Time Machine and Western Digital MyBook Live

I bought a WD 3Tb MyBook Live NAS drive for use with Time Machine. It supports TM out of the box without any OS tweaks. I'm running OS 10.6.7.
TM won't run longer than an hour.   Almost every hour I see
Log entries:
5/6/11 1:53:04 AM          configd[14]          network configuration changed.
5/6/11 1:53:08 AM          configd[14]          network configuration changed.
5/6/11 2:53:22 AM          configd[14]          network configuration changed.
5/6/11 2:53:25 AM          configd[14]          network configuration changed.
5/6/11 3:53:41 AM          configd[14]          network configuration changed.
5/6/11 3:53:44 AM          configd[14]          network configuration changed.
The above happens with or without TM enabled and running.   With TM running it looks like:
5/5/11 9:42:16 AM          configd[15]          network configuration changed.
5/5/11 9:42:16 AM          kernel          ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0x83d651c
5/5/11 9:42:16 AM          kernel          AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Volumes/TimeMachine prevTrigger 0 currTrigger 1
5/5/11 9:42:16 AM          kernel          AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Volumes/TimeMachine
5/5/11 9:42:16 AM          kernel          AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: soft mounted and hidden volume so do not notify KEA for /Volumes/TimeMachine
5/5/11 9:42:16 AM          kernel          AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/TimeMachine
5/5/11 9:42:16 AM          kernel          AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
5/5/11 9:42:16 AM          kernel          ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS: sock_settclassopt got error 57
It seems that this network config change breaks the connection to the TM volume.   Any ideas on what's causing the network config change?
The WD drive and iMac are connected via ethernet (Not Wireless) to the same linksys WRT54GL router.

Using a third-party network device with Time Machine is unsupported by Apple, and may be unsafe. If it doesn't work, your only recourse is to the device vendor, who will blame Apple. Apple will blame the vendor. I suggest you back up either to a locally-attached external hard drive, or to a Time Capsule, or to a shared volume hosted on another Mac.

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Hallo ,why is it that when I delete a photo ,which is backed up by time machine and western digital external hard drive , that I am able to restore the photo okay but not the titles and descriptions . I have a Macbook 4.1, mac osx 10.5.8 . Iphoto 7.1.5 ,

QUESTION.
Hallo , my question is ;whenever I delete a photo and restore it through Time machine and Western digital external hard drive , I am able to restore the photo but not the titles and descriptions . Western Digital inform me that it isn't their external hard drive problem and suggest that it is an Apple software problem ?
I am using a Macbook 4.1 , with Mac OSX 10.5.8 . I photo 7.1.5 , last modifie4d 01/05/2010 -universal . Should I be upgrading Iphoto ?
I hope that someone is able to help in this matter , as i have to restore 12000 photos !
Thanking you in anticipation.
Alan from Wigton

Hallo Kieth ,
I am not quite ready to restore the full iphoto library , as I have days of work re - imputting titles,descriptions and enhancement . I hope that your suggestion works , as I use my Macbook basically to work with digital photography. Through time , I will need to delete my library to recover more disc space and I would hate to have to spend more time re - imputting titles and descriptions all over again .
Thanks for your interest and advice.
regards - Alan

I am running my first time machine backup onto a Western Digital MyBook Live. It is taking forever. Is there antivirus software running in the background or any other settings I need to change to speed it up? Also I am on a wireless network.

I am running my first time machine backup onto a Western Digital MyBook Live. It is taking forever. Is there antivirus software running in the background or any other settings I need to change to speed it up? Also I am on a wireless network.

The initial Time Machine backup can certainly take a long time over wireless. Days, possibly. It's impossible for anyone here to be able to predict how long it will take, and wireless environmental conditions can change at any time.
Is there antivirus software running in the background
Only you can determine that. If you're using third party AV software, anything is possible.
NAS devices may not be compatible with Time Machine, regardless of what their manufacturers may claim. Even after the Time Machine backup completes, your backup may be unreliable. You may not discover that until you need to rely upon the backup for some reason, and corruption can occur months or years from now.
Time Machine supports the following backup configurations:
A locally mounted volume
Time Capsule
A volume resident on a USB hard disk connected directly to a Time Capsule or current production AirPort Extreme Base Station.
That's it. Any configuration other than the above list places you in an experimental category. If your backup fails, you're on your own.

