Time Machine crashing computer!

I have a 24" iMac, running 10.6.4 with an issue I cannot explain.
I launch Time Machine, it begins to back up the data from my HD which now has 385GB. It gets to about 5 gigs, locks up the machine, it goes to sleep and I have to hit the space bar to wake it. I can wake the machine only three times and then it shuts the whole thing down. So I disconnected all of my cables, then hooked up the back up only instead of running it through a USB hub. No luck, same thing. I reformatted the ext hd to one partition, no luck. I changed the ext hd to a different one. Each ext hd is 1Tb in size. They are totally blank.
If I turn off time machine, computer runs fine, no freeze, no crash. So there is some issue with time machine on my machine.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me!
Jim

Hello j:
You might try trashing a preference file (com.apple.timemachine.plist) and restarting.
If the program pauses at the same point, there may be a corrupted file that is causing the problem.
Barry

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Anonymous UUID: B73BF844-60BD-9880-938A-BEF0C404EA33
Thu Jan 29 23:20:29 2015
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff8019735d11): "hfs_UNswap_BTNode: invalid backward link (0x00012299 == 0x00012299)\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.10.72/bsd/hfs/hfs_endian.c:303
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
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0xffffff8085e63100 : 0xffffff8019726327
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0xffffff8085e63240 : 0xffffff801957aa5a
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0xffffff8085e63340 : 0xffffff801975e7b1
0xffffff8085e63370 : 0xffffff8019763cd0
0xffffff8085e63430 : 0xffffff80197429ba
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0xffffff8085e635e0 : 0xffffff80197ac9d8
0xffffff8085e63f50 : 0xffffff801984b386
0xffffff8085e63fb0 : 0xffffff8019436e86
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I have my Time Machine on an external drive (not connected to Airport Extreme) and I have an external HD attached to airport extreme. Is it possible to have Time Machine backUp computer HD AND external HD connected to Airport Extreme. How?

Is it possible to have Time Machine backUp computer HD AND external HD connected to Airport Extreme.
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Trying to back up to external hard drive (iomega). Instructions say to erase hard drive. Won't entirely erase. Can't enter iomega in Time Machine. Computer is minimac, operating system is OSx 10.6.8.

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I have TechTool Pro 5 loaded on my MacBook Pro. I've noticed when I Time Machine the computer, about 4 gig is always (or seems to be) copied over to the time machine drive in files named "Trash Deletes". It puts them in my Application Support folder in my library.
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☞ 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.
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Time machine crashes the finder on restore and I see no files.
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If I mount the sparse image on my server (I backup to a server with external hard disk over my local network) all the files are there and I can access them. So I have restored the corrupted file I wanted too, but still need to solve this problem.
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ChangeAgent wrote:
OK. if I go in to the disk that I backup to. I find the disk image of the backup. if I load this I see what is inside.
Again, what do you mean by "load"? If you mean mounting the disk image and using the Finder to copy from the files inside it, that's not "restoring," and isn't recommended, as you will have permissions problems with the copied files.
the folder that refuses to back (all of them on the second level these are tho folders that are the dated folders of the backup) up is the one that is locked, has different permissions as it should have. If I fix the permission of the folders I can see them in the TM backup. however every new backed up folder is locked again and can not be restored till unlocked as described above.
Yes, that's correct. Time Machine tries to keep us mere mortals from shooting ourselves in the foot by messing about with the backups. Once you've manually altered things inside your backups, there's no telling what will (or won't) happen.
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07.10.12 10:09:41,376 mdworker: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
That runs for hours with no progress in backup

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sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Then try running the backup. If it works, or even if it doesn't work, enable Spotlight again by copying and pasting into Terminal:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Give it a shot - let me know if it works because there have just been too many problems with 10.7.5 and Time Machine.
Clinton

Time Machine - WHOLE COMPUTER CRASHES!

I upgraded to Leopard the day it came out and Time Machine worked like a charm. As soon as I installed 10.5.1 when the backup gets to the very end the entire machine crashes (kernel crash) and I am forced to restart my computer. If I leave Time Machine running it will crash every single time it reaches the end of the backing up process.
Machine: Mac Mini Core-Duo 1.66
Backup Drive: WD My Book 500GB via USB
On another note, ever since I upgraded to 10.5.1 the firewire ports on my drive have been rendered useless. They won't work on any computer. My LaCie drive works fine via firewire so I know it can't be the computer's firewire port.
Any help will bring much appreciation and thanks!
Message was edited by: robinbuday

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1. Change your source disk's name and make sure there is not space or /,- in between
2. Change your target disk's name as item 1 with a different name of course
3. disable to spotlight

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I've tested the raid and have written 1 terabyte to the raid without any problems whatsoever. However, when I throw TM into the mix it crashes the finder after 30 to 50 GBs have been written. The computer is totally unresponsive and I get the grey screen of death after a few minutes.
Machine is last years Mac Pro with 12 Gigs. The machine is extremely stable.
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Apologies if there is an obvious answer or post about this. Every time I try to initialize Time Machine, it will begin backing up until the computer goes to sleep or the screen saver kicks in. When I wake the computer up, I get a message that says "The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk." The message also tells me that the problem might be temporary and to try Disk Utility to repair the backup disk if the problem persists.
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I managed to get an initial backup only if I turned off the screen saver and the sleep function. However, once I turned them back on, I ran into the same problem when Time Machine tried to update the backup.
I am running OS X v.10.6.8 on an iMac5,1. The backup is a Toshiba 1TB USB external HD. I saw this same problem posted in the Lion forum (and I cribbed the title of this post from there). Nobody has offered a solution yet, but it was a very recent post.
Thanks in advance.

Oh yeah I forgot to say I use an ETHERNET connection.

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