Time Machine backups not working with Yosemite upgrade?

Time Machine backups "Waiting" with no data after Yosemite install?

But still not working.....Im getting some error message/info come up though that i never had come up before when running mavericks....I can't even insert a 2.9MB pic/image of pic i took of screen error msg...says 3.0MB Max??
Saying something about the disc couldn't be found.....but i have highlighted/encrypted back up disc selected...not "available discs".....back up disc is the one I've always backed up to....can anyone on here just help me with this please!!??
Thank you.

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Why is Time machine backup not working after Mavericks upgrade?

Why is Time machine backup not working after Mavericks upgrade?

I had the same problem due to the Fire Wire port. Apple tested it told me it is OK!, I tried a new cable, and have tested both ports on my back up device. I find it strange that as soon as I installed Mavericks. The drive does work using USB. It could be a coincidence, I don't absolutely know at this point, my back up drive ports could stop working, but I doubt it!

Time Machine will NOT work with Airport Disks!

It looks like Time Machine will not work with Airport Disks after all. All references to Airport have been removed from the Time Machine page:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
It also specifically says: "You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices."
Surely, they would have included the Airport Extreme Base Station in this list if it was supported.
I really hope there will be another firmware update for the AEBS which will bring compatibility with Time Machine, because Time Machine was the only reason for me to buy an AEBS. (I only use it as a small backup server, I don't even have wireless networking enabled. There were other solutions, e.g. from Synology, which are faster and more reliable than AEBS disk sharing, but Synology stated their network drives would not be compatible with Time Machine.)

Here's how you can potentially use your AirDisk with TimeMachine (beware that YMMV), but it should work as it works with every other "unsupported" device.
1) Mount your AirDisk so it appears on your Mac
2) Open Terminal.app
3) change directories to the AirDisk's root folder located in "/Volumes"
ie: cd "/Volumes/AirDisk Name"
4) execute this command to "bless" the drive to be used with time machine:
touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported
5) Start TimeMachine and if all went well, it should recognize your AirDisk drive and use it for TM.
This should also work on NFS shares, SMB shares, AFP shares, basically anything. It has worked up until the last developer seed, so unless they yanked this at the last minute, it should still work.
Now, the reason why Apple removed this feature may be due to the unreliability of the AirDisk, so be cautious.

Help with Time Machine Backups not working..

Let me preface this by saying I have spent the last day scouring the internet for solutions to my problem. I have tried every option that I have run across and have had no luck in resolving my problem. As a last resort, I'm turning here in hopes that you can be of help.
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro running Moutain Lion. I use an external HD for my time machine backups. I am having an issue with Time Machine not functioning. The initial error message I receive when I attempt to use TM to backup is: "Time machine couldn't coplete the backup to Rick's backup disk". "Unable to complete backup. an error occurred while creating the backup folder".
I searched the forums and net and found several things to do to try and resolve this issue. My computer will freeze out and not let me erase, or re-partition the the hard drive, so I switched it over to an older macbook of my girlfriends and am successfully able to erase, and re-partition the drive (using disk utility) as suggested by several forum postings I have read. I am able to run disk verify and disk repair and both say the disk is "ok" with no issues. The moment the erase and partition is done, her computer prompts a message : "Would you like to use this disk for Time Machine Backups" which tells me it is working properly. When I move it back to my macbook pro and attempt to run TM backup, it will now work and copy about 10g of my 120g before shutting down with this error message:
"Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "Rick's Backup Disk". An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use disk utility to repair your backup disk."
If i attempt to re-run TM at that point, I get the original error message:
"Time machine couldn't coplete the backup to Rick's backup disk". "Unable to complete backup. an error occurred while creating the backup folder".
If I move the TM back to my Girlfriends computer and attempt to run TM, it will function properly and backup her entire harddrive. When I erase and try again on mine, I always end up back with the same issues. It's clearly something in my macbook that is screwing it up. Can anyone please offer some help! I'd be much appreciative.

rcury4 wrote:
"Time machine couldn't coplete the backup to Rick's backup disk". "Unable to complete backup. an error occurred while creating the backup folder".
See #C10 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting
"Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "Rick's Backup Disk". An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use disk utility to repair your backup disk."
Not one of Apple's more informative messages.
There's a problem with a file on your system. See #C3 in the above link. It will show you how to locate the message(s) that describe the problem, then help you fix it. If that doesn't help, post back with details, including all the messages, what you've done, and the results.

