Time Machine is waiting for you

Hi Friends.,
Hope you all know about Time Machine, Which can brings us to PAST or FUTURE.
So my question is :
If you got the one opportunity to travel in time machine where you should go? Remember its only one chanse.
Happy journey,
cheers,
Naveen Inuganti.

> Paul Chapman wrote:
> This question is similar to the "If you had one wish, what would it be?". Answer: An unlimited number
> of wishes.
Which in turn is similar to the "How do you break out of jail with only a table in the room?" question...
Answer: You stare at the table. So... you saw a table... => saw it into two halves. Two halves placed together make a whole.... => climb through the hole and run for it...
Less "cheezy" answer: Sit at the table and start talking... slowly at first... => the mafia will "take you out" some way or another...
Cheers
Julius

Similar Messages

Time Machine error : Waiting for index to be ready (100)

Hello,
I'm having issues with Time Machine, the backup starts, an amount of data is backup and complete (ex 80Mb of 80Mb backuped up), then Time Machine goes back in indexing and get stuck in "Waiting for index to be ready (100)".
Here's what the console output for backupd looks like:
02/12/10 10:37:46 com.apple.backupd[213] Starting standard backup
02/12/10 10:37:46 com.apple.backupd[213] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/tm-pedral
02/12/10 10:37:48 com.apple.backupd[213] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/tm-pedral
02/12/10 10:37:48 com.apple.backupd[213] Warning: Destination /Volumes/tm-pedral does not support Server Reply Cache
02/12/10 10:37:55 com.apple.backupd[213] QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
02/12/10 10:37:59 com.apple.backupd[213] Disk image /Volumes/tm-pedral/pedral-mac_34159e0fb504.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
02/12/10 10:37:59 com.apple.backupd[213] Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
02/12/10 10:38:20 com.apple.backupd[213] No pre-backup thinning needed: 795.5 MB requested (including padding), 357.72 GB available
02/12/10 10:41:07 com.apple.backupd[213] Copied 1842 files (79.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
02/12/10 10:41:07 com.apple.backupd[213] No pre-backup thinning needed: 716.5 MB requested (including padding), 357.72 GB available
02/12/10 10:41:07 com.apple.backupd[213] Waiting for index to be ready (100)
02/12/10 10:42:09 com.apple.backupd[213] Waiting for index to be ready (100)
02/12/10 10:43:11 com.apple.backupd[213] Waiting for index to be ready (100)
02/12/10 10:44:13 com.apple.backupd[213] Waiting for index to be ready (100)
02/12/10 10:45:15 com.apple.backupd[213] Waiting for index to be ready (100)
02/12/10 10:46:17 com.apple.backupd[213] Waiting for index to be ready (100)
This backup-up has been working for days in the same conditions.
I've tried everything in #D2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting but nothing changed. How to get more details on what's happening.
Thanks!
Laurent

pedral wrote:
Hello,
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
02/12/10 10:37:48 com.apple.backupd[213] Warning: Destination /Volumes/tm-pedral does not support Server Reply Cache
What are you backing-up to? That message indicates it may not be fully compatible with Time Machine.
If you've done everything in #D2, and it's a NAS, check with the maker. They may have updates or other troubleshooting info. Or it may be a hardware problem.

Time Machine hang- Waiting for Index to become available (100)

Hi- I'm trying to create a new Time Machine backup to a new external HD (FW800). I've formatted the drive as Mac OS Extended and told TM to use this as the backup drive. I should note that I've done TM backups in the past with a different drive which was a USB2.0 drive, but just got this FW800 and thought it would be much faster to use.
Anyway, now I'm getting the dreaded 'Waiting for Index to become available (100)' message from the TM buddy widget. This keeps repeating every few seconds. I let it run overnight and about 14 hours later, TM backed up 6G from a 150G total. As I watched the backup run, it's copying over about 1M every few minutes. How can this be? I've read through some of the forum entries and I tried placing the external drive in the Spotlight exclusion, and I also uninstalled any traces of Norton that I had installed. Nothing is making this backup go any faster.
So why in the past, has the first backup run fairly quickly, and now this is running like it will take several days to complete?
Please- any help will be greatly appreciated!! thanks.

