Time Machine not backing up after full restore from back up.

Problems started after I restored my Mac Pro from a TM back up.
Mac Pro has 1TB of storage and used less 500 GB (414.1 GB), so
I used a partitioned 1TB ext HD 500/500, and used one partition for
the Mac Pro and backed up properly before the full restore, since I used
less than 500 of the 1TB.
After the restore my TM failed to back up because it required approx 800 GB.
So I thought my old OS must still be on the internal or some type of duplicate
so I erased the free space at the most slowest speed, 10 hrs later sure enough
I reduced everything to 414.1 GB.
So I attempted to back up to my 500 GB TM with no success, says I still need
1.75 TB.
I Tried reformatting and renaming my ext TM back up HD with the same partition
set up. I even update my OS to mavericks.
Any new ideas out there?

I dont remember if I hit inherit.
TM started working after I reformatted it, but stopped backing up.
I have 500 GB drive i'm using so its more than enough space.
Since my 1 TB internal HD is only using 389 GB.
The back up that I have now is from this 1 TB HD.

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Time machine backup takes forever after full restore

My HD went haywire yesterday but luckily I was able to restore everything from my backup (and the Mac even got a speedier, yay).
But for some reason I can take new backups. Time machine works forever, seemingly want to replace most files on the backup (250 GB, 500000+ files) and have now for more than 12 hours stood at “44 MB backed up”. The problem repeats itself when I stop and retry the back up procedure.
I have tried to create a new back up on the same Time Machine drive but I am unable to rename the old “backup.backudb” folder, so thats not a solution.
ANy ideas?

After a restore Time Machine will back up everything again. Because of that, if possible the initial backup should be done over Ethernet, not Wi-Fi. See item D3 on this post.

Time Machine Deleting old backups after full restore

So I'm wondering if anyone else came up with this issue:
My computer crashed and so I restored my MacBook from Time machine. I've never done this before, but figured it would put everything back to how it was.
It did on my hard drive, but my Time machine external drive's backups all got wiped! I had about 1.5 years of backups and they are all gone!
I realize that hopefully the backup that I restored to should have everything I need, but I never thought to backup my backup drive before using it to restore.
Seems like a really dumb glitch in the software.

harryhewitt wrote:
Exactly what happened with me. I was using Snow Leopard, my macbook pro died, I bought a new one and restored from my HD which I had used with TimeMachine to back up to for the past 18 months. it restored brilliantly and I was impressed - passwords etc were all there.
However, I now see that I have no backups other than the last one before my old mac died. As has been said, that is a serious glitch in the software. At the very least there should be a warning that it is going to do that. And why does it need to do that?
It's a different Mac. Time Machine backs up each Mac (and each drive) separately (all other full system backup apps I've ever seen do, too); if it didn't, those who back up 2 or more to the same place would have a complete and unreliable mess.
I'd agree that the "Would you like to reuse the backup" prompt you saw on the first backup of the new Mac could be worded better, but it is explained in #B5 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

Time Machine not backing up

Why is my Time Machine not backing up my documents, folders and files.
I have a Mac oss 10.5.4. 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1.5 GB. I have been trying to remove files as I'm running all my programs slow. I recently installed the recent ILife upgrade.
Often I would go in and turn off the hourly time machine backup because as I was working on memory intensive programs such as Photoshop I found it may have been linked to crashes. This is particularly concerning as the backups aren't accessible anyway.
Okay, this is the stupid part - on my part - I included my (House) folder in the files not to back up. I was mistaken as to this being a way not to have redundant back ups.
However; the only file now that is in the do not back up is the (time machine backups) and still nothing is saving - particularly concerning? iphoto file. see below.
Now this is concerning! I restored all photos from "March 13, 2008" - it's september. to IPHOTO from Time Machine. I don't know what changed since then(?) I thought it would add these folders into my i photo cache. This of course has involved a software upgrade since to iphoto. I was prompted for upgrade to the restore. So I said yes, to assure the photos added? where in a compatible format. However; instead it has erased all my photos SINCE. Are my photos irretrievably lost?
Why won't my files back-up for retrieval? Can I restore my settings from March 13, 2008 when my Time Machine back-up worked?
I find it horribly confusing that I no longer can access the photo cache, instead having the 'iphoto cache' icon.
This feels like PC headache. I am about to give up!

