Time Machine encryption issue on IMAC w/ external disk

When I try to encrypt backup to my external My Passport disk I get this error message "There was an error preparing the Time Machine backup disk “Passport MAC”. A recovery system for the targeted disk is required." What do I need to do? Does this mean?

The Passport is connected via USB and time machine is activated meaning ON... and it does show up that it recognizes Passport as my time machine backup.. but why won't it let me Encrypt?
It shows the Passport at top as backup disk... and Encrypt is grayed out...
Below it shows the same disk available to select and when I select that encryption selection is NOT grayed out... so I decided I'd like to encrypt... chose the bottom choice and selected Encrypt... went thru entering good password 2X and hint... then got that error message.
So... since I was walked thru the initial setup today at the Apple store by their trainer... and Encryption was never mentioned nor selected but backup was started... does this mean that I can never choose to encrypt my backups to this Passport external drive?

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Moving a Time Machine backup from a directly connected external disk to that disk on OSX Server

I have an iMac that has been using an external drive for Time Machine (TM) backups since 2013, so there is a lot of history in the backups. I now have a Mac Mini running OS X Server, and would like to transfer the drive to the Mac Mini, but continue to use the drive as the backup disk, that is, doing TM backups via the TM service on the server. However, if I simply stop TM on the iMac, disconnect the drive, connect it to the Mac Mini, tell OS X Server to use the drive as a backup disk, and tell TM on the iMac to use the Server TM service, it seems that a new backup file is started, rather than continuing to use the old one (symptom: when I enter TM on the iMac, I don't see any of the previous incremental backups).
Is there a way to persuade OSX server to continue to use the old backup file, rather than start anew, losing my history?
Both the Mac Mini and the iMac are running Mavericks and the Mac mini is running the latest version of OSX Server.
thanks

What you are attempting is complex, and I am not certain whether it would be successful. I recommend you buy a new drive and start a new backup today, and set the old drive aside.
I have a somewhat different view of the benefits of what you are calling "History". I think that History just adds complexity to the Backup structure that makes it LESS likely you will be able to do a Restore. And Backups are only as good as their ability to do a proper Restore.
Copies of the currently-present files is all that Time Machine promises to keep -- older files that have been removed from the current source are not necessarily maintained on the Backup. In my opinion, a fresh, clean Backup from today is more likely to be able to Restore the things you need most -- without any error messages.
The most requested Restores are things Users broke or discarded today or yesterday, and those will be readily available tomorrow and going forward. In the event you need some really old copies of something, you can try to get them off the old Backup drive you set aside today.

Time machine can't make backup on external disk

I'm using an external disk to make my backup with time machine. Therefore I formatted the disk for Mac OS Extended initially and the first backups went fine.
Now backup never finishes successful.
The external disk is connected via my airport extreme (wireless). I already did a disk repair but this didn't help either.
What is causing the problem and how can I fix it?

eggann wrote:
I'm using an external disk to make my backup with time machine. Therefore I formatted the disk for Mac OS Extended initially and the first backups went fine.
Now backup never finishes successful.
The external disk is connected via my airport extreme (wireless). I already did a disk repair but this didn't help either.
Technically, that is not supported by Apple, although many folks (including me) are doing it anyway: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
What is causing the problem and how can I fix it?
Start with the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.
It will show you how to locate the message(s) that describe the problem, then help you fix it.
If that doesn't help, post back with details, including all the messages, what you've done, and the results.

Time Machine - I had to reformat its external disk - how do I start TM again?

MacBook Pro - 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
OS X 10.6.8
Time Machine backups to directly-connected external disk - La Cie 2 TB
I got Time Machine error messages saying it could not complete the backup. I followed advice at the Pondini TM website. I turned TM off. The problem was corruption on the external drive. Disk Utility could not fix it - invalid sibling link. I decided to abandon the existing backups and did disk erase, writing zeros to it. Took two attempts, the second attempt running for 15-odd hours. The disk has got one partition, GUID, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - this is stuff I don't really understand.
I can't see how to tell Time Machine to forget about the old backups and start up again from scratch on the newly reformatted disk. I can't find this task explicitly covered in the Pondini website.

When you erased the data that was reflected in System Preferences > Time Machine.
Glad your backup is working. You might want to consider adding a clone backup to your drive. Just like a seat belt and an air bag protect you in different ways when driving, you need both Time Machine and a clone for full protection.
Both of these applications can be used to create a clone.
SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
CCC http://www.bombich.com/download.html

I want to purchase a two terabyte external hard drive to utilise Time Machine on my new iMac....but which one? Western Digital, Time Capsule, Seagate? Any advice would be most welcome please.

