Time machine not auto-powering on/off with Mac, also where is older back up

My new Mac Pro (10.5.7) and TM were working perfectly until I went away for 3 weeks and disconnected the drive. Now it doesn't power on and off automatically with the Mac, no blue activity lights are showing and it doesn't seem to have retained any of the back-ups that were done before I went away. ie it had to start the back-up of the whole Mac from scratch.
Can anybody help with these queries please?
Thanks.

dinglydell wrote:
Thanks, but... tried 'de-selecting, then re-selecting the Put the hard disk(s) to sleep ... option in System Preferences > Energy Saver', but it made no difference, still no blue activity light on the My Book drive and it still doesn't shut down when I shut down the Mac.
Regarding the TM having done a whole new back up and not kept the old one, you say 'Especially if you made a lot of changes during that three weeks, TM may have done a new, full backup'. But I did no work for that 3 weeks
Ahh, the plot thickens! I assumed you'd been gone, working with your Mac, away from the external HD.
and no, there's no old back-up on the backup drive I use (My Book). TM Buddy shows that it did do a back-up on 7 August just before I went away, but there is no back-up from then remaining!
Are you sure? Try holding down the Option key while selecting the TM icon in your Menubar (or control-clicking the TM icon in your Dock), and selecting the (badly named) +*Browse Other Time Machine Disks+* option. They may magically appear that way.
In fact TM Buddy says about the first backup I did when I got back 'no expired backups exist'.
What did it say about how much space was available -- the whole disk?
Also, My Book drive is now very noisy when it backs up. Hope you can help! Thanks.
That is never a good sign. How old is it?

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This all started to happen after the latest Time Machine update.

I think I might have solved it. When messing around in Terminal I noticed the permissions for the backups auto plist were different than the others. Repairing permissions with disk utility didn't do anything so I manually changed it with the Terminal command below. I'll post back later if I can confirm it worked. For anyone else with the same problem here are the commands you need to do in Terminal.
ls -la /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd*
Copy that entire line including the * at the end. That will give you the details on your backup plists, permissions and dates modified. They should all match, if they don't this next command will fix that.
sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
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Errors with Time Machine (not completing backup, and needing to erase the ".inProgress" package)