Time Capsule backup not working anymore after upgrade to Snow Leopard

Hi,
after I upgraded to Snow Leopard I started the backup process with the time capsule. Within several days I tried this about 5 times and the iMac crashed or froze after some time doing the backup - but it never completed.
I then deleted the whole content of the time capsule and started a fresh backup. Now I receive a message after some gigabyte that there was a problem and I should try it again. Again the backup has not finished so far. I tried to reduce the amount of files to backup by excluding folders - no chance. Since the upgrade to snow I was not able to complete one single backup.
Any ideas or similar experience?

I have had a similar problem. I have the latest 1TB Time Capsule and backup worked fine in Leopard. I am backing up over my home wireless network. The backup starts, but at some point it freezes with the spinning pizza wheel if I click on anything. Everything freezes with no possibility of force quitting any application.
I tried trashing the plist for Time Machine, but that didn't work. Tonight I'm going to try a backup with the computer connected to the Time Capsule by Ethernet.
I can access my existing Time Machine backups on the Time Capsule.
This is a frustrating situation. But for this, SL works great, but this problem is a critical one.

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 completed with error "The disk was not ejected probably..."

I have been using an UBS 3.0 capable external 2.5" hard drive from Lacie to backup my old 21.5" iMac for the last 2 years without problem.
Recently I bought the new late 2013 27" iMac running 10.8.5 and try to migrate the data from the Time Machine backup without success. After a while, Mountain Lion complained with the below error and only data before this message appear were migrated. When I connected the same disk back to my old iMac and ran disk utility, everything looks fine and I was able to complete the TM backup. Eventually, I managed to migrate the data using network copy, instead of TM backup.
Now that my new iMac is back online and I tried to setup Time Machine backup using the same 2.5" Lacie drive, the same error message appeared again in the middle of TM backup (after 3 minutes).
Wonder if anyone ran into the same issue and if there is an issue with the UBS 3.0 port on the new iMac, or there is a work around to this problem.
Any help or pointer would be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
Richard

The system is losing connection with the drive for some reason, likely because the drive is losing power and unmounting, but there could be other reasons as well. Do you have access to an external power supply for the drive? If so then connect tthat so it is not relying on the USB bus power to keep the drive running. I have also found this to happen with some USB 3.0 enclosures, and it appears to be a compatibility issue with them and Apple's USB 3.0 drivers, so another option is to get a USB 2.0 hub and use that for the connection. Things will not run at USB 3.0 speeds, but the drives will not continually disconnect.

Time machine backup not working right!

I am running Snow Leopard on a reasonably new imac 20".
I have been having problems getting my computer to backup to our timecapule. We have it programmed to automatically backup, but it is coming up with the error message: the backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk.
I have looked in the console, and initially found an error message relating to a flashplayer/sys file (sorry can't remember all the detail, and it doesn't seem to be there now). I set it to exclude that file from backup, and crossed my fingers. Still no joy.
It is now showing the following error message:
Dec 14 22:08:21 00-25-4b-8d-28-95 com.apple.backupd[427]: Error: (5) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of Sebastian Jonsson’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/Sebastian Jonsson’s iMac/2009-12-03-053418
It keeps repeating, the only difference is the numbers at the end.
I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone please help me, I'm worried about not having my info backed up properly.

