Time Machine Fail
Great. Here we go again.
The box in quesiton is a newish (August '11) Mac Mini "Server" that shipped with Lion and has been through several mandatory rebuilds because of unrelated Apple-caused FAILS. It is running the latest 10.7.3 Lion Server with all software and hardware updates applied except for the firmware update that came out last week. The backup drive is a firewire CalDigit RAID with up-to-date firmware which has been verified as working (by valid TM client backups).
This morning on my computer I noticed that my Time Machine backup is "delayed". I know server-based TM can get wiggy sometimes since, like any other Lion "Server" service, it will randomly do whatever it feels like. I opened TM preferences and re-selected the disk on the TM server from the list, re-entered my server credentials, but got the error "Time Machine can't access the backup disk 'Backups'." At this point I logged into the server...
In the Server.app I found the Time Machine service was "OFF". So I turned it "ON". It spun for an eternity then went back to "OFF".
There's an error in the system log which in typical Apple fashion simply states: "<datetime> <servername> Server[452]: Error starting TIme Machine service".
That's it. There is no detail at all, and of course... THERE ARE NO TIME MACHINE LOGS.
I've searched Google and found no results on Lion and 452 errors (except for totally unrelated mail sending issues), and I was unable to find any existing threads in Apple Discussions on the matter either.
The server's own TM (client) is running fine and backs up to the same physical drive (array). But no one else on the network can back up because the TM (service) will not start.
So far, 3 of the whopping 4 troubleshooting options Apple provides have failed:
Turn TM off, then on again
Turn TM off, select a different drive, wait for the save, select the correct drive, wait for the save, turn TM on
Turn TM off, eject the drive, reinsert the drive, select the drive again, turn TM on
With the above failing, and NO LOGS, the only thing I can think of is to reboot -- that will have to wait until the users leave.
Any other (non-violent) troubleshooting options you can think of, or better yet, anyone experienced and fixed this issue?
Thanks in advance.
A re-boot of the "server" cleared it up.
RE-DICULOUS. A server should not need to be rebooted every 2 weeks!
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Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
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The word "événement" has been written not by me, but by the translation.
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11-12-31 5:46:38 AM com.apple.backupd[10391] Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
11-12-31 5:46:38 AM com.apple.backupd[10391] Stopping backup.
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11-12-31 5:46:39 AM com.apple.backupd[10391] Copy stage failed with error:11
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11-12-31 5:46:41 AM mds[58] (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes/Lothlorien/Backups.backupdb
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10/2/13 9:16:40.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 549 [xpcd]
10/2/13 9:16:40.801 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.XType.FontHelper[543]) Exited: Killed: 9
10/2/13 9:16:40.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 543 [XType.FontHelper]
10/2/13 9:16:41.051 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[194]: (com.apple.printtool.agent[347]) Exited: Killed: 9
10/2/13 9:16:41.312 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[194]: (com.apple.tccd[303]) Exited: Killed: 9
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10/2/13 9:16:41.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 303 [tccd]
10/2/13 9:16:41.606 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpcd.F5010000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[286]) Exited: Killed: 9
10/2/13 9:16:41.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 286 [xpcd]
10/2/13 9:16:41.859 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[194]: (com.apple.accountsd[277]) Exited: Killed: 9
10/2/13 9:16:42.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 277 [accountsd]
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10/2/13 9:16:43.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 205 [cfprefsd]
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10/2/13 9:17:31.377 PM sandboxd[1862]: ([1861]) mdworker(1861) deny file-write-owner /Users/dwight****/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/NotesV1 .storedata-wal (import fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:200000056 diag:0 uti:com.apple.notes.externalrecord plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Notes.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 344898)
10/2/13 9:17:31.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(1862) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
10/2/13 9:17:31.383 PM sandboxd[1862]: ([1861]) mdworker(1861) deny file-write-owner /Users/dwightdavy/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/NotesV1 .storedata-shm (import fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:200000056 diag:0 uti:com.apple.notes.externalrecord plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Notes.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 344898)
10/2/13 9:19:09.358 PM coreaudiod[239]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active
10/2/13 9:20:01.145 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Copied 42922 files (2.28 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
10/2/13 9:20:01.374 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Using file event preflight for Macintosh HD
10/2/13 9:20:02.053 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Will copy (2.4 MB) from Macintosh HD
10/2/13 9:20:02.055 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Found 47 files (2.4 MB) needing backup
10/2/13 9:20:02.056 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: 1.04 GB required (including padding), 995.95 GB available
10/2/13 9:20:27.587 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Copied 1558 files (2.4 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
10/2/13 9:20:28.894 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Created new backup: 2013-10-02-212027
10/2/13 9:20:32.846 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Starting post-backup thinning
10/2/13 9:20:46.177 PM coreaudiod[239]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
10/2/13 9:22:56.417 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-07-29-063629 (1.98 GB)
10/2/13 9:23:19.037 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-08-10-132056 (14 MB)
10/2/13 9:25:12.837 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-08-10-120140 (159.3 MB)
10/2/13 9:25:25.927 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-09-07-124051 (5.2 MB)
10/2/13 9:26:32.288 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-09-07-122250 (86.1 MB)
10/2/13 9:26:32.288 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Post-back up thinning complete: 5 expired backups removed
10/2/13 9:26:32.980 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Backup completed successfully.