I have in a previous discussion been talking about errors with my Time Machine backup. The errors were with a problem with Indexing a file, it fails and stops the whole backup. Each time it attemps another backup, it fills my ".inProgress" package with a (nearly) whole backup, filling my Time Machine hard drive, and thus errasing my previous good backups. The error occurs after about 95% completion.
In my last post of a similar disscussion, the problem was indexing the Preference Pane files and this caused the whole backup to fail. This was my last post there: (below in some additional info of my situation)
I did exclude the MobileMe.prefPane. And I got:
12/16/11 9:24:50.468 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
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12/16/11 9:33:37.119 PM com.apple.backupd: Deep event scan at path:/Volumes/Mac OS Lion GM reason:must scan subdirs|
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12/17/11 12:25:16.227 AM com.apple.backupd: Copied 152.2 GB of 630.5 GB, 1393795 of 2357620 items
Dec 17 01:25:16 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Copied 305.2 GB of 630.5 GB, 1413946 of 2357620 items
Dec 17 02:25:16 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Copied 457.1 GB of 630.5 GB, 1419190 of 2357620 items
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Dec 17 03:25:16 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Copied 572.1 GB of 630.5 GB, 1848939 of 2357620 items
Dec 17 03:40:33 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Volumes/Mac OS Lion GM/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Mouse.prefPane, /Volumes/3 TB GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb/Tom iMac/2011-12-14-171406.inProgress/7DB524DD-EFB9-42A6-8A21-0A2A312EDA6D/Mac OS Lion GM/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Mouse.prefPane
Dec 17 03:40:33 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
Dec 17 03:40:33 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Stopping backup.
Dec 17 03:40:33 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Copied 2164998 files (581.1 GB) from volume Mac OS Lion GM.
Dec 17 03:40:33 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Copy stage failed with error:11
Dec 17 03:40:50 Thomas-P-Kellys-iMac com.apple.backupd[99858]: Backup failed with error: 11
This time it was the Mouse.prefPane that caused the error. I'd like to exclude the entire PreferencePanes directory.
This was my error message this time:
I just realized this was on my small Developers partition. Perhaps there is an error with the build, OR an error with the initial restore. I'd like to perhaps exclude the entire /Volumes/Mac OS Lion GM. I expect that Time Machine is working fine with my main partition and the error happens when it's almost done with the Mac OS Lion GM partition.
The problem now is that I only have 265 GB of 3 TB available on my Time Machine HDD. If attempt another backup, it'll surely erase about 410 GB of my past saved backups. I've already lost 6 months, and I only have two months left of backups. I need to erase the ".inProgress" package again. That'll take time, and it's impossible to do from this main partition, even at root access. This ".inProgress" has a total of two (nearly) full backups; it didn't cleanup the first full backup attempt while starting the second,perhaps it would have had it finished. But I fear even if I exclude the whole "Mac OS Lion GM" partition, It'll create a third full backup before cleanup and erase ~400 GB of previous good backups. Then, I'll have a total of 4 (nearly) full backups! 3 TB is just enough without any past backups.
Maybe I'll just copy my documentations of my 'errasing the ".inProgress" package' last time (from the Mac OS Lion GM partition) and do a full restore of just that partition. Thus erasing the errors all together. If it doesn't fix the errors then this could be a bug in the build that doesn't allow Time Machine to work. I've always included this partition in Time Machine before, even with other Lion builds, so I suspect that it was an error in the initial restore. (I may be answering my own questions, and that the inital restore (of the small partition) is the problem, and I just need to re-restore the small partition)
Again, I'm going to have to erase the ".inProgress" file to regain 1.53 TB of space before proceeding.
Also, I gave myself permission to read the ".Backup.345781513.887697.log", the log that was created last night when I first started Time Machine this last time. It was interesting, but didn't show the error I could see from the console.
Right now, mds and mdworker appear to be going crazy even after I just now turned off Time Machine. I think I'll let it go for the rest of the night. Then I'll work on erasing the ".inProgress" package from the other partition boot up.
That was my entire last post. To add some information, I have two OS X partitons, both Mac OS X Lion. One is my large main partition, the other is one I don't mind testing with. I recently replaced my internal hard drive in my iMac and restored from Time Machine both partitions. This appeared to go smoothly. But I have yet to create a single successful Time Machine backup since. At first it was doing a Full Backup, which I didn't like, but now it just aborts around 95% completion. Each, time, it tries it fills the Time Machine hard drive with duplicate (nearly) full backups errasing my older good backups. I would like to erase the ".inProgress" file to save space.
My main question in this new discussion is does anyone know of a good way of erasing the ".inProgress" file? This is so I can preseerve my previous backups. ACLs and other permissions seem to make it impossible to erase from this startup partition, the one I'm running Time Machine from. Even at root level, if I give myself permission to change permissions or delete a file, it'll say Operation not Permitted instead of Permission Denied. I have been able to delete this ".inProgress" package before when booting from the other partition, but with great difficulty. I have had much help from another Member in this Support Community when it comes to solving my Time Machine problems. I think I have found the problem (indexing files in my small OS X partition), as stated in my copy& pasted post above, but I really need to delete this inProgress package first to save space before continuing!

Pondini wrote:
Gator TPK wrote:
Now I'll have to fix the small partition? How's the best way to do this? There could be thousands of files that won't index fine.
See if there's anything you haven't done, that applies, in the pink box of #C3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting
Otherwise, since most (or all?) of the indexing errors are in OSX, you might want to just reinstall it. Something may have gone wrong sometime, that damaged those files.
I reviewed #C3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting and I have already done most of those things. I have just learned something new though:
When I included my Main OS X partition again, I got an indexing error for the first time for that partition. I might be interesting to note that the _spotlight process was running, and it's running again (the magnifying glass has a dot and it generically says "Indexing Tom's iMac"). mdworker, mds and backupd processes really are working hard, one moment they used over 500% of my CPU. It's nice to know for once quad core is good for something other than video encoding. (Now if they could just get the Finder to do more than 100.1%, only 1 thread is doing 100%, I'd like to see file size calculations 8 times quicker!)
I never got an indexing error once in the past 2 weeks for that large Mac OS X v10.7.2 main volume, and it had appeared to finish that partition backup before running into problems with my smaller test partition. Also, I had just updated the smaller test partition with a later build of Mac OS X. But It appears that the beta builds are clearly not the problem. I thought I could just restore again (from the December 4th backup) the small partition and both would be fine.
I'll finish reviewing all the suggestions on Time Machine - Troubleshooting and go from there. Hopefully, the _spotlight indexing simutaniously was the only problem. It's strange that the indexing hasn't happened since the original restore last week untill I finally got a good clean complete partial Time Machine backup. Why would the first Time Machine backup trigger indexing again?
For now, I'm going to exclude the Main Partition again, and let another good backup run. And try your suggestions. (And wait till mds, mdworker, etc. to finish!)
I have the logs of the first two sucsessful backups and the last two failed backups from the last 3 hours, if that would help.?

