Time Machine just saying Preparing Backup and Does nothing

Has this happen to anyone? I have about 7gigs left, on my external hard drive.

This, along with many other 10.5.2/Time Machine related problems, has been reported many times before in this Forum. So far I haven't seen any post(s) which provides a universal fix. I'm assuming that it's a bug and hoping that if/when Time Capsule finally ships there will be an update for everyone (not just Time Capsule).

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Time Machine stuck on "preparing backup" and "Indexing Backup" after forced restart and install from Lion

Hello!
I have been using Time Machine on the Time Capsule for over a month now and no problems. However when I was installing Lion it had to restart. I did not see that Time Machine was going at the time when I pushed restart until it was too late.
Now Time Machine seems to be stuck on "Preparing Backup" and "Indexing Backups". It has been nearly 20-30 minutes for Indexing and I wonder if I corrupted something or something else. If there a way I can solve this problem? Thanks!

I had this same problem, this is going to sound ridiculous but this is what I finally did. I wiped my backup, crazy right?
It's there for when your hard drive crashes, so it's not like you are going to miss much if you wipe it. Tell it to stop backing up, go to disk utility, click your external and then erase it. Go back to time machine settings and reselect it as your backup drive. It will do an initial back up again and you are good to go.
Hope this helps.

Time capsule and Time Machine just says "preparing"

I just bought Time Capsule and ran my first Time Machine backup.
It took three trys before it completed a backup.
Now when it goes to back up it either says "preparing" for a very long time. Or it says it can't find the back up drive.
Can anyone advise a fix for me?

ebiest wrote:
this sounds hopeful. How do I delete the sparsebundle file?
I wouldn't do that; it's a better idea to securely erase the TC via the Manual Configuration in Airport Utility.
In fact, I'm about to do that now; my backups from my MBP + another MB here were fine. After missing 3-4 days of backing up, I manually initiated one & it's just sitting on Preparing To Backup for over 20 minutes (on my third attempt).
I'm gonna let it rip through a secure erase tonight (a 1 TB Time Capsule (TC) can take a WHILE to secure erase. Remember; when you secure erase, it automatically adds necessary hidden files in the TC root) & backup my 170GB worth of junk (lol) tomorow night.
I just pray I don't loose my notebook between then

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.

HT3275 time machine error says: The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/Apple 's iMac G5.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1).

While backing up to Time Machine, I receive this message: time machine error says: The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Apple ’s iMac G5.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1).

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
That message is caused by several reasons. Read the Pondini's site to fix the problem > http://pondini.org/TM/C17.html

My 5 yr. old turned off the volume on my ipad. when I hit the volume buttons it just says "sound effects" and does not go up or down

my 5 yr. old turned off the volume on my ipad. when I hit the volume buttons it just says "sound effects" and does not go up or down

I had the same problem- go to Utilities, General, Use Side Switch To, and change it from Mute to Lock Rotation- this solved the problem for me.
Good luck!

Time Machine deleted my old backups and crapped out midstream

I had just gotten my failing hard drive replaced, and restored from Time Machine backup. So far so good.
So a week later, I wanted to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but figured I should be responsible and run Time Machine backup again before doing the upgrade just in case something goes wrong.
The Mac has a 4TB drive, which has 2TB free. The backup drive is a 4TB external drive, which has (or had) Time Machine backups going back two years or so. It still had over a TB of space left. I clicked on Backup Now and let it run overnight. I noticed it said "Deleting old backup to make room" or something like that, which I thought was normal.
I woke up in the morning to find that Time Machine had crapped out in the middle, and said that it couldn't complete. I realized that it had deleted all my old backups. It didn't need to do that, since the only files that had changed would have been less than a GB, and it had over a TB of space to work with.
It must have thought that everything on the drive had changed since the last backup, and it wanted to backup the entire drive. As such it tried deleting all my old backups! But it failed, and stopped in the middle.
Now I have a drive that still says there is only 1.2 TB of space on the drive, but I can't see the files! Even with Tinkertool, I can't see anything beyond the one most recent backup.
Can these files be recovered? I am totally ticked that there isn't some kind of confirmation like "Are you sure you want to delete X?"
I actually need to have some of these older backups, as they include files that had been deleted before the latest backup that I may need to retrieve. Any hard drive experts out there? Any terminal commands that can make these files accessible, even if I have to retrieve them manually?