Info from failed backup about an hour later. I've included a lot of log over the next hour.
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10/2/13 10:30:00.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s2: I/O error.
10/2/13 10:33:37.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=1918[GoogleSoftwareUp] clearing CS_VALID
10/2/13 10:34:31.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s1: I/O error.
10/2/13 10:41:28.953 PM AddressBookSourceSync[1925]: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -[CDXAccount oauthToken]: Failed to find account for identifier: F50ABFD9-1476-4AFF-A120-D99EEA697FC5
10/2/13 10:41:29.135 PM AddressBookSourceSync[1925]: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -getPrincipalInfo:[_controller supportsRequestCompressionAtURL:https://dtd%[email protected]:443/100002105340508///dtd%[email protected]:443/100002105340508/] Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=401 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 401.)" UserInfo=0x7fdd1a05f160 {CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x7fdd1a013be0 [0x7fff76470110]>{type = immutable dict, count = 10,
entries =>
0 : Case Insensitive Key: Pragma = <CFString 0x7fdd1a0c4f20 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "no-cache"}
1 : Case Insensitive Key: X-FB-Rev = <CFString 0x7fdd1a012cd0 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "955235"}
2 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Type = <CFString 0x7fdd1a053590 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "text/plain; ; charset="utf-8""}
3 : Case Insensitive Key: Connection = <CFString 0x7fdd1a0cf770 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "keep-alive"}
6 : Case Insensitive Key: Date = <CFString 0x7fdd1a0a1a80 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "Thu, 03 Oct 2013 02:41:27 GMT"}
8 : Case Insensitive Key: X-FB-Debug = <CFString 0x7fdd1a03ac40 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "KPKDvnlZgJGCZpzZtvurAhFe+8NZdCVJxFI28UpSlAo="}
9 : Case Insensitive Key: Www-Authenticate = <CFString 0x7fdd19436e60 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "OAuth realm="Facebook WebDAV", Basic realm="Facebook WebDAV""}
10 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Length = <CFString 0x7fff7644a0a0 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "40"}
11 : Case Insensitive Key: Cache-Control = <CFString 0x7fdd1a083d10 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"}
12 : Case Insensitive Key: Expires = <CFString 0x7fdd1a051c50 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT"}
10/2/13 10:44:34.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s2: I/O error.
10/2/13 10:44:34.060 PM com.apple.backupd[1903]: Backing up to: /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb
10/2/13 10:47:34.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s1: I/O error.
10/2/13 10:48:35.000 PM kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff8016215400, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100772 ms
10/2/13 10:51:36.000 PM kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff8016215400, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100801 ms
10/2/13 10:54:36.000 PM kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff8016215400, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100772 ms
10/2/13 10:57:37.000 PM kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff8016215400, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100747 ms
10/2/13 10:59:06.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s2: I/O error.
10/2/13 10:59:06.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x5
10/2/13 10:59:06.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: write_journal_header: error writing the journal header!
10/2/13 10:59:36.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s2: I/O error.
10/2/13 11:00:38.000 PM kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff8016215400, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100916 ms
10/2/13 11:02:07.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s1: I/O error.
10/2/13 11:14:09.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s2: I/O error.
10/2/13 11:14:39.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s1: I/O error.
10/2/13 11:15:15.000 PM kernel[0]: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1380770117 -
Time Machine failing to backup last few days. Tried Disk Utility disk repair. Failed, with response, "Could not unmount disk." Installed Time Machine Buddy and copied this message:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup HD-1/Backups.backupdb
Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.ModelID path:/Volumes/Backup HD-1/Backups.backupdb/WuLi’s MacBook Pro size:13
Error: (-50) Creating directory 2011-12-23-204707.inProgress
Failed to make snapshot container.
Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.ModelID path:/Volumes/Backup HD-1/Backups.backupdb/WuLi’s MacBook Pro size:13
Backup failed with error: 2
Any help appreciated.Hi, TM is such a pain & the worst Backup App I've ever ebcountered outside of no backup at all, that being said the great Pondini has covered most all of it's problems here...
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
http://pondini.org/TM/C10.html
Not that it helps much but...
unitEmptyErr = -22, /*I/O System Errors*/
What Brand/Model External drive is this? -
I'm attempting to recover a group of lost files from Time Machine. The files are backups from a mobile app within User/LibraryMobile Documents/.
