Time capsule quits backup
I've been unable to backup one of my computers. It gets into about 2gb out of 300gb of the backup and then just circles around without any futher progress. I've tried deleting the backup and starting over but it still gets stuck along the way.
Looking into the console crash reports it seems that the share_points backup application quits at just the time the Finder shows was when the last change was made to the backup on the Time Capsule. SThe main line in the console relating to this is:
* Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '* -[NSCFString substringToIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds'
See below for what the console says.
Other computers don't have a problem backing up to this Time Capsule.
More detail from the console:
Process: sharePoints_backup [54170]
Path: /usr/libexec/serverbackup/sharePointsbackup
Identifier: sharePoints_backup
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ServerBackup [54119]
Date/Time: 2011-01-17 14:36:12.518 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X Server 10.6.6 (10J567)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Application Specific Information:
abort() called
* Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '* -[NSCFString substringToIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds'
* Call stack at first throw:
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff817e17b4 __exceptionPreprocess + 180
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff816830f3 objcexceptionthrow + 45
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff817e15d7 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 103
3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff817e1564 +[NSException raise:format:] + 148
4 Foundation 0x00007fff82270259 -[NSString substringToIndex:] + 120
5 sharePoints_backup 0x00000001000024a0 0x0 + 4294976672
6 sharePoints_backup 0x00000001000031f5 0x0 + 4294980085
7 sharePoints_backup 0x00000001000017fc 0x0 + 4294973436
8 ??? 0x0000000000000005 0x0 + 5
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff88cfd616 __kill + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff88d9dcca abort + 83
2 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff82cad5d2 _tcf0 + 0
3 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff81686d29 objcterminate + 100
4 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff82cabae1 _cxxabiv1::_terminate(void (*)()) + 11
5 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff82cabb16 _cxxabiv1::_unexpected(void (*)()) + 0
6 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff82cabbfc _gxx_exception_cleanup(_Unwind_ReasonCode, UnwindException*) + 0
7 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff81683192 object_getIvar + 0
8 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff817e15d7 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 103
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff817e1564 +[NSException raise:format:] + 148
10 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff82270259 -[NSString substringToIndex:] + 120
11 sharePoints_backup 0x00000001000024a0 0x100000000 + 9376
12 sharePoints_backup 0x00000001000031f5 0x100000000 + 12789
13 sharePoints_backup 0x00000001000017fc 0x100000000 + 6140
This might be a problem with a file on the Mac, especially if it always stops at the same place.
Try verifying the internal HD, per #A5 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).
If that doesn't help, it might be a problem on the backups; so try repairing them, per #A5.
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