Time Capsule hanging after few searches

Can someone help please? My Time Capsule just hangs after a couple of searches. I'm using it with a MacBook and there's an Airport Express linked to the same network. It backs up ok, but I keep having to go back to using my BT Home Hub to get internet access. That's what the TC is using for a modem too, is that the problem? Any help gratefully received but please keep it simple, I don't really know my way round the technicalities.
Thanks.

Hi Paul,
I'm having the exact same problem with my Time Capsule. I'm thinking it is time to take it back to Apple. I have also noticed that accessing a USB disk connected directly to Time Capsule often causes the TC to reset itself (yellow light blinking & wifi unavailable). It's very frustrating.
John

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Time Capsule hangs up

Hi Community,
since 3 Month I have now a time capsule and enjoy it very much. I have a MacBookAir (mid 2011) with Mountain Lion installed.
But I have one problem.
My Mac runs the hole night. I can start checking my emails in the morning etc. all fine. But when I start to use for example iTunes (was open the hole night) Time capsule hangs up. My Library from iTunes is stored on the Time Capsule. Time maschine is switch off.
I am getting the impression that there is a problem when the HDD from Time Capsule has to start again from the sleep mode. When I use the Mac over the day all is fine. It does not happen all the time.
When I start to look onto the Time Capsule via Finder it can happen the Time Capsule does not hang up.
Can someone tell what I can do in order to avoid it?
Kind regards,
MacBistram

Hi Chameleon,
thanks for the fast reply.
my Library is to big to move it somewhere else and it was one of the reason why I bought the time capsule.
It does not only happen when I use iTunes. TC hangs also up when I try to copy a large amount of data from my local dirve to the TC (after the 'sleep mode').
I use the TC HDD as my Server-Disk-Storage. It cannot be the case that it hangs up after it comes out of the sleep mode.
Just as additional information. I access the TC over WLAN. Maybe it is the case that the TC hangs up when the WLAN has to mutch to do.
Kind regards

External hard drive is not working on airport time capsule even after 7.7.2 firmware update.

External hard drive is not working on airport time capsule even after 7.7.2 firmware update.
I have the latest Airpor Time capsule 2gb. I specifically bought it so that I could have an external hardrive set up to wirelessly house my itunes library and movies. When i connect the drive, all i get is that the disk needs to be repaired.
the drive can works fine when connected to the macbook pro and I have run the verify and repair features in disk utility. I have also reset the airport timecapsule as well following these changes and still no change.
The 7.7.2 update says that it addressed the usb issue of not showing the drives but there are still problems as I cannot get it to appear.
Please help.
Thanks

How is the hard drive formatted?
Have you tried using a powered USB hub with the drive when it is connected to the Time Capsule?
(The USB port on the Time Capsule is borderline as far as power is concerned....you may need to use a powered hub.....even if the hard drive has its own power supply)
If the drive is formatted correctly....and....it has ample power, it will "show up" when you open AirPort Utility, click Edit, then click the Disks tab at the top of the next window.
In the example below, my Time Capsule drive is named "Backups" and another drive named "WD Drive" is connected to the USB port on the Time Capsule.
You should see the name of your Time Capsule drive (named "Data" unless you have changed the name) and the name of the USB drive if you perform the same check.
What do you see?

Time capsule problems after OS reinstall

After getting a blue screen on restart I had to do an archive/OS reinstall today. The reinstall worked fine but I am now having problems accessing my Time Capsule.
At first my computer didn't even recognize my time capsule. After restarting my time capsule, my computer recognized it. However, when I tried to open time machine to access the files, it stalled on "connecting to backup volume" for about 45 minutes and never connected. Similarly, the backup stalls on "preparing backup." I tried to stop backing up but it is currently stalled on "stopping backup." Finally, time capsule has disappeared from the menu at the top of my screen.
Any thoughts on addressing these issues would be greatly appreciated.

