Sudden Failure to Back Up Files - How to Recover?
After successfully backing up files from my desktop computer for several months, I got a failure, and subsequently messages that read "Time Machine is read-only". Below is the BuddyShare diagnosis for the day it happened.
I am using TM to back up both my desktop and my laptop computers.
Can I recover easily? Do I need to re-format? If so, how do I do that, and can I do it for the desktop only?
Thanks for any suggestions
BuddyShare Report April 17, 2009
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Desktop/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 109.6 MB requested (including padding), 39.24 GB available
Copied 1635 files (11.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 39.23 GB available
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
Indexing a file failed. Returned -1120 for: /Users/kte2003/Library/Preferences, /Volumes/Desktop/Backups.backupdb/KTE's Desktop Computer/2009-04-17-223345.inProgress/CDEE2877-4977-423E-8D77-ADEAAEDF7EA7/Maci ntosh HD/Users/kte2003/Library/Preferences
Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
Stopping backup.
Copied 426 files (0 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
kte2003 wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me.
I had no luck. After exclusion from Spotlight, Back Up Now gave the familiar "TM is read-only" message. Same result after exclusion from TM Preferences.
Look at those messages again. Do you have one that references a file with a name like ".00xxxxxxxxx" where the x's are various numbers and letters?
If so, open the Terminal app (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
At the prompt, type the following exactly as shown, substituting the name of your TM drive exactly, including any spaces, between the quotes; and the file name (with the period):
sudo chmod 644 /volumes/"TM drive name"/.xxxxxxxxxxxx
Press Return. You'll get some warnings and a request for your Administrator's password. Type it in (it won't be displayed) and press Return again.
Then try a +Back Up Now.+
I would be happy to re-format and start all over, if necessary. Not sure how to do that with TM supporting both desktop G5 and MacPro laptop.
Depends. If they're both in the same partition, you can't do this without erasing both sets of backups. If it ever comes to that, I'd recommend putting two partitions on your TM disk, one for the exclusive use of TM on each Mac. Then all you have to do is erase the partition in question.
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