I have the same problem which has just started when all was working fine. I have done I think all the things suggested in Time Machine - Troubleshooting User Tips but I still get the same error message.
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%[email protected] al/Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%204's
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%[email protected] al/Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%204's
Disk image /Volumes/Thom Dennis MacBookPro 4's/Thom Dennis MacBookPro 4.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Thom Freedom 2
Forcing deep traversal on source: "Thom Freedom 2" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 8CCFA0EB-DF43-399B-9212-905CCB159237 eventDBUUID: BF4914D6-7DB6-447E-B0C4-71D3A5ED830B), {1, 1, 1, 0}
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 2.12 GB requested (including padding), 361.76 GB available
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Version Cue CS4/Client/4.0.0/VersionCue.framework/Versions/A/Resources, /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Thom Dennis MacBookPro 4/2009-12-24-104229.inProgress/C627CFC7-FA55-4D69-936C-B192A4A
+Error message before that one:+
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%[email protected] al/Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%204's
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%[email protected] al/Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%204's
Disk image /Volumes/Thom Dennis MacBookPro 4's/Thom Dennis MacBookPro 4.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Thom Freedom 2
Forcing deep traversal on source: "Thom Freedom 2" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 8CCFA0EB-DF43-399B-9212-905CCB159237 eventDBUUID: BF4914D6-7DB6-447E-B0C4-71D3A5ED830B), {1, 1, 1, 0}
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
+And before that ...+
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%[email protected] al/Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%204's
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%[email protected] al/Thom%20Dennis%20MacBookPro%204's
Disk image /Volumes/Thom Dennis MacBookPro 4's/Thom Dennis MacBookPro 4.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Thom Freedom 2
Forcing deep traversal on source: "Thom Freedom 2" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 8CCFA0EB-DF43-399B-9212-905CCB159237 eventDBUUID: BF4914D6-7DB6-447E-B0C4-71D3A5ED830B), {1, 1, 1, 0}
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 2.05 GB requested (including padding), 361.76 GB available
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4, /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Thom Dennis MacBookPro 4/2009-12-24-104229.inProgress/1A14CF13-0CE0-47C7-8689-2401DE2A51C7/Thom Freedom 2/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4
Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
Stopping backup.
Copied 24 files (21 KB) from volume Thom Freedom 2.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
When I have flagged a file for not being backed up, the error message indicates an indexing problem with another file.
Where now please?

Network time machine backup not showing on Yosemite

Hi,
One of the people within the office is having a problem with their Time machine backups. The password had been changed on the computer where the hard drive is shared but they where not concerned with their backups as they are using a Macbook so they back up at home and we also use a time capsule as a backup backup drive incase the main drive has stopped for some reason.
Now they are wanting to use the main drive to back up to and I can not seem to find the drive in time machine but when I connect to the computer where the drive is attached to I can gain access to the drive but Time machine can not find it.
The host computer is running Mavericks and the computer that is having problems is using Yosemite Beta could this be why time machine is having trouble trying to find it?
The drive in question is a SmartStor DS4600 6TB no one else is having problems backing up to it, they are using Mavericks.
Thanks,
Bruce

Hi philravens24!
I have an article here for you that can help you troubleshoot this issue:
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3275
Further articles addressing Time Machine issues can be found here:
OS X Mountain Lion: Time Machine problems
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11194
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

Time Machine Backup Not Working - Please Help!

Hey everyone - first post here, please help! I'm having trouble with TM. Here are the messages from Time Machine Buddy:
Starting automatic backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Forcing deep traversal on source: "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: AD5C219F-0EC8-32C3-B827-2FF171A4AE46 eventDBUUID: 68A67596-22DD-4FB5-AA49-390E857688E1)
Backup content size: 166.93 GB excluded items size: 34.36 GB for volume Macintosh HD
Found 842174 files (132.56 GB) needing backup
160.14 GB required (including padding), 824.43 GB available
Copied 74.41 GB of 132.56 GB, 693114 of 842174 items
Copied 130.6 GB of 132.56 GB, 728437 of 842174 items
Copied 731588 files (130.76 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Backup canceled.
Starting manual backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Forcing deep traversal on source: "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: AD5C219F-0EC8-32C3-B827-2FF171A4AE46 eventDBUUID: 68A67596-22DD-4FB5-AA49-390E857688E1)
Didn't get valid migration dates.
Found 842174 files (1.87 GB) needing backup
3.9 GB required (including padding), 692.16 GB available
Copied 85694 files (1.71 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Using file event preflight for Macintosh HD
Will copy (41.8 MB) from Macintosh HD
Found 430 files (42.2 MB) needing backup
2.23 GB required (including padding), 689.79 GB available
Copied 5022 files (46 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Created new backup: 2012-10-09-015038
Copying OS X Recovery set
Starting post-backup thinning
Error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-50 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -50.)" (paramErr: error in user parameter list) deleting backup: /Volumes/Time Machine Back
I tried to back it up the first time, and it was taking forever, so I stopped it, and then started a new backup. Can someone let me know what to do so I can be comfortable knowing the machine is definitely backed up?
Thanks!

The indication that the backup completed successfully is the best evidence that it did. If you want something more explicit, you can proceed as below.
Launch the Terminal 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.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
sudo tmutil compare
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
The command will take at least a few minutes to run. Eventually some lines of output will appear below what you entered.
Each line that begins with a plus sign (“+”) represents a file that has been added to the source volume since the last snapshot was taken. These files have not been backed up yet.
Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
Files that you’ve excluded from backup, or that are excluded automatically, are ignored.
At the end of the output, you’ll get some lines like the following:
Added:
Removed:
Changed:
These lines show the total amount of data added, removed, or changed on the source(s) since the last snapshot.