I have the same problem as well. I did an archive and install with OSX, then updated to 10.5.5 and now all the TC does is spin and say preparing. A sample from the console is
Nov 12 09:46:11 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Nov 12 09:47:27 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule
Nov 12 16:01:05 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule/Erik Elie’s Computer_0017f2ccba9f.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 109)
Nov 12 16:01:05 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Nov 12 16:01:06 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Nov 12 16:02:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule
Nov 12 16:04:10 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule/Erik Elie’s Computer_0017f2ccba9f.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 60)
Nov 12 16:04:10 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Giving up after 3 retries.
Nov 12 16:04:16 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Backup failed with error: 21
Nov 12 16:43:53 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Starting standard backup
Nov 12 16:43:53 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule
Nov 12 16:44:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule/Erik Elie’s Computer_0017f2ccba9f.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 109)
Nov 12 16:44:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Nov 12 16:44:09 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Nov 12 16:45:10 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule
Nov 12 22:09:24 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule/Erik Elie’s Computer_0017f2ccba9f.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 109)
Nov 12 22:09:24 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Nov 12 22:09:25 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Nov 12 22:10:26 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule
Any suggestions out there??

I did a backup from all my files saved in old external hd to time capsule. After that double checked and recover one file from TC to mac air and it worked just perfect. Today went through TC to recover another file and none of them were there?

I did a backup from all my files saved in old external hd to time capsule. After that double checked and recover one file from TC to mac air and it worked just perfect. Today went through TC to recover another file and none of them were there?Anybody has a clue what happened?

renatocremonese wrote:
I want to use it for backing up my Mac.
It's good for that . . .
But also I don't keep all my stuff in my Mac.
But not for that.
This older and not day-by-day usage files I want to store in the time machine.
You can do that (see below), but how are you going to back them up? If your only copies are on the TC, when (not if) it fails, you risk losing your only copy of the data.
Is it possible to split TC in two partitions.
No, but there are some workarounds, including making a fixed-size disk image on it to "reserve" some space. See #Q3 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.
But you still won't have backups of the stuff you put there.
You don't say what kind of Mac you have. If it's a desktop model, just keep the external HD connected to it, and let Time Machine back it up along with your internal HD.
However, it sounds like you may have a laptop, where that's not going to be convenient. In that case, your best bet might be to copy the external HD to a disk image on the TC as above, then keep the HD in a safe place.
To finish, when i enter the TC and go through the Time line how can I get a file from there and move it back to Mac hd.
Via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.
You might also want to review the Time Machine Tutorial, and perhaps browse the rest of the FAQ.

Back up is very slow on 2 tb time capsule. After 2 days only 60 gb of 320 gb completed. Have connected ethernet cable. Any suggestions?

Back up is very slow on 2 tb time capsule. After 2 days only 60 gb of 320 gb completed. Have connected ethernet cable. Any suggestions?

Yes, that's terribly slow. You should get somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-24 GB/hour via Ethernet, assuming there isn't a lot of conflicting network traffic or your Mac's CPU is under very heavy load.
Are you sure you're actually using the Ethernet connection, instead of WIFI? To check, turn Airport off. If the backup fails, it's on WIFI. In that case, you need to set Ethernet as the "preferred" network, via System Preferences > Network. Click the "gear" icon at the bottom of the sidebar and select Set Service order. Then drag Ethernet above Airport. When both Airport and Ethernet are on, that will make OSX select Ethernet over Airport.
If that doesn't help, see #D2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Time Capsule Hangs with USB Drive Connected after installing 10.5.6 update