I'm able to find the lost files, but Time Machine failed to restore them after I select 'Keep Both' and then enter my Admin Password. The screen returns to the desktop and the finder window for the file I'm trying to recover, but nothing else happens.
I hope someone can help.
Bil"Time Machine in Safe Mode couldn't access any history
Why not? What happened?
I have no Idea what happened. Here is the screenshot showing no history at all, and the Console:"
2/10/2014 6:08:25.166 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[401]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:08:25.166 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:08:28.209 am WindowServer[95]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
2/10/2014 6:08:28.337 am WindowServer[95]: Display 0x4280480 captured by conn 0xcc03
2/10/2014 6:08:29.211 am WindowServer[95]: CGXOrderWindowList: Invalid window 85 (index 0/1)
2/10/2014 6:08:35.206 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[403]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:08:35.206 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:08:40.577 am com.apple.IconServicesAgent[308]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x6a9] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x1d1] - extension: png, UTI: public.png, fileType: ????.
2/10/2014 6:08:40.578 am quicklookd[408]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0x203] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x103] - extension: png, UTI: public.png, fileType: ???? request size:64 scale: 1
2/10/2014 6:08:42.209 am WindowServer[95]: disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "Finder" after 15.00 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
2/10/2014 6:08:42.209 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: conn 0xcc03 legacy 1
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: Backtrace (at 1618.93):
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 0 CoreGraphics 0x000000010d02b379 CGSBacktraceCreate + 59
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 1 CoreGraphics 0x000000010d0da62c _ZN16CGSUpdateManager21disable_update_legacyEv + 78
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 2 CoreGraphics 0x000000010d0da5d7 CGSDisableUpdate + 35
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 3 Finder 0x0000000107b66aae Finder + 1608366
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 4 Finder 0x0000000107b66224 Finder + 1606180
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 5 CoreFoundation 0x000000010cbb7e0c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 6 CoreFoundation 0x000000010cb79f79 ____CFXNotificationPostToken_block_invoke + 137
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 7 CoreFoundation 0x000000010cb1a48c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 12
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 8 CoreFoundation 0x000000010cb0bae5 __CFRunLoopDoBlocks + 341
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 9 CoreFoundation 0x000000010cb0b86e __CFRunLoopRun + 1982
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 10 CoreFoundation 0x000000010cb0ae75 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 11 HIToolbox 0x000000010a829a0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 12 HIToolbox 0x000000010a8297b7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 479
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 13 HIToolbox 0x000000010a8295bc _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 14 AppKit 0x000000010b7c224e _DPSNextEvent + 1434
2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 15 AppKit 0x000000010b7c189b -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
2/10/2014 6:08:42.212 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 16 AppKit 0x000000010b7b599c -[NSApplication run] + 553
2/10/2014 6:08:42.212 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 17 AppKit 0x000000010b7a0783 NSApplicationMain + 940
2/10/2014 6:08:42.212 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 18 Finder 0x00000001079e4730 Finder + 26416
2/10/2014 6:08:42.212 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 19 libdyld.dylib 0x000000010df545fd start + 1
2/10/2014 6:08:42.212 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 20 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
2/10/2014 6:08:45.256 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[410]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:08:45.256 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:08:55.346 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[411]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:08:55.346 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:09:05.431 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[412]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:09:05.431 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:09:15.480 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[413]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:09:15.480 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:09:24.342 am WindowServer[95]: CGXOrderWindowList: Invalid window 85 (index 0/1)
2/10/2014 6:09:25.497 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[414]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:09:25.497 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:09:26.008 am WindowServer[95]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Finder" after 58.80 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
2/10/2014 6:09:26.338 am WindowServer[95]: Display 0x4280480 released by conn 0xcc03
2/10/2014 6:09:35.517 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[415]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:09:35.517 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:09:45.541 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[416]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:09:45.541 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
"Have you tried restoring at the folder level? so that all files in the folder are restored. As it is an incremental backup - also wait until you hear the backup drive stop spinning - as it has to find the physical files - pointing to them."