BrianMBM wrote:
As far as the communication issue, the external drive mounts just fine, and I can access it in the finder, so I don't believe physical connection is the culprit here.
Not necessarily. A marginal connection may work, but with lots of retries, resulting in things being quite slow. It's fairly rare, but can happen.
I just don't understand why just months ago, the first TM backup started right away and now this is taking forever- Is this a change that was released in an update from Apple in how TM works?
No. In fact, they're supposed to be somewhat faster on Snow Leopard.
How can I delete every trace of previous TM backups and completely start from scratch?
You can erase the drive. If you're going to do that anyway, you might as well reformat it, with the GUID *Partition Map Scheme.* APM should work fine, but if you ever want to use it as a boot drive, GUID is preferred for an Intel Mac.
There's obviously something that's causing this indexing thing to take so long that's never happened in the past.
Try the reformat. (You'll probably have to exclude it from Spotlight again.)
Is it a multi-interface drive? If so, try connecting via USB temporarily.
If that doesn't help, try just copying a large file or folder and see how fast it is. If that's slow, too, you know it isn't Time Machine but something else associated with your F/W card, port, cable, or drive.

After upgrade to mavericks: time machine keeps asking for my back up disk and won't open unless i plug in the disk. any solutions?

after upgrade to mavericks: time machine keeps asking for my back up disk and won't open unless i plug in the disk. any solutions?
before the upgrade, i could open time machine without the need for having the back up disk plugged in.

Ok. I got it to work, sort of....
As I mentioned before I tried the "disk password" and the "Time capsule Password" options to see if I can start the back up again or start a new backup. Neither worked. So I tried the firmware down grade, but like you said that did not work. I then decided to try the "Account password" option and I have never used this option before becasue it states that if there is data on the drive it would not be acessable after creating an account. Since I wiped out the disk that was nno problem. When I created the new account and choose the drive it asked for the user name and password. I entered the info for the new account I just created(FYI this has nothing to do with your login username and password), bingo! It worked!
Now I have two partitions on the TC disk. The old one and now the new account. I am guessing this is to be used if I have multiple computers, which I don't.
I any case, I am going to wipe out everything again and try again to do a backup the way I had it before.

OacleAS time out while waiting for a managed process start

Hello Friends,
While starting the Oracle Application server, through OPMN command as well as from the services I am getting following error.
opmnctl: starting opmn and all managed processes...
================================================================================
opmn id=hydcgwsgess02:6200
0 of 1 processes started.
ias-instance id=GenPro.hydcgwsgess02.ind.ge.ad
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ias-component/process-type/process-set:
OC4J/home/default_group/
Error
--> Process (index=1,uid=461249245,pid=12988)
time out while waiting for a managed process to start
Log:
D:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\opmn\logs\OC4J~home~default_group~1
========================================================
couldn't figure out what is the basic problem...
Normally when ever I make any changes in Oracle Sensor Edge Server, I used to get this error..
I have installed the Oracle Apps Server in Windows enviroment...
I will be very happy if some body can help me resolve the issue...
Regards
Nasim

Can't tell you what's wrong with just this much of information. Take a look at this log file (as reported in the error message):
D:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\opmn\logs\OC4J~home~default_group~1
And also:
D:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\j2ee\home\log\home_default_group_1\server.log
These two log files will give you bit more information to help diagnose the issue.
Thanks
Shail

I have 2 auxillary disk drives for my MacBokk Pro. Time Machine uses one for backup and I use the other for storage, but I am unable to create a new folder or drag and drop files or folders to the aux drive.