Time Machine v western digital my book live fail second backup

HI I am using iMac 27 inch, running Lion.
I used Western Digital Mybook live as my time machine backup.
I follow the instrustion step by step, its work fine.
However, when I restarted my mac. Then its start fail to do continues backup.
I can't do any backup anymore. Its always show fail.
Anyone have idea how to deal with this?
Thanks.

Sorry, no answer from me.
I seem to have a similar problem with an WD drive.
TM says it cannot connect to the drive eventhough I can acces the drive and see the sparesbundles.
The problem started when using Mavericks.
i think I will set up another way to make back ups from my Mac's.

Has anyone used Mountain Lion with Time Machine for the WD MyBook Live Duo

This NAS is working with OSX Lion. But since I had trouble moving up to Lion with my previous WD NAS drive, I want to make sure that it works.
Thanks

Upgraded to Mavericks yesterday. Seems to have gone well except for one thing. My computer will not recognized my WD MyBook Live 3T and thus Time Machine will not work with it. My wife's MacBook Pro is still running 10.6.8 and her computer is still working properly and doing back ups. Called Western Digital Tech support and Apple Tech Support. Not much helpl there. I attempted to download and use the newest sofware (during Mavericks installation I did get a warning that the old WD software was not supported). However, one of the first steps is getting the software to scan for the backup drive. No dice. The computer is not recognizing its existence at all in any place you might look. So I am stuck and frustrated at this point. I have plugged and unplugged things. The MyBook Live is hooked up directly by ethernet cable to an Airport Extreme router. My computer is hooked up by ethernet cable to the router and my wife's laptop uses the WiFi connection. Apple Tech suggested a direct hookup to my computer. My computer still would not recognize it.

Time Machine doesn't see MyBook Live NAS.

I just got a new SMC-D3GNV gateway from Comcast and now Time Machine doesn't see my NAS MyBook Live. I can access all my files on the MyBook Live via finder. Also, all software/firmware is current. Any idea's?

mwithers wrote:
I know variations on this question have been asked many times before, but I've just read many of those threads, and I don't see an answer.
Time Machine does not see my La Cie Network Space NAS and neither does Disk Utility (the La Cie support pages imply that it should, believe it or not).
If your Mac can contact the NAS, it should appear in a Finder sidebar (if your Finder preferences are set for that). If you can set Time Machine up to back up to it, it will create a +sparse bundle+ on it. That sparse bundle, when mounted, will appear in Disk Utility's sidebar, and you can do a +*Repair Disk+* on it. Otherwise, no, Disk Utility won't see network drives.
Does not matter if it is connected via WiFi or directly through ethernet. I suspect this means that it is not Mac OS extended formatted, and not formattable (by Disk Utility) either.
Correct; Disk Utility can't format a network drive.
Review the LaCie specs and setup instructions carefully. My quick read on their site does not turn up any claim that it's Time Machine compatible, though.
Can you return it?

I have a western digital hard disk that I am using with time machine and I wanted to do a recovery of my operating system but when I do it i'm not able to see my time machine savings because it needs a password to be activated what can I do ?

How can I do the recovery of my mac mini with my western digital password protected hard disk (it's my timemachine) when I do the process of recovery everything goes well until I have to choose the date of a previous saving from which I can do the recovery nothing appears.

In the sidebar of a Finder window, select the icon representing your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) At the top level of the volume are folders with these names, among others:
Applications
Library
System
Enter Time Machine and select the most recent snapshot, which is behind the frontmost window. Are those folders present in the snapshot?

I would like to transfer my iTunes and photos etc from my PC to my new iMac via a external hard drive. Would somebody recommend one. I read that the Western Digital Mybook Essential 3.0 is good.