Yes, I've tried both, and waiting until the drive stops spinning:
Here is the Console list:
2/10/2014 6:28:38.742 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[995]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:28:38.742 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:28:46.603 am WindowServer[122]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
2/10/2014 6:28:46.778 am WindowServer[122]: Display 0x4280482 captured by conn 0xe80b
2/10/2014 6:28:48.761 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1000]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:28:48.761 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:28:49.891 am WindowServer[122]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x04280482 device: 0x7f9dc1422710 isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowType: Invalid (NULL) window
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowResolution: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowDepth: Invalid window
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSLockWindowRectBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSUnlockWindowBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowType: Invalid (NULL) window
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowResolution: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowDepth: Invalid window
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSLockWindowRectBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:28:55.200 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSUnlockWindowBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:28:58.780 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1003]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:28:58.780 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:29:00.603 am WindowServer[122]: disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "Finder" after 15.00 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
2/10/2014 6:29:00.604 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: conn 0xe80b legacy 1
2/10/2014 6:29:00.605 am Finder[206]: Backtrace (at 1000.37):
2/10/2014 6:29:00.605 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 0 CoreGraphics 0x0000000108c65379 CGSBacktraceCreate + 59
2/10/2014 6:29:00.606 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 1 CoreGraphics 0x0000000108d1462c _ZN16CGSUpdateManager21disable_update_legacyEv + 78
2/10/2014 6:29:00.606 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 2 CoreGraphics 0x0000000108d145d7 CGSDisableUpdate + 35
2/10/2014 6:29:00.606 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 3 Finder 0x000000010377faae Finder + 1608366
2/10/2014 6:29:00.606 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 4 Finder 0x000000010377f224 Finder + 1606180
2/10/2014 6:29:00.607 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 5 CoreFoundation 0x00000001087f7e0c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
2/10/2014 6:29:00.607 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 6 CoreFoundation 0x00000001087b9f79 ____CFXNotificationPostToken_block_invoke + 137
2/10/2014 6:29:00.607 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 7 CoreFoundation 0x000000010875a48c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 12
2/10/2014 6:29:00.608 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 8 CoreFoundation 0x000000010874bae5 __CFRunLoopDoBlocks + 341
2/10/2014 6:29:00.608 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 9 CoreFoundation 0x000000010874b86e __CFRunLoopRun + 1982
2/10/2014 6:29:00.608 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 10 CoreFoundation 0x000000010874ae75 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309
2/10/2014 6:29:00.608 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 11 HIToolbox 0x000000010645ea0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226
2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 12 HIToolbox 0x000000010645e7b7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 479
2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 13 HIToolbox 0x000000010645e5bc _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65
2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 14 AppKit 0x00000001073fd24e _DPSNextEvent + 1434
2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 15 AppKit 0x00000001073fc89b -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 16 AppKit 0x00000001073f099c -[NSApplication run] + 553
2/10/2014 6:29:00.610 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 17 AppKit 0x00000001073db783 NSApplicationMain + 940
2/10/2014 6:29:00.610 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 18 Finder 0x00000001035fd730 Finder + 26416
2/10/2014 6:29:00.610 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 19 libdyld.dylib 0x0000000109b875fd start + 1
2/10/2014 6:29:00.610 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: 20 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowType: Invalid (NULL) window
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowResolution: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowDepth: Invalid window
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSLockWindowRectBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSUnlockWindowBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowType: Invalid (NULL) window
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowResolution: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowDepth: Invalid window
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSLockWindowRectBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:05.235 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSUnlockWindowBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:08.798 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1008]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:29:08.798 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:29:18.817 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1012]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:29:18.817 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:29:24.300 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowType: Invalid (NULL) window
2/10/2014 6:29:24.300 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowResolution: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowDepth: Invalid window
2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSLockWindowRectBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSUnlockWindowBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowType: Invalid (NULL) window
2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowResolution: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSGetWindowDepth: Invalid window
2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSLockWindowRectBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSUnlockWindowBits: Invalid window 0x0
2/10/2014 6:29:28.843 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1019]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:29:28.843 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:29:29.894 am WindowServer[122]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Finder" after 44.29 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
2/10/2014 6:29:30.261 am WindowServer[122]: Display 0x4280482 released by conn 0xe80b
2/10/2014 6:29:30.382 am WindowServer[122]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x04280482 device: 0x7f9dc1422710 isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3
2/10/2014 6:29:38.861 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1024]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:29:38.861 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:29:48.879 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1027]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:29:48.879 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:29:52.483 am com.apple.backupd[907]: Copied 1776 items (176.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD iMac 21.5-inch, Late 2013. Linked 13206.
2/10/2014 6:29:58.897 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1037]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:29:58.897 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:30:06.184 am launchservicesd[98]: Application App:"Console" asn:0x0-6b06b pid:951 refs=6 @ 0x7ff443443bd0 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontApps ( ( "LSApplication:0x0-0x6c06c pid=1034 "SecurityAgent"")), so denying. : LASSession.cp #1481 SetFrontApplication() q=LSSession 100004/0x186a4 queue
2/10/2014 6:30:06.185 am WindowServer[122]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to Console, psn 0x0-0x6b06b, securitySessionID=0x186a4, err=-13066
2/10/2014 6:30:06.646 am com.apple.backupd[907]: Will copy (4.3 MB) from Macintosh HD iMac 21.5-inch, Late 2013
2/10/2014 6:30:06.647 am com.apple.backupd[907]: Found 68 files (4.3 MB) needing backup
2/10/2014 6:30:06.647 am com.apple.backupd[907]: 7.89 GB required (including padding), 133.44 GB available
2/10/2014 6:30:08.233 am iSnap[331]: Can't Retrieve Window Zoom
2/10/2014 6:30:08.579 am iSnap[331]: time out
2/10/2014 6:30:08.917 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1041]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:30:08.917 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:30:18.448 am com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[1047]: assertion failed: 13F34: liblaunch.dylib + 25164 [A40A0C7B-3216-39B4-8AE0-B5D3BAF1DA8A]: 0x25
2/10/2014 6:30:18.934 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1049]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:30:18.934 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/10/2014 6:30:18.980 am com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[1047]: Bogus event received by listener connection:
<error: 0x111766b50> { count = 1, contents =
"XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x111766e60> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
2/10/2014 6:30:18.981 am librariand[219]: client process 349 does not have a valid com.apple.developer.ubiquity-container-identifiers entitlement
2/10/2014 6:30:18.982 am librariand[219]: error in handle_container_path_request: LibrarianErrorDomain/9/The client process does not have a valid com.apple.developer.ubiquity-container-identifiers entitlement
2/10/2014 6:30:20.551 am com.apple.backupd[907]: Copied 204 items (4.3 MB) from volume Macintosh HD iMac 21.5-inch, Late 2013. Linked 1778.
