library/Audio/MIDI%20Drivers/ does not contain a supported architecture.
1/10/12 9:53:51.578 AM MIDIServer: MIDIServer relaunching because a 32-bit driver was found
1/10/12 9:53:51.962 AM MIDIServer: MIDIServer [1474] starting; arch=i386
1/10/12 9:53:53.059 AM com.apple.midiserver: PreSonus FireStudio MIDI Driver - 3.5.6.11675 - i386 - Aug 16 2011 05:08:10
1/10/12 9:53:56.288 AM sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=robbie ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist
1/10/12 9:53:56.360 AM sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=robbie ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl start com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy
1/10/12 9:53:57.000 AM kernel: nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
And here is the latest failure console message
1/10/12 12:11:26.311 PM ReportCrash: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
1/10/12 12:11:27.927 PM com.apple.backupd: Indexing a file failed. Returned 1 for: /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Components/Components Sampler/2D Girls Dog.skp, /Volumes/fb/Backups.backupdb/Robbie Hinman’s MacBook/2012-01-09-235541.inProgress/BAF8FBEC-430F-4846-8215-4CC53EB109DC/Macin tosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Components/Components Sampler/2D Girls Dog.skp
1/10/12 12:11:27.927 PM com.apple.backupd: Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
1/10/12 12:11:27.927 PM com.apple.backupd: Stopping backup.
1/10/12 12:11:28.949 PM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for mds[1647] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2012-01-10-121128_localhost.crash
1/10/12 12:11:29.093 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.metadata.mds[1647]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
1/10/12 12:11:29.156 PM mds: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
1/10/12 12:11:29.203 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 101076 files (5.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
1/10/12 12:11:29.204 PM com.apple.backupd: Copy stage failed with error:11
1/10/12 12:11:29.483 PM mds: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
1/10/12 12:11:40.093 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 11

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Regarding Time Machine being useless or not as good as a clone, I suggest reading what respected ASC user Pondini says here about the relative merits of each of the major backup strategies.

After installing lion, time machine does not always back up. The back up disk is occasionally not recognized.

after installing lion, time machine does not always back up. The back up disk is occasionally not recognized. Help!

This is easy one.. for most.. just restart the TC.. ie pull out the power.. count to 10.. plug in the power.
If the simple doesn't work you can see more info here.
C12 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Mountain Lion Time Machine backup to USB drive super slow

I recently upgraded the MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. The time machine backup is SUPER SLOW even when doing it on a USB 3.0 Drive. It currently showing 2 days for 100GB backup. I was able to copy the same 100 GB of files on to the same hard disk in less than 1 hr. This is so slow that i might be better off managing back ups manually or just writing a small script to do it. But before I do so wanted to check if anybody else has the same issues.
Regards
Uddhav
Update:
Turning off the spotlight on the external hard disk helped improve the speed dramatically. Brought it down from 1 GB in 1 hr to almost 1 GB / minute.
System Preferences --> Spotlight
Add the Drive to the exceptions list. It will say this is a time machine disk so except the time machine folder everything else will be added to the exception list. Say Yes and thats it !!!
Now says 19hrs still a lot according to me but much better than 2 days.
Any body has any additional tips /tricks please share !!
Regards
Uddhav

uddhav wrote:
Turning off the spotlight on the external hard disk helped improve the speed dramatically.
That may indicate a damaged index. Keep an eye on subsequent backups -- if they take a long time, and/or show "indexing backup" on the Time Machine preferences panel for very long, you may need to delete it, so OSX can recreate it. See the pink box in #D2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting for instructions.
It will say this is a time machine disk so except the time machine folder everything else will be added to the exception list.
Is there anything else on the drive (in the same partition)? If so, that's usually not a good idea. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #3 for an explanation.
Now says 19hrs still a lot according to me but much better than 2 days.
Yes, that's quite slow, especially if your Mac supports USB 3.
If it doesn't, it should be running at USB 2 speeds, which for a full backup should be, very roughly, 40-50 GB/hour.
See the rest of #D2 in the Troubleshooting link for other causes of slow backups.

Where can I find calendar library in mountain lion time machine backup

Hi together,
I just had a series of new hardware and problems with the software. In december I had to buy a new MBP as the motherboard of my old one was damaged. So now, with mountain lion, I only have made one backup with time machine so far.
A few days ago I bought an iPad for the first time. Thats why I was reading the instruction for icloud and tried a few things. And there I made a mistake and all calender entries were deleted.
Thought: no big problem, as I have a backup. BUT I cant find the calendar files in the backup. I know, that the library is only shown in "Go to + alt-key", but I dont find it in the backup. (I tried also an terminal command written in a community thread, but nothing happend)
Please, can anybody help me?
Thanks a lot in advance!!!!

If you synchronize any of your calendars with a server such as iCloud, disable that synchronization. Quit Calendar.
Triple-click the line below to select it: ~/Library/Calendars Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder selected. Enter Time Machine and restore that folder from the snapshot you want.
Relaunch Calendar and test. Your calendars should be as they were when the snapshot was taken. If you don't sync with a server, stop here. If you do sync some of the calendars with a server, select each one in turn and then select
File ▹ Export ▹ Export…
from the menu bar. You'll get ICS files with the filename extension ".ics". Re-enable sync. Usually, all the calendars you just restored will be deleted. That's not a problem. Create a new calendar on the server for each one you exported and want to sync:
File ▹ New Calendar
Then import the calendar from the corresponding ICS file:
File ▹ Import ▹ Import…
Follow the prompts to import the new events to the calendar you just created. For calendars that you don't want to sync, just import them again. They'll appear in the calendar list under On My Mac.

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