Time Capsule backup keeps failing

MacBookPro connected via ethernet to 1TB TC. Had same problem as many other users: backups hanging or failing repeatedly. So I completely erased the TC and started again. Backup proceeded well for about 8GB (out of 70GB total backup) but then the backup hung again, and Console started displaying this crash message, repeated endlessly:
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Sep 28 07:57:41 MacBkPro mdworker[1248]: fcntl to turn on FCHECKOPENEVT failed!
Sep 28 07:57:41: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Sep 28 07:57:41 MacBkPro ReportCrash[1249]: Formulating crash report for process translate[1248]
Sep 28 07:57:41 MacBkPro ReportCrash[1249]: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/translate2008-09-28-075741MacBkPro.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
Sep 28 07:57:41 MacBkPro com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10bdd0.translate[1248]): Exited abnormally: Bus error
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Now every time I start a new backup, when TimeMachine gets to around the 8GB mark it repeats precisely the same scenario.
HELP!

Nobody seems interested in this specific issue, but just in case anybody else is experiencing related problems, I offer a solution. To get an idea what's happening during backups, open "Console" (/Applications/Utilities/Console) and select the "system.log". Keep reading the last few lines as they scroll by.
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mdworker1248: fcntl to turn on FCHECKOPENEVT failed!
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"mdworker" is related to Spotlight indexing. I tried every other solution mentioned in this entire "TC" discussion area without success. I then turned OFF Spotlight indexing. (This took many hours of research to accomplish ... if you want to do it, just go get "OnyX" v1.9.9 - cost $0. Go to "Parameters" and select "Spotlight").
Everything is now working fine - the computer has never been more responsive and Time Machine backups have never been faster. I don't use Spotlight and have no use for it. (And yes - I know what it does).

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Hi,
I have exactly the same problem.
MBP 2011 running 10.9 named "ebook"
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everything works fine UNTIL for some reason the MBP is interrupted during a TM backup ...
After that I get the disk already in use error !
Rebooting the MBP wont help, but I narrowed the problem down ...
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- looking on the MBP with "lsof | grep ebook" showed me that the SparseBundles were still in use by the AFP process ... Using the Server control panel and restarting AFP solved that ...
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My Time Machine backup keeps failing. I get a message the "Volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup". Please advise.
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You can change the case sensitivity of the sparsebundle.. but I really doubt the error is real.
See A8 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
The sparsebundle should have case sensitivity turned on.
I cannot even fathom how it could have changed.
Let me recommend before you start fooling around with the sparsebundle.
Do a full network start.
Power everything off.. start up modem.. wait 2min.. power up the TC.. wait 2min.. power up any other network gear like switches.. wait..
Now power up the computer and try it.
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I just moved from Windows to Mac...Happily, so far!
I am using a Time Capsule to back up my MacPro. It worked beautifully until I just loaded up about 37 gig of Windows related material to my MacBook. Since then, all attempts at backing up have failed. The first error message said that if the condition continued I had to repair my backup drive using the Disk Utility. I did that, the back up drive had no faults on it. Now, I am able to get more of a backup going, but it aborts about a tenth of the way through the process. I have reinstalled the Time Capsule software. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

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Are you running Leopard or Snow Leopard? You've posted in the Snow Leopard forum, but your signature shows 10.5.3, and the handling is different.
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Hi,
I have checked the forum and tried all relevenant suggestions, unfortunatly to no avail. I was wondering if any users would have any sparks of genius and point me in the right direction....
I currently run time machine with an apple time capsulae and my Imac, it seems to run for most files and folders ok but will fail on the microsoft user data folder (with the NO copy error in console) as well as a few other random ones (such as the parralell virtual machine). As this stops my backups I have excluded them and it runs fine for now, although its not Ideal as my e-mails or virtual machine is not backuping up (these are the most important). i have check my friends mac and his time machine seems to backup completely and fine.
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Hi,
I have checked the forum and tried all relevenant suggestions, unfortunatly to no avail. I was wondering if any users would have any sparks of genius and point me in the right direction....
I currently run time machine with an apple time capsulae and my Imac, it seems to run for most files and folders ok but will fail on the microsoft user data folder (with the NO copy error in console) as well as a few other random ones (such as the parralell virtual machine). As this stops my backups I have excluded them and it runs fine for now, although its not Ideal as my e-mails or virtual machine is not backuping up (these are the most important). i have check my friends mac and his time machine seems to backup completely and fine.
Any ideas, as the reason I bought the time capsule is to have the best backups available.
Thanks in advance.

