Time Capsule and Time Machine want backup, stops after 2-30GB

Bought 2 x 2GB Time Capsule yesterday to have for backup purpose. I have only used one of them yet (30 day return policy). I have an iMac with OSX 10.6.6 connected by LAN: I first tried to connect the TC to my ZyXEL P2602HWT, then directly to the iMac without any other network, and now i have set up ZyXEL as a bridge router and run TC with PPOE. All three connections provide the same miserable results. First backup starts quite normal and can backup everything from 2-30GB before Time Machine comes with a fault message "Time Machine Error This can be a transient problem. Try again later. If the problem persists, repair the backup disk using diskutility. I have tried everything rebooted TC, TC deleted, removed almost all the folders in the Time Machine except for documents, pictures and music folders but same result. Is there something wrong with my TC?

Kjetil Tomasgaard wrote:
Bought 2 x 2GB Time Capsule yesterday to have for backup purpose.
I'm wondering why you're using a Time Capsule for backups of an iMac; an external HD would be much faster and more reliable.
"Time Machine Error This can be a transient problem. Try again later. If the problem persists, repair the backup disk using diskutility.
It sounds like there's a problem with a file on your system; see #C3 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).

Similar Messages

Time Machine says Backup Delayed After Upgrading to Lion

Time Machine says Backup Delayed After Upgrading to Lion on both my Macs. It backs up fine when ever I connect to the USB drive but now seems to want to back up hourly when before weekly was OK. When it does not compleye an hourly backup it reports a delayed backup - failure on both machines. How do it revert back to it reminding me to do weekly backups?

I'm having the same issue with Time Machine on OS X Lion!
According to this webpage: http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/LionChanges.html
Backups (i.e., Time Machine, SD, CCC, etc.) will only save the current "Version" of files.
The above statement sounds like the issue @iJRB and myself are having after upgrading to Lion where Time Machine shows the following error message below within "System Preferences > Time Machine"
@iJRB: Is this the error message you are seeing?

HT1770 I am setting up new Seagate GOFlex Pro for Mac for Time Machine. Backup stops at 45.2MB. A customer service of the Seagate said it is Apple's issue. Please help! Shuichi

Backup stops at 45.2MB. A customer service says that it is Apple's issue. Please help. Shuichi

Event store UUIDs don't match naming your internal HD or any other drive/partition being backed-up. Time Machine can't be sure the OSX internal log of file changes that it normally uses is correct.
This happens in the following circumstances:
•The first backup of a disk, or to a new location
•After booting from your install disc, Recovery HD, or a different OSX volume (usually)
•A full restore
•Certain hardware repairs (e.g., new internal disk or logic board)
•Removal of large exclusions
•A very large volume of changes (especially an OSX update)
•An improper shutdown of your Mac, or improper disconnection or power loss on the Time Machine drive
•If it's an external HD, an improper shutdown or disconnection of the drive
•A failed or cancelled backup
•Many days without a backup
It usually causes a lengthy deep scan/traversal (below), so if you see it frequently, you need to figure out why it's happening.
http://pondini.org/TM/A6.html
Might also have a look at...
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/backupd_2013-11-15-164711_NAME-nokonpyuta-2.crash

Time Machine start then stop after few seconds

Hi,
I've tried to reset Time Machine (trashed the library plist file, erased the backup HD), also installed Time Machine Buddy widget.
When I start a fresh new backup, Time Machine start indexing, then stops without backup anything.
The error log of Time Machine Buddy widget is this:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 156.0 GB excluded items size: 1.8 GB for volume Mastoidontico
No pre-backup thinning needed: 185.11 GB requested (including padding), 1.82 TB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
LaunchServices: bad alias at 0x1041d7094, size 104, CSStore size 4391026
* process 240 exceeded 500 log message per second limit - remaining messages this second discarded *
2010-02-02 18:47:12.920 ReportCrash[271:2703] Saved crash report for backupd[240] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/backupd2010-02-02-184712localhost.crash
Any help to solve my problem?
Thanks!

