Time Machine gets stuck on cleaning up

Hi, I can't complete a back up successfully with Time Machine. I get stuck on the 'cleaning up' phase and then it stays there forever. I actually went to work and when I came home it was still in the same state. Then I can't stop the back-up cleanly. I have to go in to Activity Monitor to force quit.
Following the advice on pondini.org I have installed the Buddy widget. It tells me that....
Starting standard backup
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data
Failed to attach to image: /Volumes/Data/gemzap_001f5bed6067.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Disk image /Volumes/Data/gemzap_001f5bed6067.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of gemzap
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of gemzap/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Node requires deep traversal:/Users/gemzap/Pictures/iPhoto Library reason:contains changes|must scan subdirs|found in deep scan|missed reservation|
Following advice on here, I have also done a verify/repair disk on both my macbook and the time capsule external drive. Both reported to be ok.
Any ideas? Any help would be much appreciated!
Many thanks
gemzap

No luck I'm afraid.... I dismounted (then completely unplugged) the time capsule. Then reconnected, clicked in to the timecapsule drive to make sure it wasn't napping, and tried again. The messages on the time machine read as follows..
22:25 Making back up disk available
Calculating changes
22:27 Scanning 800,713 items
Preparing xxx items
22:58 Cleaning up - for 8 hours.
So at 7am this morning I clicked stop back up. But again that hasn't don't anything, so have just done a force quit in Activity Monitor.
Time Machine buddy says...
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Gemma%[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Gemma%[email protected]/Data
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/gemzap_001f5bed6067.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of gemzap
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of gemzap/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/Users/gemzap/Pictures/iPhoto Library reason:must scan subdirs|missed reservation|
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
I'm at a loss.
Should I try deleting the gemzap_001f5bed6067.sparsebundle file? Could that help?
Many thanks
gemzap

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AJvanderLee wrote:
There was only one thing i could not do, i could not repair my backups, because they didn't appear in the disk utility..
What are you backing-up to? If you can see the +sparse bundle+ your backups are in via the Finder, use the instructions in #A5 for repairing the backups on a Time Capsule. If you can't see it, you can't repair them with DIsk Utility (or most 3rd-party disk repair apps). Check with the maker of the NAS for help.
Further, i thought it would be something with the message "Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD"
That's normal after a failed/cancelled backup, and will be repeated each time until one completes successfully. See #A6 in Troubleshooting for details.
Besides, my spotlight is now indexing my harddisk and seems to get stuck on "calculating time for indexing"
This is because i excluded my harddisk from spotlight, restarted my mac and then included my harddisk again for spotlight. So it needed to reindex it, but i'm not sure that it will work, because it allready toke the whole day for it and is still saying the same thing..
That sounds like a problem with a file or the directory structure on your internal HD. Did you verify your internal HD, per #3 in the green box? If so, and if it says it's ok, exclude your internal HD from Spotlight indexing until you get your backups working; then you can figure out what's wrong with Spotlight.

Time Machine getting stuck on random hourly backups?? Please help!

I set up Time Machine the yesterday, it compleated it's initial backup fine, and performed about 10 or so hourly backups, then randomly on one of it's hourly backups it got stuck. It never actually started the backup. The preferences said it was backing up, but the progress bar wasn't moving, and there was no activity on the drive. I stopped the "backup", and from then on I could not get it to do another backup.
So last night I reformatted the external and decided to let TM start over. Once again it finished the initial backup fine, and I went to bed. While I was in bed it finished 3 more hourly backups, and I woke up this morning to find it stuck again, trying to do it's 2:05AM backup. The computer was awake all night, so it should have no problems. The preferences say it is backing up, but never makes any progress, and there is no drive activity.
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The deep traversal is being done because something in the TM data base is corrupted or not trusted. The deep traversal means the TM backupd process has to traverse your whole set of volumes being backed up. This is a very lengthy process.
No matter, it does seem you're hitting a snag of some kind. The best response I can give is for you to send the evidence to Apple feedback for the software engineers to review.
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When you formatted your TM backup Volume to you zero it out using Disk Utility. You could be running into an unrecoverable disk i/o error - a bad spot on the backup HD or even a bad spot on your internal HD.

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Where do I go from here?
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Time Machine gets stuck at backing up 4 kb of 200.8 gb?

