Time Machine can't back-up because MBP overheats and shuts down

I LOVE my 2006 MBP! However, almost since the first time I tried making movies on it, it has crashed. Just suddenly went black. Thankfully, I've always (knock on wood!) been able to re-start when this happens. This would also occur when I set it up to do a Time Machine back-up.
It was only in the last couple years that I realized that the computer was truly overheating, and after doing some research, installed SMC fan control. With SMC, I learned that my fans were barely moving at all. Now, when I know I'm doing something that requires a lot of energy, I boost the fans to their max 6000rpm. And when I see that the temp has climbed over 200°F I quit whatever program I'm in and wait for it to cool down. LOVE that SMC!!!
BUT, that means I've never been able to do a complete back-up, which is really starting to make me nervous. This baby is no spring chicken! I bought a new Seagate external drive, maxed out the fans and started my TM backup. Within a few minutes, the temp was over 200 and I'd backed up maybe 8GB out of the 256GB. I started several more backups but was forced to stop them because of the temps. (I've seen them over 230 before the computer goes black.) At this rate, it will take months of my babysitting it while TM runs and I monitor the temp.
I should say that I always use the MBP on a well ventilated wire stand. I don't play games or watch movies. Photo editing and digital scrapbooking can ramp up the heat, but I try hard to keep an eye on the temp and stop what I'm doing if it gets over 200.
So what can I do to get a complete backup of this machine? What's the coolest (literally!) way to back up a hard drive? I'd rather not invest in iCloud and I realize it is not infallible, so should still have another method of retrieving my data, but maybe it's the least heat generating? I have quite a few photos in online storage, but not all and my iTunes library is HUGE and unbacked up.
I don't consider myself a techie (though I adore those of you who are!) in any sense of the word and get REALLY nervous if someone would tell me to go into the "guts" of my computer, so any suggestions should take that into account.
All that said, what would you suggest I do to make a complete backup? I would REALLY appreciate some assistance! Thanks in advance!
D

The best guide to Time Machine and the Time Capsule on the internet is linked at the Time Capsule main forum page.
You can also click here to locate Pondini's Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.

Similar Messages

"Time Machine can't back up - sparsebundle error 1" question

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,
reluctantuser

I'm not sure what you mean by "We also used the Time capsule as a hard drive for backing up." after you've already mentioned that you use Time Machine to back up three Macs to the Time Capsule.
Check this Web page for advice on the space issue.

I recently upgraded to Mavericks and the time machine is failing to backup. Time Machine began only backing up twice a day and now has stopped.

I recently upgraded to Mavericks and the time machine is failing to backup. Time Machine began only backing up twice a day and now has stopped.

This is the error message I got:
2014-03-18 17:02:30 -0400 com.apple.backupd[4971]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/TOSHIBA EXT/Backups.backupdb/Quincy‚Äö√Ñ√¥s iMac size:37
2014-03-18 17:02:30 -0400 com.apple.backupd[4971]: Backup failed with error 2: 2

Time machine can't back up

Hi,
We have three laptops backing u to the tthe time capsule. The time machine sends the message that it can't back up because there isn't enough space left. We also used the Time capsule as a hard drive for backing up. I am wondering what would be a smart solution now. buying a new time capsule? havin a hard drive conected to the Time Capsule , or should each user have it's own back up harddrive for the time machine?
Thanks for any suggestions

I'm not sure what you mean by "We also used the Time capsule as a hard drive for backing up." after you've already mentioned that you use Time Machine to back up three Macs to the Time Capsule.
Check this Web page for advice on the space issue.

Time Capsule and Time Machine can't back up

Time Machine can't backup my Mac Book Pro with Time Capsule and show me a window with this error: "Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk image "/Volumes/German-Time Capsule/German's MacBookPro_001f5be7ffd1.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error-1)"
I can't back up and I can't access to my old backups via Time Machine.
What can I do to solve this problem. Here in Argentina, nobody at Apple knows what to do with this problem.

The best guide to Time Machine and the Time Capsule on the internet is linked at the Time Capsule main forum page.
You can also click here to locate Pondini's Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.

HT1338 MacBook Pro OSX I keep getting a message, "The back disk image, "/Volumes/Data/Don's MacBook Pro. sparse baundle is already in use so, apparently my Time Machine can't back up my compute for about 2-3 weeks now. What do I do?

Time Machine cannot backup my MacBook Pro because: THe back disk image "/volumes/data/don'sMaBook oro.sparsebundle is aready in use/
What do I do to fix this?

Please look over to the right of this page and locate the heading of More Like This.
There are multiple answers and solutions there.

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.
Help!