One thing you can check (using disk utility info button) is that the disk used for backing up must be in the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, and must have Access Control Lists enabled. Permissions must be set so that you are allowed to use the disk, and the disk can’t be read-only. There must also be sufficient room on external disk for the entire TM backup. Since apple recommends just using TM on the disk, one thing to contemplate if having problems you can't resolve is to reformat as the above and start from scratch.

Time Machine not backing up. Very slow, essentially hanging. I have 10.7.5 Mac OS X Lion (11G63). I have put in all updates. I tried to put my folders into "private" in the Spotlight (b/c I read that might be the problem). Still not working.

Time Machine not backing up. Very slow, essentially hanging. I have 10.7.5 Mac OS X Lion (11G63). I have put in all updates. I tried to put my folders into "private" in the Spotlight (b/c I read that might be the problem). Still not working.
Thanks in advance for any help!

For all things Time Machine see Pondini's excellent information here...
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
Start at Troubleshooting.

Time Machine not backing up full drive

On my macboook pro late 2009 model with mountain lion 10.8.2 time machine will not back up my full drive. I have 56gb use out of 250gb and only 8gb gets backup . How can i get time machine to back up the full 56gb on the first time of setup time machine? I am useing a hard drive connected to my airport extreme. I have the hard drive setup for one big parition. The size of the usb hard drive is 2tb. I have two users on my airport extreme that can access my usb hard drive. One for my macbook pro and one for my mac mini. My mac mini late 2011 model with mountain lion 10.8.2 useing time machine it can back up the full drive. On my mac mini i have 2.5gb used out of 500gb and time machine can back up 2.5gb on the first time i started time machine. But this is not the case for my macbook pro it will not back up the full used space on the first time i setup time machine. How can i fix this so that time machine will backup the full used space?

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

Time Machine backup *incredibly* slow following full restore

I recently suffered a catastrophic failure of my hard disk, but was fortunately able to perform a full restore from TM, to a brand new disk. The restored system is as close to perfect as I would hope, with the usual minor omissions, such as recent mails etc.
However, I am finding it impossible to resume backing up to the TM disk that I was using previously, It takes a fair time to determine what needs to be saved, but then proceeds at a snail's pace - i.e. data saved is being measured in Kb, rather than Gb!
Could this be related to the FAQ issue about re-using the TM backup from a 2nd machine? It doesn't prompt me to re-use anything but I guess it might be getting confused under the covers. If so, is there any way I can 'fool' it into realising that it is still the same machine as before?
Note that I have run Disk Utility on the TM backup disk, and it all seems fine. Note also that I am connecting to the disk using Firewire, as I always have done.

Jim Mcdonald wrote:
I'm in the midst of a full backup using 10.6.3 on a new MBP. I turned it on nearly 4 hours ago, and it's backed up only 2.8 gigs out of 141. Now, that's slow.
Is this related to this thread (first backup after a full restore)? It doesn't seem to be.
What is the destination for your backups? If it's a Time Capsule, via WIFI, it's going to be quite slow, even with an excellent WIFI connection. I'd be inclined to cancel the backup, connect via Ethernet, and start over.
Whatever the destination, try the things in the green box in #D2 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If none of that helps, a clue may be lurking in your logs. Click here to download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. Please start your own thread, with full details, and copy and post all the messages for the backup, too.