I want to purchase a two terabyte external hard drive to utilise Time Machine on my new iMac....but which one? Western Digital, Time Capsule, Seagate? Any advice would be most welcome please. Thanks Phil

If you are looking for high quality drives and enclosures I'd recommend these 3:
http://g-technology.com/products/g-drive.cfm
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10330
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
I use the LaCie's, I've got three connected to my system and a 4th acting as my TM drive on my MacBook Air. Any of the above would be welcome on my desk though.

Help - New iMac, Time Machine backup issue

Hello everybody,
I am a happy camper with my brand new 27" iMac, however... I have a problem with system migration. Here is the issue:
- On my Time Machine, I have backups of my old iMac and my MacBook Air
- When I tried Migration Assistant to reinstall my old iMac contents on my new iMac, no backups were found
- Then, when I disbaled the Time Machine on my MacBook Air, I could see the MacBook Air backup in the Migration Assistant.
So, my conclusion was: I need to disable the Time Machine on my old iMac too! However - that one is BROKEN.
How do I proceed??? Migration Assitant keeps telling me that not all copies can be restored because some systems still seem to be mounted... or something similar.
How do I make my Time Machine forget about the old iMac? Yes, I can see the Time Capsule in the finder, I can even see the contents of my old iMac backups, but Migration Assitant won't eat them...
Your tips are much appreciated.
Maccer.

Thanks Toad, I did that. Unfortunately I could not find an anwer to my problem there. All I can do now is retrieve individual files, which is a hassle. I want full system restore, including all my files, email etc.
The Time Machine keeps telling me that "another system is mounted" and that "not all copies can be restored".
Since I can SEE the full backup file, I cannot imagine it is hard to use that file for Migration Assistant.

Using Time Machine to backup a iMac G5 and restore to an intel iMac

Is it possible to use Time Machine to backup my iMac G5 and restore my backup to a new intel iMac?
The reason being is that I my mother-in-law's company bought her a new intel Mac and she wants to trade with me since she only uses her Mac for e-mail, photos and accounting software.
I was thinking of making sure her data is preserved by using the migration assistant to transfer her data to my iMac G5 and then using my time machine backup to restore to her intel iMac. I have concerns about this method after reading about the intel/powerpc issues with time machine. I also have concerns that perhaps the version of MacOS 10.5 installed to my iMac G5 will not be optimized for intel.

Well, not entirely. You cannot install or restore a PPC version of OS X to an Intel Mac because the PPC system will not work on an Intel Mac. You can copy your personal files, most preference files, and third-party applications (although it would be preferable to update all PPC-only apps to universal binaries which perform better on Intel machines.
Another possible concern is if your mother's company is transferring the ownership to her or simply purchasing the unit for her to use. In the latter case the computer belongs to the company, not your mother. She cannot then give it to you because it isn't hers. This problem should be resolved beforehand because the company may one day want the computer back.
Folders You Can Move to Your new Mac
From the Home folder copy the contents of Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.

How to stop Time Machine backing up on a specific external hard drive?

I work on a iMac 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, with Mac OS X 10.6.8. I use two external hard drives that are the exact same model, 2 TB WD My Book 1110 Media: one is intended for back-up, the other for storing video editing files. They're both connected through USB 2.0.
I set the "back-up" hard drive as back-up disk for Time Machine, through the Time Machine preferences. Now, everytime I connect the "video" hard drive, Time Machine recognizes it as a back-up disk, and starts backing up on it. I could delete the "Backups.backupdb" file that Time Machine had created by connecting the "video" hard drive to another Mac and moving it to the Trash, but as soon as I reconnect the "video" hard drive to my iMac, Time Machine backs up on it again.
Is there a way to "de-select" a hard drive from Time Machine's list of back-up disks?
Note: I should mention another thing that might indicate a conflict. When both hard drives "back-up" and "video" are connected to my iMac, if I open Final Cut Pro X, I can only see my "back-up" hard drive. To access the files I am working on, I need to eject the "back-up" hard drive, and suddenly the "video" drive appears.
If you have any idea of how to solve this conflict... I am a bit lost.
Thank you!