To clarify, this all happened under Snow Leopard as I had said. My profile lists Tiger, since I haven't cared to update my personal profile since using that OS, and in fact I still use Tiger among other versions. I manage a lot of users. And I never got to upgrade to Mountain Lion on this system, as explained in the post above. So I don't see the confusion.
I don't think the model of Mac makes a difference for this type of problem, but in case it does, the incident was on a 2010 Intel iMac with a 4TB hard drive and 8GB of RAM. I would have mentioned that if this was a problem with hardware specific to the model of Mac. But this is more of a universal issue.
But to stay on topic, I'm guessing my old backups are toast. But if anybody has any experience with recovering from Time Machine deleting their old backups, I would be happy to hear from them. In the meantime, I am going to try to do some old fashioned file recovery, and see what I can salvage.

Anyone having Time Machine "freeze" while "Preparing Backup"

Time Machine won't get past the "Preparing Backup" phase, just get the spinning candy bar in preferences. It did do a full new backup to start after the Mavericks install and two subsequent smaller backups but now this "freeze". Stopping the back up cancels it ok, restarting hasnt helped, neither has turning time machine on and off in preferences. I'm using a 2TB Apple Timecapsule.

Hi BellMonk,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. This article has some information for lengthy "Prepare" phases:
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275
Message: "Preparing" phase takes a long time
Time Machine keeps track of files and folders that have changed since your last backup so that it only backs up those files and folders. If Time Machine loses track of files and folders that have changed since the last backup, it compares an "inventory" of your current data to an inventory of your backup. When this happens, Time Machine preferences displays a "Preparing..." status message for a longer period of time. See Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine preferences may display "Preparing" for a longer time.
I would probably let it go to see how long it takes to actually complete, or possibly start a brand new full backup and see if the issue persists after that.
Cheers,
- Ari

My time machine keeps saying the backup disk cannot be mounted. how do I fix it?

my time machine keeps saying that the backup disk cannot be mounted. we cannot figure out why this is happening. We have a 500GB time capsule /wireless router and using a Macbook . any ideas?

Try deleting your iPod Photo Cache folder. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1314

Downloaded installer just sits in memory and does nothing

iTunes had permission issues and would not start up, I tried to uninstall itunes, and download version 11.0.1,
but upon downloading the installer, it starts up, but it just sits there in memory, and does nothing.
I am using windows 8, and a HP PC with a Intel 6 core processor

I found my problem. The iPad had apparently been synced with a different iTunes library (our family has three). We never intentionally synced it to another library, but when I did the iOS 6 update (from 4.3), I think that I may have been logged into a different ID.
While logged into the 'right' library in iTunes, when I selected the iPad device in the Sidebar (on the left), and then selected "Music" in the button bar along the top, I found that the "Sync Music" box was not checked. I checked that. Then when I hit 'sync', I got a message saying that this iPad is synced to a different library and asking if I wanted to lose that sync and establish the new one. I said 'yes', and now things appear to be syncing.
In my earlier trevails (described in the question), iTunes could easily have warned me that I was logged into one library, but trying to sync with an iPad that was previously synced with a different library. Instead, it silently 'finished' the sync without running it. AWESOME software design!!
I love Apple's device design. I think their software design, which seems to be all tangled up with Digital Rights Management, is too confusing. There needs to be a way to make the model (the mix of multiple libraries and multiple devices) more apparent to the user.

I just had my hard drive replaced and restored everything from a Time Machine external hard drive backup and now my "note" widgets won't load. Any ideas ?

I just had my hard drive replaced. I restored it using a Time Machine backup on an external hard drive. When I open Dashboard none of my "note" widgets will load. The other widgets open, such as weather, weather radar, calculater, dictionary, stock... Even the iPhoto Mini widget works, just not the notes ( Sticky Notes and K-Notes ). Any ideas on how to fix this ?