I would like to transfer my iTunes and photos etc from my PC to my new iMac via a external hard drive. Would somebody recommend one. I read that the Western Digital Mybook Essential 3.0 is good. Though as Mac has 2.0 is this fast enough? I am a basic user, surfing only.

If you plan on using the WD with the Mac after the iTunes transfer I would strongly recommend against WD. WD external HD's tend to be the most troublesome with Macs. If you intend to use the drive for backup using Time Machine or creating a bootable clone then I'd recommend a higher quality drive than WD. The drives I'd recommend in that case would be:
OWC Mercury Elite Pro series
LaCie d2 Quadra series
G-Tech G-DRIVE series
These are all high quality drives and enclosures with similar features. Personally I use the LaCie's however I would be happy to have OWC and G-Tech on my desk too. FWIW I've been using the LaCie's for 4 years and have 4 of them, all work perfectly and have never given me any trouble.
You also my find this article helpful: Move an iTunes library from a PC to Mac (and back)

Partitioning an External 320gb drive for use with Time Machine and...

I want to be able to use my Western Digital 320GB external drive for use with Time Machine and to use as extra storage space on both my Mac and when I boot into Windows Vista.
Is this possible?
I was playing around in Disk Utility and would I partition the part I want to use for Time Machine with the Mac OS Journaled, and whatever I want as space for windows, use a MS - DOS format?
Has anyone done this before?
Cheers-

Unless you are using 64 bit version of MSWindows (64 bit XP/Vista), it won't be able to handle a disk with GUID partition table (GPT). Disks with Apple Partition Map (APM) or GUID partition table are the only ones that Time Machine will work with (not MBR disks). Note also that the MBR/APM/GPT are at the DISK level and not the partition level, so don't mix the format with partitioning scheme. Time Machine disks are meant to live in the Mac universe (for now, anyway) and sharing with the MSWindows 32-bit universe is not possible.
See http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=macpcdiskdd06sv8.png for some additional background.

Time Machine and external HD in one?

I have a 2 TB Western Digital external hard drive, which I use for Time Machine backups. I have been considering buying an extra (they are on sale next week where I live) to use for stuff that takes up space on my Mac (like photos, videos etc.), but before I do so, I would like to know if I can partition or do something with the HD I already have, to use 1 TB for Time Machine and another TB for whatever I like to put in there. Is this possible, and if it is not, do I have any other choice than to buy an extra HD?
Cheers

This is from the disk utility help ...
Partition a non-startup disk
If you want to partition a disk that you won’t use to start up your Mac, follow these steps.
Partitioning a disk erases all the files on the disk. Be sure to copy any files you want to keep to another disk before you partition the disk.
If you’re partitioning an external disk, make sure it’s connected to your computer.
Open Disk Utility, in the Utilities folder in Launchpad.Open Disk Utility
Select the disk that you want to partition and click Partition.
Choose the number of partitions from the Volume Scheme pop-up menu.If you can’t choose the number of partitions, follow the steps for partitioning a startup disk.
Click each partition and type a name for it, choose a format, and type a size. You can also drag the divider between the partitions to change their sizes. If a partition’s name has an asterisk beside it, it’s shown larger than its actual size in order to display its name clearly.
Click Options and choose one of the following:
If you’ll be using the disk on a Windows computer, choose the Master Boot Record partition scheme (also known as “fdisk”).
If you’ll be using the disk only with Mac computers, choose GUID Partition Table.
Click Apply.
Note that all files on the disk will be erased when the partitions are created. If you want to try to keep your existing files, you can try this...
Create new partitions on a disk
You may be able to create new partitions on a disk without losing any of the files on the disk. Each partition works like a separate disk. You may need to create a new partition if you want to install multiple operating systems on your computer. You can also create partitions to help organize your files.
As a precaution, back up your data before creating new partitions on your disk
Open Disk Utility, in the Utilities folder in Launchpad.Open Disk Utility
Select the disk where you want to create a new partition and click Partition.
Select an existing partition in the Volume Scheme list, and click Add (+).Disk Utility splits the partition into two, leaving the data from that partition in one of the new partitions. If the partition is less than half-full, Disk Utility creates two partitions of equal size. Otherwise, it creates one partition large enough for the data, and another partition with the remaining space.
Resize the partitions as needed.You can drag the dividers between the partitions in the Volume Scheme list, or you can select a partition in the Volume Scheme list, and then enter a value in the Size field.
Choose how to format the partitions that will be erased or created.For each new partition, select it, enter a name, and then choose a format.
Click Apply.

