Time Machine corrupted?

When I turn Time Machine on, and I have to choose a backup disk, I can see my Time Capsule, but I thought I used to have an option for "none." Now I don't have that option, and my Time Capsule has not been working since I last recall seeing it. I have a MacBook Pro that backs up without a problem to the Time Capsule, so I think the problem must be with Time Machine on my iMac. Any thoughts?

OK, thanks for the info.
We can try a series of steps to see if that will solve your issue. If it doesn't, I recommend that you contact Apple directly. Keep a record of the steps to help in the diagnoses.
On your iMac:
Open System Preferences (gear icon) on the dock and click on Sharing
Make sure that your computer name appears here. Do not exceed 27 characters including spaces for the name.
Open Hard Drive > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
Click on the name of your hard drive on the left side of the pane with exactly the same name as the hard drive on your desktop. If you have not renamed it, it will be called Macintosh HD
Click Repair Disk Permissions on the right side of the window
This operation will take 30-45 minutes on average. Just let it run until complete. You will get a message when it is done.
Close Disk Utility
Open Hard Drive > Library > Preferences
Locate the "com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file and delete it.
Restart your computer
Click System Preferences (gear icon) on the dock and then click Time Machine to setup the application again.
Please post back on your results

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Well, if Time Machine is the only thing on that hard drive and there is only one partition, sooner or later, Time Machine will fill up the entire thing and you can't use it for anything else.
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The reason is that it has corrupted itself.
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TM over wireless and with Yosemite.. is corruption in a box.
I did not need to do this with the previous Time Capsule.
I think it is more the OS at issue than the TC.. but certainly poor setup of the TC matters.. you have to have very good wireless connection single hop.. no double repeater stuff. Anytime TM stops or fails half way through a backup it is likely to corrupt itself.

What to do if Time machine corrupted.

This is not a question, but thought I'd post my story to possibly help anyone else who might encounter a similar issue.
Let me start by saying that I installed Leopard this past weekend and have had only noticed one issue ( I've noticed that if you fail to eject a dmg before deleting the dmg file, sometimes you can then only eject the dmg through Disk Utility or by restarting ). I did a clean install but left my old windows partition on my HD for use with Bootcamp ( updating the drivers after 10.5 install ).
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1) Turn off Time Machine from Preferences
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3) Return to System Preferences TM pane and click "change disk"
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Time machine did a brand new first backup, thus starting over.
All is well.

Thanks for your reply.
I checked the exclusion list: The only thing listed is my Time Machine backup drive, so that shouldn't be it. But I hadn't checked that!
What's interesting is that if you get info on both of my eSATA volumes, they have 250.15GB and 242.81GB used. Then, getting info on my Time Machine backup drive shows that there is 543.04GB used. So it seems that it's actually backing the stuff up.
The drives are all formatted OS Extended (Journaled).
We'll definitely keep Retrospect up and running. It works very well, it's just not as 'cool' as Time Machine.
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Hey there,
i guess i just found a major bug in 10.6.1 and Time Machine which will corrupt the whole Partion which was selected for the Time Machine Backup.
This is what i got here atm:
2x Western Digital MyBook Mirror Ed. (ext. 2TB Raid0 HDD (2x1TB))
1x Mac Pro running 10.6.1
1x Macbook Pro running 10.6.1
1x Mac Mini running 10.5.8
Ok here we go:
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Everytime i started a backup it failed after 10 gig or so. After reading all over the troubleshooting and this forum i am a 100% sure that this is not a usually bug like not formatting the hard drive to GUID Mode or so.
Well... i tried the second MyBook.. same result on both Macs running 10.6.1
Now i got suspicious and opened the MyBook in order to put those 2 HDDs in my Mac Pro and built a 2TB Raid0 via OSX.
Guess what? Same result when running Time Machine! Running Time Machine on a single 1 TB HDD was working perfectly fine.
No i just remebered that there was a Mac Mini hooked up to my TV that was still running 10.5.8 just because of Plex... Hooked up BOTH MyBook Mirror Editions and both worked perfectly fine!
Now where can i report this error? I have no doubt that Time Machine on 10.6.1 is corrupting the HFS+ Filesystem when the partition is a RAID 0 Partition.
Please let me know what you think and where i can report this bug. Anyone knows if this one is already fixed in 10.6.2?
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Yeah i did check the firmware updates for both mirror editions. Both are up to date. What botheres me is that they are not working aswell when they are out of their enclosure and directly built in to the mac pro. Can this really be a firmware issue then?
From what I've read on repair/recovery sites, WD does put some of their firmware on a special part of the drive's platter itself. So it's still possible to have instructions on the actual disk that can create a problem. I do not know if this is causing your issue, it's just something I became aware of when shooting trouble on some MyBook/Mac issues. There are some WD enhancements to power management that may be problematic for Time Machine. I don't really know the whole story, just relaying what I've read.
It's also possible that 10.6.2 (in beta) will help with an issue like yours. In our machines we've been using Hitachi and Seagate and the occasion Samsung drives for the last few years. Our external closures come from OWC and we haven't had any of the firmware issues that happened with the Leopard release and WD and now maybe the SL release.
The only way I would be able to point a finger right now would be to swap in a couple of other drives and see how they work. Right now it doesn't matter who's at fault, Apple or WD. The drives don't work. If it's a problem with your installation you may be able to determine that by doing the above tests. If it's a problem with Apple's drivers there may not be a repair possible or a future update will be required. The same goes for the WD drives.
Sidenote: For our own network, we have decided to do away with Leopard Server on an old Dual G4 1.42 tower and use our new ReadyNAS drive from Netgear. It's already working perfectly with Time Machine for several computers, file storage for PC/Mac/Linux, torrent download machine, basic web server, etc. We've put in 4 1TB drives and got 2.7TB of redundant hot swap raid. We'll replace the 1TB drives with 2TB drives, one at a time (although the available space won't increase until all 4 drives are swapped in), while the NAS is online, to increase our storage as required and the drives come down in price.
We decided that if the data is important then a striped 2 drive volume isn't safe enough. We would have needed to mirror the drives and loose half the space and still have to keep the old server online.
I'll watch this thread for information from others. I don't have the drives you are using to test with.

