Time machine issue after Yosemite install

After performing a clean install of Yosemite and migration from my TimeMachine backup I experienced the following:
I opened iTunes and selected some music to play, then got a dialog box saying the files could not be found. Spotlight couldn't find them either... they were just gone. Naturally I went to my Time Machine backups and was surprised the music was gone from the backups, all the way back to the first backup. Very wierd. During the migration I went through the "Cleaning up old backups" process, not sure exactly what this process is.
I was pretty bummed that I had permanently lost a lot of music, some was recordings of friends playing live that could never be replaced. I then remembered that some time ago, just for the **** of it, I copied my sparsebundle backups to an external drive and stashed it in a drawer. I browsed it, and lo and behold there were the missing files. So I narrowly escaped a big problem, but wy did this happen? What are they doing over at Apple?

Hatrabbit wrote:
Naturally I went to my Time Machine backups and was surprised the music was gone from the backups, all the way back to the first backup. Very wierd.
This is really bad luck. And what can be seen here, it is not related to Yosemite but Mavericks, since I asume your backups were made with Mavericks. Though, it is possible that this bug still persists with Yosemite.
I have a similar problem. I am still on Mavericks. I see missing files in ~/Library/Preferences on a regular basis. When I come aware of it, I fix it manually by excluding Preferences folder from backup, run backup, include folder Preferences and finally backup again. But this fix does not last for long. Suddenly after some weeks I see a again missing files in that folder, when browsing the "Latest" backup.
I have found some related discussion:
Time machine missing files
http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/509489/potential-time-machine-issue-maverick s-leaving/
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/130955/some-files-are-gone-after-recove ry-from-time-machine-backup-why/150230
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/136453/time-machine-not-detecting-chang es-in-certain-folders
https://twitter.com/ThatDJJP/status/526429152153714690
missing mail after installation
No solution until today. Very frustrating.
My feeling is, that many users do not recognize, that they are victim of this horrible bug, cause in most cases only few folders are hit by this bug.
And now since Yosemite is out, people are actually using there backups for the first time since Mavericks and run into a disaster.
Atm I am trying to test, if maybe fsevent daemon is the problem, in the past there have been issues like http://openradar.appspot.com/10207999
I did a check on my drive, and I found issues with realpath()/readdir(). Though, those issues may just be old and have not been detected by me for a very long time. My MBP is 5 years old and I upgraded all the way from 10.5 to 10.6 to 10.9.
With 10.6 I never had such an issue.
But more likely, the issue is related to the "Cleaning up old backups" process. Cause I also have the feeling, that when my backup drive gets full and the shrink process took place, then the result are missing files in younger backups then the ones cleaned. If that is true, then maybe the hard-link-approach of Time Machine is somehow involved.

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Still cannot access time machine backups after Yosemite install

Can anyone tell me what to do to be able to access my time machine backups. When I enter time machine nothing except apps and desktop are accessable. Thus I cannot restore anything that was "backed up" even this morning, much less any other day this year. Yosemite was installed on Oct. 19, took 2 days to download to an 2013 iMac. The first time machine backup took over 24 hours. I have made 1 backup per day since, only problem is that I cannot access any of this data. Please help me.

A bit more information would help figure out the problem. Maybe a screen shot of what you're seeing or not seeing (use Command+shift+4 to save an area of the screen or a window -type space first to capture an entire window- to a file and then attach that file to your posting reply). You might look at the Console app to get more information about what actually happened during your backups - suggest putting "backupd" (without the quotes) in the search field at the top right of window in Console - with the "All Messages" query selected on the left part of the window). Console is located in the /Applications/Utilities folder. After you enter the backupd in the search field only those messages that contain that string will appear which helps a lot since so many messages are normally shown without any search field string.
Depending on how long ago the backups happened, you might need to select previous versions of the system log files - they get archived and compressed to files like system.log.0.bz2 or system.log.1.bz2 (these are in the /var/log query choice if you don't see them in the existing query choices - just click on the triangle to the left of the "/Var/log" entry if needed). Console knows how to show the messages that are in these compressed files, so you don't need to do anything other than click on the query name.
Also if you look in TimeMachine in System Preferences are there any exclusions (click on the Options button in TM System Preferences to show what the existing exclusions are)? A screen shot of those would be helpful also.
Is there only one drive with the single Mac OS partition on it?
Hope this helps a bit...