The 10.5.6 update basically made my External USB Disk connected to the Time Capsule unusable. I've repaired the permissions as suggested in other posts - this did not fix the problem.
I was unable to perform any incremental backups initially after the 10.5.6 update, so I archived my sparsebundle and created a new one by doing a full fresh backup - which completed successfully. However, after the backup, I was unable to connect to the Time Capsule or the USB drive connected to the Time Capsule via Finder - when trying to connect, my computer hangs and I'm forced to do a hard restart of BOTH my computer AND the Time Capsule, if I just restart one or the other the problem persists. If I let the connection attempt run long enough I get an "Error Code: -8072" message and still have to do a hard restart. After the hard restart of my computer and Time Capsule I'm able to connect to the Time Capsule and the USB drive connected to Time Capsule just fine. However, once the Time Machine backup runs again - the same problem returns, I can no longer access the Time Capsule or the USB drive connected to Time Capsule via Finder and have to do a hard restart of BOTH my computer AND Time Capsule. This 10.5.6 update has been havoc, anyone have the same troubles or ideas for resolving this? Before updating to 10.5.6 my system was working flawlessly with Time Capsule and the connected USB drive.
UPDATE: I've just verified that this problem only occurs with my external LaCie Hard Drive connected to Time Capsule via USB. If I disconnect my LaCie Hard Drive from the Time Capsule and restart the Time Capsule everything works fine (backups, access to Time Capsule Disk from Finder). If I connect the LaCie Hard Drive via USB to the Time Capsule, I am able to access the LaCie Hard Drive in Finder UNTIL the next Time Machine backup. After the first Time Machine backup with the USB drive connected, I can no longer access the USB drive from Finder - Finder hangs and eventually produces "Error Code: -8072". If I disconnect the USB drive, then plug it back in - Finder no longer hangs and I can access the drive connected to Time Capsule until the next backup occurs.
Anybody have ANY ideas? This worked fine before the 10.5.6 update!

I am having a similar problem. Never tried it before installing 10.5.6, but have a Time Capsule (500GB) with a 1TB WD MyBook Essential Edition connected via USB. Hardware is password protected by authorized users of network and needs separate login to access. When I initially set it up, it worked fine (though too difficult to set up). The WD storage drive showed up in Finder window as a subset of the Time Capsule after clicking on the Time Capsule icon. I had an "-8072" error message yesterday that I ignored, but then the file contents of the WD storage drive took forever to be viewed in Finder (though video files could be accessed wirelessly). Today started having a problem... coincidentally?... after a Time Machine backup, and got the message: "The operation could not be completed. An unexpected error occurred (error code -8072)." Now I am unable to get into the WD drive when I click on "Connect As" on the Time Capsule icon in the Finder menu... I just get the -8072 error. I no longer even see the Time Capsule disk as a subset of the Time Capsule icon in the Finder Toolbar.
What is going on???

Time Capsule hangs in initial backup after having deleted all data.

Hi,
I'm having a big problem trying to set up my time capsule after deleting all data on it again.
In the beginning the problem was that I have used the time capsule as a file server and a backup volume. I guess it was the main problem was that the disk was full and time machine had no more place to backup any longer.
So I always got an error that the time machine had a problem to backup.
I decided to delete all data on time capsule and start from the beginning.
After deleting all data and trying to start from zero, Time Machine is trying to initiate the backup.
But nothing more happens. It seems to hang up while initiating. I tried to delete the disc several times but the problem is still occuring.
Maybe you had the same difficulties and found a solution?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Carsten.
Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo 2,2 GHz Mac OS X (10.5.4) 4 GB Ram

same here although I get to "finishing Backup" and then mine hangs and it can be hard to shut down. I discovered the only way I could get it to stop once was to launch Disk Utility and eject the sparsebundle listed there. I have no backups at all.I will call Apple on Monday and see if they have anything floating around there that might fix us. I will report back-If you make any progress please let us know here! We will get this thing working I am sure of it!

Time capsule hanging up after OSX Lion upgrade

Hello
After my recent upgrade to OSX Lion, my MacBookPro is hanging up when trying to connect and update my Time Capsule update...
After 8 hours of unsucessful trials for a 8 Go back up, I have given up.
Something to be advised in order to get back on the same easy/seamless Time Capsule updates I enjoyed previously ?