Time Machine Not Backing Up New Files

Time Machine is NOT backing up my recent files.
I recently noticed that Time Machine was backing up really quickly instead of taking several minutes as usual. I checked previous backups and discovered that NONE of my recent files were backed up.
I have a very basic setup. An external usb 1 tb drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) being used as the time machine backup drive. A new i5 mac mini with OS X 10.8.4. About 200 gigs of data with one user on the internal drive.
I have followed all of the Pondini troubleshooting steps. I have restarted into safe mode to force a deep traversal. I have repaired permissions and verified all disks with Disk Utility. I have deleted time machine preferences and followed instructions as per Pondini #A4. The backup seems to run but then finishes quickly but DOES NOT BACK UP any recent files.
I have run TMUTIL COMPARE, it showed that many files needed to be backed up.
I have run TMUTIL ISEXCLUDED on some of the files that were not being backed up. It showed that they were not flagged for exclusion.
I have run a manual backup after starting up in Safe Mode, which forced a deep event scan, but then exhibited the same behaviour..
I have acquired a new external hard drive, backed up the complete main drive (using Time Machine which appeared to be successful on the first time full backup), then run a manual backup on that new drive after adding new files and had THE SAME PROBLEM.
Here's the latest console output, which is typical since I have noticed this issue. There appear to be many megabytes of new files to be backed up, but then the operation completes within seconds and no files are backed up at all.
6/23/13 7:15:16.422 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Starting manual backup
6/23/13 7:15:16.966 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Omnius/Backups.backupdb
6/23/13 7:15:17.916 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Using file event preflight for Olympus
6/23/13 7:15:20.277 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Will copy (375.1 MB) from Olympus
6/23/13 7:15:20.298 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Found 845 files (375.1 MB) needing backup
6/23/13 7:15:20.311 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: 1.91 GB required (including padding), 747.18 GB available
6/23/13 7:15:29.264 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Copied 400 files (1.4 MB) from volume Olympus.
6/23/13 7:15:29.298 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Using file event preflight for Olympus
6/23/13 7:15:29.299 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Will copy (Zero KB) from Olympus
6/23/13 7:15:29.300 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Found 5 files (Zero KB) needing backup
6/23/13 7:15:29.301 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: 1.46 GB required (including padding), 747.17 GB available
6/23/13 7:15:30.439 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Copied 140 files (33 bytes) from volume Olympus.
6/23/13 7:15:30.511 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Created new backup: 2013-06-23-071530
6/23/13 7:15:30.608 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Starting post-backup thinning
6/23/13 7:15:30.608 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
6/23/13 7:15:30.689 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Backup completed successfully.
Please help. Time Machine is currently useless as a backup solution.

Results (username obfuscated in exclusionpaths):
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>sourcePaths</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/</string>
          </array>
          <key>standardExclusionPaths</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/.MobileBackups</string>
                    <string>/MobileBackups.trash</string>
                    <string>/.MobileBackups.trash</string>
                    <string>/.Spotlight-V100</string>
                    <string>/.TemporaryItems</string>
                    <string>/.Trashes</string>
                    <string>/.com.apple.backupd.mvlist.plist</string>
                    <string>/.fseventsd</string>
                    <string>/.hotfiles.btree</string>
                    <string>/Backups.backupdb</string>
                    <string>/Desktop DB</string>
                    <string>/Desktop DF</string>
                    <string>/Network/Servers</string>
                    <string>/Library/Updates</string>
                    <string>/Previous Systems</string>
                    <string>/Users/Shared/SC Info</string>
                    <string>/Users/Guest</string>
                    <string>/dev</string>
                    <string>/home</string>
                    <string>/net</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/com.apple.backupd.backupVerification</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/efw_cache</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/Spotlight</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100</string>
                    <string>/private/var/lib/postfix/greylist.db</string>
                    <string>/Volumes</string>
                    <string>/Network</string>
                    <string>/automount</string>
                    <string>/.vol</string>
                    <string>/tmp</string>
                    <string>/cores</string>
                    <string>/private/tmp</string>
                    <string>/private/Network</string>
                    <string>/private/tftpboot</string>
                    <string>/private/var/automount</string>
                    <string>/private/var/folders</string>
                    <string>/private/var/run</string>
                    <string>/private/var/tmp</string>
                    <string>/private/var/vm</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/dhcpclient</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/fseventsd</string>
                    <string>/Library/Caches</string>
                    <string>/Library/Logs</string>
                    <string>/System/Library/Caches</string>
                    <string>/System/Library/Extensions/Caches</string>
                    <string>/private/var/log</string>
                    <string>/private/var/spool/cups</string>
                    <string>/private/var/spool/fax</string>
                    <string>/private/var/spool/uucp</string>
          </array>
          <key>systemFilesExcluded</key>
          <false/>
          <key>userExclusionPaths</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/Users/USERNAME/Pictures/cam_in</string>
                    <string>/Users/USERNAME/Epsilon</string>
                    <string>/Users/USERNAME/Desktop</string>
                    <string>/Users/USERNAME/Pictures/cam_out</string>
          </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Time Machine not backing up my home directory