2/10/2014 6:30:21.935 am com.apple.backupd[907]: Created new backup: 2014-10-02-063021
2/10/2014 6:30:22.625 am launchservicesd[98]: Application App:"Monosnap" asn:0x0-28028 pid:349 refs=5 @ 0x7ff443632f50 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontApps ( ( "LSApplication:0x0-0x6c06c pid=1034 "SecurityAgent"")), so denying. : LASSession.cp #1481 SetFrontApplication() q=LSSession 100004/0x186a4 queue
2/10/2014 6:30:22.625 am WindowServer[122]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to Monosnap, psn 0x0-0x28028, securitySessionID=0x186a4, err=-13066
2/10/2014 6:30:22.874 am WindowServer[122]: CGXSetWindowLevel: Operation on a window 0x236 requiring rights kCGSWindowRightPresenter by caller com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSav
2/10/2014 6:30:22.874 am com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[1047]: CGSSetWindowLevel
2/10/2014 6:30:22.874 am com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[1047]: PSsetwindowlevel, error setting window level (1001)
2/10/2014 6:30:24.868 am com.apple.backupd[907]: Starting post-backup thinning
2/10/2014 6:30:24.868 am com.apple.backupd[907]: No post-backup thinning needed: no expired backups exist
2/10/2014 6:30:24.898 am com.apple.backupd[907]: Backup completed successfully.
2/10/2014 6:30:25.501 am launchservicesd[98]: Application App:"Finder" asn:0x0-b00b pid:206 refs=7 @ 0x7ff443429180 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontApps ( ( "LSApplication:0x0-0x6c06c pid=1034 "SecurityAgent"")), so denying. : LASSession.cp #1481 SetFrontApplication() q=LSSession 100004/0x186a4 queue
2/10/2014 6:30:25.502 am WindowServer[122]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to Finder, psn 0x0-0xb00b, securitySessionID=0x186a4, err=-13066
2/10/2014 6:30:28.952 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1056]) Exited with code: 1
2/10/2014 6:30:28.952 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Still restores only the first 7 files of 955.
I appreciate your efforts to help. That's a lot of files that are lost! -
Time machine works for a while and then fails. I've replaced external drives, gotten larger ones, but it still seems to fail. The latest message:
Time Machine could not complete the backup.
Files can’t be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only.
You may need to repair or reformat the disk using Disk Utility. If the disk can’t be repaired, you must use a different disk for backups. Open Time Machine preferences to select a different backup disk.
I ran repair disk under disk utility and it says there appears to be no problem with the disk. I had not used this 1 TB backup for 6 months, however it worked fine for 3 backups and then came up with the above. Same problem prior to this with a 250 GB drive. My macbook pro (mid 2010) has only 250GB on the hard drive. It is partitioned with parallels.
Any ideas why time machine keeps failing?See C6.
Time Machine Troubleshooting -
Time Machine fails with drive connected to Airport Extreme
First of all, I've had myriad problems with Time Machine, even when it was connected directly to my MBP. But after the recent updates, I installed them and hoped it would work wirelessly. I re-formatted my 120GB OWC drive (my MBP has 30GB available of 120GB). I have already been down the road of making sure I've formatted the drive correctly.
I excluded my system folder, my entourage identity, downloads, and my Parallels Windows XP file from the backup. I connected the drive to my Airport Extreme (not the gigabit version) and started the backup. Basically, it gets about 5 GB into the backup, moving very slowly, and then fails, saying that it couldn't locate the drive. And that part is true--I can't seem to locate the drive on my network anymore either. And eventually, after another hour or so, my Airport Extreme drops as well, and isn't even available. Even when I unplug the AE, and plug it back in, it still doesn't show up...but after about an hour or so...it pops back up and is available, working fine. My iPhone sees the same problem with AE dropping and then coming back. When the wireless service drops, I can plug an ethernet cable into the AE and I can access the internet fine, so it's not the cable modem (Time Warner).