I am using a 2010 iMac and tried a completely new 250+Gb Time Machine copy to a WD Passport USB 2.0 500Gb external HD. It's taking like more than 2 days. Never took that long before. Not a web or wi-fi issue. Before Mountain Lion, should have taken 3-4 hours max. I tested the external hard drive on a another Mac with a large file transfer and there were no problems. I also turned off all the spotlight choices. The issue has something with Mountain Lion.
Has anyone heard from Apple acknowledging the issue and that they are working to resolve the problem?

Time capsule hangs on 18.5% no matter which backup used

I've tried three different hard drives now.
Status bar stops pulsing and just hangs at 18.5%
I've tried backups from three months ago to 3 days ago, I've tried a new hard drive cable, I've tried every Ethernet cable known to mankind
Anyone have a suggestion?
The time capsule is 3 months old the MacBook is 2010

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
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When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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Time Capsule full after a "Erase Free Space" using Disk Utility

Hello,
I am facing some issues related to my Time Capsule.
Reviewing my past, I had a lot of backups on this, using Time Machine and it always worked pretty well. But after deleting some backups manually to reclaim disk space, this was not exactly freeing it.
Searching in the forum here, I saw that I could mount the backup sparsebundle image and map it into the Disk Utility. This always worked greatly too both for disk checking and reclaiming the space back.
The problem starts on the last Friday when I performed the operation again, but it started using the whole free space that I had and did not give it back.
Studying the case I found that it creates a temporary folder to store the file it creates to write the byte 0 on the disk. This file actually resides in the sparsebundle image and therefore I can see the file with 200GB, for example, in the Finder, this is a split in bands (8MB) just like the backup is. After the disk gets full, the Disk Utility should delete the file properly and give me back the space safely.
Right now my Time Capsule has 0 byte free and I can't do anything on it beyond redo the the Erase Free Space operation. When I do it, it starts writing the temporary file again and the problem repeats itself.
I know that if I backup the data and really erase the disk, I'll get it back, but this is not an option for me because I want a smart solution for this.
The only thing that changed between when it worked and now is the 10.5.6 update that I made and I'd like that it's not the root of the issue.
Is there any suggestion or general stuff I could do to fix it?
Did anybody already face the same issue?
If anyone needs more details to help me out of this, just let me know.
Thanks and regards,
Eduardo

Just another thing to add, I'd like a good solution for this as the redo operation from Disk Utility takes around 2 days and then it just "dies".

Powerbook G4 hangs after few minutes of usage

Since February 06 I have a PB G4: 1.67GHZ, model Powerbook5,8
Since this weekend it hangs after a few minutes of usage.
I tried a whole load of possible solutions, like resetting the RAM, removing the battery and holding the powerbutton for 5 seconds...I even held it once for half a minute, but that didn't help. Checking the harddrive with disk utility (tried it often, but only once did the PB work long enough to get the end result: hard drive is healthy).
Often, when it hangs, I can get it to work by simply turning it off and on again. That gives me another window of 2 minutes of usage! Handy throughout the day when I need a file, or a document: I simply boot the machine, get the file and shut it down.
Carbon copy to an external HD does not work: the system hangs a few minutes after copying.
I installed a utility named applejack, and the first time I tried it, I got an interesting error: there were errors with the USB controller or USB bus, and system hangs. I didn't make a screenshot so this is out of the top of my head.
This was interesting because when I tried to make a HD copy (and believe me: I tried lots and lots of times), the system freezes first, and then an error about not unmounting a device popped into the screen. As if the touchpad, keyboards, and all other i/o devices stop working, and the system goes on for a few seconds more.
Sometimes the system just hangs, sometimes I get that black kernel panic screen.
Just before writing this, I tried the hardware test on the install CD once more:
Held down the option key, chose the hardware test -> quick test and..
system hangs after completion of the test
A message appeared in the bottom-left corner. Several lines of information, starting with:
"ERROR, Write to location ZERO detected!!, Loc zero was originally zero
Current File: Localization/en/Scripts/enAHTscript.sc"
etc
I live on a nice island in the Caribbean, so popping into the nearest Apple store means getting on a flight to Miami first.
What -if any- are my options? Is there something I can try to do myself before shipping it to Apple? Opening the case, checking this or that?
By the way, I originally posted this in the Titanium folder, but someone mentioned that I might actually have a Aluminum PB.
see http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2074854#2074854