How do i reset my mac completely? I have parental controls and cant seem to get to time machine cause i bought the computer with parental controls on it and they did not have the password. How do i completely reset my macbook pro?

how do i reset my mac completely? I have parental controls and cant seem to get to time machine cause i bought the computer with parental controls on it and they did not have the password. How do i completely reset my macbook pro?

If you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) on your account then the steps on this page will give you a reset link on your account : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6170
If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer your questions) then you will need to contact Support in your country to get the questions reset.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps on this page to add a rescue email address for potential future use : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5620
Or, if it's available in your country, you could change to 2-step verification : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5570

Time machine not backing up new changes

Time machine was working perfectly fine until this past weekend. Now, it seems like it's not recognizing any new changed on my hard drive. The time machine still runs successfully, but it just repeats the same back up over and over again. I've checked the logs in console (see below)
Dec 15 00:35:25 localhost com.apple.backupd[6749]: Starting standard backup
Dec 15 00:35:25 localhost com.apple.backupd[6749]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Dec 15 00:35:33 localhost com.apple.backupd[6749]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 424.6 MB requested (including padding), 281.50 GB available
Dec 15 00:35:34 localhost com.apple.backupd[6749]: Copied 5 files (33 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Dec 15 00:35:34 localhost com.apple.backupd[6749]: Starting post-backup thinning
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Dec 15 00:35:34 localhost com.apple.backupd[6749]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Dec 15 00:35:34 localhost com.apple.backupd[6749]: Backup completed successfully.
I've also downloaded Time Tracker and it says that things were fine till this weekend and then everything for the past couple of days have 0 bytes backed up. Any ideas what could be the problem? I haven't done anything special or changed anything besides install Google Chrome. The external hard drive I back up to may have been unplugged/plugged but not before it's unmounted or the computer is off. I don't think I unmounted while time machine was backing up, but if I did could this be the problem?

ecanza wrote:
Solved! Thanks for the swift replies! I didn't do a Verify Disk, but I did do a Verify Disk Permissions without restarting recently.
Are you sure? Because +Verify Permissions+ doesn't do it. Only +*Verify Disk,+* or altering any partition on your boot drive.
There are some 3rd-party disk repair/maintenance apps that use the same internal OSX routine as +*Repair Disk,+* so if you used one of them, you'd have the same problem.
And by the way, there's no point to running +Verify Permissions+ -- you might as well just run +Repair Permissions.+
I just restarted and Time Machine has in fact "caught up" with the most recent changes! Cheers Pondini.
Oh, well, whatever it was, I'm glad it's fixed! And thanks for the star.

"Time machine not configured" & Can't reset to factory setting.

Once I removed the Time capsule from my List to back up again. But after removing when i connect the time capsule, the amber light keep on flashing and i can't set up the Time capsule. Although i get it in the wifi network. ( I attached the Pic marked Majmadar's Wifi Network ). Now when i click on the icon of time capsule it shows " Time machine not configured ". Even when i open the time machine preferences i don't see My time Capsule in my list. Please help me to
solve my problem. Thanks in advance.