Process: backupd [240]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd
Identifier: backupd
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2010-02-02 18:47:12.319 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x000000014c486000
Crashed Thread: 2
Thread 0: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff80044e3a machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff800454ad mach_msg + 59
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff868377a2 __CFRunLoopRun + 1698
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff86836c2f CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff868369b6 CFRunLoopRun + 70
5 backupd 0x000000010000d2f1 0x100000000 + 54001
6 backupd 0x0000000100004014 0x100000000 + 16404
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8005dbba kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8005fa85 dispatch_mgrinvoke + 154
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8005f75c dispatch_queueinvoke + 185
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8005f286 dispatch_workerthread2 + 244
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8005ebb8 pthreadwqthread + 353
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8005ea55 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 2 Crashed:
0 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff85070987 CSStoreGetUnit + 84
1 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff85df44a3 _LSBundleFindWithNode + 544
2 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff85decc79 _LSFindOrRegisterBundleNode + 219
3 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff85decb2d _LSCopyItemAttributeForRefInfoWithOptions + 201
4 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff85deea77 prepareAttributeValueForKey(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFString const*, void const**, __CFError**) + 79
5 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff85dee9dc prepareDistinctLocalizedNameValue(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFError**) + 36
6 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff85dee9b3 prepareLocalizedNameValue(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFError**) + 9
7 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff85dee7bc LSPropertyProviderPrepareValues(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, __CFString const* const*, void const**, long, void const*, __CFError**) + 51
8 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff85081c90 prepareValuesForBitmap(__CFURL const*, __FileCache*, _FilePropertyBitmap*, __CFError**) + 264
9 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff85080779 _FSURLCopyResourcePropertiesForKeys + 980
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8683f402 CFURLCopyResourcePropertiesForKeys + 98
11 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b30169 TCFURLInfo::FetchProperties(bool) + 91
12 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b2ffbd TCFURLInfo::Initialize(__CFURL const*, bool, bool) + 183
13 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b8e07f TCFURLIterator::NextRaw(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo>&) + 79
14 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b8e11a TCFURLIterator::Next(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo>&) + 40
15 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b8f517 TDeepCFURLIterator::NextInternal(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo>&, int&, int&, bool&) + 73
16 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b8f651 TDeepCFURLIterator::Next(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo>&, int&, int&, bool&) + 49
17 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b95629 TCopyReader::GetNextItem() + 1039
18 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b95fac TCopyReader::Read(unsigned long long, TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo> const&, TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo> const&) + 128
19 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b80f27 TFSCopyOperation::CopyToTarget() + 607
20 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b82d9f TFSCopyOperation::DoCopy(TCountedPtr<TCFURLInfo> const&) + 595
21 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x00007fff84b78a68 _NodeOperation + 469
22 backupd 0x00000001000164af 0x100000000 + 91311
23 backupd 0x0000000100015923 0x100000000 + 88355
24 backupd 0x000000010000ffc7 0x100000000 + 65479
25 backupd 0x000000010000a7e2 0x100000000 + 42978
26 backupd 0x0000000100006927 0x100000000 + 26919
27 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff88a2be99 _NSThread__main_ + 1429
28 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8007df8e pthreadstart + 331
29 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8007de41 thread_start + 13

HT4522 Time Machine's backup to Time Capsule has stopped working

TM reports "an error". The Time Capsule is visible in the "shared" tab of the Finder window, but is listed as "Not connected". It is visible and connected to another Mac on the net. Is there a solution short of using the Airport Utility to erase the drive?

Hi there Cinclus,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3275
-Griff W.

Just bought a 3TB Time Capsule for a small office. Will have 4 users with MacBooks. What would ne the best setup for time machine individual backups and internet sharing in a secure way?

Just bought a 3TB Time Capsule for a small office. Will have 4 users with MacBooks. What would ne the best setup for time machine individual backups and internet sharing in a secure way?

Set up each Mac for Time Machine backups in the normal way. Time Machine will keep each backup separate on the Time Capsule, so users will only be able to see the backups of their own Mac.
Yes....there are convoluted workarounds that might allow one user to see the backups of another.....IF...they know the administrator password of the "other" Mac.
As far as Internet sharing, all users will have access to the Internet if they have a wired or wireless connection. If a Mac connects using wireless, it is possible to limit the time that they are allowed to connect to the network.
For example, you might limit the ability to connect to the wireless from say each Weekday from 8 AM to 6 PM.
With a wired Ethernet connection, you cannot limit access times to the Internet.

HT1175 Time Machine wants to start with a new, full backup instead of using the existing one

Hi, my Time Machine wants to start a new, full backup, instead of continuing with the existing one on the time Capsule.
Looking a the Troubleshooting guide, I've found the following piece of info, which is, as 99% of the times with the troubleshooting guides, totally useless to resolve my problem...
Message: Time Machine starts a new, full backup instead of a smaller incremental backup
There are three reasons why this may occur:
You performed a full restore.
Your Computer Name (in Sharing preferences) was changed--when this happens, Time Machine will perform a full backup on its next scheduled backup time.
If you have had a hardware repair recently, contact the Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple Retail Store that performed your repair. In the meantime, you can still browse and recover previous backups by right-clicking or Control-clicking the Time Machine Dock icon, and choosing "Browse Other Time Machine disks" from the contextual menu.
It should be noted (hence the uselessness of the guide) that:
-I haven't performed ANY full restore
- I havent changed my computer name
- My computer has not had ANY repair, much less a hardware repair. Neither recently, nor in the 9 months I've owned it.
Which puts me back to square one, with the marginal improvement that now I have a way of browsing my old backups.
In the event I decide to start all over again, will there be a way for me to "sew" the two backup files?
Or will I always have to go the silly way around?
Anybody has any idea?
Thank you for your time (machine/capsule, your choice;-)