hi joeuu,
I have 1.5GB mem: one 512 stick and one 1GB and I already tried the sticks one at a time: it hangs with the original 512, it hangs with the 1GB and it hangs with them together in both possible slot settings.
I managed to copy the panic.log in /Library/Logs/ and here it is:
Fri Apr 7 15:27:21 2006
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000A8D00): Uncorrectable machine check: pc = 00000000000AF340, msr = 0000000000141020, dsisr = 42000000, dar = 000000000280C200
AsyncSrc = 0000000000000000, CoreFIR = 0000000000000000
L2FIR = 0000000000000000, BusFir = 0000000000000000
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095698 0x00095BB0 0x0002683C 0x000A8D00 0x000A7F90 0x000ABC80
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x41381A00)
PC=0x000AF340; MSR=0x00141020; DAR=0x0280C200; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x000AF158; R1=0x2211B8E0; XCP=0x00000008 (0x200 - Machine check)
Backtrace:
0x404E9F24 0x404E1F6C 0x404E7B2C 0x002CEFB8 0x41C3F2C8 0x002BC0E8
0x002CDA70 0x002BC690 0x002BBB4C 0x002BBA5C 0x404E3954 0x404E3B98 0x002CE900 0x002CD7C8
0x000A9814
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad(1.3.0f1)@0x41c3d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.2.5)@0x404aa000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(1.4.3)@0x32671000
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI(2.2.5)@0x404df000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.2.5)@0x404aa000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x323bf000
Exception state (sv=0x402ABA00)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.2.2: Mon Aug 22 18:43:11 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.5.11.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
Now what can we read from this?
I see in here "AppleUSBTrackpad" and "AppleUSBOHCI".
Referring to my original post: I have seen an error (a few days ago, when working with applejack) that also mentioned USB.
I'm very afraid that this is a hardware issue. Reading through some other posts, I saw something about a ribbon that gave problems. What are your thoughts?

Time Capsule hangs at end of full backup, Disk Utility "not responding"

I'm running a Mid 2011 iMac 27" with OSX 10.8.4 and using a WiFi connected 3TB Time Capsule (4th Gen).
I've noticed that the Time Capsule seems to get stuck at the end of a full back-up (let's say 260 GB of 260 GB) and won't end, even after hours of being left alone.
When I mount the Time Capsule Sparse Disk Image Bundle and then try to run Disk Utility, Disk Utility is shown as "Gathering Information," but the Finder and Activity Monitor list Disk Utility as "not responding." (No disk information is shown in Disk Utility.) This happens both when I connect via WiFi to the Time Capsule and when I connect directly using an Ethernet cable. If I don't mount the Sparse Disk Image Bundle, Disk Utility works fine, immediately showing my iMac's Hard Drive, so it only happens when the Time Capsule Sparse Disk Image Bundle is mounted.
1. Is Disk Utility truly "not responding" or is it just taking forever to load because of the 3TB hard drive?
2. If it truly isn't responding, what can I do to see if the TC needs to be "repaired"?
3. What's going on with my TC that it hangs up at the end of a full backup?
Thanks.