Start over and redo the setup from a manual factory reset.. do NOT use names like you have now.. this is problematic on Yosemite..
Also do a full reset on Time Machine.. See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.
Setup the TC again.
ie Start from a factory reset. No files are lost on the hard disk doing this.
Then redo the setup from the computer with Yosemite.
1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.
eg TCgen5 and TCwifi for basestation and wireless respectively.
Even better if the issue is more wireless use TC24ghz and TC5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense. But this can be tried in the second round.
2. Use all passwords that also comply but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
3. Ensure the TC always takes the same IP address.. you will need to do this on the main router using dhcp reservation.. or a bit more complex setup using static IP in the TC. But this is important.. having IP drift all over the place when Yosemite cannot remember its own name for 5 min after a reboot makes for poor networking. If the TC is main router it will not be an issue.
4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. but this change will mess up your TM backup.. so be prepared to do a new full backup. Sorry.. keep this one for second round if you want to avoid a new backup.
5. Mount the TC disk in the computer manually.
In Finder, Go, Connect to server from the top menu,
Type in SMB://192.168.0.254 (or whatever the TC ip is which you have now made static. As a router by default it is 10.0.1.1 and I encourage people to stick with that unless you know what you are doing).
You can use name.. SMB://TCgen5.local where you replace TCgen5 with your TC name.. local is the default domain of the TC and doesn't change.
However names are not so easy as IP address.. nor as reliable. At least not in Yosemite they aren't. The domain can also be an issue if you are not plugged or wireless directly to the TC.
6. Make sure IPv6 is set to link-local only in the computer. For example wireless open the network preferences, wireless and advanced / TCP/IP.. and fix the IPv6. to link-local only.
There is a lot more jiggery pokery you can try but the above is a good start.. if you find it still unreliable.. don't be surprised.
You might need to do some more work on the laptop itself. eg Reset the PRAM.. has helped some people. Clean install of the OS is also helpful if you upgrade installed.
Tell us how you go.
Someone posted a solution.. See this thread.
Macbook can't find Time Capsule anymore
Start from the bottom and work up.. I have a list of good network practice changes but I have avoided Yosemites bug heaven.
This user has had success and a few others as well.
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Here is where they discuss a true solution.. replace the rotten DNS app in Yosemite with the one from Mavericks.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-yo u-can-do-to-fix-it/

Time Machine not recognizing full space available on NAS.

I recently purchsed and set up an Iomega Storcenter ix4-200d NAS with Time Machine support. The NAS has 8 TB storage total, with ~4.6 TB available.
I have TIme Machine support turned on in the Storcenter, assigned to a folder called "Time-Machine." In my OSX Time Machine preferences, I select the "Time-Machine" folder on my NAS as the back-up disk, and my Mac connects to it just fine.
The challenge is Time Machine returns an error saying there isn't enough space on the backup disk to complete the backup.
For some reason, Time Machine is only recognizing 536.36 GB of space available on the backup disk, even though there are ~4.6 TB available. I tried manually moving my iTunes media folder (~700 GB) to the "Time-Machine" folder on my NAS to see if the Iomega NAS was arbitrarily setting a max size to a Time Machine folder. I was able to manually move just under 1 TB of data to the same "Time-Machine" folder that Time Machine says only has 536.36 GB of space.
I tried deleting the Time-Machine store on my NAS, turning Time Machine support off, then turning it back off and creating a new "Time-Machine" folder. I did this several times and still get the same behavior.
I even tried running Time Machine piecemeal, excluding larger folders at first and running a back-up, to see if maybe Time Machine wasn't liking that large of an initial backup. This worked, and then I gradually removed some exclusions and ran back-ups again, so each back-up size was never more than 200 GBs or so. However, after several back-ups, I received the same error message saying there wasn't enough space on the backup disk when the total sparsbundle size reached 536.36 GBs.
Since I can manually move more than 536.36 GB of data to the backup disk, I'm guessing it must be something with Time Machine not recognizing the full space available on the NAS.
Any ideas? Has anyone seen this before?

Hello,
not that it helps, but I see the same on the exact same configuration. My message is also about not having enough space, ip-to exactly the same amount of room being available (only 536.36 GB available)?
I tried everything, including a full reset of the StorCenter, but to no avail. The timemachine backup used to work, however I thought that this was just because it didn't exceed the limit of one physical disk in the StorCenter (I've got 4 x 1 TB).
What is strange is that the original author has 2TB disks and still has the same problem? So it likely isn't related to the physical disk size. It seems like the maximum backup can only be 536.36 GB ??