One day, I came in and booted up my Mac. I began my usual practice of pairing my Bluetooth mouse & keyboard, but this time, it failed to pair. The Bluetooth prefPane was acting weird (beach-balling, garbage characters appearing in the "is the name Bluetooth devices use to connect to this computer" title). I rebooted, and much to my dismay, Bluetooth was no longer detected by the system (both in System Profiler and System Preferences).
I assumed this meant the Bluetooth module was failing. I contacted Apple support, and we concluded that it was in fact the Bluetooth module that was failing, and no the connector cable. I filed a GSX ticket to have the entire display assembly replaced (since that's how these new aluminum uni-body MacBook Pros are built). The Bluetooth module has been failing intermittently, so I cancelled the GSX ticket to do more research (and to make sure it wasn't a software problem with my OS). I planned on doing an Archive & install to see if a new OS fixed it.
I ran a Time Machine backup to make sure I had the latest and greatest copy of my data, and ran an Archive & Install. As expected, the Bluetooth behaved identically in the clean OS, so I rebooted again, and ran a Restore from Time Machine, selected the most recent snapshot I had just created. After the restore completed, the machine rebooted, and an old desktop & Dock greeted me, much to my dismay. I checked and double-checked, and determined that Time Machine had been maintaining a week old copy of my home directory files, but had been continuing to update the rest of my computer (so my Applications folder was up-to-date).
I don't know how Time Machine could think that my Home directory hadn't changed in a week, but now I'm running an extended S.M.A.R.T. scan on the drive to make sure it's not failing. And yes, I made sure my Home directory was not in Time Machine's exclusion list. The reason I think the drive is failing is because when backupd tried to run after I restored from Time Machine, it ground a whole lot, and took forever to backup 90 MB. Like, a lot of grinding to get from 30 KB to 70 KB.
Does anyone know why/how this might've happened?
Message was edited by: Link Dupont
Message was edited by: Link Dupont

Link Dupont wrote:
I'd plug in and run a Time Machine backup about once a day, on average. I've been scouring the logs, and the only thing I notice is the "deep traversal" message, which I'd expect occasionally as it needs to reindex files (especially after a restore).
This also happens if the TM disk isn't dismounted, etc., exactly the way TM expects; or if there's an abnormal power-down. It means TM isn't sure about just exactly what is where, so it looks at every file and folder to be sure.
I've run long S.M.A.R.T. scans on the drive (via smartctl on a Linux LiveCD and SeaTools via a Windows installation), I've run Repair Disk (via Disk Utility) and I've defragmented the filesystem (iDefrag). All the diagnostics come back healthy, and iDefrag had little to do. My gut tells me the drive is failing, but I can't actually prove it. My next step is to reformat the drive and create a new filesystem; I'll see if Time Machine is happy with a clean start.
I'm a MobileMe subscriber, so I downloaded and set up the old .Mac Backup.app, and will be running that daily to shove my important files up to my iDisk (and probably to various other locations), in case backupd decides to choke again, at least I have a backup to my backup.
Good plan. I run CCC daily, in addition to TM's hourly backups, and use Backup to iDisk daily for fairly small stuff, plus others to DVD/RWs kept in my safe deposit box. May seem like overkill, but I've learned, usually the hard way, that when it comes to backups, paranoia is prudent!

Time Machine not backing up iPhoto changes (Events, pictures, etc..)

So I finally decided to buy a external hard drive (WD) and backup some of my data to it using Time Machine. The initial backup went well with no problems but what I noticed is as I added events and pictures they were not appearing in Time Machine.
I could open time machine and view that my iPhoto had the current events when the date selected was "Today (now)", but as I went back in time the events that SHOULD of been there were not.
Browsing the folders on the backups showed the iPhoto database to be 13.5gb when actually the new size on my iMac was 19.5gb.
So why does Time Machine not detect these changes? For my backups I have excluded all folders except for the Users folder which contains the iPhoto library. Time Machine is not detecting the changes and backing it up. How can I fix this?

Yeah. At first I thought it was:
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/D5.html
Because I was doing that earlier. But then realized I did repair permissions, not disk. But anyways decided to reboot (because I haven't up to this point).
Once it came back up I tried doing another backup. Didn't see it. Opened iPhoto again and exited it (checked Force Quit to make sure it wasn't open). Told it to do a BACKUP NOW. This time it saw a difference of like 7mb.
After it was done, went to iPhoto -> File -> Browse Backups. Went back a couple minutes when I did the backup and my event now has a place holder within the Events but it is pure black. I double clicked the event and it opened up and saw there were 3 files in there. They had default icons and were not showing as pictures like they were. (even though they display fine in iPhoto).
Time Machine seems very flakey to me. My machine is fully updated also.