Any advise on Western Digital Mybook (without Firewire)..........

I just bought a Western Digital Mybook, 500GB, for my pics, movies, iMovies, etc. I bought the model that does NOT have the Firewire. I only save data once a week or so and usually on the weekends. I did not buy it for work, just for family vid's, pic's and movies.
Anyone think spending the extra money on the Mybook Pro is worth it for someone like me and why? I can still return it (not opened yet). What is the advantage to having the Firewire? Can I still download my iMovies etc.? Will it just do it slower or not at all? Thanks for any help.

I have to admit... for my notebooks... I have typically used USB for my backups... only because I had the cables all set up and I would just disconnect one and plug in the other when I was doing backups. I knew the actual sustained throughput for Firewire was faster than USB 2.0, but I just thought the difference would be marginal... so I never bothered to try connecting via Firewire with my notebooks. I also have a Maxtor Onetouch with USB/FW 400/FW 800. I wanted to do a backup of my notebook before I went into work with it. Since I typically don't allow myself much extra time in the morning... I figured I'd try the backup with FW instead of USB just to see if it was any faster (thinking that if the backup didn't finish... I would just leave my notebook home that day)... I was very surprised that the backup was complete within about 25 min or so. In the past, my backups with that notebook, with roughly the same amount of data, took about 45 min or so over USB 2.0.

Time Machine and Mavericks

Has anyone experienced slow Time Machine backup times since upgrading to Mavericks? I've experienced extremely slow backup times on both Western Digital and (currently) Seagate (Seagate Backup Plus drive) drives since upgrading. Is there a fix/remedy?

Izaak96 wrote:
No, I'm not using any extra software.
Both of these drives (the WD and the Seagate) have gotten high reviews.
I can't comment on the Seagate, but WD drives come with incompatible, unnecessary software on the drive; incompatible, unnecessary software that they want you to install on your Mac; and in some cases, incompatible firmware in the drive enclosure.
I'd make sure you don't have any of that software, and that your WD is not one of those with the incompatible firmware. There's an update on the WD website for the firmware, if you trust them.
I have a LaCie Porsche external HD and also a Fantom Greendrive, both of which work fine for TM.
Also if you have third-party antivirus software that might be the problem.

Time Machine and Time Capsule don't seem to work well together?