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.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

Time Machine Can't Back Up to Samba NAS

Hi,
I have a Samba NAS on my local network which I can mount manually, copy files to/from etc. quite OK. However, I can't get TM to use it! Here's the log:
06/01/2009 12:09:32 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[687] Starting standard backup
06/01/2009 12:09:36 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[687] Mounted network destination using URL: smb://[email protected]/admin
06/01/2009 12:09:36 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[687] Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/admin-1
06/01/2009 12:09:36 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[687] Creating disk image /Volumes/admin-1/Oberon_002241326ac3.sparsebundle
06/01/2009 12:10:26 kernel hfs: Initializing the journal (joffset 0xe51000 sz 0x2800000)...
06/01/2009 12:11:04 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[687] Error 45 creating backup disk image
06/01/2009 12:11:04 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[687] Failed to create disk image
06/01/2009 12:11:09 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[687] Backup failed with error: 20
NB - because I need to access another Samba server for work via VPN, I do have a file called nsmb containing:
[default]
minauth=none
Thoughts anyone...?

Thanks - that worked - although the solution requires a little updating which was mentioned further down that post. In summary it is now this:
1. Create a sparsebundle image manually on your local system. Open a terminal window and enter:
hdiutil create -size $SIZESPEC -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname "Backup of $MACHINENAME" $MACHINENAME_$MACADDRESS.sparsebundle
Where $SIZESPEC is the size of the backup volume (followed by the lowercase letter g if Gigabytes, e.g. 100g), and $MACHINENAME_$MAC_ADRESS is your Mac's name followed by an underscore and then your Mac's MAC Address (otherwise known as its Ethernet ID; visible in the Network System Preferences panel), but without the colons. So if your Mac is named MyMac, and the Network System Preferences panel lists your Ethernet ID as 00:18:b3:11:84:dd, then you would use MyMac_0018b31184dd for the name of the sparsebundle.
The -size parameter can probably be as large as you want, now that Apple has evidently fixed the sparsebundle issues that were causing all but the most recent backup to be dumped. However, you can also specify a smaller size if you (like me) want to create a hard limit for the amount of space your Time Machine backups will take on your network drive. hdiutil does have a -resize option if you need to utilize that later.
2. Create and set permissions on your network share. Just make sure you have read/write permissions set on whichever SMB/AFP share you're going to dump this to.
3. Copy the sparsebundle to the network share root. Easy enough. Mount your network share and copy it over. I used this Terminal command after the MyBackup share was mounted: cp -r mymachine_0017f2c8426b.sparsebundle /Volumes/MyBackup/. Or just use the regular UI to copy and paste (it worked for me).

Time Machine can't back up new MacBookPro

I've used a Time Capsule for network and Time Machine backups for a long time with my iMac, but have just added a MacBook pro, and it connects to the network fine, but I can't get it to work with the Time machine for backups. Keep getting an error " Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/My MacBookPro.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error-1).
The old iMac that used to back up fine also gets an error.
Thanks for any help.

That is fun Lion bug.. maybe linked to issue with latest firmware in TC as well.
Solution is easy... but annoying.. you need to reboot the TC..
The more sophisticated but in the end just as annoying way is login via airport utility.. use v5 if you still have SL running on the imac.. or download 5.6 if you have only lion now.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
The required setting is missing from v6 utility.
Go to manual setup, disk page, disconnect all users.
It will then work.. what seems to be happening is that after a backup one of the computers is holding the TC disk open and not allowing further backups.
See also pondini as there are some other rather unusual causes.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Look at C17.. I refer you to his FAQ and troubleshooting as a whole, as worthwhile skim read and resource.

Time Machine - can't select any backups except Today and Oldest

Ever since installing Lion I've noticed that I cannot scroll through the time machine backups using the purple bar on the right as I used to be able to do in previous OSX versions. Because of this, I have not found any way to restore anything other than the oldest backup (from April 2011). I have lost all my Safari bookmarks and was hoping to restore them from Time Machine Backup, but need more recent backup than last April.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

See if this thread is fruitful:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10394546#10394546

Time Machine can't back up to Time Capsule because disk is not found

Hello all. I have been using TC as my router for a few years and backing up to it. I got a new router through my IP which I think might be faster so just want to use TC as backup. However, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I connected the TC to the new router via Ethernet cable but the message says TM can't find it. I guess I don't understand the logic of what is happening with TC and router. Is there something special I should be doing. I have always had the TC configured as I was using it both ways. Should I be changing the configuration?
Macbook Pro. Running Mavericks. Thanks