Time Capsule backup constantly failing with error message - error message 11 but different file.

Hi
I have had problems with my backup failing since 12 June
Most of the time I get error message 11 (have had error message 31 once) and each time it is a different file. The last failure gave this message in console
17/06/2011 13:20:11 com.apple.backupd[1743] Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/CalendarCore.framework, /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Stephen Dalziel’s iMac/2011-06-16-232227.inProgress/10F26F18-689F-47D2-959E-964D07E82445/Macintos h HD/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/CalendarCore.framework
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Stephen Dalziel wrote:
a forum said delete latest and partial backups from sparse bundle - I did this via Finder and now I can't get rid of them from trash - discovered via Pondini I shouldn't have done this and tried E6 but without success.
Did you delete the Latest alias, and/or the most reccent time-stamped backup? If so, your backups are toast.
Your only option is to erase the Time Capsule's disk and let Time Machine start fresh. See To erase everything on the Time Capsule’s internal disk in #Q5 of Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.

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I have used Time Capsule (1 TB) to backup three Macs for months now and everything has worked just fine. Since two days however, Time Machine doesn't backup anymore. It tries to access Time Capsule and then stops with an error message saying that "an error has occurred while creating the backup folder" (German text: "Beim Erstellen des Backup-Verzeichnisses ist ein Fehler aufgetreten"). I have no clue why this happens. Nothing has been changed on the Mac itself. Time Capsule has not yet run out of storage, 415 GBytes out of 929 are still available.
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CK

See # C17 in this excellent support document by Time Machine guru Pondini:
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Mike Adam wrote:
I had already seen this document. However, none of these apply to my situation. The two drives in question are Western Digital and I have found some old posts that suggest that they are not compatible as Time Machine drives, but nothing that says that Time Machine cannot back up the contents.
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do you want me to move the topic to the Time Machine forum, or can I leave it he now that I have started?
Since this thread is under way, I'd leave it here unless you can have someone move the entire thread. Confusion between Time Capsule (an Apple WiFi router with an integrated disk drive) and Time Machine (backup software included with OS X starting with OS X 10.5 that can use a Time Capsule disk as its destination drive) is fairly common.

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That's one Apple's more infuriating messages, but there's usually another phrase after "Time Machine Error."
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How come time machine backup keeps failing?

I tried to backup my MacBook Pro yesterday, and this message keeps coming up. I don't know how to find the source of the file so I delete it. PLEASE HELP!
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/TOSHIBA EXT/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 71.0 GB excluded items size: 11.4 GB for volume Macintosh HD
71.61 GB required (including padding), 232.24 GB available
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Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/tuantran/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/22c9458c9a2167d80342d395669a50310c5b8aa4-20120330-231 835/47e7968eb1d9474802371b7b87e91d6fceeeb09a to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/tuantran/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/22c9458c9a2167d80342d395669a50310c5b8aa4-20120330-231 835/48bc96429425dec94a31a1012f9b1c2ec688a997 to (null)
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Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/tuantran/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/22c9458c9a2167d80342d395669a50310c5b8aa4-20120330-231 835/4a5a242bcd4c5df7fea0506d714ec4ee6e34243e to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/tuantran/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/22c9458c9a2167d80342d395669a50310c5b8aa4-20120330-231 835/4bae3b7b9be6f1474b0e4a9546e12728ffbb3705 to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/tuantran/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/22c9458c9a2167d80342d395669a50310c5b8aa4-20120330-231 835/4c199f880e283e28951bc559f09de9ff9304de04 to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/tuantran/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/22c9458c9a2167d80342d395669a50310c5b8aa4-20120330-231 835/4ca5152d34ad4849f523d28a8d1114db2310ed4d to (null)
PLEASE HELP! (also, my MacBook Pro is still under warrenty, should I just bring it to the Genius Bar?) Thanks.