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Give them unique volume names using Disk Utility.
Then set Time Machine back up to that unique volume name.
For example, I regularly use 4 external drives (though they're not all the same model).
The descriptions quickly tell me which drives I have connected to my MacBook when open Finder:
My Time Machine backup volume is named 'Time Machine 1TB'.
My iPhoto backup volume is named 'iPhoto Backup 320GB'
My iTunes backup volume is named 'iTunes Backup 120GB'
and the last is 'Windows 7 Backup 250Gb' but since it's a Windows volume, it is formatted NTFS.
This likely means that you will have to erase and repartition one of your drives to name it.
You MIGHT be able to rename it using Finder, right-clicking on the volume, and selecting Rename (current volume name).
WARNING: I can't be certain of what just renaming it that way could screw up in the way of permissions and file links.
Within Disk Utility, it seems it is absolutely not possible to change a volume name without clicking the Partition tab, and that involves erasing.
Given the choice, I'd probably choose to rename (erase and repartition) the Time Machine drive. A current backup or two on Time Machine, and I'm good. I don't really need to go 'way back' to recover files, because I really don't ever erase anything. I just keep buying bigger drives!
And I still burn the 'absolutely critical, priceless, can't ever be without this stuff' files to DVD or CD at least monthly or quarterly, in case one of my TM or backup drives fails at the same time as my primary hard drive. Call me paranoid, but I worked in Information Technology for many years: Murphy was an optimist!
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56 day Time Machine backups. and 27" iMac problems.

56 day Time Machine backups. and 27” iMac problems.
I have a problem and its driving me to mad. I wish to backup my iMac to a separate hard drive, When I start TimeMachine backup there is a window that appears ,I switch on Time Machine , select my Verbatim separate hard drive which I have partitioned into three section , one called time machine backups, and click ‘backup now’ the process starts by stating ‘436GB of 500GB available’, Preparing Backup’ and this stays there for ages and then when it does start to backup states backing up 234 byts of 28.3 GB . I left my IMac on for fifteen hours and it still read the same , 234 byts of 28.3 GB also at one time showed ‘time remaining’ as 56 Days. It will not allow me to reformat the Verbatim and will not allow me to eject the backup hard drive. On disc repair it says things are OK, disk partitions are OK. Could I have damaged the Verbatim Hard drive when I previously forced a shut down as it was taking so long and would not eject theVerbatim hard drive. Also Just recently it has been impossible to shut down the iMac as ‘Messages’ is working and won't even force quit. I switch of at the mains. Please help.
Equipment.
iMac 27” 3.2 GHz intel core i5 [four months old]
Running OS X Yosemite
Verbatim [SamsungHD] [three years old]
Partitioned in Three , Formatted as Mac OS Extended [Journaled]
connected by USB 2 Cable
Thanks.

First you should NEVER EVER partition a Time Machine or any other backup drive for anythings else but backup. This is likely why you are having issues, buy yourself a high quality EHD such as an OWC (www.macsales.com) Mercury Elite Pro, format it correctly and make that your Time Machine backup HD.

My Time Machine Strategy for both iMac and MacBook...

1) Get 1TB external drive, format as HFS+ (including the Gizmodo hint about reformatting Fat32 drives properly by setting GUID Partition table)
2) Attach external drive to MacBook directly-run Time Machine overnight for initial full backup
3) Attach external drive to iMac directly-run Time Machine overnight for initial full backup
4) Attach external drive to my Mac Mini (running Leopard)-don't run Time Machine
5) Point the iMac and MacBook to the networked drive for future incremental Time Machine backups, by mounting the external drive permanently attached now to the Mac Mini as a shared drive.
This way, I get the tedious original backup thru direct connection-native Firewire speeds, then rely on the networked wired (iMac) and networked wireless (MacBook) connections for the incremental backups (which, given our usage, isn't that major on an hourly or daily basis)
Anyone tried something like this successfully?

If you have tried the fixes in Pondini's Time Machine Troublshooting, specifically #C12 and nothing helps, then it is time to let one of the genius types at an Apple Store take a look.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
If you cannot take the Time Capsule to an Apple Store, contact Apple Support directly.
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/

HT201250 How long does it take to move 700gb from time machine to a new iMac?

How long does it take to move 700gb from time machine to a new iMac?

Last time I did this it took approx 2 and a half hours for 220 GB...
That was using an External USB 2 Time Machine Hard Drive.

Every time I try to back up my Macbook Pro with an external hard drive using Time Machine, I receive the error of "the disk does not have enough space". I have a 500GB hard drive and only 120GB Macbook. It worked fine before the latest Maverick's

Every time I try to back up my Macbook Pro with an external hard drive using Time Machine, I receive the error of "the disk does not have enough space". I have a 500GB external hard drive and only 120GB Macbook. It worked fine before the latest Maverick's update. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My guess would be it has created an entirely new backup of your drive when you upgraded to Mavericks.
See Here: http://pondini.org/TM/1.html
And here: http://pondini.org/TM/9.html
Peruse the whole site. There is a lot of information there.

