Time Machine backup problems

Question

Good morning.
I have a Quad-Core Intel Xeon G5, running Leopard 10.5.4. I have attached a LaCie 1TB external HD via firewire to be used as a Time Machine. The initial backup went smoothly, taking only about 6 hours to backup nearly 5.5 GB of information. The problem I'm having is this: when I go into Time Machine, all I see is the initial backup and the current backup; there is nothing incrementally in between.
I have checked the Sharing Pref and made sure the computer name is only upper and lower case letter, without spaces. Prior to the initial backup, I erased and reformatted the HD using the Disk Utility, and formatted it using the GUID Partition, which was done per instructions from the Apple website.
After all that, I am still only getting the initial backup and the current backup, and nothing else. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Or what step in the process I've missed?
Thanks your helpm -- Michael

Answer 1

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Select "system.log" from the file list. Enter "backupd" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. Post the messages from the last backup, beginning with "Starting standard backup." Post the log text, please, not a screenshot.
If there are runs of repeated messages, please post only one example of each. Do not post many repetitions of the same message.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — edit that out, too, but don’t remove the context.