Is anyone else seeing this problem? I'm no guru and appreciate that Macs just seem to work correctly. But Time Machine is making me pull my hair out. It's been an unmitigated disaster from start to finish.
Appreciate any help!This is probably the most sensible post I've read on the issue. I've spent the last 2 days trying to get my 500GB LaCie Quadra hard drive to work with my Airport Extreme (the square one, yes .
I've formatted it correctly with the Disk Utility (multiple times!).
Airport Utility sees it just fine. I can back up to it when it is connected directly to my MacBook via USB.
But when the drive is connected via USB to the Airport Extreme, Time Machine doesn't see it -- unless I turn on file sharing with guest access read and write. That seems less-than-secure to me even if my network is protected.
Without guest access the drive appears in the shared section of the Finder, but I can't connect to it. I've tried all three combinations under "Secure Shared Disks" but none of them work.
Seems like its just too flaky to use an external disk connected to the Airport Extreme.
Happy to be pointed in the right direction... are there specific file permissions I should be setting my external drive to?
Thanks,
Rich -
Time Machine fails to backup home space.
Summary:
I've been having problems with Time Machine since I enabled it. For some reason it refuses to backup any file in my account (/Users/ritchiem/). I have spoken with the an Apple 'Genius' and they were dumb founded. So I ask here in the hope that someone has had this issue occur and know what the cause is and how to fix it. I'm not really looking for work-arounds, though I will cover that later.
*Problem Description:*
A new 500GB external drive was erased and formatted HFS+ Journaled.
TimeMachine was then opened and enabled on this drive.
Back Up Now was selected and left to run assuming it would take a while on the 500Gb internal drive that had a around 200Gi-250Gi of used.
It ran successfully.
When entering TimeMachine, history shows the top level drive and navigating down the Users folder shows only my 'test' user account. My user account 'ritchiem' is not listed.
There was no error presented from Time Machine an the System Preferences panel reported it was successful.
Console.logs shows that backup was performed successfully.
Steps already taken to address issue:
I have verified/repaired permissions on my boot drive, a few files were changed but none in /Users/ritchiem
I have deleted the Time Machine preferences: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
I have tried a second external hard drive, in this case it was more interesting:
It was reported as being to small to perform the backup. So I added some exclusions such as my large iTunes library.
This allowed the Time Machine to proceed but again there was no backup performed of any file in home space.
This is where I thought I must be doing something wrong and went to the Apple Store the genius tried all the usual suspects, permissions, preferences. But no success.
It was only then that one of his colleagues picked up on discussion that it was only my user that was being skipped and suggested the risky move of renaming my user. He showed me the 'Advanced' panel in the Account System Preferences. (I never realised you could use a nice gui to do the renaming of a user in all the right Apple places.)
So I swapped users and renamed my account, and moved my home space to a new user name. mv /Users/ritchiem /Users/martin
I then logged back in to my account to verify the rename all worked and it had.
_*Time Machine now worked!*_
HOWEVER, that is a total hack. I use the username 'ritchiem' all across my local network and it was not recommended to have a user ritchiem but a home space in /Users/martin.
I renamed my account back to 'ritchiem' and Time Machine again is blocking backups of /Users/ritchiem
Somewhere on my drive there MUST be an exclusion that is preventing the first user that I created on my 2008 MacBook from being backed up. So far my grep-ing of the filesystem for 'ritchiem' has not shown any likely suspects. If anyone here knows where the mystic plist/file is that I need to zap then that would be great.
If of course you have another work-around that does not require me to rename either my account or my home space then that would be great.
Oh and I also tried to trick TimeMachine by creating a symbolic link in /Users to my home space (ln -s /Users/ritchiem /Users/martin). It resolves the link and refuses to backup the contents of my home space just as before.
Please remember here that in all backups that Time Machine performed there was no error, console.log and the UI all report success.
Now if I had a new blank machine and some time I could test out the theory that it is always the first user of a freshly installed machine. However, if other people have it working then it is perhaps not that simple.
TIA
MartinThank you for all your advice and suggestions. Apologies for the delay I had difficulty locating my original install DVDs.
Summary
I have performed all the steps and checked items as requested however backups are still not including my home space (/Users/ritchiem)
What I do find interesting is the output of the TimeMachine backup log (at the very end of this VERY long post) which states that 84.8 GB should be backed up but only 24.3 GB is actually backed up.
Would love to know why TM decided 60.5GB of data should not be backed up but not explained in any of the log files and a successful backup reported.
Before I go on to the details of what i've done, I should also mention in case it is important that I have of course been logged in with my user (ritchiem) whilst performing all of these backups. I assume that is normal and that you shouldn't have to log out for TM to actually backup your data. To verify this previously I have logged out user ritchiem and logged in as a test account. The path /Users/ritchiem still failed to backup. I have not tried this recently, however, I would be really surprised if you had to log out of your user account for the data to be backed up.