I am unable to create a new folder on either of my auxillary disk drives. I can access the files and folders that were there when I transferred one of the drives from a PC. Time machine uses one for backup and I want to use the other to store photos which are large files. An help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the reply. If I reformat the drive will I be able to access the files on it from the MAC. I do not share the drive with a PC. The files were originally created on a PC which I no longer use. I do want to continue to access the files put there by the PC. I would like to not have to copy them over to the MAC hard drive just to use them. The second aux drive is new and works fine because it was formatted by the MAC. I can drag and drop files there and work with just as if they were on the internal drive.

While Starting oacleAS time out while waiting for a managed process start

Hello Friends,
While starting the Oracle Application server, through OPMN command as well as from the services I am getting following error.
opmnctl: starting opmn and all managed processes...
================================================================================
opmn id=hydcgwsgess02:6200
0 of 1 processes started.
ias-instance id=GenPro.hydcgwsgess02.ind.ge.ad
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ias-component/process-type/process-set:
OC4J/home/default_group/
Error
--> Process (index=1,uid=461249245,pid=12988)
time out while waiting for a managed process to start
Log:
D:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\opmn\logs\OC4J~home~default_group~1
========================================================
couldn't figure out what is the basic problem...
Normally when ever I make any changes in Oracle Sensor Edge Server, I used to get this error..
I have installed the Oracle Apps Server in Windows enviroment...
I will be very happy if some body can help me resolve the issue...
Regards
Nasim

i got the same error but in my case, I used HTTPDispatcher and found that the URL parameter was invalid, so I changed it in the edgeserver.xml and restart, it's ok for me.
Edited by: blackwaterpark on Oct 29, 2008 2:21 PM

Time out while waiting for the managed process to start

Hi All,
Im getting the below error,when i try to start all managed processes.
Its taking too much time to execute "opmnctl startall "command and it will give the below error.
opmnctl: starting opmn and all managed processes...
================================================================================
opmn id=inkolv1lp01:6201
0 of 3 processes started.
ias-instance id=retek101202.inkolv1lp01
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ias-component/process-type/process-set:
HTTP_Server/HTTP_Server/HTTP_Server
Error
--> Process (pid=401608)
time out while waiting for a managed process to start
Log:
/retek/product/app_server/101202/OracleFRM_13/opmn/logs/HTTP_Server~1
ias-component/process-type/process-set:
WebCache/WebCache/WebCache
Error
--> Process (pid=319598)
time out while waiting for a managed process to start
Log:
/retek/product/app_server/101202/OracleFRM_13/opmn/logs/WebCache~WebCache~1
ias-component/process-type/process-set:
WebCache/WebCacheAdmin/WebCacheAdmin
Error
--> Process (pid=397550)
time out while waiting for a managed process to start
Log:
/retek/product/app_server/101202/OracleFRM_13/opmn/logs/WebCache~WebCacheAdmin~1
Im in between some work ,please help to resolve the isue