Hi John,
no, that doesn't have anything to do with my problem.
Just look at the image below.
Time Machine thinks that the disk I've always used to do my backups has none of them.
If I open the disk with Finder, obviously they are where they should be.
It is even possible to navigate them as per the instruction reported above, but even following Pondini's advice #s B5 and B6 (which are more applicable to my problem) didn't solve the problem.
Actually, not being a coder, I'm always scared of doing more damage than good when I have a Terminal window open.
My question is: how is it possible that Apple hasn't thought of some kind of user command to tell the idiotic Time Machine software that a hard disk backup is a hard disk backup, no matter what?
Estremely frustrating and annoying: I'm wasting HOURS in trying to find a solution to a problem that should not have arisen in the first place...
Have a nice weekend
Antonio

Using Time Machine to backup a iMac G5 and restore to an intel iMac

Is it possible to use Time Machine to backup my iMac G5 and restore my backup to a new intel iMac?
The reason being is that I my mother-in-law's company bought her a new intel Mac and she wants to trade with me since she only uses her Mac for e-mail, photos and accounting software.
I was thinking of making sure her data is preserved by using the migration assistant to transfer her data to my iMac G5 and then using my time machine backup to restore to her intel iMac. I have concerns about this method after reading about the intel/powerpc issues with time machine. I also have concerns that perhaps the version of MacOS 10.5 installed to my iMac G5 will not be optimized for intel.

Well, not entirely. You cannot install or restore a PPC version of OS X to an Intel Mac because the PPC system will not work on an Intel Mac. You can copy your personal files, most preference files, and third-party applications (although it would be preferable to update all PPC-only apps to universal binaries which perform better on Intel machines.
Another possible concern is if your mother's company is transferring the ownership to her or simply purchasing the unit for her to use. In the latter case the computer belongs to the company, not your mother. She cannot then give it to you because it isn't hers. This problem should be resolved beforehand because the company may one day want the computer back.
Folders You Can Move to Your new Mac
From the Home folder copy the contents of Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.

Can I set Time Machine to backup both my hard drive and an external hard drive?

Hi. I've been working with a lot of family video lately and my internal hard drive has filled up significantly. iMovie doesn't seem to have a good archiving facility like Adobe InDesign which I use at work were all the relevant files are gathered together into one folder. Apple advised me to relocate my movie files to an external hard drive and herein lies my query.
Is there a way for me to set Time Machine to backup both my iMac's internal drive and the external hard drive that would contain my movie files? I've been using Time Machine for my backups for a few years now, but backing up the external as well has me stumped. If Time Machine could be used then all the necessary file accociations etc would be safely backed up as well - that's why I don't want to have to manually backup the external.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

7string48 wrote:
Thanks so much Pondini!! You just quickly answered a question that none of the Mac people in 3 stores or Apple Care have been able to answer.If you can format it HFS+ (any variation of Mac OS Extended), it will work. If not, it won't.
I'm not too surprised about the Apple Stores, as they don't get much training on Time Machine. But AppleCare sure ought to know.
Oh...what about if the external drive is an array...like a Drobo with it's own proprietary formatting...I guess that would not work...??
I've never used a Drobo. A number of folks here have used them as their Time Machine drives, but I don't recall seeing anyone try to back one up with TM, so can't say for sure. But if you can format it as HFS+ (any variation of Mac OS Extended), it will work. If not, it won't.
At least part of the reason is, Time Machine uses the File System Event Store, a hidden log of changes that OSX keeps on each Mac-formatted disk/partition, to figure out what's changed and needs to be backed-up. See How Time Machine works its Magic for details.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #32 for details and considerations of backing-up multiple volumes with Time Machine.
However, even if it will work, that may not be your best strategy, depending on your circumstances:
Since Time Machine keeps copies of things you've changed or deleted, the destination needs to be considerably larger than the data being backed-up. How much larger varies widely depending on how you use your Mac, but a general "rule of thumb" is, it needs at least twice the space to be able to keep a reasonable "depth" of backups for you.
If you have a large internal HD, fairly full, plus a large external HD, and the files on the external don't change frequently, you might want to use Time Machine for the internal, and a different app to a different disk or partition, on a different schedule, for the external. Especially if space is a consideration, you might not need to keep previous versions of files on the externals. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #27 for some alternatives.