Time Machine not backing up all documents

I have a 13-inch Macbook Pro Retina display, on which I run OSX 10.9.5. I use Time Machine to back up on an external Thunderbolt drive. I have not excluded anything from my back up through the Time Machine options. Nonetheless, Time Machine arbitrary fails to back up some 30% of my files, as I discovered when I tried recently to restore my system and files. Entire folders were missing from my desktop, one of them with 40 gigabytes of files. Other folders were incomplete. A few applications were missing as well, and, oddly, almost all my utilities, including Terminal and Console. (Luckily I had backed up elsewhere using the apparently more reliable program Super Duper.) Can anyone tell me what might be going on?

Start D10 with in the 1st linked article.
Time Machine Troubleshooting
Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems

Time Machine not backing up/failed/skipping hourly backups

I had an issue with my mac after upgrading recently to Mavericks from Lion and took the machine to Apple who sorted out the problem. When I brought the computer home and reconnected everything, my Time Machine backup failed. After various attempts at fixing I decided the problem was the external HD and wiped the drive to redo a fresh backup of my system. Unfortunately this didn't fix the problem, so off to Apple again.
They checked drive and said it was OK, did a backup of my system in store and off I went. Have reconnected everything again and have now TM skips the hourly backup. I've also had backup fail again (firstly error 11, then error 2). I shut computer down and restarted machine and managed to do a manual backup, then the first hourly backup went OK, then it skipped again. I have managed to do a manual backup, but am now at my wits end. Not sure if my external HD is failing. I am running OSX 10.9.2 on imac G5.
Any help would be great as I'm a technophobe and am worried about messing with things I don't understand.