Time machine issues after installing lion server

I have a macbook pro and an imac in my home network, both running lion 10.7.3.
For some time, I used time machine to back up the macbook over ethernet to an external usb drive attached to the imac, which worked fine.
A couple of days ago, I installed the server.app on the imac, but disabled all services after a couple of days.
But now, all of a sudden, I can't complete my time machine backups anymore, I get this error message:
"Time Machine could not complete the backup. The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features."
I am not sure what to do here,
thanks for your comments,
geb

I am having a similar issue, but in my situation, my users cannot log in. All of my users are network users on Mini's. I am running 10.6.8 on my server. I have created users before with no issues, but have not done so in months. When I try to log the new user in, I get the following error:
xpchelper: Could not get path of user account (uid:1029) home directory:/Network/Servers/server.xxx.net/Volumes/Data/Users/username; error; The operation couldn't be completed. No such file or directory. Using home directory.
CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Network/Servers/server.xxx.net/Volumes/Data/Users/username/ is currently unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
Authorizationhost: error |-[homedirmounter mount NetworkHomeWithURL: attributes: dirPath: username:]|PremountHomeDirectoryWithAuthentication (url=AFP://server.xxx.net/Users/homedir= /Network/Servers/server.xxx.net/Volumes/Data/Users/username, name=username) returned 5.
I have no idea of what to do. I have verified that the user looks the same as my other users in WGM. The user's folder was created on the server. The user has access to the folder. I'm not sure what else could be wrong here.

Kernel panic after time machine migration after clean install of 107.3

I had the hard drive replaced in in my mid 2009 17" MacBook pro. After the clean install of lion I migrated my data from time machine (lion) to the new clean partition.. Upon completion the machine is unresponsive. The progress wheel turning for 10 minutes. I force quit and restart to kernel panic. I have been through this 3 times same sequence of events same results. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
John

See
What is a kernel panic,
Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics,
Mac OS X Kernel Panic FAQ,
Resolving Kernel Panics, and
Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics for more details.

Restore iBooks files from time machine backup after clean install

I just did a clean install of Yosemite. I still have a Time Machine backup of my Mavericks install. iBooks in my new Yosemite install does not have all of my books and pdfs in it - just the ones I can download from the iBookstore.
Is there an easy way to access my Mavericks Time Machine backup to retrieve my old iBooks files?

When I go back to the backup it does not let me go back to the previous backupprobably because the last backup was Lion and I am on Mt. Lion now. don't what to do another backup if that is going to mess up the old one. I can access it though by just going to it. So i am putting that one on my desktop and I am going to rename it and see if I can open in Iphoto.

I am not able to access old Time Machine backups after OS install.

Hi,
I recently did a fresh install of Mountain Lion. The system was getting sluggish from garbage collection, so I wiped it clean and started from scratch. Prior the install, I ran one last backup just in case. I went to restore some of my apps, like iWork '09, and I could not find any backups prior to my install dates. I can see the files when I open up my Time Capsule with Finder. But I cannot restore them using Time Machine.
I tried dragging the iWorks programs over to the Applications folder, but the applications crash (Pages 4.2, Numbers 5.2, and Keynote 2.2). I then tried going into the App Store and reinstalling them from my Purchases list. All of my store bought purchase are there, but the iWork ones. Which is odd, because they were updated from the App Store program after I dragged them over.
The iWork programs I need from the backup. Everything else is backed up in iCloud, iTunes, and the App Store. I really need to get Pages up and running again. Does anyone know what to do? All else is irrelevant.

If you installed iWork apps from a DVD, you need to use that DVD and reinstall the apps. Then update iWork to current using Software Update. There are other components from the DVD that need to be installed. I tried the same thing once and realized I had to reinstall and not restore from a TM backup.
If you purchased the iWork apps from the App Store, you should be able to redownload and install these again. If the download button is greyed out, make sure your TM back up and/or clone drive is unmounted. Otherwise, the App Store will see this and think the apps are already installed.

Time Machine Operation after Re-install of OSX

Sorry if this question has been asked before.
On several occasions I have been forced through HD failure to completely reinstall OSX on my startup disk which I call HD-A
Luckily time machine has worked perfectly and when prompted to do so I have restored from my internal backup drive which I call HD-B.
The problem happens when I then try and use HD-B as my backup drive again.
Timemachine gives me an error saying the drive is full. Each time I have ended up erasing my HD-B backup drive. Re-assigning it in time machine and then it works fine.
Why is this?
There has got to be a better way to make time machine re-recognize my backup drive?
Its also dangerous because for the period of time (several hours) that I'm re-backing up by main drive then I am at risk if my main drive should go down.
Can anyone give me some tips on how to make the backup drive be recognized after a OSX re-install?
Thanks,
Steve.