I did some research and found the solution to my problem. So I hope it's okay to answer my own question.
When you reinstall the OS, your Preferences go back to their default settings. Apparently Preferences is where this widget information is stored. This Preferences folder is located in the user Library folder which is hidden by default. You can access it using "one, or the other" of the following actions.
Action 1:      (1) In the Finder, choose Go > Go To Folder
                     (2) In the Go To Folder dialog, type ~/Library
                     (3) Click Go
                                                      -- OR --
Action 2:     Hold down the option (alt) key when using the Go menu. The Library folder is listed just                            below the Home folder.
After opening the Preferences folder, the file that you want to locate for k-notes is named
widget-com.rakoth.lichlord.widget.k-notes.plist
After you locate it make note of the byte size of the file. Now, with the Preferences folder still open, open Time Machine and go back in time until you see a big jump in the file size. That will be your uncorrupted plist. Restore it and close Time Machine.
Then Restart your computer.
After following this procedure I brought up Dashboard and my blank k-notes were now refilled with the previous text and color that occupied them before I had to restore the OS.
This procedure also worked for Sticky notes, which in the Preference folder are named
widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist

Time Machine stuck on Preparing backup

Since upgrading to Mavericks a couple of months ago, one of my Mac Mini Servers can't backup using Time Machine. (I have another similar server with the same software versions but running different services, that doesn't have this problem). Both are currently running OSX 10.9.5 and Server 3.2.2 with all updates applied.
The problem machine gets stuck indefinitely on "Preparing backup". I've tried leaving it for several days, but it's not actually doing anything – the backupd process is on 0% CPU utilisation. It doesn't write any data to the backup drive – the drive is still empty since it was last reformatted.
It was working fine on Mountain Lion Server, before the upgrade to Mavericks.
So far, I've tried:
• Rebooting
• Reformatting the external USB backup drive and replacing it with another drive
• Verifying the startup drive with Disk Utility
• Deleting com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
• Excluding the startup drive from Spotlight searches
I've tried most of the above several times over the past few weeks to no avail.

