Time Machine - ambiguous error message, cannot backup
I've been without use of Time Machine for sometime (months) now. I've been getting the following error:
My backup drive (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex - 320GB) was a attached to my Airport Extreme, but in desperation I moved it to being directly attached to my MBP. I've also excluded large number of files from the back up (reduced the full backup size to half the size of the backup disk). Also, I've erased and reformatted the back up disk - twice. No errors on it either.
What would be really helpful, was if there was some indication as to WHAT the problem actually is. This is a rather ambiguous error message, which does little to help a person to troubleshooot. It seems like the backup is being hung up on a file or files...but I'm just guessing.
Has anybody out there run into this? If so, what was your solution?
[edit] is just that....
May 14 14:48:17 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Starting standard backup
May 14 14:48:17 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Backing up to: /Volumes/ExternalDrive/Backups.backupdb
May 14 14:48:17 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
May 14 14:51:04 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Backup content size: 245.6 GB excluded items size: 137.7 GB for volume Macintosh HD
May 14 14:51:04 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: 129.53 GB required (including padding), 297.57 GB available
May 14 14:51:04 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Waiting for index to be ready (101)
May 14 15:02:46 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Library/Printers/EPSON/EPSON PIC Folder/EPPICPattern126.dat to (null)
May 14 15:31:49 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/7b8a42966b914320a4db3ac5eddaa32064d29fcc to (null)
May 14 15:32:04 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/86871b8b230c5a0ca23ec5789cac825a1e7026ee to (null)
May 14 15:32:15 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/86d83f36949ec4330f43bc2af1adddfd19e52056 to (null)
May 14 15:32:27 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/86f96503cca926e69f0c2f8cf372171727749536 to (null)
May 14 15:32:38 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/873122ebefa3dd47cffcb054df63bd3a35791916 to (null)
May 14 15:32:50 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/87510b15fb7fc3d3e7032b143d3de4e5e87c05ff to (null)
May 14 15:33:01 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/876fb2d3a73264a6c081b320e7f47071da0637b2 to (null)
May 14 15:33:13 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/87843f0b63a7e5c3538844828dc4536b56b10e54 to (null)
May 14 15:33:25 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/878ad7fc28317553ffc49b4a08c8e514019700b0 to (null)
May 14 15:33:37 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/87d14e27e2f738ff1a6e39c08e064e5dbcc3e26f to (null)
May 14 15:33:48 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/88dd812d4e95170a8a5fcaac47af473556b51e1f to (null)
May 14 15:34:00 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/8999862e4421fe066253d175b6026b16f03b1657 to (null)
May 14 15:34:12 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/89bcb0705dc484e7bcd2e7bdebe3fd66357d27a5 to (null)
May 14 15:34:32 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/ae530ff4961a820911be360b64d8300327d01bae to (null)
May 14 15:34:43 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/ae767b8458cc53ed334e27a0100d1172ceff1272 to (null)
May 14 15:34:55 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/ae79df406dc5da5e53f72ce7816f7f654507b294 to (null)
May 14 15:35:06 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/aefea7b028355af5ade04018c304884413d7d12c to (null)
May 14 15:35:18 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/af0536e1b8ba4cfa4ec3353e41bbdf803fbde764 to (null)
May 14 15:35:29 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/af2dea9017f80796663317a0daa77aa72f243315 to (null)
May 14 15:35:41 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Stopping backup.
May 14 15:35:41 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/[edit]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/68a48479fa6e73fdbacc33daf3c003dcbfab9c3e-20120509-095 758/af59c8a32e747af22d90fdf3b108745b1d99fef1 to (null)
May 14 15:35:42 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Copied 411032 files (19.7 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
May 14 15:35:42 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Copy stage failed with error:11
May 14 15:35:52 [edit]-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1764]: Backup failed with error: 11
...so, what's up with the "Error: (-36)" on all the "MobileSync" entries...???
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