Cannot open time machine; message on screen: time machine in backup. I want to find last 12 mos. of pictures.

cannot open application to time machine: Message on screen: time machine in backup.
Purpose to get into time machine; is to pickup lost photos

northernresort wrote:
I workedwith apple support on the phone it believe the backup is corrupt.
Yup, sure sounds like it.
It does have a .sparsebundle for the machine that is backup up. There is only 52G free on the 1T time capsule, so it seems that the data is there,
That's good, obviously. Often it won't mount at all, and you're in a very large pickle.
I'm not seeing nor beleive I'm having a hardware issue with the time capsule.
Probably not.
I'm wondering if I have some sort of version issue between 10.7.x that the Time machine on the time capsule was created with and 10.8.4
No, at least not that's been reported. A sparsebundle is a sparsebundle, as far as we can tell.
I don't use hdiutil or fsck, so bear with me. Drag the sparsebundle into Disk Utility's sidebar and try Repair Disk on it. See what messages it shows. (They may not appear in the window; click the Log icon or select Window > Show Log from the menubar.)
Do you have a copy of DiskWarrior? It can operate on a sparsebundle, and sometimes can fix things Disk Utility (and hdiutil or fsck) can't.
I haven't found any good way to parse out/copy files from a sparse bundle
If you double-click it, does the disk image (named "Time Machine Backups") mount (should appear on your Desktop and/or Finder sidebar)? If it does, can you open it via the Finder? If so, you'll find the usual Backups.backupdb folder inside, with one folder named for your Mac, and inside that all the date-stamped backup folders, each with one folder per drive that was backed-up, and inside that the full folder structure.
If so, you can probably drag & drop, but depending on what kind of damage there is, and where, that may not work well, if at all.
Best, of course, is if you can repair it and just do a full restore.

Time Machine wants to do complete backup after restore

I had to restore my system from a Time Machine backup because of a recurring problem. Now Time machine wants to backup my entire drive as if I'm actually starting over. I've got 300GB left on my backup drive and this complete backup will use 133GB of it. I have had to do this in the past but I don't remember that Time Machine wanted to do a complete backup before. Is there something I can do to prevent it?
Thanks,
Frank

See User Tips for 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.
Might find something helpful in the above.

Suddenly there is not enough space on my 1TB Time Machine Backup HDD allthough my MAC HDD ist with 0,5TB only half full! Time Machine wants 2 TB space.

My Backup HDD for Time Machine has 1TB, same as my MAC-HDD. The Mac HDD is only .5TB full. But suddenly Time Machine wants 2 TB of space for the backup, allthough I have erased all earlier backups and the HDD is empty. I've activated file vault, but some time ago, so I don't think that's the reason.
I also excluded Windows 7 on Parallels.
What happened???
I'd appreciate some help.

What version of OSX are you on?
It sounds like you may have a directory problem on your internal HD. Verify it, per #6 in Using Disk Utility.
Just to be sure the TM drive is really empty, erase it, per #1 there.

Time Machine wants to do a full backup. How do I point it to my previous backups so it will do an incremental backup?

I lost my wireless connection to my backup drive for a short time. Now time machine wants to do a full backup. It doesn't know that I have previous backups. How do I point it to the previous backups so that time machine continues to do incremental backups rather than doing another full backup.

I did some more reading and I found that Time Machine would find the older backups once a new backup is completed. The backup ended up being a little larger than previous backups (2.65 GB vs typical incremental backups of several MB's) but when it completed, time machine updated the last backup time/date and the oldest backup time/date properly. So I guess, I don't have a problem.

HT201250 I have two external hard drives. One is my Time Machine backup drive. The other I use for external storage of files (documents, photos, movies, etc). Can I set Time Machine to backup BOTH my Mac hard drive and my other external hard drive?

I have two external hard drives. One is my Time Machine backup drive. The other I use for external storage of files (documents, photos, movies, etc). Can I set Time Machine to backup BOTH my Mac hard drive and my other external hard drive?

Yes you can make multiple backups on one hard drive, for example if you’ve 1TB hard drive installed in your PC and you’ve two Mac Machines with 500GB drive each then you just make two backup images with size of 500GB each.
http://www.halfspot.com/use-your-pc-hard-drive-for-time-machine-backup/

HT201250 Is there a way to change the intervals at which Time Machine performs backups (e.g., weekly instead of hourly or daily) past 24 hours, daily for the past month, and weekly for everything older...

Is there a way to change the intervals at which Time Machine performs backups (e.g., weekly instead of hourly or daily) past 24 hours, daily for the past month, and weekly for everything older...

You can edit the interval in Console or install a Pref Pane
called TimeMachineScheduler (Leopard or higher) free from:
http://www.klieme.com/TimeMachineScheduler.html
Good luck, Tom

Time Capsule and Time Machine want backup, stops after 2-30GB

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for