Time Machine Freezes on Backup

I am trying to back my imac up for the first time using Time Machine (10.9 Mavericks) however it keeps freezing at 15.17gb and won't move on from there.
I am backing up to a Western Digital My Passport Ultra drive formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and it's Partition Map Scheme is GUID Partition Table.
Please Help,
Harry

See C1 in the first linked article.
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Time Machine Freezes During Backup!

Hi there,
When I back up my computer for the first time using Time Machine, it gets to around 53.2 GB. After that, it sits there with the blue progress bar at the same level. Then, i get a message that says I did not eject the disk properly, and then Time Machine alerts me that it could not finish the backup. NOTE: When it says the disk has not been ejected properly, I still see the disk in both Finder and disk utility. Also, I currently have the disk in 2 partitions, but I'm only using the Mac OS X (Journaled) partition for my Time Machine backups. Please help! Like I said, it seems to eject my external hard drive (Hitachi 250 GB Simple Drive) after freezing up for a while. I am able to use other things on my computer the whole time. The only application that was open during the backup was iTunes. Here is the log from Time Machine buddy:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/External HD/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 142.3 GB excluded items size: 30.7 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 133.85 GB requested (including padding), 213.91 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Copied 48.9 GB of 111.5 GB, 250192 of 667394 items
Stopping backupd because the backup volume was ejected!
Stopping backup.
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/********/Library/Mail/IMAP-********@******[email protected]/INBOX.imapmbox/Attachments/3234/2 to /Volumes/External HD/Backups.backupdb/*******’s MacBook/2011-03-12-104926.inProgress/A8B8FCD0-3EA2-4A4D-B313-4A9EE0C56252/Macin tosh HD/Users/********/Library/Mail/IMAP-*********@********[email protected]/INBOX.imapmbox/Attachments/3234
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
Copied 259985 files (49.5 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
Copy stage failed with error:11
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
Backup failed with error: 27
Thank you so much!
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As a first step, launch Disk Utility, select the backup volume, and run "Verify Disk" (NOT "Repair Disk"). It will take a long time to run, maybe hours. If any errors are found, copy all data on the device to another drive, then run "Repair Disk." Be prepared for the possibility that "Repair Disk" may destroy the volume beyond recovery. It may also fail to repair the damage, in which case you should replace the device -- DO NOT erase it and continue to use it.

Time Machine freezes at onset of first backup

I took one of my external Lace disk drives (250 MB - with 200+ MB available) and designated it as the target drive for Time Machine. I've used this drive for over a year with no issues. Time Machine starts up, does its calculations and starts its initial backup. There is a Backups.backupdb folder created on the drive. In that folder another folder is created bearing the name of my system and within that folder there's a time stamped file (i.e., 2007-10-31-150019.InProgress) of the Kind "package". The file gets to a nominal 38.8 MB in size and that's it. I let this sit for over an hour with no progress. Attempting to stop the back up in the Time Machine System Preferences window results in a "Stopping..." message with the application just spinning its wheels. Any suggestions? Log files I can look at? Etc? Thanks!

I am not sure what to make of this, but it appears that Time Machine is probably running into a locked file or something. I have had my backup running just fine all day, but it's currently frozen as I type this, trying to backup 20.5 MB or so of changes on my main drive.
I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. I can see in the Console messages that Backupd started, but just gets stuck (no error) in the middle. Like so:
10/31/07 11:48:10 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[689] Backup requested by automatic scheduler
10/31/07 11:48:10 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[689] Starting standard backup
10/31/07 11:48:17 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[689] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
10/31/07 11:48:19 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[689] No pre-backup thinning needed: 200.0 MB requested (including padding), 351.60 GB available
... and that's it. No further messages.
What it OUGHT to look like (when working):
10/31/07 10:48:10 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] Starting standard backup
10/31/07 10:48:17 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
10/31/07 10:48:18 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] No pre-backup thinning needed: 240.3 MB requested (including padding), 351.68 GB available
10/31/07 10:48:44 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] Copied 2565 files (72.3 MB) from volume Kidd.
10/31/07 10:48:45 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] No pre-backup thinning needed: 188.7 MB requested (including padding), 351.60 GB available
10/31/07 10:48:47 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] Copied 1172 files (90 KB) from volume Kidd.
10/31/07 10:48:49 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] Starting post-backup thinning
10/31/07 10:48:49 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
10/31/07 10:48:49 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[608] Backup completed successfully.
When this occurs, I cannot stop the backup from the UI. I can kill backupd the 'hard way' with Activity Monitor and an Administrator force quit, but afterwards Time Machine will not backup again without more drastic measures (minimum reboot).
I am curious if the condition will eventually fix itself once the file becomes unlocked, but I dunno if it will.