Steve McRea wrote:
Sorry if this question has been asked before.
On several occasions I have been forced through HD failure to completely reinstall OSX on my startup disk which I call HD-A
Luckily time machine has worked perfectly and when prompted to do so I have restored from my internal backup drive which I call HD-B.
The problem happens when I then try and use HD-B as my backup drive again.
Timemachine gives me an error saying the drive is full. Each time I have ended up erasing my HD-B backup drive. Re-assigning it in time machine and then it works fine.
Why is this?
Because when you erase a drive, it gets a new UUID (Universally Unique Identifier), and is treated as a different drive: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338
Its also dangerous because for the period of time (several hours) that I'm re-backing up by main drive then I am at risk if my main drive should go down.
It appears that your Time Machine drive is too small. If it were at least 2 1/2 times the size of the data it's backing-up, Time Machine would be able to delete enough old backups to make room for the new one.
It's always a good idea to keep secondary backups, and especially so if your primary backups are on an internal HD, since a problem with your Mac could damage both drives; see #27 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), for some suggestions.

TS1338 time machine restore after clean install

My MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual core Intel Xeon with 8 Gb RAM was having trouble booting and the drive was unable to be repaired 2x in 30 days, so I wiped the drive and did a clean install of Snow Leopard and brought everything back to date (10.6.8) cleanly.
How do I get all my apps, preferences, keychain etc back from my most recent Time Machine backup? My user now is different, so Time Machine is giving me a hard time now that I am a new "me."
Thanks!
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You would use Migration Assistant to migrate the old "you" from your backup.
If your issue was user specific all along, you may reintroduce the issue by migrating. If you fear it was user specific, you should log into Root and manually navigate into your backups.backupdb folder and find the desired apps, docs, music, movies, and pictures, and then copy them to the desired and respective locations of the volume, but you will have to address the permissions using "Apply to Enclosed Items" to make sure they will open, edit, and save correctly, depending on the contents that you bring over. Permissions can be a pain sometimes.

Time Machine Backup after clean install?

Hi,
I just took the plunge and made a clean install of Mavericks on an SSD called "A". On this volume I only have the system and the applications. My User Account is on a separate volume "B" and my third volume is a 4TB volume "C" with my Time Machine backup. My volume "B" is backuped on the TM volume "C".
In the past I have had very nasty experiences with Time Machine, where a whole backup was deleted because Time Machine thought I was on a completely new computer. Now I don't want to repeat this experience, because when opened after the system install, TM didn't recognize neither volume "B" nor "C".
Any ideas of how to make sure TM doesn't delete the old stuff? I don't want to try around and eventually lose everything.
Thanks!

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Time machine restore after clean install

I use a WD My Cloud drive 4 TB to make time machine backups of my Macbook Pro. I never partitioned this external drive but simply connected it as the backup disk for my time machine backups. I am on the latest software version of the Mac OS.
As the disk on my Macbook pro was running out and my machine was becoming slow, I chose to wipe the disk clean by reformatting it. I did not want my entire time machine back up to be restored, I figured I will be picking and choosing the files I desired from the time machine and pulling them on my local disk as and when required
I noticed recently that my newly formatted machine was also utilizing the same external disk as backup and it had started creating time machine backups - there isn't much data on my new machine as this has been only a few weeks old.
When I click to enter the time machine, the last back up I can go back to is dated Dec 2014 which feels like it is the newly formatted disk's first back up and I cannot figure out how to get to my old backups. I see purely from the utilized capacity of my external disk that it has about 500 GB sitting on it which corresponds to the size of my original backup but I am not sure how to get to it.
I don't recall ever selecting an option on overwriting the existing backup, so confused as to what I might be doing wrong
I see some other posts on this topic but these people at least see their folders - I havent changed a version on my OS or my login id so this does not seem like a permission issue
Appreciate your help on this issue

You would use Migration Assistant to migrate the old "you" from your backup.
If your issue was user specific all along, you may reintroduce the issue by migrating. If you fear it was user specific, you should log into Root and manually navigate into your backups.backupdb folder and find the desired apps, docs, music, movies, and pictures, and then copy them to the desired and respective locations of the volume, but you will have to address the permissions using "Apply to Enclosed Items" to make sure they will open, edit, and save correctly, depending on the contents that you bring over. Permissions can be a pain sometimes.