Hi,
I checked the log files and i think it has some errors.I dint get exactly what does it mean.
Web Cache ($ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs :
- event_log contains
[18/Apr/2012:11:16:26 -0500] [notification 9612] [ecid: -] OracleAS Web Cache 10g (10.1.2), Build 10.1.2.0.2 050802
[18/Apr/2012:11:16:26 -0500] [notification 9403] [ecid: -] Maximum number of file/socket descriptors set to 900.
[18/Apr/2012:11:16:26 -0500] [notification 9612] [ecid: -] OracleAS Web Cache 10g (10.1.2), Build 10.1.2.0.2 050802
[18/Apr/2012:11:16:26 -0500] [notification 9403] [ecid: -] Maximum number of file/socket descriptors set to 900.
[18/Apr/2012:11:16:31 -0500] [notification 13002] [ecid: -] Maximum allowed incoming connections are 700
[18/Apr/2012:11:16:31 -0500] [notification 13002] [ecid: -] Maximum allowed incoming connections are 700
[18/Apr/2012:11:17:01 -0500] [warning 11917] [ecid: -] SSL wallet Origin Server Wallet file /etc/ORACLE/WALLETS/oret13/ewallet.p12 does not exist.
[18/Apr/2012:11:17:01 -0500] [warning 11917] [ecid: -] SSL wallet Origin Server Wallet file /etc/ORACLE/WALLETS/oret13/ewallet.der does not exist.
[18/Apr/2012:11:17:01 -0500] [warning 11919] [ecid: -] The SSL wallet autologin file /etc/ORACLE/WALLETS/oret13/cwallet.sso does not exist. Wallet does not appear to be
autologin wallet.
[18/Apr/2012:11:17:01 -0500] [warning 11921] [ecid: -] The origin server wallet did not open. Operating without wallet for backend. Only Diffie-Hellman anonymous connec
tions supported to origin servers.
[18/Apr/2012:11:17:01 -0500] [warning 11922] [ecid: -] Origin Server Wallet wallet fails to open at location /etc/ORACLE/WALLETS/oret13, NZE-28759, as user oret13
[18/Apr/2012:11:17:01 -0500] [warning 11917] [ecid: -] SSL wallet Origin Server Wallet file /etc/ORACLE/WALLETS/oret13/ewallet.p12 does not exist.
[18/Apr/2012:11:17:01 -0500] [warning 11917] [ecid: -] SSL wallet Origin Server Wallet file /etc/ORACLE/WALLETS/oret13/ewallet.der does not exist.
[18/Apr/2012:11:17:01 -0500] [warning 11919] [ecid: -] The SSL wallet autologin file /etc/ORACLE/WALLETS/oret13/cwallet.sso does not exist. Wallet does not appear to be
autologin wallet.
2)Oracle HTTP Server ($ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs has these details
access_log.1307016000 mod_oc4j.753776.shm.sem
access_log.1307059200 mod_oc4j.815188.shm.mem
access_log.1307102400 mod_oc4j.815188.shm.sem
access_log.1307145600 mod_oc4j.843922.shm.mem
access_log.1307361600 mod_oc4j.843922.shm.sem
access_log.1307404800 mod_oc4j.872618.shm.mem
access_log.1307448000 mod_oc4j.872618.shm.sem
access_log.1307491200 mod_oc4j.872692.shm.mem
access_log.1307534400 mod_oc4j.872692.shm.sem
access_log.1307577600 oracle

Time machine is asking for a password. What password is it asking for, and where is it?

I'm trying to restore a machine that has ben seriously compromised... I have a disk image, I have backups, I have Time Machine.
Time Machine is asking for a password to restore - there is no password in keychain, no administrator password works, I have no idea what the password to the share is. I have other machines accessing the share just fine. My written records say I put it as a stupid password: guest. But that doesn't work. How do I recover this password?
I've tried to recover from the disk image, but Disk Utility says it doesn't have disk space to do so. I've tried via rsync, and while I seem to have built a computer, it says it cannot find the OS when I attempt to boot.
I'm pretty lost. Why is Time Machine asking for a password? Where can I find this password? Why is it not in Keychain?
-Crissa

Apparently the mybooklive isn't so good about keeping passwords.
Do:
Open Safari
Bookmarks > Show all Bookmarks
Bonjour
mybooklive
users
administrator
update password
Bizarre solution that I can write to it, retreive it from a working system, but I can't restore from it! Augh.
-Crissa

I just purchased moutain lion. I'm trying to download it but it doesn't. The download icon comes on with the bar below it. But no blue line appears. It's my third try. This last time I've waited for 15 minutes.

I just purchased moutain lion. I'm trying to download it but it doesn't. The download icon comes on with the bar below it. But no blue line appears. It's my third try. This last time I've waited for 15 minutes.