Time Machine fails to backup HD and stalls computer when backing up to external HD (Western Digital WD5000MT) when using Firewire 800 but works fine using USB

I have a mid 2012 MBP (MacbookPro9,1) running Mountain Lion 10.8.2. When I start a Time Machine backup to an external Western Digital HD (WD5000MT) connected using a Firewire 800 cable, my open programs stop responding and in general my computer freezes up not allowing me to open activity monitor or the console utility. I can't even shut down or restart my computer and must hard boot to reset. Though removing the firewire cable that goes to the external HD can sometimes get my system working again. However, the WD external HD also has a usb port and when I connect it to my computer via a USB cable, Time Machine seems to backup my system fine without stalling my computer. This same external HD worked fine with Firewire 800 using my old late 2007 MBP running snow leopard. I should note that my brother has the exact same model WD external HD and he also had issues with the firewire port on his MBP running mountain lion. I have run the disk utility checking for disk/file permission errors and the drive itself seems fine. I initially formatted that drive as ExFAT but while troubleshooting reformatted to HFS+ and still had the same issue. I tested using a different firewire 800 cable but still had the same issue. Can't think of anything else to do. I don't have another firewire-compatible device to test if it is the HD vs the firewire port. I would prefer to use the firewire port for quicker transfer speeds but I'm stuck with USB for now. Any suggestions?

Maybe these will help:
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11194
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275 (note - older article)
Have you tried looking at the Western Digital web site to see if you can find anything?
http://support.wdc.com

Lion + Macbook Pro 17 + Time Machine = Freeze

I recently upgraded to OS X Lion on my mid-2009 MBP 17" and I am also getting complete system lockups - the mouse moves, but no keyboard, no clicks, no window movements, and all menu bar items stop updating, including the system clock. Power cycle is the only solution. This is happening often while a Time Machine update is running on my external drive (after it's been running for several minutes). I believe it has also occured with video playback (as others have reported), but not often. I'm not sure if it is related to waking from hibernate/sleep; e.g., last night's big 60GB Time Machine backup ran ok (took several hours), but this morning, after waking the machine and working for a while, it kicked off again and froze at the 90MB mark (of 270MB) right after I clicked on the menu bar icon to view progress. I had an xterm window and Firefox open, plus a few utilties like Adium. No video playing anywhere.
Any others?
Other notes: 8GB ram; no "Automatic Graphics Switching" option on Preferences pane, probably b/c this is a 2009 MBP(?).

I see nobody is reacting to your problem.
I have (almost) the same problem, but with 10.7.5.
Not only Time Machine freezes up (over WiFi and USB-connected), but also my Music downloads (everything else works fine) to my iPhone 5 (with iTunes 11.1) and also Spotlight (indexing for minutes and then freezes).
All these 3 actions (which usually take longer than anything else) freeze up after 3 to 15 minutes. Never the same, always different durations. Very annoying.
On the other hand: ever since I disabled Spotlight, my MacBook Pro A1286 is as fast as when I bought it in 2009.
This all happened suddenly, out of the blue. No added software, hardware. No changes in prefs.
I had my hardware checked. I have done a memtest. All the tricks in the book. To no avail.
Aopple techs tell me to wait till Maverick......some solution ;-)

Time Machine freezes during back up to Passport Ext drive

Time Machine freezes during first back up to My Passport Ext drive. It is a 1TB, and seems to keep stopping at 6 to 10GB stage so never actually backs up. I have excluded files to limit first backup to about 40GB.

you sure this is a Mac Pro and not a MacBook Pro first. Most every report of issues with bus powered like Passport are best solved using a drive case with its own power instead.