Detail
So to answer V.K. first: My drive did indeed have some items that it said I should repair. Hence the search for the install DVDs. I ran the Disk Utility from the Leopard installer and it repaired the drive. The verify now runs green.
As I had just rebooted the machine and it was all fresh I repeated Pondini's previous steps as well.
* Disabled TM
* Exited System Preferences
* Deleted /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
I then also deleted the Backups.backupdb from my external drive so everything was fresh and new. I would have just formatted it (which would have been waaay faster, but I have some copies as backups on there for now.)
I started the TM prefs panel and added a few items to the disabled list to a) speed up the backup but also b) I have a 320g internal drive and only a 250g external. My total disk usage is 288 which won't fit, especially with the breathing space TM likes to have.
Here is the data from console.log from the first two backup runs:
*The first automated run that occured whilst I was still disabling items*
Jul 9 00:05:28 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Jul 9 00:05:28 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Starting standard backup
Jul 9 00:05:28 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb
Jul 9 00:05:52 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: ramaII
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup content size: 288.2 GB excluded items size: 0 bytes for volume ramaII
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Starting pre-backup thinning: 347.15 GB requested (including padding), 134.18 GB available
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup Failed: unable to free 347.15 GB needed space
Jul 9 00:05:59 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
*The second much smaller backup run*
Jul 9 00:06:29 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup requested by user
Jul 9 00:06:29 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Starting standard backup
Jul 9 00:06:31 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb
Jul 9 00:06:32 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: ramaII
Jul 9 00:15:57 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup content size: 288.2 GB excluded items size: 203.4 GB for volume ramaII
Jul 9 00:15:57 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 103.06 GB requested (including padding), 134.18 GB available
Jul 9 01:10:18 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Copied 191916 files (24.3 GB) from volume ramaII.
Jul 9 01:10:19 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.75 GB requested (including padding), 108.05 GB available
Jul 9 01:10:25 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Copied 114 files (93 bytes) from volume ramaII.
Jul 9 01:10:25 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jul 9 01:10:25 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jul 9 01:10:26 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup completed successfully.
What I find interesting is that only it only copied '191916 files (24.3 GB)' It said it was going to backup '103.06 GB requested (including padding)'.
As requested here is the hidden .exclude.plist file, I printed the contents using the Terminal rather than TinkerTool.
.exclude.plist
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ sudo cat /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb/ramaII/2009-07-09-011025/.exclusions.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>sourcePaths</key>
<array>
<string>/</string>
</array>
<key>standardExclusionPaths</key>
<array/>
<key>systemFilesExcluded</key>
<false/>
<key>userExclusionPaths</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Music</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/dev</string>
<string>/Applications</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Desktop</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Downloads</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Movies</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/ritchiem.sparseimage</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
This content mirrors what is in the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist I resaved this to my desktop as a xml plist so I could print it for copying:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ cat Desktop/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>AlwaysShowDeletedBackupsWarning</key>
<true/>
<key>AutoBackup</key>
<true/>
<key>BackupAlias</key>
<data>-snipped-</data>
<key>ExcludeByPath</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache</string>
<string>/Users/cristina/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache</string>
</array>
<key>MaxSize</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>RequiresACPower</key>
<false/>
<key>SkipPaths</key>
<array>
<string>~ritchiem/Music</string>
<string>~ritchiem/dev</string>
<string>/Applications</string>
<string>~ritchiem/Desktop</string>
<string>~ritchiem/Downloads</string>
<string>~ritchiem/Movies</string>
<string>~ritchiem/ritchiem.sparseimage</string>
</array>
<key>SkipSystemFiles</key>
<false/>
</dict>
</plist>
*Other Steps*
Whilst running TM I also setup dtrace to log every file open: (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071031121823710)
Looking for any files in my home space that it might have opened returned none:
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ grep "/Users/ritchiem" tm.dtrace |grep "entry backupd" |wc -l
0
Yet looking for all the files backed up from the /Users directory there were 458!