I just backed up my mac to an external hard drive using Time Machine. What would happen if I turn Time Machine off and then plug the external hard drive back into my computer?

I just backed up my mac to an external hard drive using Time Machine. What would happen if I turn Time Machine off and then plug the external hard drive back into my computer?
What I am ultimately wanting to do is make more room on my computer by backing up all of my files onto the external hard drive and then deleting them off of my computer. However, neededing to be able to retrieve them from the external hard drive later down the road.
From what I have read and am trying to understand, is that I probably shouldn't have used time machine. I need to use the external hard drive like a basic flash drive where I can put things on and get things off without having it automatically update through time machine everytime I connect it to my computer.
Not tech savvy at all and barely understand basics. I need very simple and easy to understand explanations.

sydababy wrote:
and then deleting them off of my computer.
BIG BIG MISTAKE ..... youre making a linchpin deathtrap for your data trying to shove everything on a single fragile HD.
Dont suffer the tragedy other people make, buy another or 2 more HD, theyre cheap as dust.
The number of people who have experienced terror by having a single external HD backup is enormous. One failure that WILL HAPPEN, and kaput,......all gone!
Dont do it, its all about redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
follow here:
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection
Deleting them off your computer is fine....having only ONE copy is extremely BAD.
The Tragedy that will be, the tragedy that never should be
Always presume correctly that your data is priceless and takes a very long time to create and often is irreplaceable. Always presume accurately that hard drives are extremely cheap, and you have no excuse not to have multiple redundant copies of your data copied on hard drives and squirreled away several places, lockboxes, safes, fireboxes, offsite and otherwise.
Hard drives aren't prone to failure…hard drives are guaranteed to fail (the very same is true of SSD). Hard drives dont die when aged, hard drives die at any age, and peak in death when young and slowly increase in risk as they age.
Never practice at any time for any reason the false premise and unreal sense of security in thinking your data is safe on any single external hard drive. This is never the case and has proven to be the single most common horrible tragedy of data loss that exists.
Many 100s of millions of hours of lost work and data are lost each year due to this single common false security. This is an unnatural disaster that can avoid by making all data redundant and then redundant again. If you let a $60 additional redundant hard drive and 3 hours of copying stand between you and years of work, then you've made a fundamental mistake countless 1000s of people each year have come to regret.