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That misbehavior is typical of a failing disk, diagnostics or not. Replace it.

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Hi, the error message is “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.”
Thank you very much your link took me to the Apple Supports page : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4076?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
I will try it out and hopefully that will fix the issue.
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I thought I'd post this here in this thread since it is related - of sorts. I will check out the troubleshooting link to see if it has any help.
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This is possibly the straw the breaks the camels back!
We had issues with smb in Lion almost causing a complete a complete breakdown in our rendering at the studio, now we have a complete and utter failure of time machine in Mavericks!!!
We had 4tb free on the back up 8tb thunderbolt drive with a small back up of 40gb needed after installing Mavericks. The back up failed stating not enough disk space avaialble as 4.2tb was needed!!!
I can only assume after upgrade mavericks decided to back up the entire disk again, it failed and has now deleted all old data.
In this case luckily we didn't actually lose any critical data as this is backing up a raid 5 drive as a secondary line of safety.
That said this a getting very worrying, every update from Apple in the last 4 years has caused us one issue or another. We are getting to the point where we simply can't trust Apple with Enterprise level support or relaibilty.
I can only assume from other cases on here this is a known issue but was realeased anyway?
Think we are at the point where we simply won't upgrade any Apple products until 12 months after release, hopefully giving them time to iron out all the bugs. Which is not what I expect from Apple, and kind of ruins the point of why one might use Macs in the future.

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Time Machine Corrupts Backup Drive ...

Well, maybe I was a little facetious with the title ....... that was just to attract you to click
I have a 500gb LaCie Desktop Hard Drive. I use FW 800 to my Mac. I use the hard drive as a TM drive only, no other data is on it.
I've had this problem several times recently.
I erase the hard drive through disk utility. It is 100% empty. I go into TM, set it as the TM Drive, and it backs up my 250gb (50gb free) internal hard drive fully.
It will TM properly about 7-10 times. After that, randomly, with nothing invoking it, i'll get a "this drive is read-only" error when TM is going about its business, and won't be able to further back up to the drive.
There is plenty of extra space to back up. Doing an information (command + i) on the hard drive, expensing the privileges drop-down and unlocking the menu does not let me change the "read-only" drop down for any of the users.
My thought was to go into Root and change it there, but I know when you start screwing around with root when something doesn't want to be done, things usually get messed up somewhere further down the line.
Right now is not a busy time for me, so the TM backup isn't crucial, but I'd like to get it up and running again ASAP.
Further Information: I am able to copy files to and from the hard drive. It is fully operational and connects to other computers as well.
Repaired / verified disk permission on both internal and external already.
Suggestions???

sounds like it could be a problem with the drive itself. you should reformat it completely using the partition tab (NOT the erase tab) in DU. then back up again and see what happens. if the problem keeps coming back after that i would suspect a faulty drive.

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I was able to discern that within the domain file is a domain folder with all the site folders, each with their own page ".gz" files which expand into ".xml" files. I was trying to figure out if you could simply drag the corrupt pages out that way and replace them with backup copies that are still good. I am having trouble discerning which pages are which as they all have random names like site-page-30F175E3-AE33-4F10-A490-1A096D9B185B.xml and although I expanded and opened each in Text Wrangler, I still couldn't discern which were which for sure, and trial and error proved cumbersome. Also, I did notice some of the later corrupted domain files had one or two more pages than the site itself has, so not sure how they got added or duplicated or what.
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