Time Machine Backup Failed - Copy stage failed with error:11

My TM backups started to fail on a Mac Book Pro running 10.5.8 a few weeks ago with the 'Copy stage failed with error:11' message. It seemed to happen after coming out of hibernation from clamshelling the laptop.
This happened a few times before when I had initially set TM up so to 'fix' it I just blew away the TM backups and started fresh. I would rather not do that this time as I have accumulated 3 months worth of backups.
My TM is on a samba share, I've searched a bit and followed a guide:
http://blog.robberthamburg.nl/mac-osx-leopard-repair-a-time-machine-error-11-pro blem
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Sep 12 01:32:06 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backing up to: /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Sep 12 01:35:44 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 7.61 GB requested (including padding), 89.80 GB available
Sep 12 01:35:44 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Waiting for index to be ready (-1 < 0)
Sep 12 01:40:51 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 01:45:49 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 01:50:50 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 01:55:49 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:00:50 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:05:49 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:10:50 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:15:52 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:20:52 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:25:51 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:30:50 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:32:05 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:32:37 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:33:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:33:42 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:35:52 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:38:38 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:39:08 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:39:51 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:40:27 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:42:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:42:43 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:43:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Stopping backup.
Sep 12 02:43:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Error: (-43) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/mdaemon/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DirectoryUtility.plist to /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/lysithea/2009-09-12-013213.inProgress/466ADDEF-7D04-45 15-B024-C02ADF152EA7/Macintosh HD/Users/mdaemon/Library/Preferences
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Sep 12 02:43:42 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Waiting for index to be ready (-1 < 0)
Sep 12 02:51:03 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 509.8 MB requested (including padding), 83.21 GB available
Sep 12 02:51:03 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Waiting for index to be ready (-1 < 0)
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Indexing a file failed. Returned -12 for: /.DS_Store, /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/lysithea/2009-09-12-013213.inProgress/AB3F09D7-61EB-4D 9F-B0EF-AC4C1E0712EA/Macintosh HD/.DS_Store
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Stopping backup.
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Copied 0 files (0 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Copy stage failed with error:11
Sep 12 02:51:14 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backup failed with error: 11
Sep 12 02:51:15 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Sep 12 02:51:18 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

mattdaemon wrote:
My TM is on a samba share
First problem: this is *not supported by Apple:* http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1733
to try and fix the problem by deleting a .inProgress backup but this has not helped.
Second problem: deleting (or changing or moving) things in TM backups via the Finder can hopelessly corrupt them.
Sep 12 01:35:44 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Waiting for index to be ready (-1 < 0)
Sep 12 01:40:51 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
These can usually be stopped by excluding the backups from any anti-virus scanning, and Spotlight indexing, at least on supported volumes. Unless you're sure you have Spotlight off entirely, try excluding your backups via System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy.
Sep 12 02:43:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Error: (-43) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/mdaemon/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DirectoryUtility.plist to /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/lysithea/2009-09-12-013213.inProgress/466ADDEF-7D04-45 15-B024-C02ADF152EA7/Macintosh HD/Users/mdaemon/Library/Preferences
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Indexing a file failed. Returned -12 for: /.DS_Store, /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/lysithea/2009-09-12-013213.inProgress/AB3F09D7-61EB-4D 9F-B0EF-AC4C1E0712EA/Macintosh HD/.DS_Store
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
Both of these appear to indicate problems on your backup drive, perhaps directory problems. For a supported one, a +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions) will often fix it. If there's a way to run that on your backups, it's worth a try.
It's also possible there's a problem on your internal HD, so it's worth doing a +*Verify Disk+* (not permissions) on it, too, via Disk Utility. If that shows errors, you'll have to boot from your Install disc and use it's copy of DU to repair them.

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Erik Griffin wrote:
My girlfriend has a Macbook and I decided it was time for her to back up. I used Time Machine with my Lacie external HD. The original back up got all the music, documents, etc.
How long ago was this?
This morning was the first time I had hooked up the external HD since the original back up. I manually ran it and wanted to check if it added the new music and documents. My resume, which I updated last night, was there. But when I looked in the iTunes folder the new music I had added was missing.
How are you verifying whether they were backed-up? Use +Enter Time Machine,+ not the Finder.
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The labels of hourly, daily, and weekly backups are just labels. The process is the same with each. The only thing that's different is how long TM will keep them. A TM backup is a TM Backup.
Is there something I did wrong with set up? Of course I could start over but I'd rather fix the issue and make sure everything is being backed up.
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Alls lost wrote:
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I'm still not clear -- had you done any backups while you were on Leopard?
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Suggested Backup Software
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Data Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
You may obtain trials of the utilities via VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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2) Manually delete backups from Time Machine....which is a long and tedious process. After a few hours, not much space will be reclaimed and it will not be long before the Time Capsule is full again
3) Erase the Time Capsule....if you really do not need all the old backups from months ago....and start over with a new Time Machine backup and move forward again

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