Reposted.
I get the feeling there are some serious problems with the combination of Time Machine and Time Capsule.
This is extremely disappointing, as the idea of a centralized backup device on the network (instead of disks attached to each and every computer we have running Leopard) seemed like such a good idea and a good way to supplement our tape-based backup that takes place with Retrospect.
In reality, it's a disaster on both Intel and PowerPC systems. All systems and the Time Capsule are fully up to date with software updates from Apple. I have two 1TB Time Capsule units. It goes something like this:
1. I have a few systems (mainly Intel) that work perfectly with the Time Capsule. There are no complaints and no issues at all. These systems just quietly run their backups as they should. They are the definite minority--maybe one or two have worked properly.
2. I have some systems that complain from time to time (mainly PowerPC) but will back up with a little encouragement. These too are the minority.
3. And finally, I have systems that are nothing but pain. These are both Intel and PowerPC systems. They are also the majority of the systems I have. The most common problem is sudden loss of the credentials needed to access the Time Capsule hardware--a user will be going along about their business when the Mac OS asks for the Time Capsule user name and password--after it's already been supplied and backups have been running. This should simply never ever happen.
Another charming behavior I've seen is corruption of the sparse disk image file that each computer creates on the Time Capsule. Time Machine will complain that it can't perform the backup, and examining the disk image file with Disk Utility shows it to be severely damaged. Turning off Time Machine, deleting the corrupted sparse image file, and starting over fixes it. For a while.
Finally, there are the machines (again, both Intel and PowerPC) that just can't seem to actually get through the first backup run. They either go so far and can't continue, or never actually manage to get started. I've checked the disks in these computers and found no problem with the hardware or file system. The installations are fresh and fully up to date.
Meanwhile, I have computers running Leopard with directly attached disks configured for use with Time Machine. One is a QuickSilver that isn't even officially supported by Leopard, with a Firewire attached disk. It doesn't skip a beat. The other is an Intel Mac mini being used with Mac OS X Server 10.5.4 and a USB external hard drive. These machines just do their thing, and I never have to babysit them.
These problems with the Time Capsule have been so severe that I've just given up on most of the computers and shut off Time Machine entirely. We have tape backups that run over the week, so it's not a huge loss. But that's not what really made me throw up my hands and say "enough"...no, that was the speed. Even with just one computer backing up to it, the Time Capsule seemed terribly slow. Watching the progress indicator was just painful.
I put in a word about all of this to my independent Apple dealer, and they say I'm definitely not the first to complain about some or all of these problems. In fact, they told me they were going to set up a test lab in their shop to see if they could duplicate these findings. I have no doubt that they can.
There are a total of seven computers backing up to one Time Capsule. They all store maybe ~40GB worth of data including the OS. There are about six computers on the other. Because of the way the network is laid out, the Time Capsule is connected to a Gigabit switch (and that is the only thing it's connected to). It cannot be used as the router, although I know Apple suggests this. The Airport section is disabled--I have no need or desire to use it. Some computers link up at 100 megabits, others at 1 gigabit. There are no network problems--we have no problems moving large amounts of data across the same network to our tape backup machine.
Is anyone else seeing these kinds of problems? Am I doing something wrong or expecting too much from Time Capsule?

I may be on to something. The Time Capsules I have live in a telephone equipment room that is indoors but not directly air conditioned or heated. It doesn't ever get too hot to be comfortable in there--the highest I've ever seen the temperature was 80 degrees (F). Most of the time the temperature is between 60-78 degrees.
I happened to touch one of them the other day while it was in use, and I noticed that the casing was hot to the touch...not dangerously so I suppose, but much hotter than I would have expected.
So I turned a small fan on both Time Capsules and have left it running. And I've noticed that not only do backups seem to complete more quickly, the reliability is also better. I am going to try some of my most troublesome computers once again just to see what happens.
I know there is a fan pointed at the hard drive in the Time Capsule, but I can't see how it does much in the way of cooling things down. In my opinion, it's just surrounded by too many heat producing devices to do much good...after all, not only is there a 7200 RPM hard disk in there, but also a 500MHz Marvell processor and radio set.

Western Digital MYBOOK Premium! **Issues**

I am getting bombarded with clients giving me the Western Digital MyBooks... and I am having the same issue on all of them!
At first, I had to format them using Disk Utility as "MAC OS EXTENDED" to avoid a disk error saying that the hard drive was full. After re-formating the drive, the transfer speeds are retardedly slow. (eg - about 28 hour to transfer 74 gigs).
I called Western Digital and they told me the hard-drive was defective. However, this is a familiar problem with the Western Digital brand.
I was wondering if there is a manual way to enhance the transfer speeds. I have it connected via USB 2.0 .

I don't know if this will be of any help for you since you are running the USB version of the mybook. We had a situation where we were using two 2TB Mybooks for secondary backup of a server. the Mybooks would lock up the finder after a few days, and we have had multiple issues with them. We found that the server was reporting a stuck process right off the bat after rebooting. It was a western digital program/driver for the mybook. Try deleting the below file and see how it works. USB will still be a bit slower than firewire however.
<volume>/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.WD.WDDriveServices.plist

I can't back up with time machine to WD my book live

I can't back up with time machine to WD My Book Live home network disk. I get this error : The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features.

This is more a network problem than a disk error..
Reboot.. the network.. restart in correct order.. modem router /TC.. clients with 2min gap.
If you have trouble reset TM and redo it.
See A4.. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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