Time machine freezes indefinitely

I know this has been discussed, but I searched and couldn't find the thread. I've had this problem before, Time Machine starts a backup and never gets further than preparing to back up. It just freezes there indefinitely, two days so far. The first time this happened the solution was to go to Mac HD> Library> Preferences, and deleting the file com.apple.TimeMachine.plist and restarting Time Machine and re-configure it. This worked. Now Time Machine is again doing the same thing and this solution no longer works. Everytime it starts to back up, again it's stuck at preparing to backup. Anyone know of a fix? I've tried everything, deleting the file, restarting, changing backup locations........... none work.
Thanks,
Jack

Ok, I stopped the backup, restarted the computer and then attempted to start a fresh backup by selecting Time Machine and choosing Back Up Now. Time Machine began the backup and after 20 minutes it was still stuck in Preparing backup, so I stopped the back up and went to system log and copied all entries from the request to the stopping of the backup. Everything is as follows:
Sep 7 13:30:01 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Backup requested by user
Sep 7 13:30:01 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Starting standard backup
Sep 7 13:30:01 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Network mountpoint /Volumes/Powerbook G4 Backup not owned by backupd... remounting
Sep 7 13:30:01 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/Resources/NetAuthSysAgen t[561]: Warning: accessing obsolete X509Anchors.
Sep 7 13:30:02 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/Powerbook G4 Backup-1, pid 561
Sep 7 13:30:02 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Powerbook G4 Backup-1
Sep 7 13:30:04 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 hdiejectd[570]: running
Sep 7 13:30:05 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: replay_journal: from: 2885632 to: 6178816 (joffset 0x3a4000)
Sep 7 13:30:32 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 kernel[0]: SetCryptoKey R: len 32, idx 2
Sep 7 13:30:38 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: journal replay done.
Sep 7 13:30:40 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 fseventsd[40]: event logs in /Volumes/Backup of Jack Muhrline’s PowerBook G4/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (3419 36 6482)
Sep 7 13:30:40 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 fseventsd[40]: log dir: /Volumes/Backup of Jack Muhrline’s PowerBook G4/.fseventsd getting new uuid: DE90C799-A715-45C1-8E94-5FE0F0E30734
Sep 7 13:30:40 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Disk image /Volumes/Powerbook G4 Backup-1/Jack Muhrline’s PowerBook G4_001124d5144e.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Jack Muhrline’s PowerBook G4
Sep 7 13:30:40 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Jack Muhrline’s PowerBook G4/Backups.backupdb
Sep 7 13:30:40 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 mds[34]: (/Volumes/Backup of Jack Muhrline‚Äôs PowerBook G4/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/DFE5C015-5F13-4BC2-AF0D-722AB02DCB4C)(Error) IndexCI in ContentIndexOpenBulk:No index
Sep 7 13:30:52 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Sep 7 13:30:53 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|
Sep 7 13:32:02 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[561]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 564 PPID 1 check_afp
Sep 7 13:51:18 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Backup canceled.
Sep 7 13:51:29 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Sep 7 13:51:30 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/Powerbook G4 Backup-1, flags 0, pid 604
Sep 7 13:51:30 Jack-Muhrlines-PowerBook-G4 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[560]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
I'm not sure if this helps or not.
Jack

Time Machine Freezes and Corrupts Disk

Hello,
I have been attempting to set up one of my external hard drives for use in Time Machine, but every time I click "Erase" when Time Machine asks me to, Time Machine freezes, and my Hard Drive gets corrupt. After force quitting Time Machine and mounting my drive again, it says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." I have had to go back to a PC on numerous occasions and format the disk as FAT32, and then come back and try it again. I have attempted to erase the disk through Disk Utility, but the same error occurs.
I am attempting to do this with a 100GB Store-It drive by Hitatchi. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can solve this issue.
Thanks,
Thomas