I have had this same issue just appear although I have been running Mavericks and Server for almost a year now. I backup across 3 drives, 2 of which are rotated on a weekly basis. I discovered this morning that the non-rotating disk has not backed up in several weeks and one of the rotating disks has not backed up during the same period of time. Interestingly this week's rotating backup drive it appears to be working perfectly fine. The non-rotating disk is now stuck on preparing backup. I have included a portion of my log below. One thing I have noticed is that Spotlight seems to be re-indexing my server with little to no progress being made.
10/22/14 9:26:54.494 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1067f000 +6351ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:26:54.559 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1067f000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{AuthService.enterMagicalAuthRealm()}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010cf4d839 -[CSAuthService unauthenticatedSession] + 82
5   CSService                           0x000000010cf4de13 -[CSAuthService currentOrNewSession] + 154
6   CSService                           0x000000010cf50c91 -[CSAuthService enterMagicalAuthRealm] + 51
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
9   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
10 CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
12 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
13 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
14 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
15 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:26:57.369 AM serveradmin[83827]: [WikiRequestHandler.m:74 754af310 +2929ms] Error getting a session GUID: Connection to DB failed
10/22/14 9:26:57.412 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1067f000 +2821ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:26:57.474 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1067f000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{SettingsService.globalSettingForKey:(projectCreators)}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010ceeb218 -[CSSettingsService globalSettingForKey:] + 101
5   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
6   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
7   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
8   CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
9   CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
10 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
12 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
13 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
14 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
15 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:26:57.475 AM serveradmin[83827]: [WikiRequestHandler.m:300 754af310 +2ms] Could not get project creators from collabd, Connection to DB failed
10/22/14 9:26:57.996 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1067f000 +505ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:26:58.026 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1067f000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{AuthService.enterMagicalAuthRealm()}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010cf4d839 -[CSAuthService unauthenticatedSession] + 82
5   CSService                           0x000000010cf4de13 -[CSAuthService currentOrNewSession] + 154
6   CSService                           0x000000010cf50c91 -[CSAuthService enterMagicalAuthRealm] + 51
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
9   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
10 CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
12 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
13 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
14 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
15 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:26:58.249 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications[83832]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:26:58.249 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/22/14 9:26:58.264 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres[83837]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:26:58.264 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:08.875 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres[83859]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:08.875 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:09.371 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1067f000 +11301ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:27:09.390 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1067f000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{AuthService.enterMagicalAuthRealm()}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010cf4d839 -[CSAuthService unauthenticatedSession] + 82
5   CSService                           0x000000010cf4de13 -[CSAuthService currentOrNewSession] + 154
6   CSService                           0x000000010cf50c91 -[CSAuthService enterMagicalAuthRealm] + 51
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
9   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
10 CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
12 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
13 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
14 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
15 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:27:09.611 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications[83858]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:09.611 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:13.180 AM xpcd[599]: restored permissions (100600 -> 100700) on /Users/administrator/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Container.plist
10/22/14 9:27:20.459 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres[83881]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:20.459 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:22.698 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1067f000 +13265ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:27:22.993 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1067f000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{AuthService.enterMagicalAuthRealm()}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010cf4d839 -[CSAuthService unauthenticatedSession] + 82
5   CSService                           0x000000010cf4de13 -[CSAuthService currentOrNewSession] + 154
6   CSService                           0x000000010cf50c91 -[CSAuthService enterMagicalAuthRealm] + 51
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
9   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
10 CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
12 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
13 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
14 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
15 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:27:23.216 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications[83880]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:23.217 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications) Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:29.939 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres[83896]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:29.939 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:30.019 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1067f000 +6884ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:27:30.125 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1067f000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{AuthService.enterMagicalAuthRealm()}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010cf4d839 -[CSAuthService unauthenticatedSession] + 82
5   CSService                           0x000000010cf4de13 -[CSAuthService currentOrNewSession] + 154
6   CSService                           0x000000010cf50c91 -[CSAuthService enterMagicalAuthRealm] + 51
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
9   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
10 CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
12 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
13 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
14 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
15 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:27:30.358 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications[83895]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:30.358 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:32.166 AM com.apple.IconServicesAgent[640]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x3b5] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x137] - extension: png, UTI: public.png, fileType: ????.
10/22/14 9:27:32.325 AM quicklookd[83883]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0x203] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x103] - extension: png, UTI: public.png, fileType: ???? request size:16 scale: 1
10/22/14 9:27:34.728 AM com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[83868]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
10/22/14 9:27:34.728 AM com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[83868]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
10/22/14 9:27:34.728 AM com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[83868]: CGSGetWindowBounds
10/22/14 9:27:34.758 AM com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[83868]: Bogus event received by listener connection:
<error: 0x7fff73e14b50> { count = 1, contents =
"XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff73e14e60> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
10/22/14 9:27:40.275 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres[83915]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:40.275 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:40.312 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1067f000 +10055ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:27:40.328 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1067f000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{AuthService.enterMagicalAuthRealm()}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010cf4d839 -[CSAuthService unauthenticatedSession] + 82
5   CSService                           0x000000010cf4de13 -[CSAuthService currentOrNewSession] + 154
6   CSService                           0x000000010cf50c91 -[CSAuthService enterMagicalAuthRealm] + 51
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
9   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
10 CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
12 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
13 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
14 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
15 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:27:40.547 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications[83913]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:40.547 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:50.276 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1067f000 +9887ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:27:50.298 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1067f000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{AuthService.enterMagicalAuthRealm()}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010cf4d839 -[CSAuthService unauthenticatedSession] + 82
5   CSService                           0x000000010cf4de13 -[CSAuthService currentOrNewSession] + 154
6   CSService                           0x000000010cf50c91 -[CSAuthService enterMagicalAuthRealm] + 51
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
9   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
10 CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
12 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
13 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
14 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
15 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:27:50.507 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres[83934]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:50.507 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/22/14 9:27:50.528 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications[83932]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:27:50.528 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/22/14 9:28:01.077 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres[83949]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:28:01.077 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/22/14 9:28:01.827 AM collabd[368]: [CSConnectionPool.m:196 1049d000 +11486ms] Could not open a connection to Postgres. Please make sure it is running and has the correct access.
10/22/14 9:28:01.969 AM collabd[368]: [CSServiceDispatcher.m:261 1049d000 +0ms] Caught exception "Connection to DB failed" [CSDatabaseError] executing [http]Request{AuthService.enterMagicalAuthRealm()}:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84f2e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff85715e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CSService                           0x000000010cecd76d -[CSConnectionPool openConnection] + 3309
3   CSService                           0x000000010cece13a -[CSConnectionPool currentConnection] + 98
4   CSService                           0x000000010cf4d839 -[CSAuthService unauthenticatedSession] + 82
5   CSService                           0x000000010cf4de13 -[CSAuthService currentOrNewSession] + 154
6   CSService                           0x000000010cf50c91 -[CSAuthService enterMagicalAuthRealm] + 51
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e199ac __invoking___ + 140
8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff84e19814 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308
9   CSService                           0x000000010cec9055 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:asPartOfBatch:usingServiceImpl:] + 4578
10 CSService                           0x000000010cec9548 -[CSServiceDispatcher executeRequest:] + 120
11 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e218 +[CSServiceDispatchHTTPRouter routeServiceRequest:response:] + 1135
12 CSService                           0x000000010cecfacf __21-[CSServiceBase init]_block_invoke_6 + 48
13 CSService                           0x000000010cf3b2aa __53-[CSRoutingHTTPConnection httpResponseForMethod:URI:]_block_invoke + 95
14 CSService                           0x000000010cf3e7b4 -[CSHTTPBackgroundResponse bounce:] + 286
15 Foundation                          0x00007fff8dad9dfb __NSThread__main__ + 1318
16 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e899 _pthread_body + 138
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b47e72a _pthread_struct_init + 0
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8b482fc9 thread_start + 13
10/22/14 9:28:02.194 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications[83950]) Exited with code: 1
10/22/14 9:28:02.194 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.collabd.notifications) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds

Time Machine stuck in preparing backup...

Hi guys,
a few days ago I started to realise my TM Backup is taking ages. It is stuck for a long time in the process of preparing the backup..
I looked it up and found hints to solve it (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5294323) and followed everything Pondini said (http://pondini.org/TM/D1.html) , but nothing..
In the system.log file I found a few things which don't seem normal.
Jun 1 14:05:53 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Starting manual backup
Jun 1 14:05:53 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Backing up to /dev/disk1s2: /Volumes/Max' Backup/Backups.backupdb
Jun 1 14:08:32 MacBookMP kernel[0]: process backupd[5193] thread 394464 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 56%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.091726 seconds, (34.200705 user, 55.891021 system) ledger info: balance: 90000253332 credit: 90000253332 debit: 0 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 158890700927
Jun 1 14:08:35 MacBookMP spindump[5215]: Saved cpu_resource.spin report for backupd version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/backupd_2014-06-01-140835_Max.cpu_resource.spin
Jun 1 14:21:45 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Will copy (613.6 MB) from Macintosh HD
Jun 1 14:21:45 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Will copy (Zero KB) from Win8
Jun 1 14:21:45 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Found 249878 files (1.27 GB) needing backup
Jun 1 14:21:45 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: 3.95 GB required (including padding), 513.17 GB available
Jun 1 14:22:52 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Copied 1086 items (620.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 4318.
Jun 1 14:23:02 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Copied 1 items (Zero KB) from volume Win8. Linked 3.
Jun 1 14:23:02 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Will copy (1.2 MB) from Macintosh HD
Jun 1 14:23:02 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Not using file event preflight for Win8
Jun 1 14:23:02 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Found 60 files (1.2 MB) needing backup
Jun 1 14:23:02 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: 2.42 GB required (including padding), 512.54 GB available
Jun 1 14:23:05 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Copied 124 items (1.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 971.
Jun 1 14:23:07 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Copied 1 items (Zero KB) from volume Win8. Linked 3.
Jun 1 14:23:07 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Created new backup: 2014-06-01-142307
Jun 1 14:23:14 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jun 1 14:23:14 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-50 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -50.)" (paramErr: error in user parameter list) deleting backup: /Volumes/Max' Backup/Backups.backupdb/Max/2014-06-01-140555.inProgress/7F93D6C2-953B-493C-812 E-DF390922194D
Jun 1 14:23:14 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-50 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -50.)" (paramErr: error in user parameter list) deleting backup: /Volumes/Max' Backup/Backups.backupdb/Max/2014-06-01-140555.inProgress/9B5447B0-EBD6-4B76-903 E-CC4807095E97
Jun 1 14:23:14 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-50 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -50.)" (paramErr: error in user parameter list) deleting backup: /Volumes/Max' Backup/Backups.backupdb/Max/2014-06-01-140555.inProgress/D06592A0-5FC8-43CF-A6A 6-800A79B71165
Jun 1 14:23:14 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: No post-backup thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jun 1 14:23:14 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Backup completed successfully.
So it took roughly 20 minutes to backup 1.27 GB which is a lot slower than it was!
I don't understand why it takes so long to get through the first steps..
And are these errors at the end serious?
a few seconds after the first backup I tried another one, which was done in 7 seconds !! Obviously it didn't had to backup nothing, but still, the whole process is faster, there are no errors at the end and no massage about burning the CPU...
Jun 1 14:24:34 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Starting manual backup
Jun 1 14:24:34 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Backing up to /dev/disk1s2: /Volumes/Max' Backup/Backups.backupdb
Jun 1 14:24:35 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Will copy (2.8 MB) from Macintosh HD
Jun 1 14:24:35 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Will copy (Zero KB) from Win8
Jun 1 14:24:35 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Found 27 files (2.8 MB) needing backup
Jun 1 14:24:35 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: 2.42 GB required (including padding), 513.16 GB available
Jun 1 14:24:36 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Copied 37 items (2.8 MB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 331.
Jun 1 14:24:38 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Copied 1 items (Zero KB) from volume Win8. Linked 3.
Jun 1 14:24:38 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Will copy (1 KB) from Macintosh HD
Jun 1 14:24:38 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Not using file event preflight for Win8
Jun 1 14:24:38 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Found 8 files (1 KB) needing backup
Jun 1 14:24:38 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: 2.42 GB required (including padding), 513.16 GB available
Jun 1 14:24:38 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Copied 11 items (1 KB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 79.
Jun 1 14:24:39 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Copied 1 items (Zero KB) from volume Win8. Linked 3.
Jun 1 14:24:40 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Created new backup: 2014-06-01-142440
Jun 1 14:24:40 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jun 1 14:24:40 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: No post-backup thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jun 1 14:24:41 MacBookMP com.apple.backupd[5193]: Backup completed successfully.
I would be really grate full if you could help me resolve this.