Time machine issues after migrating to a new MBP

I just migrated to a MacBok Pro (new, late 2008) 2.4 GHZ with 4 GB RAM. I backed up my older iMac and then during an erase and install, i chose to use the time machine to migrate my data from the installation process. Everything went well and it all migrated over, but when I turned on TM, it failed. I also noticed that the MBP was now named iMac (2). I guess the name transfered over as well. I am not so concerned about this and can change the name in the Sharing Prefs, but it will not pick up where the last TM back up ended. It wants to create a new back up folder and re-back everything up again.....eats into my storage...
Can this be fixed? Can I just continue on where TM last left off?
Thanks.
I did go through and repair permissions, ran the daily/weekly scrips, etc....

Yep, I found that out this AM when I called support. I also sent feedback to Apple RE this. It really should be able to merge and pick up where it left off.....
Other than forcing me to really look at all the crap on my mac (a good thing), I am loving the new MBP.

Time machine crashes after Yosemite upgrade

I recently upgraded to Yosemite 10.2.2. on a mid-2010 MacBook, but am having problems backing up using TimeMachine.
I can access my past backups, which is good news, although I need to select one of the disks being backed up in the left column of the finder window (if I just select my username it doesn't seem to work). However, when I attempt a backup the computer crashes during the beginning of the backup process ("Processing backup"). I don't get any particular error message when Time Machine crashes, the computer just restarts and sometimes I will get an error message once the computer has finished restarting indicating that the computer restarted because of a problem.
I back up onto a non-Apple (Seagate) connected to the WiFi network drive, which has been working well for about 6 months under the previous OS.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? I've run the disk utility to repair disk permissions, removed the network disk as backup then re-added.

And here is the Problem Details and System Configuration in case its helpful:
Anonymous UUID: B73BF844-60BD-9880-938A-BEF0C404EA33
Thu Jan 29 23:20:29 2015
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff8019735d11): "hfs_UNswap_BTNode: invalid backward link (0x00012299 == 0x00012299)\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.10.72/bsd/hfs/hfs_endian.c:303
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8085e63030 : 0xffffff801932fe41
0xffffff8085e630b0 : 0xffffff8019735d11
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0xffffff8085e63f50 : 0xffffff801984b386
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BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mds_stores
Mac OS version:
14C109
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Can not access my Time machine HD after CLEAN install Mountain Lion

Hi Everyone!
Thank you in advance for your interest and help, I really appreciate it.
I recently did a clean Install of Mountain Lion and already did all the updates that appeared. However, before doing these clean install, I did a back up with Time Machine on my external Hard drive. Now I can't access to it, doesn't even appear on my sidebar when I connect it. On the other hand it does appear as connected when I open Disk Utility, but I can not access to it. There I have all my 5 years of University works and classes, photos, and music. This Hard drive is only dedicated for my Mac Backups and nothing more.
I guess that if I install again Snow Leopard, it will work, but I have to re install everything as my Mac is a Mid or Late 2007 15-inch Macbook pro and it came with the OS before the snow leopard 10.5 or something like that.
What can I or should I do to access my Hard Drive again?
Best Regards
Edd

Hi Mende,
Sorry for my late reply but I want to thank you for your help.
I followed your instructions and now I can access the drive thank you a lot for this. However, now I don't want to restore everything from my last back-up just some files, How can I do this? Also I want to restore My iLife, but the copy I have from the CD that came with my mac doesn't allow to install it, what can I do.
Take good care, and happy holidays.
Best Regards
Edd
PD. Are you from Spain?

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When I go back to the backup it does not let me go back to the previous backupprobably because the last backup was Lion and I am on Mt. Lion now. don't what to do another backup if that is going to mess up the old one. I can access it though by just going to it. So i am putting that one on my desktop and I am going to rename it and see if I can open in Iphoto.

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Installed Mavericks and all is fine, albeit took forever to install, I updated from Mountain Lion.
The Time Machine backup is taking forever, over an hour and still "Preparing Backup", any thoughts?
I re-mapped the HDD in time machine preferences, and since Mountain Lion killed acces to my WHS, I have an external HDD hooked directly to my MBPro via USB.
Details:
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Thoughts?
Thanks.

Well, round 2 now....I fully realize time is dependent on the amount of data to back up, but given my backups are frequent this is a bit too long.
If they overwrite past backups that'll stink, but that's were redundency comes in on the users part.
I now realize I wasn't getting the 'new' icon look, so I turned time machine off and back on...now I got the "new" icon...So I will wait and see, it's been 30 minuntes so far and still "preparing backup".
We'll see what happens.

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