Time machine Backup not mounting

Since upgrading the back up disc which is an external firewire disc no longer shows up on the desktop or to time machine, I can see it in Disk utility, the drive is recognised but the backup isn't mounted and I can't force it to mount either I've run verify and repair discs but both report it as OK, when I try to mount it in disc utility I'm told to run first aid which I have to no avail.
It won't work with USB or different leads, any bright ideas out there?
Apple support are coming back to me monday

My external drive backup for Time Machine dropped out too. It was ok when I first installed Snow Leopard, but when I tried to open Microsoft Office 2004 a few hours later, I had all kinds of freezing problems (with Skype, Word and inDesign, everything) which had never happened before. No amount of pulling out the external drive plugs and restarting made any difference. (You can see what a tech boffin I am.) The drive was dead and would not show up on my desktop. (I was also worried I might have lost all my back up data).
I later found out that Office 2004 is not Intel based software. So I updated with 2008 Office, pulled and replugged the ex drive and restarted and it worked. And all my data is there and everything is operating as normal. So for me, Office 2004 seemed to be the culprit. Hope this helps someone.

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    Helping my not-so-tech savvy auntie move over from her old 5,1 iMac to a newer 8,1 MacBook. Her old iMac has a Time Machine backup on OS 10.5.8. I plugged in the Time Machine to the new MacBook (which is on a clean install of OS 10.6.8) and for some reason the Migration Assistant is not picking up the Time Machine in the "Select Your Disk" section. All I can see is the MacBook's internal HD. The Time Machine backup is showing up in Finder, however the disk's icon is yellow, not Time Machine green.
    I'm a bit stumped - can someone please advise? By all indications, a 10.5 Time Machine backup should be able to restore to a 10.6 system. We are visiting for the weekend and I really would like to get her up and running before we leave tomorrow.
    Thanks!
    VIkki

    Yes, that's option B as she still has the IMac but I'm curious as to why the TM backup isn't working - just in case I need to do this on another machine down the road, it would be nice to know what's going wrong with the more convenient TM restore option.... Thanks!

  • Why does power nap time machine backup not work on my August 2012 macbook pro retina?

    Hello. I got a MacBook Pro with retina display in August of this year 2012. I have done the SMC ? firmware update and I have 10.8.2 installed on my machine. Power nap still doesn't seem to work. I have the button in energy saver preferences and I have clicked it so it looks like power nap should work. When I am running Time Machine backup with the time capsule and I close the lid (plugged into power) it appears that no progress is made when I reopen the lid. I have closed the lid with activity monitor running and with network displayed. When I reopen the lid it may take up to one minutes to come out of sleep. When it does come out  of sleep I can see that there has been no network traffic.  Eventually, time machine backup resumes and I can see several megabytes per second. When I closed the lid overnight, just to make sure backup didn't restart after lid closing, I saw that no progress had been made in backup when I reopened the lid.
    What options are left if I already have 10.8.2 and I have done the required firmware?  One person has mentioned a clean install but I really don't like to have to reenter all the different passwords and all the different preferences again unless that's absolutely necessary. Are there any other options left to try before a clean install?
    One other bit of information.  I have filevault turned on; however, it looks like others have a working power nap even with file vault enabled.  If this is not an option, the power nap button should be grayed out when the machine is in filevault.
    Thank you for any help.

    Yeah I still have the same problem BTW; it still does not work.
    The second I open the lid and take it out of sleep mode, it starts to backup automagically, but when it's sleeping EVEN when it's connected to AC power, TM backups do NOT work to my OS X Server. 
    I don't understand what the problem is here.
    I didn't before but I do have FileVault turned on now -- should that make a difference?
    In either situation it didn't work, but now that I think about it, I could understand why it wouldn't backup while asleep.  Apparently the encrypted volume will stay encrypted during sleep and even at the lock screen; it's not until you open the lid and log in from the lock screen that it will unlock the encrypted boot volume.
    But even still, I did *not* have FV turned on before, and this still did not work.
    Is there some third party solution that can do what I want this to do?
    Here's my use case:
    1.) I have a mac mini at home that I use when I'm at home; it runs OS X server.app (bought and paid for) and has TM server turned on.
    2.) I have a laptop that I mainly use at work and I don't use at all when I come home (ie. when I'm ready to head home for the day I close the lid and don't open it until I'm back at work the next day, but the laptop does come home with me every day).
    What I want to have happen is this:
    1.) The minute my laptop enters my home wifi lan (even though it's still asleep with lid closed) I want it to automatically backup the boot drive.
    I thought that's what Power Nap was supposed to do, but then I found out that in order for this to work, you have to be connected to AC power; so then I tried that -- ie. every day I come home, I put my laptop in a docking station that has AC power, but TM backups while lid closed / sleeping STILL do not occur!
    Thanks for your help everyone...Looking forward to a solution that works.
    EDIT:
    I found this thread:
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4158709
    "It looks like Power Nap doesn't perform Time Capsule backups when the MacBook Air screen is closed."
    So apparently that is yet *another* requirement to get powernap working.  The lid can not be closed. 
    What is the difference between sleep with lid open and sleep with lid closed!?

  • Time Machine backup not complete?

    I've had Time Machine running now succesfully for a while.
    HOWEVER ... a week ago my machine all of a sudden came to a grinding halt, with the internal HD becoming unresponsive.
    After a lot of checking for solutions online, I've decided to erase the HD, and restore a former system thru TimeMachine.
    The internal HD is still not functioning properly, but when I start up from an external HD, I can see it in Finder. When I check the contents, however, it does not seem to contain my applications!
    I thought TM was supposed to make a full system backup?
    Or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
    Also, it now takes AGES for a folder to open on the restored drive. Is this normal?

    TC-Productions wrote:
    I've had Time Machine running now succesfully for a while.
    HOWEVER ... a week ago my machine all of a sudden came to a grinding halt, with the internal HD becoming unresponsive.
    After a lot of checking for solutions online, I've decided to erase the HD, and restore a former system thru TimeMachine.
    Exactly how did you do the restore?
    The internal HD is still not functioning properly, but when I start up from an external HD, I can see it in Finder. When I check the contents, however, it does not seem to contain my applications!
    I thought TM was supposed to make a full system backup?
    Or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
    Since there's a problem on the internal, don't trust anything you see there. When you start up from the external, use Time Machine to see what's on the Time Machine backups, via the "Star Wars" display. Unless you excluded the Applications folder via TM Preferences > Options, it should be there.
    Also, it now takes AGES for a folder to open on the restored drive. Is this normal?
    If the drive is failing, don't count on anything being normal!

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