I did not disable it because of your comment. I did it ages ago (due to lack of space on my SSD). When I followed the instructions from Pondini there is a part where you delete your Time Machine settings (such as local snapshots). You just made me remember that I had to turn it off again.
But do you know what's the meaning of this part of the log message:
Jun 1 14:08:32 MacBookMP kernel[0]: process backupd[5193] thread 394464 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 56%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.091726 seconds, (34.200705 user, 55.891021 system) ledger info: balance: 90000253332 credit: 90000253332 debit: 0 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 158890700927
and how to prevent it?

Time Machine stuck on preparing backup with in turn breaks internet connectivity.

Hi all!
I recently started using Time Machine (on a 1TB USB 2.0 external hard drive) on my MBP (Early 2011, 13") and I've noticed that it constantly gets stuck on the "Preparing backup" stage, which can only be unstuck by pulling the drive or hard rebooting the computer (otherwise it gets stuck on the gray post-logout screen forever). What's more interesting is that while Time Machine is stuck I am unable to use any of my browsers because DNS resolution fails outright (although I can still visit IP addresses and perform manually DNS queries and start SSH sessions in Terminal.app). If I pull the drive or reboot the computer, my internet connectivity is restored. As a relatively new Mac user this behavior is quite puzzling; has anybody else encountered this type of problem?
Thanks!
Max

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of this exercise is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login. Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including your login items.
Launch the application(s) and test. Same problem(s)?
After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode.)

Time Machine stuck on "Preparing backup" whenever returning from Boot Camp to OS X

I have Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. Whenever I go into Windows 7 and then go back to OS X Lion, and then run a Time Machine backup, Time Machine is stuck on the "Preparing Backup" stage for a long time (roughly 30 minutes). It usually takes 30 seconds in this stage in most cases.
The reason it's stuck at this stage is probably because it is re-indexing everything again (per this KB article), but the question is, why does it have to re-index everything again after restarting out of Boot Camp? I think this only started happening in the past few weeks, while I've had Boot Camp installed on this computer for a few years now.

I had this same problem, this is going to sound ridiculous but this is what I finally did. I wiped my backup, crazy right?
It's there for when your hard drive crashes, so it's not like you are going to miss much if you wipe it. Tell it to stop backing up, go to disk utility, click your external and then erase it. Go back to time machine settings and reselect it as your backup drive. It will do an initial back up again and you are good to go.
Hope this helps.

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