Time Machine not working with Verbatim USB2TB External HDD

MacBook Pro
15-inch, Mid 2010
8GB Ram
OS 10.8.2
No updates available ATT.
Problem with Time Machine using Verbatim USB2TB (Verbatim # 96865) external hard drive in regular and safe boot. According to the Verbatim website, this external drive is compatiable with MAC OS 10+ and can be formatted to the specific Mac filesystems.
The following list of events below happen irregardless of running in regular or safe boot, so I noted my last attempt at a backup while in Safe Boot.
Before this last attempt, I successfully zeroed out the data on the drive in regular boot.
As you will see below, the drive works just fine until Time Machine gets it grimy digits on it and kills it like South Park kills Kenny.
---- Begin ----
Started in Safe Boot
Connected and powered on the external drive.
Erased the drive and formatted it to Extended Journaled. Partition was successfully created.
Verifying partition map for “SAMSUNG HD203WI Media”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition’s size
Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
The partition map appears to be OK
Verifying volume “Big2TB”
Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Big2TB appears to be OK.
Successfully copied over 2.8 GB of random data. (Screenshot)
Deleted the data and then emptied the Trash.
Started Time Machine backup.
Time Machine Created a backup folder on the external drive.
Time Machine started to transfer data then hung at 452.1 MB of 257.66 GB.
Backup failed.
--- Console ---
1/13/13 11:57:59.988 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Starting manual backup
1/13/13 11:58:04.581 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: User continued after being warned of changed destination volume identity
1/13/13 11:58:04.623 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb
1/13/13 11:58:04.628 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
1/13/13 11:58:05.156 AM mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
1/13/13 11:58:06.336 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "MainMan" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 8A3A5598-7C8B-3753-ABA8-D980E60299A3 eventDBUUID: 23107488-4BC9-49FB-818D-226AE695DE06)
1/13/13 11:58:23.346 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backup content size: 246.45 GB excluded items size: 12.21 GB for volume MainMan
1/13/13 11:58:23.368 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Found 910640 files (234.23 GB) needing backup
1/13/13 11:58:23.370 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: 281.08 GB required (including padding), 2 TB available
1/13/13 11:58:23.388 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 11:59:23.443 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:00:02.530 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowInfo: Invalid window 1045
1/13/13 12:00:02.530 PM Dock[259]: CGSBindWindow: Unable to obtain window information
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x415
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1044
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x414
1/13/13 12:00:02.532 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1043
1/13/13 12:00:02.532 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x413
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowType: Invalid window 1066
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: Invalid depth WindowID 0x42a
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x42a
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1065
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x429
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1064
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x428
1/13/13 12:00:23.497 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:01:23.549 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:01:44.830 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpcd.F5010000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[1541]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/13/13 12:01:44.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1541 [xpcd]
1/13/13 12:01:49.000 PM kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
1/13/13 12:01:49.000 PM kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
1/13/13 12:02:15.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7419.448          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 2)
1/13/13 12:02:21.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7425.451          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 0)
1/13/13 12:02:27.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7431.454          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 0)
1/13/13 12:02:58.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7462.473          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 2)
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowInfo: Invalid window 1196
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM Dock[259]: CGSBindWindow: Unable to obtain window information
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4ac
1/13/13 12:05:37.069 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1195
1/13/13 12:05:37.069 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4ab
1/13/13 12:05:37.070 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1194
1/13/13 12:05:37.070 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4aa
1/13/13 12:06:34.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:39.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:44.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:50.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:55.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:01.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:11.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:17.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:22.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x5
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 389120 bytes to the journal!
1/13/13 12:07:54.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:08:21.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:08:21.820 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/{CFA1AAD1-DC10-413D-875E-2F5B8A78CB3B}.zip to /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins/2013-01-13-115805.inProgress/376C91 FB-29D6-47F1-A29B-67D94CBD01BA/MainMan/Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles
1/13/13 12:08:23.122 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Stopping backup.
1/13/13 12:08:23.122 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/{CFA1AAD1-DC10-413D-875E-2F5B8A78CB3B}.zip to /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins/2013-01-13-115805.inProgress/376C91 FB-29D6-47F1-A29B-67D94CBD01BA/MainMan/Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles
1/13/13 12:08:23.136 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Copied 817 files (572.1 MB) from volume MainMan.
1/13/13 12:08:23.136 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Copy stage failed with error:11
1/13/13 12:08:23.174 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins size:37
1/13/13 12:08:33.228 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backup failed with error: 11
1/13/13 12:08:48.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:09:15.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
---- End console ---
Attempted to copy over 2.8 GB of random data again. Failed.
Now the drive is completely useless until it is erased. Also will not eject properly anymore. Force eject took 3 minutes.
--- Console ---
1/13/13 12:19:00.248 PM mtmfs[1555]: filesystem unmount attempted from stopFS
1/13/13 12:19:31.946 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:19:31.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:19:32.187 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:19:32.910 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Disk Utility" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
1/13/13 12:19:35.129 PM WindowServer[114]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Disk Utility" after 3.22 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
1/13/13 12:20:05.375 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:05.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:20:05.390 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.153 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.153 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:20:48.102 PM diskarbitrationd[49]: mds [34]:20995 not responding.
1/13/13 12:21:04.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:04.451 PM com.apple.kextd[11]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 339.
1/13/13 12:21:14.854 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x7b5
1/13/13 12:21:14.854 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: kCGErrorFailure: CGSSetHideOnDeact: error getting window tags
1/13/13 12:21:15.372 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSCopyWindowColorSpace: Invalid window 0x7b5
1/13/13 12:21:22.606 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "com.apple.security.pboxd" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
1/13/13 12:21:23.060 PM com.apple.quicklook.satellite[1657]: bootstrap_look_up2 failed with 0x44c
1/13/13 12:21:23.081 PM mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
1/13/13 12:21:23.090 PM WindowServer[114]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "com.apple.security.pboxd" after 1.48 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
1/13/13 12:21:23.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(1658) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
1/13/13 12:21:26.021 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSReleaseWindow: Invalid window 1973
1/13/13 12:21:26.021 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: _NXTermWindow: error releasing window (1000)
1/13/13 12:21:27.775 PM sandboxd[1658]: ([1657]) QuickLookSatelli(1657) deny mach-lookup com.apple.PowerManagement.control
1/13/13 12:21:52.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:57.967 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:21:57.967 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:21:57.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:58.229 PM com.apple.kextd[11]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 339.
1/13/13 12:21:58.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: close: journal 0xffffff800908acc0, is invalid. aborting outstanding transactions
--- End Console ---
---- That's all folks! ----
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