Welcome to Apple Communities
Pause and resume it. If it doesn't work, press Shift key in boot, open App Store > Purchases and download, and if it doesn't help, http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact

So sorry I just read the sheet while I was waiting for you. According to the time on it is 5.53

I will wait until you get to work I think and maybe you can send me an email then. Sweet dreams

I say the problem is probably noted, and probably will be resolved. Not that i can speak for Apple. I find the "problems" of wallpaper to be pretty minor compared to the advantages of iOS 7. The fun of wallpaper has always been pretty insignificant here.

Time Machine fixed Safari for me

Ever since the upgrade to webkit safari has refused to open for me. Kept crashing.
I tried all the suggestions posted here but none helped.
Then the light dawned for me. I have time machine with b/u's to august. Looking in TM sure enough there was safari 3.1.2 just sitting there waiting to be called one to help. A quick click on 'restore' and safari was back in business for me.
Sure, I know a revert to a previous version didn't really fix anything. But there comes a time when the effort to fix it isn't worth the hassle.
So I'll just get along with 3.1.2 until a new version comes along that fixes whatever's broke. And I'll watch these discussions to see if it's really fixed before I upgrade again. I use FF mostly anyhow, with safari as a b/u for those few pages that FF won't handle.
Thank you, TM

I'm running 10.8.3 and none of the following solutions worked for me:
1) Waiting for Spotlight to index (no affect)
2) Turning off Spotlight indexing using a sudo command in the Terminal (no affect)
3) Restarting the machine and trying again (I've done this several times - no affect)
4) Be patient (Really? Once I've seen the big city in a speedy TM, there's no way I'm going back to the farm)
These aren't answers. Even if anyone has success with these, they are poor workarounds that don't get at the root problem: Performance for people upgrading from an earlier version to TM in 10.8.3 is unacceptable.
I agree with many who've posted on the subject that TM in 10.6.8 worked flawlessly. I never had to wait more than a few hours even for a full, start from scratch backup.
2 to 4k a second is what I get now. That isn't going to cut it when I've got 290Gigs of data to back up. This just doesn't work for me, and I'm not finding a legitimate, universal solution to this problem anywhere.
With this new operating system, Apple has essentially crippled their own product in Time Machine and is forcing users who don't have the time/patience/desire to wait more than a day (or even overnight) to mess with this. Before, it just worked. Now, it's a big headache. I love you Apple, but you're killing me here.

Time Machine keeps asking for password to connect to the Time Capsule server

I just got my MPB back from having the logic board replaced.
Nothing was changed on my Mac OS 10.6.8, except that when my MPB went kaput I used a Windows OS PC and loaded the Air port Utility and did do a firmware upgrade to 7.6.1 for the Time Capsule(TC)
Now that I am trying to do a backup of my MPB I keep getting a message asking me to enter the password for the (TC) server so that Time Machine(TM) can connect to it. I typed in the disk password and the weird thing is that the disk icon flashed quickly showing the TM clock icon and the immediately went to the 3 people holding hands icon. When I waited or forced the backup it would come up with an error stating that my user name and password are incorrect. The other weird thing is when I put in a wrong password it starts "connecting..." but then hangs causing Sys Prefs to stop responding. I either have to cancel the connection or force quit Sys Prefs.
Steps already taken:
- Deleted all the Keychain passwords for the TC
- Reset the TC both by using the menu option and push button power cycle
- I have tried using the "Time Capsule password" option for file sharing
It does the same thing with other external drives connected via the USB on the TC. However, that same external drive connected directly to the computer USB port works just fine and the icon stayed as the TM clock icon.
It just does not want to the connect to the TC drives!
I have read about the firmware being the problem, but how do I revert to the previous FW version for the TC?
This is going to be stupid not being able to use the TC drive to do the backups, but for the meantime I am using the external drive connected via USB 2.slow!
Thanks in advance!