I had the same problem with a new 120GB WD external 2.5" HDD. It seems to perform the initial backup then gets frozen at the very end of the first actualization, CPU running at 100%. Doesn't mount any more, DU shows it but declares it as non-repairable because of different issues: index faulty, B-tree header faulty etc. The same on another Mac. Re-formatting leads to the same results.
What to do?
Berndt

Leopard applications all hang while Time Machine prepares for backup

I'm sure others have posted about this but I can't find a usable solution. I have the most recent version of Leopard, a 1TB external FireWire drive dedicated to Time Machine storage and about 400GB of backups on it. Every day at some point, Time Machine starts a backup, pauses while preparing, and the entire Mac grinds to a halt. New processes won't launch, open applications hang, Finder becomes unresponsive, menus and dock freeze in whatever position they were in at the point of launch, and I can't cancel the backup process.
The only solution is to turn off the backup drive while its running and wait for the Mac to wake up again (which it does in under a minute). I have no virus protection running. I have erased the drive and started fresh at least once to no avail.
Since I am effectively breaking a live connection every time I turn the drive off without unmounting it first (an obvious no-no), the data has great potential to be getting more and more screwed up. What can I do?

Message logs:
October 12, 2009, 1:43:25 AM
Volume at path /Volumes/Racer BU does not appear to be the correct backup volume for this computer. (Cookies do not match)
Backup failed with error: 18
October 12, 2009, 11:32:32 AM
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Racer X
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 984.2 MB requested (including padding), 443.72 GB available
Copied 21948 files (368.1 MB) from volume Racer X.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 548.2 MB requested (including padding), 443.35 GB available
Copied 961 files (965 KB) from volume Racer X.
Starting post-backup thinning
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-215828: 443.35 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-205855: 443.36 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-195856: 443.40 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-185908: 443.46 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-175907: 443.51 GB now available
Post-back up thinning complete: 5 expired backups removed
Backup completed successfully.
October 12, 2009, 12:18:32 PM
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 954.4 MB requested (including padding), 443.51 GB available
Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
Copied 16717 files (339.6 MB) from volume Racer X.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 569.5 MB requested (including padding), 443.17 GB available
Copied 634 files (18.7 MB) from volume Racer X.
Starting post-backup thinning
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-225832: 443.24 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-165828: 443.25 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-155855: 443.30 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-145857: 443.36 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Racer BU/Backups.backupdb/Eric’s Mac Pro/2009-10-10-135852: 443.38 GB now available
Post-back up thinning complete: 5 expired backups removed
Backup completed successfully.
October 12, 2009, 4:46:51 PM
Starting standard backup
Volume at path /Volumes/Racer BU does not appear to be the correct backup volume for this computer. (Cookies do not match)
Backup failed with error: 18
etc...
The long periods between backups are when it is "preparing for backup" and nothing is happening. Sometimes this is while I'm not using it and the machine is asleep.

Time machine won't backup, yet plenty of space & not much used on Mac HD

Well, this is yet another "Time machine won't backup becuase there is not enough space" thread. I have searched Google and threads here but it's still a mystery why this error is occurring and it seems there is no clear solution. I also looked at the Apple Time Machine errors FAQ as well.
Here are my specs and what I have tried so far.
2010 Mac Pro Quad Core with 1 TB hard drive with 12 GB RAM. (137 GB used so far on internal Mac hard drive disk, so about 863 GB free space).
- New external 1 TB hard drive initialized as Time Machine backup disk when inserted for the first time.
The exact error I am getting is this: "This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 1.80 TB but only 999.20 GB are available."
I have tried deleting the Time Machine system preference, reinitializing the external disk, clearing the system caches with Cocktail, restarting and letting Time machine ask me all over again if I wanted to use the external drive for Time Machine. Still the same error.
My question is how on earth can 1.80 TB be required for the backup when I only have 137 GB of used space?

danomatic12 wrote:
My question is how on earth can 1.80 TB be required for the backup when I only have 137 GB of used space?
Two possibilities:
There's another disk (or disks) connected to your Mac. If they're formatted HFS+, Time Machine is trying to back it/them up as well. You can exclude them per #10 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum). The 1.8 TB includes 20% for temporary workspace on the TM drive, so TM is estimating the backup at about 1.5 TB.
Something on your internal HD is corrupted, causing an incorrect calculation. Verify your internal HD, per #6 in [Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Using Snow Leopard+ forum).