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I am not quite ready to restore the full iphoto library , as I have days of work re - imputting titles,descriptions and enhancement . I hope that your suggestion works , as I use my Macbook basically to work with digital photography. Through time , I will need to delete my library to recover more disc space and I would hate to have to spend more time re - imputting titles and descriptions all over again .
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regards - Alan

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Comments inline below.
Pondini wrote:
joshua raphael wrote:
This issue is happenning on my macbook pro, mid 2010. My drive setup is that I have a partition which I dedicated to time machine backups. The total size of my drive is 500GB, and I partitioned about 100GB for time machine. The reason for that is I only needed a few space since I setup time machine to include only the system and the apps, and NONE of the libraries such as itunes or photos.
You may want to revisit that strategy:
A backup on the same drive isn't very secure -- when (not if) the HD fails, you risk losing everything.
In most cases, if there's a problem with OSX the best way to fix it is to just install a fresh version. But you can't do that from that backup.
Indeed!
Backing-up apps that way will also be useless in some cases. 3rd-party apps that came with their own installers put other files in other places (and sometimes "helper" apps as well). Unless you know what and where they all are, and restore them, too, the restored app won't work properly, if at all.
I think you're confusing each other with terminology. iTunes music and iPhoto pictures are NOT "Libraries", which has a specific meaning when it comes to OS X. "Libraries", in OS X normally refers to /Libraries and ~/Libraries folders. This is not where iTunes music and iPhoto pictures are stored. iTunes music and iPhoto pictures are stored within ~/Music and ~/Pictures, respectively.
I have tried reparing the disk using disk utility, but that didn't help.
Disk Utility changed a bit in Lion. When you select an entire disk, it only repairs the partition map, not all the volumes. You must repair each one separately.
Wow, good to know. (What a stupid change to make, for backwards compatibility, if for no other reason!)
See #D1 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting to figure out why the backups are hanging.
Whew. This editor makes it so hard to make comments inline. The key thing when time machine seems stuck is patience. Sometimes it needs to be left to run overnight. Unfortunately, it doesn't log or report it's progress very well.
Opening Time Machine settings in Preferences plus a command like this left running in Terminal.app is how I monitor progress. And even so, there is very little logging indicating progress.
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The parts in italics will need to be adjusted. Tab completion makes this easy, e.g type
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and hit tab, type the first few letters of the relevant volume name, hit tab...
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I know that Time Machine gets confused if one deletes large files from a backup - specifically, Time Machine doesn't recognize that the size of the backup has changed.
I know because this made restoring a thinned out time machine backup ("thinned out" by deleting files from within the GUI while inside the Time Machine) to a small SSD harder than it should have been. I had to restore to a big disk and then clone that volume to the SSD - even though the SSD had enough space, Time Machine didn't think so; it didn't "understand" that it had been thinned.
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os-app92 wrote:
Hi,
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Ok, this looks liuke the place.
iMac Intel 10.6.8
time machine back up on ext Hard drive
Clean install Snow Leopard 10.6 from disc.
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Please help!!
Thanks,
DB
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I'm backing up my MBP via ethernet to a Time Capsule. The incremental backups take forever and are driving me nuts. The backups seem to be getting stuck midway. The disk sounds like it's spinning but the progress bar doesn't move. Also, it seems to be copying over too many files every hour, like >60000 or so (log below). I doubt that so many files get modified every hour.
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Please help!!
Thanks,
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11/27/08 10:15:32 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd7045 Ejected Time Machine network volume.
11/27/08 10:15:32 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd7045 Ejected Time Machine network volume.

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I recently performed a reinstalled Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro as it was suffering from running quite slow. Since I had upgraded this machine from an old Tiger install, I decided to manually migrate my files from a second backup, rather than restoring from my Time Machine backup on a Time Capsule.
Now I'm up and running, I wanted to be able to view my old TM backup on my Capsule, and restore other files if I needed to, but don't seem to be able to.
When browsing the Time Capsule, there is just the one sparsebundle for my backups, but when I enter Time Machine, it doesn't seem to read the older backups.
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1) Get TM to read my older backups
or
2) Clean them off
I still have my second backup so I'm not worried about losing the old data, but I am hoping to be able to claim back some disk space on my Time Capsule, without having to create a whole new TM backup.
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Dominic Barnes wrote:
I recently performed a reinstalled Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro as it was suffering from running quite slow. Since I had upgraded this machine from an old Tiger install, I decided to manually migrate my files from a second backup, rather than restoring from my Time Machine backup on a Time Capsule.
Now I'm up and running, I wanted to be able to view my old TM backup on my Capsule, and restore other files if I needed to, but don't seem to be able to.
When browsing the Time Capsule, there is just the one sparsebundle for my backups, but when I enter Time Machine, it doesn't seem to read the older backups.
Have you tried to click-and-hold (or control-click) on the Dock's Time Machine icon and selecting "Browse Other Time Machine disks..."?