Ok. I got it to work, sort of....
As I mentioned before I tried the "disk password" and the "Time capsule Password" options to see if I can start the back up again or start a new backup. Neither worked. So I tried the firmware down grade, but like you said that did not work. I then decided to try the "Account password" option and I have never used this option before becasue it states that if there is data on the drive it would not be acessable after creating an account. Since I wiped out the disk that was nno problem. When I created the new account and choose the drive it asked for the user name and password. I entered the info for the new account I just created(FYI this has nothing to do with your login username and password), bingo! It worked!
Now I have two partitions on the TC disk. The old one and now the new account. I am guessing this is to be used if I have multiple computers, which I don't.
I any case, I am going to wipe out everything again and try again to do a backup the way I had it before.

Time Machine duplicating backups for no apparent reason

Hello all. I am attempting to use Time Machine with a hard drive ("AirDisk") attached to an Airport Extreme Base Station. I am aware that this is not officially supported, and I expect I will just end up having to go back to doing SneakerNet backups. I thought that it was worth trying to find out if anyone knew what might be going wrong before I threw in the towel.
I had been using it without incident for about a week, when suddenly, the day before yesterday, it started wanting to make a whole new backup. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the backup that is already there -- I can go into "Star Wars" and browse it without issue, and I have verified it with DiskUtility. It doesn't do it every time, and sometimes will run a normal incremental backup without incident. In particular, if I stop the huge full backup, delete the extra sparsebundle it's just made, and then run a backup again right afterward, it will run a normal incremental backup.
Here's the log of its most recent full backup, at least up to where it is now (it's currently in the middle of the long, long process of re-backing up every darned thing). Is there anything there that gives anyone an idea why it's doing this? As you can see, it's made a "Polythene Pam 1.sparsebundle" despite there already being a seemingly fine "Polythene Pam.sparsebundle" on the disk.
Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide.
Here's the system log so far:
9/11/10 9:29:05 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Starting standard backup
9/11/10 9:29:05 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Heather%20Kendrick@Rabbit's%20Rest.afpovertcp.tcp.local/Rabbit%20Hole
9/11/10 9:29:05 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Heather%20Kendrick@Rabbit's%20Rest.afpovertcp.tcp.local/Rabbit%20Hole
9/11/10 9:29:06 PM kernel AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/Rabbit Hole-1, pid 1837
9/11/10 9:29:11 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Creating disk image /Volumes/Rabbit Hole-1/Polythene Pam 1.sparsebundle
9/11/10 9:29:13 PM hdiejectd[1844] running
9/11/10 9:29:23 PM hdiejectd[1844] quitCheck: calling exit(0)
9/11/10 9:30:05 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[1837]) Exited with exit code: 255
9/11/10 9:30:11 PM kernel hfs: Initializing the journal (joffset 0x73d000 sz 0x1800000)...
9/11/10 9:30:14 PM hdiejectd[1857] running
9/11/10 9:30:15 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
9/11/10 9:30:16 PM fseventsd[41] could not open <</Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd/fseventsd-uuid>> (No such file or directory)
9/11/10 9:30:16 PM fseventsd[41] log dir: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd getting new uuid: C103E1D4-7802-4793-9251-FD2D3E6BC542
9/11/10 9:30:17 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Disk image /Volumes/Rabbit Hole-1/Polythene Pam 1.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
9/11/10 9:30:17 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
9/11/10 9:30:17 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
9/11/10 9:30:34 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Backup content size: 63.5 GB excluded items size: 13.6 GB for volume Rocky Raccoon
9/11/10 9:30:34 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] No pre-backup thinning needed: 59.83 GB requested (including padding), 182.11 GB available
9/11/10 9:30:34 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Waiting for index to be ready (101)
9/11/10 9:30:35 PM mds[36] (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb

Oddly enough, the size/format of some names can make odd things happen with network Time Machine backups, and at least one of yours may be involved. See #C9 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Do your self a favor, though. Even if you get this working, do not depend on these backups 100%. There's a reason Apple doesn't support it -- it's not reliable.
There are any number of threads here and in the Airport Extreme forum similar to this one: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2483045
If you still want to do it, see Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

