Time machine can not back up
Every time I try and back up to an external drive in time machine on Lion it starts the back up and then ejects the drive and I get a message that the back drive can not be found. When this happens the drive does not even appear in Drive setup. However if I mount the drive on the computer and do not use it fro time Machine it sits there quite happily.
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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
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.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
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Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of Margaret Wells’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/MargaretWellsiMac/2012-04-26-200756.inProgress/C02B2E8C-5 BDB-4D58-886F-5B848020F531 size:2
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Jun 5 07:57:24 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[10698]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Jun 5 07:57:24 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[10698]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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Jun 5 19:59:49 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11396]: NAConnectToServerSync failed with error: 89 for url: afp://Dwight%20DuBois@Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
Jun 5 19:59:59 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11396]: Backup failed with error: 19
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Time machine is not backing up the folder
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Here is how I tested the problem, I don't know why TM stop doing backup folder
1) Import some pictures from camera to iphoto library --> fine, I can view the new import in iphoto and also I can find the copy of imported file under iphoto Library/Originals (by Show package content)
2) I manually ask TM to backup.
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I just created 5 min ago.!!
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manage photos.
AND I think it is somehow must bug in the iphoto..........
PLease reply if you have similar problem!icestone2010 wrote:
Just figure out the reason to cause lost of my photos after restore from Time Machine Backup:
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No matter what, Steve Jobs need to fix this bug!!!
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Time Machine can not complete the backup "Time Capsule"
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Hi,
I'm getting the "Time Machine can't back up - sparsebundle error #1" message, and am trying to see if the fix posted below is the answer:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2048
So, when I installed Time Capsule, I gave it a password ("network password").
Fairly recently, I renamed the Airport. Now the Airport disk password and Airport base station password are the same as the network password, and the Airport network password is different.
Is this what the Apple support message I referenced is getting at? Are these passwords supposed to be the same... ???
Thanks for any help,
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Check this Web page for advice on the space issue. -
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