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Since upgrading to Mavericks, every time I attempt to run a Time Machine backup, I can only get it to go as far as "Preparing Backup". I've left it like that for hours just to see if it's slow. I've also stopped and restarted Time Machine multiple times to no avail....it just gets stuck at that point. Please help.

Time Machine is stuck in a Loop

Time Machine seems to be stuck in a loop and hasn't backed up in 13 days. Here's the information:
Name: Time Machine Backups
Available: 6.33 GB of 319.73 GB
Oldest BackUp: July 19, 2009
Latest Backup: October 15, 2009
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The last line goes from 1 to 2 to 3 then starts over. The Backup never occurs. I checked and both my MBP and the external drive are connected to the Airport Extreme wirelessly. I can even see the drive in Finder. I disconnected everything and restarted both the Airport Extreme and the drive. I then re-connected and the same thing keeps happening. I have a MBP 15in 2.66 Early 2009 and running OS X 10.6.1. I bought the Airport Extreme when they were first sold. All software is up to date.
Help!!

*Ok I disconnected the TM drive from the Airport Extreme and connected it to my MBP. I ran Disk Utility on the TM using Repair Disk . It found errors and fixed them all. I re-connected the drive to the Airport Extreme and attempted another backup. Here is the log:*
+Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Time%20Machine%20Backups+
+Mounted network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Time%20Machine%20Backups+
+Disk image /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro_002500ce290a.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro+
+Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb+
+Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD+
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+Compacting storage: 21.73 GB requested (including padding), 5.87 GB available before compacting+
+Stopping backup.+
+Backup canceled.+
+Ejected Time Machine disk image.+
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Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Disk image /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro_002500ce290a.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Starting pre-backup thinning: 21.73 GB requested (including padding), 5.87 GB available
Found partially deleted backup - trying again to delete: 2009-07-27-052350
Error -47 deleting backup: /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb/JohnDoes MacBook Pro/2009-07-27-052350
Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb/JohnDoes MacBook Pro/2009-07-27-052350: 5.87 GB now available
Found partially deleted backup - trying again to delete: 2009-07-28-011547
Error -47 deleting backup: /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb/JohnDoes MacBook Pro/2009-07-28-011547
Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb/JohnDoes MacBook Pro/2009-07-28-011547: 5.87 GB now available
Found partially deleted backup - trying again to delete: 2009-07-29-002053
Error -47 deleting backup: /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb/JohnDoes MacBook Pro/2009-07-29-002053
Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of JohnDoe’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb/JohnDoes MacBook Pro/2009-07-29-002053: 5.87 GB now available

Time Machine Not Recognized After Clean Snow Leopard Install

I've searched for this particular question.
I was unhappy with Snow Leopard dragging. I wanted a clean install. I did not have the original snow leopard installation for my computer, so I got a different snow leopard DVD. This has apparently caused problems with time machine.
The clean install in complete. I am now ready to migrate my Time Machine backup onto my iMac24". However, Time Machine is not recognized--at least not in the way I want.
When I plug my time machine HD into the USB, snow leopard asks if I want to use this for future back-ups. I decline, because I specifically want to restore what has already been backed up. The HD is visible as an external device--and I can in fact see the raw data of my time machine backup stored in folders.
However, when I enter migration assistant, time machine is invisible. On the page where I am expecting to select time machine, I instead get a perpetually spinning circle icon.
I suspect time machine is "linked" to the prior snow leopard operating system, rather than to the computer ID. Obviously, this is a bit of a mistake on my part. However, I'm already into the breech and I've got no choice but to go forward.
Please advise how to redirect my time machine to its new master (same computer, different snow leopard registration)?
Thanks so very much.

Retail disk? Yes, it was the snow leopard CD.
I used a single license snow snow leopard CD install the first time around, when snow leopard was first released. At at that time I "upgraded" my system from leopard.
This time, I used a different physical disk with snow leopard with a family license. This time I did a "clean" install in which I first erased my hard drive using disk utilities.
There were no problems with the installation.
As I say, my time machine hard drive is "recognized" by the computer as an external drive. It just is not recognized when I utilize the migration assistant. It is also "recognized" as a time machine, but only as a potential time machine for prospective use to update going forward, whereas I want it to open up as a time machine for my iMac that I just wiped clean yesterday.
Thanks for your assistance.

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