Time Machine does not work properly?

I have used Time Machine to back up my iMac computer to a LaCie external hard drive for over two years without any problems. The last few days I have noticed that when I mount the external hard drive on the desktop, Time Machine starts to backup my computer as usual, but continues to backup the computer and does not shut off. Usually it takes Time Machine less than a minute to backup the computer and than shut off. Now the Time Machine icon in the program bar continues to rotate and does not stop until I turn off the external hard drive. Something is not working properly. Has anyone had a similar problem or know how to get Time Machine to work properly. Need help!!
I should also mention that my hard drive is connected to my computer via a Bilkin power hub. I recently had a problem with my hard drive dismounting from my desktop when I would wake up the computer from the sleep mode. I thought that I had solved this problem by unplugging the drive's USB power cord from the power hub and inserting it into a different port. It seem to work fine for a few days and than this new problem popped up. Any assistance will help me sleep at night.

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Time machine does not work properly in Lion

Hi,
I have upgraded from snow leopard to Lion but Time Machine seams to have a problem.
It continues to back up my files but I cannot enter the program to restore my files.

Follow these instructions, make a option bootable Snow clone and try Lion again. If Lion doesn't work again, then the Snow clone is just a option boot, drive erase and reverse clone away.
How can I uninstall OS X Lion and go back to Snow Leopard?
1: Copy your user file folders (Documents, Pictures, Movies, Music, not Library) to a external blank Disk Utility formatted HFS drive (not TimeMachine) and disconnect all drives. Make a note of your username and hard drive name. Write down any essential information like passwords stored in keychains and product serial keys.
2: Stick the 10.6 installer disk into the machine and reboot holding the c key down. Second screen in choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
3: On the left select the hard drive makers name of your internal boot drive (important) then click Erase and Erase... button (if you want to wipe the drive of all lingering data then choose Security Option>Zero all data) when choosing a name for the drive, use the same drive name as before.
4: Quit and install 10.6, then go through setup, reboot and use the same user name as before. Software Update, install programs from fresh sources (enter any serial keys) Hold Option and click on Purchases in AppStore to redownload (not Lion of course) and then finally return user files to their respective folders on the Snow Leopard drive.
5: If you have issues with iPhoto, you can right click on the iPhoto Library and "Show Package contents" and in there is a folder with all your originals. Copy them out and delete the iPhoto Library and reboot, restart iPhoto and it should be recreated, which you can then import your copied originals again.
Note: using the same drive and user name as before, returning files exactly into their respective Music, Documents and Pictures folders like before matches any pathnames some files like iTunes has to the location of your files. If not done, then exclamation points will occur in iTunes when you click on a song. The iTunes Library will have to be opened in Text Edit and all the partial pathnames "find and replace" corrected to repair.
Optional, but recommended.
Ideally it's best to first Carbon Copy Cloner the 10.7 internal to another blank external HFS drive before doing the above steps 1-5 as that way you have a copy of everything in case you missed something or you need to hold option boot from the 10.7 clone. The clone can later be erased and used as a 10.6 clone. Or reversed cloned back onto the internal drive or as many external drives as needed. (don't use a clone on a different Mac)
Clones are hold option key bootable, TimeMachines drives are not.
Note: The above steps are ONLY for Mac's that didn't come with Lion preinstalled. For reverting a factory Lion to Snow Leopard requires other methods.

I have a 2013 macpro I upgraded to yosemite. Now I find time machine does not work, nor my old back up using a click free wireless back up. What is the status of time machine and yosemite?

What is the status of time machine not working with yosemite?
I upgraded mu mac pro to yosemite and since have found time machine does not work.
Also, my old backup via a clikfree wireless backup does not work any longer.
Is anyone working on this issue?
Is there anyway I can backup my information today and until time machine &
yosemite get fixed?

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the 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 and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes.) You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard."
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the timestamp of the last "Starting" message that corresponds to the beginning of an an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showing, and scroll back in the log to the time you noted. 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 to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Upgrade to mountain lion, time machine does not work

After upgrading to Mountain Lion. My time machine does not save infomation anymore. I've also lost a folder on my macbook pro. This is the error message that I'm receiving. Please help
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time using URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Disk image already attached: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time /Charlie Soukhaseum’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=31 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain error 31.)" UserInfo=0x7ff65c900560 {MessageParameters=(
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time using URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Disk image already attached: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time /Charlie Soukhaseum’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=31 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain error 31.)" UserInfo=0x7ff65b209e10 {MessageParameters=(
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time using URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Disk image already attached: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time /Charlie Soukhaseum’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=31 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain error 31.)" UserInfo=0x7ff65cd08190 {MessageParameters=(
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.