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ grep "/Users/" tm.dtrace |grep "entry backupd" |wc -l
458
Dtrace also highlights the files that backupd uses unfortuately the only files it opened before it started its backup were:
0 17720 open:entry backupd /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
0 17720 open:entry backupd /var/db/.TimeMachine.Cookie
0 18506 open_nocancel:entry backupd /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Res
ources/StdExclusions.plist
The only file on that list I haven't seen mentioned before is the StdExclusions but I'm sure that is the same on everyone's machines... just incase though:
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ cat /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.pl ist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<!-- paths we do not want to include in a system backup -->
<key>PathsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>/.Spotlight-V100</string>
<string>/.Trashes</string>
<string>/.fseventsd</string>
<string>/.hotfiles.btree</string>
<string>/Backups.backupdb</string>
<string>/Desktop DB</string>
<string>/Desktop DF</string>
<string>/Network/Servers</string>
<string>/Previous Systems</string>
<string>/Users/Shared/SC Info</string>
<string>/Users/Guest</string>
<string>/dev</string>
<string>/home</string>
<string>/net</string>
<string>/private/var/db/Spotlight</string> <!-- old tiger location of the Spotlight db -->
<string>/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100</string> <!-- old tiger location of the Spotlight db -->
</array>
<!-- paths we need to include in backup so we can restore disk structure, but don't want to backup contents -->
<key>ContentsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>/Volumes</string>
<string>/Network</string>
<string>/automount</string>
<string>/.vol</string>
<string>/tmp</string>
<string>/cores</string>
<string>/private/tmp</string>
<string>/private/Network</string>
<string>/private/tftpboot</string>
<string>/private/var/automount</string>
<string>/private/var/log</string>
<string>/private/var/folders</string>
<string>/private/var/log/apache2</string>
<string>/private/var/log/cups</string>
<string>/private/var/log/fax</string>
<string>/private/var/log/ppp</string>
<string>/private/var/log/sa</string>
<string>/private/var/log/samba</string>
<string>/private/var/log/uucp</string>
<string>/private/var/run</string>
<string>/private/var/spool</string>
<string>/private/var/tmp</string>
<string>/private/var/vm</string>
<string>/private/var/db/dhcpclient</string>
<string>/private/var/db/fseventsd</string>
<string>/Library/Caches</string>
<string>/Library/Logs</string>
<string>/System/Library/Caches</string>
<string>/System/Library/Extensions/Caches</string>
</array>
<!-- standard user paths we want to skip for each user (subpath relative to root of home directory) -->
<key>UserPathsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>Library/Application Support/SyncServices</string>
<string>Library/Caches</string>
<string>Library/Logs</string>
<string>Library/Mail/Envelope Index</string>
<string>Library/Mail/AvailableFeeds</string>
<string>Library/Mirrors</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Database</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Downloads</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Feeds</string>
<string>Library/Safari/Icons.db</string>
<string>Library/Safari/HistoryIndex.sk</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
Finally here is the backup log that was generated incase you spot something I haven't
Backup.log
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ sudo cat /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb/ramaII/2009-07-09-011025/.Backup.log
2009-07-09-00:06:32 - Starting backup
Previous snapshot:
None
Will traverse "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
=== Starting backup loop #1 ===
Will use FirstBackupCopier
Running preflight for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/Music: 36.1 GB (6083 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/dev: 20.8 GB (488641 items)
Excluding /Applications: 9.6 GB (15070 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/Desktop: 26.3 GB (2444 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/Downloads: 3.8 GB (1127 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/Movies: 79.6 GB (167 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/ritchiem.sparseimage: 27.2 GB (1 items)
Should copy 2853633 items (84.8 GB) representing 22223169 blocks of size 4096. 35174679 blocks available.
Preflight complete for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Time elapsed: 9 minutes, 25.000 seconds
Processing preflight info
Space needed for this backup: 103.1 GB (27016262 blocks of size 4096)
Finished processing preflight info
Copying items from "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Finished copying items for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Time elapsed: 54 minutes, 20.000 seconds
Copied 191916 items (24.3 GB)
Gathering events since 390504228.
Needs new backup due to change in /Library/Preferences
=== Starting backup loop #2 ===
Will use IncrementalBackupCopier
Running preflight for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Calculating size of changes
Should copy 4 items (0 bytes) representing 0 blocks of size 4096. 28325806 blocks available.
Preflight complete for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Time elapsed: 1.243 seconds
Processing preflight info
Space needed for this backup: 1.8 GB (459904 blocks of size 4096)
Preserving last snapshot /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb/ramaII/2009-07-09-000552.inProgress/79ECBD8C-12 BE-4067-A202-B7033190FD82
Finished processing preflight info
Copying items from "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Finished copying items for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Time elapsed: 6.147 seconds
Copied 114 items (93 bytes)
Gathering events since 406201626.
Finalizing completed snapshot
Finished finalizing completed snapshot
Backup complete.
Total time elapsed: 1 hour, 3 minutes, 54.000 seconds
*Next Steps*
I've been thinking about what i could try next and not having many ideas. So I'm really hoping someone here will have a flash of inspiration.
If I find some time at the weekend then I will try renaming my account again and verifying that it does backup under a new name.
Just incase there is something odd about the first user account created, i.e. UID:501 I will make a new 'ritchiem' account (which will have the next UID, UID:504) and see if that gets backed up, I can try this while my current account has been renamed. If that does work then I can copy my files back in to that account and verify it isn't something in my home directory that is upsetting TM. Although I doubt this is the case as it never read any files from home space during the backup process.
Here's hoping there is something in the above logs etc, that give a clue to what might be going wrong.
Cheers
Martin -
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