Time Machine does not work after Lion Upgrade

Hi all.
I upgraded my iMac to Lion yesterday. I used to run Time Machine through my airport extreme to an external hdd.
After the upgrade to Lion I'm unable to do this. When I try to setup Time Machine again, it is not possible to connect to the HDD throught the Airport Extreme. I do find the external HDD in Finder, but not able to access it.
The HDD is a Samsung 1 TB.
Is this a known issue and is it any possible fixes in the near future?
Thanks!

Hi
It probably doesn't help you directly but I have Lion performing time machine backups onto an external disk via airport extreme. Have you upgraded the firmware on the airport extreme recently?
Cheers
Tom

Time Machine Backup Not Working

I connected my external hd to my computer to do a backup. But ended up running out of time, had to stop the backup and disconnect my harddrive to leave.
When I came back to it about 12hrs later, my computer would not mount my HD.
I went to disk utility at which stage it registered my HD but still wouldn't mount. Went to repair and it said I couldn't repair need to reformat.
Now i've divided my HD into 2 sections 500gb/500gb
One for Time Machine, and other for general use.
I couldn't access either.
Afraid that I could lose everything I try my HD in my PC to get what I can off the general use side and it mounts no problem at all.
How can I get my Time Machine backups off. As I need them at the moment because i've somehow synced a new phone with my mac and its deleted my entire calendar.
Any thoughts?

You can't do much if the disk won't mount.
Try this...
Launch/Utilities/Terminal and enter this command at the prompt:diskutil listPress return. Note the number of the disk (far left column) you want to unmount.
Then, enter this command:sudo diskutil umount force /dev/ (the number of the disk)
You may also want to run sudo diskutil repairVolume /dev/(the number of the disk)
-mj

Mail.app time machine backup not showing anything after upgrade.

Hi,
I have gone from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, and I have a concern that my Time Machine backup now does not show any of my emails since the upgrade.
Is this by design or has something more sinister occured?
Gavin.

Hi,
No, thats the point the only email visible is from after the upgrade a week ago.
My emails on this computer go back over a year, but I cannot seem to see them.
Gavin.

Time Machine backups not available after Lion upgrade

I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion a week ago. Today I went to my Time Machine (backups on a Time Capsule), and can't access old files. Past dates are shown in purple, with dates since the Lion update in the usual gray. However, none of them show any files. Any ideas?

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4055

Time Machine backup not working after Mountain Lion Install

Oh my. It seems that Mountain Lion and Lion Server are different species and cannot be interbred! Is this really true?
I am running OSX Lion Server on a late 2009 iMac with the main purpose of allowing the MacBook Pros in the house (both running Lion 10.7.4) to wirelessly back up to Time Machine. All has gone well until I upgraded one of the MacBooks to Mountain Lion. Now it appears that Time Machine via the server is no longer available on that MacBook. Also, the Server Admin app is also disabled.
My questions are:
Is it necessary to upgrade to OSX Server if I wish to use the server a Time Machine target for Mabooks running Mountain Lion?
If I do upgrade to OSX Server, is it also necessary to upgrade all the Macbooks to Mountain Lion?
Is OSX Server stable enough to bother with at this time?
Thanks in advance for your replies!

Well I can have a go at answering you questions
Is it necessary to upgrade to OSX Server if I wish to use the server a Time Machine target for Mabooks running Mountain Lion?
I'm not sure about this one as it didn't check before I upgraded my server to Mountain Lion but I would be suprised if a Lion Server (10.7.4) could not back up a Mountain Lion (10.8) client
If I do upgrade to OSX Server, is it also necessary to upgrade all the Macbooks to Mountain Lion?
No, I am running a mix of 10.8 and 10.7.4 clients with a 10.8 server and they all backup with Time Machine.
Is OSX Server stable enough to bother with at this time?
This is a very subjective area - my server is running well using Mountain Lion, it's not used heavily as it's mainly for backing up a few clients, running the built in wiki, web server, calendar and contacts. It's running fine and I like the additions enough to put up with the bugs [single sign on / kerberos is the one impacting me]. However if you search here you can find other who are having many more issues. This one is a personal choice you'll have to make.
For the server app, you have to run the same version across the server and the client to use it, you can always use screen share to get to the server and run the server app directly on the server. This is what I do when using a 10.7.4 client.
Hope this helps with you decisions.

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