That seems unusual unless you changed drives.
If you upgraded the drive it sees the computer as a different one to the original backup..
I am not sure that it isn't better to do a fresh backup but you can try and inherit the old backup..
See Pondini
B5 B6 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Time machine is not working properly

Time Machine can not find a file that I deleted just a few days ago, which is very annoying, because I can find the file just fine when I open my external hard drive (my Time Machine backup drive) with the Finder and navigate to the exact date and location where the file was located when I deleted it.
Why is Time machine not working like it is supposed to?

Abrasha Staszewski wrote:
It works for me (although it's often slow and balky).
I'm very happy for you, and I don't get how that response it supposed to help solve my issue?
The point is, it does work in some (probably most) situations -- so it's not a general problem, but something specific to yours.
If you're giving it enough time, and are certain you're spelling the name right, the index may be damaged.
Do you really think, that I am not capable of spelling the name of the file properly?
You'd be surprised, apparantly, how often that sort of thing does happen. A dash instead of an underline, one space instead of two, letter Oh instead of a zero, etc.
Try repairing your backups, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Didn't work.
What does that mean? Disk Utility said it "appears to be ok" but the problem persists? Or it found errors?
I give up.
That's your call, of course.
But there's another possiblity: the index is corrupted in a way Disk Utility can't find. That has happened more often on Lion, for some reason. So delete it (the next backup will, of course, be quite slow, as the index is rebuilt from scratch). See the pink box in #D2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Upgrade to lion and time machine does not work

I upgraded to Lion and my WD Live network drive that I always used for wireless time machine back ups no longer works. I get the following error:
Time Machine could not complete the backup.
The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features.
What can I do to fix this?

Your network drive isn't compatible with Lion. See #C16 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Time Machine does not work after installing mavericks

After I installed maverick on my imac, my time machine backups don't work anymore!!!!
I have a normal portable HDD attached to my Imac with time capsule backup from before mavericks was installed.
I also has a Buffalo NAS as a second Time Machine Backup.
TIme capsule does not recognise my Buffalo NAS and tells me that it is not available. It has previous backups from Mountain Lion for sure!
My portable HDD keeps saying "Preparing for backup" for eternity.
Please, APPLE, what is going on with mavericks? Regretted upgrading.
My backup is 31 days behind because of this! Unacceptable!
But what is strange is that I can connect to my portable HDD and Buffalo NAS as a drive. What I have been doing is to copy and paste the important stuff into the drives. But it really defeats the purpose of time machine, right?

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a Fusion Drive or a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test.

Once awake from sleep, time machine does not work via WIFI

I use my MacBookPro via WIFI and every time a put my MacBookPro asleep (with MAC OS 10.8.3), once I wake the machine back on, Time machine is not able to connect anymore to the backup NAS on the network.
I always have to turn OFF and ON again wifi to make it work.
What's wrong?
How can I solve this undesirable matter?
Thank you

Thanks,
But i do not have a WIFI problem in general on my Mac, it's just Time Machine that does not reconnect with the backub network drive unit.....
All the rest is working fine.
This is what I get:

After installing Yosemite Time machine does not work

Time machine no longer works after Yosemite installed. Can this be fixed?

Mine isn't working either. First time I've tried to backup an iMac and it is after 10.10.3 update. It won't complete the backup. File in finder ends in "in progress" - i have tried with two different drives, ran tests on both and on my startup disk. It is a brand new WD 2T My Passport for MAC and basically a brand new iMac (late 2014) - it will NOT complete a backup. I cannot find any answers on the support discussions - how can I get this working? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated - I'm concerned I don't have this machine backed up at all.
Here is what Time Machine is telling me (I tried disk utility on both of the external hard drives I have - and neither had an issue to fix):

Time machine does not work

I have a WD My Passport for mac 1 Tb external drive that I use as time machine backup disk.
Now the backups are made, evey hour, day ... But when I open timemachine and want to launch, say the backup for 2 days ago, Time machine quits and I have the finder again.
I tried to launch such a backup by clicking on the back arrow on the screen, by clicking on a date left of the screen, or by opening one of the finderscreens in Time machine. Neither of these works.
My system is 10.7.5. on a 2010 3.6 intel core i5 iMAc. I have still 150 Gb free on the backup HD.
Please help
I must say that I use since years "Carbon Copy Cloner" and this works very fine, but Time machine (as second backup) really disappoints me.

