Time Machine backup - doesn't store masters? Help!

My Aperture library was exhibiting problems, and so I attempted to restore it from a Time Machine backup (presuming (it would seem incorrectly) that restoring the Aperture Library.aplibrary would bring everything back to how it was two weeks prior. That was my experience with iPhoto. I hit restore and then because there were two .aplibrary files, 'replace' and let it go.
However, now it seems all I have left are the preview images, no thumbnails nor the much larger masters. The masters were stored within the library (the default setting).
I've done a lot of searching, and read that Time Machine stores incremental backups for Aperture - so is there a way to collate all those incremental backups to get a full Aperture library restore? Someone mentioned a 'slow backup restore' but I can't find anything on this. The original library file was several gigabytes, but each of these restored library files is only around 200mb.
Any help would be extremely appreciated - would love to get the masters back. If Time Machine has only stored a database and not the masters contained within the library, then how can Apple call it a backup solution? Surely one of the most important things for it to back up IS someones photos!

Scorpion Sting wrote:
It's running 10.6.6, haven't installed the latest OS version just yet.
Aperture is on 3.1.2. It was soon after updating Aperture (tho not immediately), that the Browser behaved strangely, with the photos going in one row off to the right, yet with no scroll bar at the bottom. I'd been used to using iPhoto, and thought that the Time Machine backup would be a non-issue and just revert it back to before I updated, avoiding this bug (this: http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11737525). Seems to have solved that problem (I also trashed the preferences file), but instead all the photos are just grey empty boxes. I'd also kept my iPhoto and Aperture libraries completely separate - iPhoto for point and shoot + phone, Aperture for DSLR.
What version of Aperture did you upgrade from? What version of Aperture is the library in TM? What is the size and type of the external drive? How is it formatted?
With regard to the backup, I've had Aperture since September 2010, so my computer has completed many backups with the program closed. The furthest back I can go is to November 2010.
So even if you go back to the TM BU of November 2010 the masters are missing from the Aperture library?

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Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
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http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
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Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 9.90 GB requested (including padding), 41.30 GB available
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No pre-backup thinning needed: 502.5 MB requested (including padding), 34.19 GB available
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Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Phil C. Beverly, Jr.’s iMac/2012-05-25-173116: 70.68 GB now available
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Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 8.99 GB requested (including padding), 71.54 GB available
Copied 11509 files (7.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
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Copied 11509 files (7.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
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pcbjr wrote:
Here's the log from Time Machine Buddy from my most recent backup:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 520.6 MB requested (including padding), 90.89 GB available
Copied 626 files (15.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 502.5 MB requested (including padding), 90.88 GB available
Copied 479 files (44 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Here's the log from the last "typical" 15 minute backup (13:24):
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 9.90 GB requested (including padding), 41.30 GB available
Copied 949 files (7.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 502.5 MB requested (including padding), 34.19 GB available
Copied 465 files (324 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Phil C. Beverly, Jr.’s iMac/2012-05-25-183056: 63.57 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Phil C. Beverly, Jr.’s iMac/2012-05-25-173116: 70.68 GB now available
Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
Backup completed successfully.
I've put in bold the only thing that I note which seems "unusual".
And the prior one to the above (which took 12:34):
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 8.99 GB requested (including padding), 71.54 GB available
Copied 11509 files (7.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 8.99 GB requested (including padding), 64.43 GB available
Copied 11509 files (7.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
The long backups were copying 7+ GBs; the short one only a few MBs. If that doesn't seem right, #A2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting has a couple of apps that will show you exactly what was backed-up each time.
The UUID message you highlighted does indicate something unusual, but normal in many circumstances. Because of that, Time Machine had to do a "deep traversal" which does take considerably longer than usual. See the blue box in #A6 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting for an explanation.

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Thank you, any help would be much appreciated before I decide whether or not to make this purchase.

I don't want to discourage you from getting a Time Capsule (TC), but from my experience its primary purpose is to be the target of Time Machine backups. It can also perform as a NAS device, but it does not seem to be well suited as a media server. Sharing a single iTunes or iPhoto Library is, in my opinion, not something I would recommend, especially when streaming iTunes during Time Machine (default: once per hour) backups are running. Also you won't be able to stream the iTunes content from the TC to a media extender, like the AppleTV.
However, there's a lot of opinions out there on this topic. Here are just a few articles to get you started:
o Apple Discussions Topic : Time capsule as a media server
o Engadget: Time Capsule: everything you wanted to know
o theAppleBlog: Using Time Capsule as a Media Drive

Time Machine backups fail with no error message

My Time Machine hasn't successfully completed a backup since 3/19. It starts the backup on schedule, indexes over 2 million objects, goes through the phase of preparing objects, and then just stops. I know that there have been many changes since that time, but it isn't backing them up. Please tell me how to fix this.

I have the same problem - Time Machine fails to backup with no error message - after a brief foray into Mavericks. Each time it tries to backup, TM creates a new folder in the "in progress" directory but fails to complete. Otherwise TM looks normal with no obvious errors. I have several HDDs. I installed Mavericks on an external drive, migrated my data over to it. Booted from it and after a day or two decided I just didn’t' like it and booted from my Snow Leopard partition. All was fine but apparently, I had forgotten to turn OFF Time Machine while booted into Mavericks. Thereafter, Time Machine failed to backup. Here's what I've done and the error logs:
Deleted the NEW directory that Mavericks created on TM
Done a full reset of TM (deleted: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
Re-entered the exclusions
Rebuilt the directory structure on the boot disc using DiskWarrior
Repaired the TM disc using Disc Utility
Resynced the Spotlight cache on the boot disk
TM also seems not to do a deep traversal since it just stops after checking files to backup.
Here are the error logs from the TM Buddy widget:
Starting standard backup
Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Vir tualPCDiskImagePlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Ma cOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:\n /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Vir tualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
Cannot find function pointer MacDiskImagePluginFactory for factory 7F1FD83E-6684-11D8-968F-000A957703C0 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x102f00930 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Mac Pro Data
Forcing deep traversal on source: "Mac Pro Data" (mount: '/Volumes/Mac Pro Data' fsUUID: B4BEA50F-15B1-34BB-92F1-B7605139B852 eventDBUUID: BA019CB5-8123-4C99-9806-C9593D4EFA34), {1, 1, 1, 0}
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Music HDD
Forcing deep traversal on source: "Music HDD" (mount: '/Volumes/Music HDD' fsUUID: FF1EF8F5-30D0-34C0-BC02-ACDB5AD18B3A eventDBUUID: 92A95F63-5F4A-4987-90DB-5444ADF33D40), {1, 1, 1, 0}
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|
Error: Flushing index to disk returned an error: 0
Backup canceled.
I don't know what to do next. Any ideas?
Thanks,
John

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