thefliss wrote:
I see an occasional deep node traversal, but sounds like that can be normal.
Not normal, exactly, but TM's way of handling a problem. See below.
Aug 17 21:35:50 Erics-iMac.local fseventsd[48]: event logs in /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (86990 10 86991)
Aug 17 21:35:50 Erics-iMac.local fseventsd[48]: log dir: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/.fseventsd getting new uuid:
Something went wrong with or on the TM drive (Time Capsule in your case), such as a power failure or abnormal disconnection, where OSX was unable to "close it out" properly, so is unsure if all the changes are in the File System Event Store. If you're not familiar with the Event Store, see the blue box in How Time Machine works its Magic for details (it's talking about the one on your internal HD, but OSX keeps one on every drive/partition and disk image, including your TC backups.)
Aug 17 21:36:07 Erics-iMac.local com.apple.backupd[1728]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
That's one of the causes of a deep traversal. The UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier, the long string of numbers and letters) for the Event Store on your internal HD doesn't match the one in TM's records from the previous backup, so it must do a deep traversal instead, comparing everything on your Mac to the latest (completed) backup.
Aug 17 21:42:09 Erics-iMac.local diskarbitrationd[22]: mds [39]:22019 not responding.
Aug 17 21:42:09 Erics-iMac.local diskarbitrationd[22]: fseventsd [48]:17923 not responding.
Aug 17 21:42:15 Erics-iMac.local fseventsd[48]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/.fseventsd/0000000000362fde (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/.fseventsd
Trouble talking to a disk. The first two probably involve the TC, the third one definitely does -- it's trying to create the new Event Store.
Aug 17 21:44:03 Erics-iMac.local com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent[1789]: [Warning] Denying xpc connection, task does not have entitlement: com.apple.private.imcore.imremoteurlconnection (IMTransferAgent:1786)
Aug 17 21:44:03 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Aug 17 21:44:03 Erics-iMac.local com.apple.imtransferservices.IMTransferAgent[1786]: [Warning] Remote loader crashed for request: <NSMutableURLRequest http://init-p01md.apple.com/bag>
Aug 17 21:44:03 Erics-iMac.local com.apple.imtransferservices.IMTransferAgent[1786]: [Warning] Bag loading failed! Error (__kIMRemoteURLConnectionErrorDomain:-1): The operation couldn’t be completed. (__kIMRemoteURLConnectionErrorDomain error -1.) (null)
Out of my comfort zone, but sure looks like some sort of connection problem . . . with something.
Aug 17 21:48:08 Erics-iMac.local com.apple.backupd[1728]: Deleted 3 backups containing 299.76 GB total; 300.65 GB now available, 209.78 GB required
TM did (finally) connect, figured out how much sp it needed, and started deleting old backups to make room. Since it did, actual copying would have started just after that was sent.
Aug 17 22:07:03 Erics-iMac.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100018 created
Aug 17 22:07:06 Erics-iMac.local ScopedBookmarkAgent[1853]: CFURLCreateByResolvingBookmarkData failed with error [Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "The file doesn’t exist."].
Aug 17 22:07:08 --- last message repeated 7 times ---
Aug 17 22:07:08 Erics-iMac.local QuickTime Player[1845]: It does not make sense to draw an image when [NSGraphicsContext currentContext] is nil. This is a programming error. Break on void _NSWarnForDrawingImageWithNoCurrentContext() to debug. This will be logged only once. This may break in the future.
Aug 17 22:08:37 Erics-iMac.local WebProcess[1866]: objc[1866]: Object 0x7fec4841c8c0 of class NSUserDefaults autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug
Aug 19 16:35:11 Erics-iMac.local mds[39]: (/)(Warning) IndexQuery in bool preIterate_FSI(SISearchCtx_FSI *):Throttling inefficient file system query
Most of that is also out of my area, but doesn't seem related to the TC or backups.
Hard to tell so far, but it looks like problem is on your network, or power, or with the TC. Trying backups to a directly-connected external HD would be a quick way to confirm that, and especially if these are your only backups, a wise thing to do anyhow.
It's always prudent to keep "secondary" backups, more so if your main ones are on a network, and especially if there's the slightest doubt about them. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #27 for more info and some suggestions.
And/or, start through the list in the green box in #D2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Network destination already mounted when start Time Capsule backup after reboot