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.
Step 1
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.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Post the messages from the time of the last crash, if any — the text, please, not a screenshot.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.
Step 2
Still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the process. The report name starts with the name of the crashed process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

Mountain Lion and Time Machine does not work

After Mountain Lion upgrade I was able to backup once using Time Machine. Now TM suggest that I need 42 TB for my backup?!? I have 1TB hard disk on my Mac which has about 600GB of data on it. Time machine prepares the backup for around 10 minutes and then gives an error that my backup disk is too small (1.5TB) because the size of the backup would be 42TB. :-o I have booted my Mac, repaired permissions and searched for internet for tips. However, no luck until now. Any suggestions what could work?

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Time Machine does not work with Seagate NAS 110

I have been trying to configure time machine to automatically back-up a Macbook Pro to my Seagate NAS 110 to no avail. I have the latest version of OSX Lion running on my Macbook as well as the latest firmware update on my NAS device which was designed to erradicate the very problem I am experiencing now. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone was able to point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

NJayasinghe wrote:
Here is the link where it specifically states 'Fix for Mac OS Lion Time Machine compatibility'.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=ba-nas-110&vgnextoid=174 af1ec4d173210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD
I hadn't found that. Unfortunately, there's no date on it, and no mention of Lion. One would assume that's what it means, but some makers have simply abandonded some of their old products.
I was hoping that somebody on this forum has been experiencing the same issues as I have and found a solution to the problem.
It doesn't look like many are using it on Macs. Yours is the only post found in the Apple forums containing Seagate Blackarmour NAS 110.
Searching for Seagate NAS 110 does get some hits, but none with resolutions:
https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?start=0&q=Seagate%20NAS%20110&peopleEn abled=true&dateRange=all&rankBy=relevance
Sorry not to have any better news.

Time Machine does not work after Lion Upgrade

Hi all.
I upgraded my iMac to Lion yesterday. I used to run Time Machine through my airport extreme to an external hdd.
After the upgrade to Lion I'm unable to do this. When I try to setup Time Machine again, it is not possible to connect to the HDD throught the Airport Extreme. I do find the external HDD in Finder, but not able to access it.
The HDD is a Samsung 1 TB.
Is this a known issue and is it any possible fixes in the near future?
Thanks!

Hi
It probably doesn't help you directly but I have Lion performing time machine backups onto an external disk via airport extreme. Have you upgraded the firmware on the airport extreme recently?
Cheers
Tom

Time machine does not work right since Lion install

I successfully used my 500GB Simpletech external drive with Time Machine while using Snow Leopard. Since I upgraded to Lion, my computer is constantly showing me this eject error and the backups are constantly interrupted-
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This error seems to happen each interval of the Time Machine backup. Anyone have an answer for this or a work around?

Leon and I installed the Time Machine does not work. to the Airport Extreme is connected MyBookWorld II. Snow leopard with everything working. Leon sees the drive, but you can not connect to it. can not be seen in disk utility. Thank you for your help or

Leon a Já instalované Time Machine nefunguje. na Letiště Extrémní je připojen MyBookWorld II. Sníh leopard s vše pracovat. Leon vidí pohonu, ale nemůžete se k němu připojit. nemůže být viděn v disk utility.
Děkuji za Vaši pomoc nebo rady
Petr

Here's how you can potentially use your AirDisk with TimeMachine (beware that YMMV), but it should work as it works with every other "unsupported" device.
1) Mount your AirDisk so it appears on your Mac
2) Open Terminal.app
3) change directories to the AirDisk's root folder located in "/Volumes"
ie: cd "/Volumes/AirDisk Name"
4) execute this command to "bless" the drive to be used with time machine:
touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported
5) Start TimeMachine and if all went well, it should recognize your AirDisk drive and use it for TM.
This should also work on NFS shares, SMB shares, AFP shares, basically anything. It has worked up until the last developer seed, so unless they yanked this at the last minute, it should still work.
Now, the reason why Apple removed this feature may be due to the unreliability of the AirDisk, so be cautious.

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