Time Machine/Capsule not backing up
Time Machine is not backing up to my Time Capsule and I can't figure out what is wrong. The error message just states that it did not back up and has not since April 26. I looked through all of Pondini's troubleshooting site and have not found anything applicable. I installed the Time Machine Buddy Widget and this is the error message that I am getting:
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Margaret%[email protected]/WellsTimeCapsule
Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/WellsTimeCapsule using URL: afp://Margaret%[email protected]/WellsTimeCapsule
Renaming /Volumes/WellsTimeCapsule/Margaret Wells’s iMac.sparsebundle to /Volumes/WellsTimeCapsule/MargaretWellsiMac.sparsebundle
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/WellsTimeCapsule/MargaretWellsiMac.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Margaret Wells’s iMac
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Margaret Wells’s iMac/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Error: (-36) Applying backup protections to /Volumes/Backup of Margaret Wells’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/MargaretWellsiMac/2012-04-26-200756.inProgress/C02B2E8C-5 BDB-4D58-886F-5B848020F531
Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotStartDate path:/Volumes/Backup of Margaret Wells’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/MargaretWellsiMac/2012-04-26-200756.inProgress/C02B2E8C-5 BDB-4D58-886F-5B848020F531 size:17
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
Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Finished scan
26.77 GB required (including padding), 173.89 GB available
Copied 0 files (0 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
When I looked at the AirPort Utility I noticed that the latest update occurred right after the most recent successful backup. The version is 6.0. My operating system is 10.7.3. Any advice would be appreciated!
I, too, am having trouble backing up, with two different computers. I had a successful backup first thing this morning:
Jun 5 07:57:21 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[10698]: Backup completed successfully.
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.
Then a few minutes later...
Jun 5 08:14:46 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x44a44a].backupd-helper[10777]: Not starting Time Machine backup after wake - less than 60 minutes since last backup completed.
Jun 5 08:15:44 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[10787]: Starting standard backup
Jun 5 08:15:44 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[10787]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Dwight%20DuBois@Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
Jun 5 08:16:41 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[10787]: NAConnectToServerSync failed with error: 89 for url: afp://Dwight%20DuBois@Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
Throughout the day the error has changed to...
Jun 5 14:47:01 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11356]: Starting standard backup
Jun 5 14:47:05 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11356]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Dwight%20DuBois@Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
Jun 5 14:47:35 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11356]: NAConnectToServerSync failed with error: 64 for url: afp://Dwight%20DuBois@Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
Jun 5 14:48:35 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11356]: Failed to resolve network service using name = Time Capsule type = _afpovertcp._tcp domain = local.
Jun 5 14:48:45 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11356]: Backup failed with error: 18
Jun 5 19:57:53 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11396]: Starting standard backup
Jun 5 19:57:57 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11396]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Dwight%20DuBois@Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
Jun 5 19:58:53 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 19:58:53 Dwight-DuBoiss-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[11396]: Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Dwight%20DuBois@Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
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
Help?
(My other computer hasn't backed up for two days.)
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