Just installed a new Time Capsule to replace my router, and noticed that when I reboot my home machine the intial attempt to backup always fails. (Running OS X 10.7.2 on a early 2011 15 inch MBP.)
Here is the Time Machine log:
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Data using URL: afp://[email protected]/Data
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/Data (FSVolumeRefNum: -105; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/Data (FSVolumeRefNum: -105; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data
Failed to eject volume /Volumes/Data (FSVolumeRefNum: -105; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Giving up after 3 retries.
Backup failed with error: 21
I then get a popup from Time Machine that says "The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/Wayne's Macbook Pro.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1).
I see "Time Machine Backups" on my desktop, and can access the drive via Finder.
If I use Finder to go into "Volumes" I can eject "Time Machine Backups" and the "Data" directory. If I then reselect the Time Capsule from the Time Machine settings window the backup works. Backups continue to work until the next time i reboot the machine.
Here is a log of a good backup run:
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Data using URL: afp://[email protected]/Data
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data/Wayne's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
967.8 MB required (including padding), 1.74 TB available
Copied 1707 files (95.9 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
852.7 MB required (including padding), 1.74 TB available
Copied 614 files (45 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Is the problem because something is causing the system to mount the Data drive at startup, then Time Machine tries to mount it again? Any suggestions? I've done some searching in the support forums and FAQs but can't find anything that seems to match my situation. (No doubt due to my inexperience with Time Capsule / Time Machine. <grin>)
Many things for any suggestions and/or links to suggested solutions so I dont' have to take any manual actions after a reboot.
Wayne

At least if yours is a new Time Capsule you can beat up on Apple Support to get them to fix it. So far no-one seems to have aroused Apple's interest in this issue. I expect Apple have judged it less critical than whatever other teething problems have shown up with the launch of iCloud. Apple are probably overwhelmed.

Time capsule bloat after MacBook replacement

Hello. The original MacBook I bought, which was backed up to my 500GB Time Capsule, needed to be replaced. I got the replacement unit the other day and immediately transferred my data from the Time Capsule to the new Mac. Data restoration went beautifully.
Last night I did my first backup to the TC from the new Mac. Time Machine wanted to do a full 150GB backup. I thought this made sense since it's a new machine so I let TM do its thing. Everything went fine. This morning, however, I noticed that the TC now only has ~100GB free. This surprises me because when I enter the Time Machine there is only 1 day's worth of backups. Therefore I would think I should have ~350GB free on the TC.
I'm wondering if the TC is still holding a backup from my original, now defunct, MacBook. Perhaps it thinks the new MacBook is just a second computer that I'm backing up to it. How can I tell? If this is indeed the case how can I get rid of the old MacBook's backup and reclaim the space? Thanks.

Hi and welcome to the discussions.
"I'm wondering if the TC is still holding a backup from my original, now defunct, MacBook"
Sounds like this is exactly the case. I had the same experience about a year ago transferring data from my Time Capsule to a new laptop.
Click on Finder at the upper left of your screen and select Preferences. Under the "Show these items on the desktop" heading, make sure there is a check mark next to Connected Servers.
Next double-click on your hard drive icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Look for your Time Capsule on the left had side of the next window under SHARED. You may need to click on the small arrow next to the name to reveal a drop down list.
Click on the Time Capsule icon on the left and a Time Capsule folder should appear on the right side of the window at the top. Double click the folder icon. You may need to click the Connect tab on the upper right of the pane and then enter your password for the device.
The next window should show a few .sparsebundle files with the dates of the first data transfers for each file. You can delete the old sparsebundle file since you should have another file with the date of your most recent data transfer.
It will take some time for the process to complete but after several hours or so, you should have the space back on your Time Capsule. Might also be a good idea to restart your computer and the Time Capsule as well.

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