Time Capsule seems to be doing nothing
I seem to be getting very intermittent results with Time Capsule. I'm using it to back up my G5 Mac Pro and my G4 Powerbook. After a couple of very hefty backups that lasted several days I seem to have an initial backup of both devices on my Time Capsule device.
Since the initial backup of the Powerbook, I've updated to OSX 10.5.5 and am waiting for the first time capsule backup to complete successfully. After "preparing for backup" for several minutes, the backup started with 5.6Gb of data to be backed up.
The problem is, the status bar has been stuck at 41Kb of 5.6Gb for over an hour. I can hear disk activity on the Time Capsule device but no data seems to be being sent. I've attached the most recent events from the system log but nothing untoward seems to leap of the page to me.
Can anyone help or suggest something. The Mac Pro seems to back up OK but the Powerbook is causing me some concerns at the moment.
Kind regards,
Cliff
Brighton, UK
Sep 21 14:00:41 Cliffs-PowerBook /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[246]: Backup requested by user
Sep 21 14:00:41 Cliffs-PowerBook /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[246]: Starting standard backup
Sep 21 14:00:42 Cliffs-PowerBook kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/Time Capsule, pid 349
Sep 21 14:00:42 Cliffs-PowerBook /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[246]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Time Capsule
Sep 21 14:00:52 Cliffs-PowerBook /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[246]: Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule/Cliff’s PowerBook_000d932a0114.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Cliff’s PowerBook
Sep 21 14:00:52 Cliffs-PowerBook /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[246]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Cliff’s PowerBook/Backups.backupdb
Sep 21 14:02:42 Cliffs-PowerBook com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[349]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 352 PPID 1 check_afp
Sep 21 14:32:58 Cliffs-PowerBook /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[246]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 6.78 GB requested (including padding), 126.61 GB available
Sep 21 14:33:14 Cliffs-PowerBook /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[246]: Copied 1 files (0 bytes) from volume Portable .
Sep 21 15:03:45 Cliffs-PowerBook Activity Monitor[445]: * -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (18) beyond bounds (17)
Sep 21 15:08:41 Cliffs-PowerBook /usr/sbin/ocspd[457]: starting
I was having a very similar problem. I would get through the preparing phase just fine, but the problem came at between 10-50kb. I tried to solve this by totally wiping the drive and restarting. I zeroed the drive (I was having other problems, too) and had no problems for about two weeks, then I got the same issue.
I solved it (at least for now) by excluding an encrypted sparseimage, repairing the drive with Disk Utility (it found no problems), and restarting. No problems for a few days now. I'm not sure which of these helped or if it was unrelated serendipity that solved my problem.
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/24380694#24380694
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Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
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