Time Machine Backup cancels for no "apparent" reason

Hello,
I am using Time machine with Snow Leopard and an external WD My Book 1TB HD - I am using the very latest WD firmware/software (made for Snow Leopard) and was making successful automatic backups for several days until recently when the backup started canceling for no apparent reason. I installed the Time Machine buddy widget and found this message:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/GPL III BACKUP/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.80 GB requested (including padding), 894.51 GB available
Error: Flushing index to disk returned an error: 0
Copied 7393 files (997.6 MB) from volume GPL III HD.
Backup canceled.
I tried a manual backup and the same message. I waited until the next automatic backups and got the same message - each and every time.
I have searched the Time Machine section and nothing specifically addresses the error message.
Any ideas on what is wrong and how to resolve it? I thought about erasing the HD and starting over but that seems draconian.
Thanks!

GPL3 wrote:
I checked the set-up and it looks fine except the Tips note that a GUID partition is preferred for some purposes (whatever that means) on Intel Macs (such as mine) rather than the Apple Partition Map which is what the WD HD has - although it does note that either will work. Could this be the problem?
No, I guess I need to try to reword that somehow. Was trying to keep it short. It only matters, under some circumstances, on a drive with OSX installed on it.
Jan 30 08:57:02 Peter-Lambs-iMac virusbarriers[54]: Child scanner 211 exited with exit code: 1
Jan 30 08:57:02 Peter-Lambs-iMac virusbarriers[54]: Child scanner 270 exited with exit code: 1
Jan 30 08:57:10 Peter-Lambs-iMac mdworker32[263]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
mdworker is used by the mds process (MetaData server); Spotlight is it's main client, but Time Machine also uses it, as do some anti-virus apps. Hard to tell just what sort of problem that was.
Jan 30 08:57:20 Peter-Lambs-iMac mds[34]: (/Volumes/GPL III BACKUP/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/291AAEE8-0631-48A0-AAC8-679C66732217)(Er ror) IndexSDB in dbflushdatastore:/Volumes/GPL III BACKUP/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/291AAEE8-0631-48A0-AAC8-679C66732217/sto re.db : dbsyncdatastore: !WARNING! prior write-errors invalidate sync.
Jan 30 08:57:20 Peter-Lambs-iMac mds[34]: (/Volumes/GPL III BACKUP/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/291AAEE8-0631-48A0-AAC8-679C66732217)(Er ror) IndexCI in _ContentIndexSyncIndexBulk:preSync error:22 12
Jan 30 08:57:20 Peter-Lambs-iMac mds[34]: (/Volumes/GPL III BACKUP/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/291AAEE8-0631-48A0-AAC8-679C66732217)(Er ror) IndexSDB in dbflushdatastore:/Volumes/GPL III BACKUP/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/291AAEE8-0631-48A0-AAC8-679C66732217/sto re.db : dbsyncdatastore: !WARNING! prior write-errors invalidate sync.
Jan 30 08:57:20 Peter-Lambs-iMac mds[34]: (/Volumes/GPL III BACKUP/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/291AAEE8-0631-48A0-AAC8-679C66732217)(Er ror) IndexCI in _ContentIndexSyncIndexBulk:preSync error:22 0
These are all mds having problems in the Spotlight index on your TM drive.
Could my anti-virus SW be an issue (I am using VirusBarrier X6)?
Quite possibly. Exclude your TM disk from it, or turn it off.
Also exclude your TM disk from Spotlight indexing, at least temporarily, via SYstem Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy.
That will likely fix the backup problem.
You really don't need much, if any, anti-virus on a Mac; and many anti-virus products are actually worse than a virus! For more detail, see this post by Klaus1: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10942146&#10942146 or: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2307964
If you're running Windoze, of course, the Windoze side needs all the usual anti- stuff of a PC.

Time Machine is waiting for you

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for