How do I use a Mac Mini + Airport Express + Time Machine disk to backup another iMac

How do I use a Mac Mini + Airport Express + Time Machine disk to backup another iMac?
The question pretty much says it all.
I have a Mac Mini with an attached 3TB Hard Drive used for Time Machine Backups.
I have an Airport Extreme base station which services that machine plus several others.
I would like to backup my new iMac and a MacBook Pro to the Mac Mini.
What do I need to do on the mini to export that hard drive so that it can be used as a Time Machine target from the other systems?
All systems are running 10.6.8.

Well you would have to do backups over a network which is much slower and has highest chance of becoming corrupt. I think your best option would be to get an apple time capsule to act as a network and back if thats how you wanna do that

HT201250 Can I recover the backups from Time Machine, but the backups is deleted by the Time Machine!

Unfortunately, the Time Macchine deleted my oldest backups in my hard drive.
I have the important files in the backups.
So hope someone could help me to recover the backups.

Time Machine will remove old backups automatically. It tells you when it does, but of course by then it's too late.
There is no recovering deleted backups, since it was necessary to overwrite them with newer backups.
For further explanation read the following entries from Apple Support Communities contributor Pondini's Time Machine FAQ:
12. Should I delete old backups? If so, How?
20. Once my Mac is backed-up, can I delete some stuff to save space?
Time Machine is for backups. It is not an archiving utility. To archive files requires something like one of these:
Carbon Copy Cloner ($39.95) http://sites.fastspring.com/bombich/product/ccc
or
SuperDuper! ($27.95) http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Time Machine does not backup home/user directory (on separate drive)

I recently installed a SSD into my Mini. Due to size restrictions, my home/user directory has to be kept on another drive. I retained the stock 1TB drive that came with the Mini for this.
Ok, installed the SSD, restored a Time Machine backups (sans user data). Used a different admin user and configured my user to use the 1TB drive for it's home directory (/Volumes/1TB/home/<user>). Restart, log in as my user, all is good. All data, settings, etc is there. Everything looks normal.
Time Machine REFUSES to backup this directory. It will backup the 1TB drive and anyting else I create in it, but not the home directory. I tried every permission trick I could think of or found online. I even tested it further by formatting the 1TB drive fresh, adding a new user, configuring the user to use the 1TB for their home directory and it still won't back it up (this was a test of permissions the OS set, to make sure I didn't change my data perms somewhere along the way). Time Machine would not backup the new user's home directory on the 1TB drive.
Any thoughts? I can't be the first person to have their home directory on a non-OS drive.
If I were to create a folder/file in /Volumes/1TB/<test file> ... Time Machine gets it perfect. It just will NOT touch /Volumes/1TB/home/<anything here>
Thanks!

Open the Time Machine preference pane and unlock the settings, if necessary. Click the Options button. If there is one particular folder with items that are not being backed up reliably, add it to the list of excluded items. If there are many such folders, add your home folder to the list, or add a whole volume (i.e., what Apple calls a "disk.") Save the changes.
Start a backup, or wait for one to happen automatically. When it's done, open the preference pane again and remove the exclusion(s) you made earlier. Back up again and see whether there's a change.

HT3275 Time Machine Error: The backup disk image "Volumes/Data/My Macbook Pro.sparsebundle" is already in use. (How do I correct this issue?)

Time Machine did not back up:
Time Machine Error; ("The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" is already in use.")
How do I correct this issue?
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You need to be careful Bob.. people might take this literally.
Bob Timmons wrote:
How do I correct this issue?
Call the exterminator to get rid of the bugs in Lion and Mountain Lion.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5222487?tstart=0

TimeMachine not backing up, as hard drive is full. Can the time machine clear old backups and replace them with new?

Time Macine not backing up.
As the harddrive is full, Can the time machine clear old backups, and override them with new backups. For example 5 - 6 days +++ old. Backups were proformed dayly
Any help much appreciated
Many thanks,

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an 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. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. 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 (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

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