You must reset the TC to factory regardless.. in any new situation it will be lost.. it need to full factory reset and start over.
A factory reset of the TC is the start.. it is required so you can find it again.
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.
Setup the TC again.
ie Start from a factory reset. No files are lost on the hard disk doing this.
Then redo the setup from the computer .
1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.
eg TCgen5 and TCwifi for basestation and wireless respectively.
Even better if the issue is more wireless use TC24ghz and TC5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense. But this can be tried in the second round.
2. Use all passwords that also comply but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
3. Ensure the TC always takes the same IP address.. you will need to do this on the main router using dhcp reservation.. or a bit more complex setup using static IP in the TC. But this is important.. having IP drift all over the place when Yosemite cannot remember its own name for 5 min after a reboot makes for poor networking. If the TC is main router it will not be an issue.
4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. but this change will mess up your TM backup.. so be prepared to do a new full backup. Sorry.. keep this one for second round if you want to avoid a new backup.
5. Mount the TC disk in the computer manually.
In Finder, Go, Connect to server from the top menu,
Type in SMB://192.168.0.254 (or whatever the TC ip is which you have now made static. As a router by default it is 10.0.1.1 and I encourage people to stick with that unless you know what you are doing).
You can use name.. SMB://TCgen5.local where you replace TCgen5 with your TC name.. local is the default domain of the TC and doesn't change.
However names are not so easy as IP address.. nor as reliable. At least not in Yosemite they aren't. The domain can also be an issue if you are not plugged or wireless directly to the TC.
6. Make sure IPv6 is set to link-local only in the computer. For example wireless open the network preferences, wireless and advanced / TCP/IP.. and fix the IPv6. to link-local only.
Not all of that is necessary.. but at least the factory reset and new naming.. then reset the TM again and select the TC as the location for the backup.
It will say it is going to start a new backup but it should discover the existing one and after a bit of verification continue from where it left off.

Help please! can't import CDs, Itunes stops working and shuts down:(

Hi All, Itunes worked fine up until couple of days ago and now when I insert a CD to import it recognises the CD but when it starts importing, itunes stops working and shuts down immediately. What do I need to do? I read the discussions but couldn't find an answer, most questions were about burning a CD so your help will be highly appreciated...many thanks indeed

Itunes worked fine up until couple of days ago and now when I insert a CD to import it recognises the CD but when it starts importing, itunes stops working and shuts down immediately.
First we need to check your precise version number, elektra. In iTunes go "Help > About iTunes" and wait for the version number to scroll up from the bottom of the screen.
Do you see *iTunes 10.1.0.54* ? If so, we need to update you to version 10.1.0.56 . It probably wont appear for you in Apple Software Update if you already have a 10.1.0.54 already installed, so you'll need to download the installer from the Apple Website, as per the following document:
[iTunes 10.1 for Windows: iTunes may stop working and need to quit while importing or syncing audio|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3591]

Time Machine Won't Back up Completely

When I insert an external drive, Time Machine does not back up my whole computer. It only backs up around 4 GBs. Any solutions/tips on why that is the case? It is a brand new hard drive

jcwong15 wrote:
Actually, the issue is my "Untitled" hard drive is on the excluded list.
I somehow thought it was normal to have the hard drive there, and anything else that isn't there should be deleted. I can't remove my hard drive from the excluded list though.
What happens when you try to remove it?
If it's listed in gray, and you can't remove it, that means it's not formatted for a Mac (any variant of Mac OS Extended) and Time Machine can't back it up.
If so, you must have an SSD with OSX on it (since OSX won't install or run on a drive like that).
Even so, the system folders (Applications, Library, and System) alone on your OSX drive should add-up to at least 14 GBs.
Let's see just what's what. Start the Disk Utility app (Applications/Utilities) and screenprint the display. For each partition (indented) with a gray icon, select it and screen print that, too. Then post them all here.

I recently had the genius bar change my imac hard drive because it crashed. For some reason Time Machine didn't back up some of my important files. Can I get my damaged hard drive back from the genius bar to see if I can access that info?

I recently had the genius bar change my imac hard drive because it crashed. For some reason Time Machine didn't back up some of my important files. Can I get my damaged hard drive back from the genius bar to see if I can access that info?

Unfortunately, that drive is long gone, probably back to the mfr. Drives are not returned when they are exchanged. You can go by and ask them, but the chances are slim to none.

Back up with time machine can't finish, because volume with sparse bundle already seems to be in use

I have problems with time machine. The message I got (in Dutch) is "Het schijfkopiebestand '/Volumes/Back up schijf/iMac van Gerard.sparsebundle' dat voor de reservekopie wordt gebruikt, is al in gebruik." The sparsebundle seems to be in use so Time machine can't finsh back up process. Any idea what I should do to fix this? I'm using time machine over a wireless netwerk, backing up on a NAS form Lacie, connected to the netwerk via airport extreme. Ik normally works well.
regards,
Gerard

http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html

Time Machine can't back-up because MBP overheats and shuts down

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for