Boot from your recovery partition (command-R at startup), launch Disk Utility, select your startup volume, and run Repair Disk (not Repair Permissions.) If any problems are found, repeat. Then reboot as usual and try again.

I had my hard drive replaced and since my Time Machine backups say failed

I had my hard drive replace and since my Time Capsule backups are failing. The exact message is:
The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk.
The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use disk utility to repair your backup disk.

No, replacing your hard drive has nothing to do with it. There is a problem with your backup drive. As far as Time Machine is concerned replacing a drive is no different than buying a new computer. Time Machine will need to make a brand new backup from scratch.
If you have a large enough backup drive this may not be a problem. Otherwise, you may not have sufficient space to maintain a new backup and keep the old one. So, I would suggest under the circumstances that you erase your backup drive, then start a new Time Machine backup from scratch.
Drive Erase
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After Disk Utility loads select the volume you wish to format from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the Disk Utility main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
For additional help with Time Machine: Visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.

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The hard drive on my 6 month old MacBook Pro failed inexplicably several days ago. After wasting half a day trying to repair the disk, I caved in and made an appointment at the dreaded "Genius" Bar.
They verified my suspicions; complete failure. They kept the laptop, ordered a new drive and two days later informed me it was fixed. I sat down and connected it to my Time Capsule with an ethernet cable. When I turned it on, it played through that now insufferable multicultural "welcome"-in-twenty-languages jam and I followed Apple's instructions +Restoring an existing Time Capsule backup to a new Mac+:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1177?viewlocale=en_US
My favorite step is #12: +Your Mac will check the Time Machine backup for a period of time.+ When that period was clearly going to be a while, I went on a run, came back 40 minutes later and...it had returned me to the initial post-willkommen-bienvenido-etc. screen where I get to choose a language. Okay, my bad for leaving it unattended. I started over at #2, and this time it only took about half an hour. It showed the folders on the Time Capsule, I selected all of them, and clicked Transfer.
Almost immediately, it dove back into the welcome song! Now, for the third time, I'm at step #12. It's been over half an hour, and still no sign of hope. Just the progress bar checking for backups.
Would they have installed Snow Leopard on my Leopard machine? I definitely told them what I had been running, but it seems like a plausible reason for the hang-ups.
Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks!

Amenity wrote:
Almost immediately, it dove back into the welcome song! Now, for the third time, I'm at step #12. It's been over half an hour, and still no sign of hope. Just the progress bar checking for backups.
Connect to your Time Capsule via Ethernet if at all possible.
After booting from your Leopard Install disc and selecting Utilities, select +Disk Utility+ and see if it can find the +sparse bundle+ containing your backups on your Time Capsule. You may have to join the network, etc., via the Airport icon in the menubar. If you can get the sparse bundle to appear in Disk Utility's sidebar, select it and do a +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions) on it.
Would they have installed Snow Leopard on my Leopard machine? I definitely told them what I had been running, but it seems like a plausible reason for the hang-ups.
That's fairly likely; it happens a lot, probably because most folks have upgraded and installing SL has become a habit. But it shouldn't matter -- as long as you're using your Leopard Install disc, it should work fine. Once the restore actually starts, the first thing that happens is your internal HD is erased, and everything is restored from your backups.
It's also possible that whatever was going wrong on your internal HD corrupted something critical in your installation of OSX, and the corrupted stuff was backed-up, and that's what's giving TM a problem. If nothing else seems to help, try restoring from a previous backup.

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