Hi Linc
It's gone again. Here's a copy of the log.
03/06/2014 10:39:59.623 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Starting automatic backup
03/06/2014 10:39:59.966 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Backing up to /dev/disk1s2: /Volumes/G-DRIVE mobile USB/Backups.backupdb
03/06/2014 10:40:03.122 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Will copy (5.62 GB) from Mac HD
03/06/2014 10:40:03.138 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Found 152 files (5.62 GB) needing backup
03/06/2014 10:40:03.149 com.apple.backupd[9599]: 8.02 GB required (including padding), 338.66 GB available
03/06/2014 10:52:14.000 kernel[0]: USBF:    6471.127    AppleUSBEHCI::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfa, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 2)
03/06/2014 10:52:20.000 kernel[0]: USBF:    6477.134    AppleUSBEHCI::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5000 milliseconds on bus 0xfa, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 0)
03/06/2014 10:52:26.000 kernel[0]: USBF:    6483.140    AppleUSBEHCI::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5000 milliseconds on bus 0xfa, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 0)
03/06/2014 10:52:57.000 kernel[0]: USBF:    6514.174    AppleUSBEHCI::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfa, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 2)
03/06/2014 10:57:32.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:57:37.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:57:43.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:57:48.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:57:54.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:57:59.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:58:04.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:58:10.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:58:15.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:58:21.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:58:26.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:58:31.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:58:37.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:58:37.000 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x5
03/06/2014 10:58:37.000 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: write_journal_header: error writing the journal header!
03/06/2014 10:59:04.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:59:31.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 10:59:58.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:00:41.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:00:57.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:01:35.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:01:51.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:02:28.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:02:39.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:03:06.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:03:16.791 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
03/06/2014 11:03:25.157 xpcproxy[10200]: assertion failed: 13C1021: xpcproxy + 3438 [D559FC96-E6B1-363A-B850-C7AC9734F210]: 0x2
03/06/2014 11:03:53.229 WindowServer[104]: _CGXHWCaptureWindowList: No capable active display found.
03/06/2014 11:04:11.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:04:22.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:04:32.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:05:10.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:05:32.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:05:32.123 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
03/06/2014 11:05:32.123 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/SWB/Documents/uTorrent Downloads/Orange Is The New Black S01 WEBRip x264-FU[ettv]/Orange.Is.The.New.Black.S01E09.WEBRip.x264-FU.mp4 to /Volumes/G-DRIVE mobile USB/Backups.backupdb/*********’s iMac/2014-06-03-104001.inProgress/ACA81795-2173-4D21-AD41-CF078987011E/Mac HD/Users/SWB/Documents/uTorrent Downloads/Orange Is The New Black S01 WEBRip x264-FU[ettv]
03/06/2014 11:10:28.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:10:33.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:16.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:21.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:26.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:32.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:37.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:43.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:48.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:53.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:12:59.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:13:04.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:13:09.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:13:15.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:13:20.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:13:26.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:13:31.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:13:36.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:18:33.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:18:38.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:15.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:20.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:26.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:31.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:35.314 WindowServer[104]: CGXDisplayDidWakeNotification [8171649025396]: posting kCGSDisplayDidWake
03/06/2014 11:20:35.315 WindowServer[104]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: Deferring.
03/06/2014 11:20:35.991 xpcproxy[10206]: assertion failed: 13C1021: xpcproxy + 3438 [D559FC96-E6B1-363A-B850-C7AC9734F210]: 0x2
03/06/2014 11:20:36.407 com.apple.dock.extra[274]: <NSXPCConnection: 0x7fd0c866daa0>: received an undecodable message (no exported object to receive message). Dropping message.
03/06/2014 11:20:37.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:42.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:47.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:53.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:20:57.183 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:20:57.229 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:20:58.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:21:03.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:21:09.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:21:14.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:21:17.464 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:21:17.489 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:21:19.748 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:21:20.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:21:25.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:21:30.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:21:36.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:26:16.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:27:58.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:04.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:09.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:14.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:20.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:25.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:31.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:36.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:41.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:47.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:52.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:28:58.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:29:03.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:29:08.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:29:14.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:29:19.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:34:15.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:34:21.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:34:21.254 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Stopping backup.
03/06/2014 11:35:53.250 WindowServer[104]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "System Preferences" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
03/06/2014 11:35:53.460 com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[10243]: assertion failed: 13C1021: liblaunch.dylib + 25164 [38D1AB2C-A476-385F-8EA8-7AB604CA1F89]: 0x25
03/06/2014 11:35:53.474 com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[10243]: assertion failed: 13C1021: liblaunch.dylib + 25164 [38D1AB2C-A476-385F-8EA8-7AB604CA1F89]: 0x25
03/06/2014 11:35:54.121 com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice[10243]: Bogus event received by listener connection:
<error: 0x7fff7485db50> { count = 1, contents =
          "XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff7485de60> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
03/06/2014 11:35:54.609 WindowServer[104]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "System Preferences" after 2.36 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
03/06/2014 11:36:03.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:09.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:14.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:15.549 xpcproxy[10252]: assertion failed: 13C1021: xpcproxy + 3438 [D559FC96-E6B1-363A-B850-C7AC9734F210]: 0x2
03/06/2014 11:36:16.982 WindowServer[104]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Safari" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
03/06/2014 11:36:18.042 WindowServer[104]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Safari" after 2.06 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
03/06/2014 11:36:19.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:25.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:30.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:35.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:41.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:46.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:52.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:36:57.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:37:02.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:37:07.862 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:37:07.900 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:37:08.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:37:10.494 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:37:13.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:37:18.450 Finder[165]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, " �?�".
03/06/2014 11:37:19.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:37:22.508 Console[10263]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored.
03/06/2014 11:37:24.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:42:20.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:42:26.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:42:26.086 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
03/06/2014 11:42:26.087 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/SWB/Documents/uTorrent Downloads/Orange Is The New Black S01 WEBRip x264-FU[ettv]/Orange.Is.The.New.Black.S01E09.WEBRip.x264-FU.mp4 to /Volumes/G-DRIVE mobile USB/Backups.backupdb/********https://discussions.apple.com/people/deendas170’s iMac/2014-06-03-104001.inProgress/ACA81795-2173-4D21-AD41-CF078987011E/Mac HD/Users/SWB/Documents/uTorrent Downloads/Orange Is The New Black S01 WEBRip x264-FU[ettv]
03/06/2014 11:42:26.087 com.apple.backupd[9599]: Copied 3.45 GB of 5.62 GB, 696 of 696 items
03/06/2014 11:42:30.746 SystemUIServer[164]: Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStorePaths failed: (268451843) (ipc/rcv) timed out
03/06/2014 11:44:08.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:13.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:19.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:24.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:29.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:35.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:40.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:46.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:51.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:44:56.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:45:02.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:45:07.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:45:13.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:45:18.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:45:23.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
03/06/2014 11:45:29.000 kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
It's now stuck stopping. Please help!
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Time Machine not backing up 2nd external drive, remove option grayed out

I have two external hard drives, 300gb (firewire) and 500gb (usb). Time Machine is backing up to the 300gb. In Time Machine's options, the 500gb is excluded from being backed up, and the remove option is grayed out.
The 300gb Time Machine Backup drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended. The 500gb drive is formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32).
I know the backup drive needs to be formatted as Mac OS Extended, but will it not even back up other drives that are FAT32?

I am having a similar problem. I initially set it up 3 days ago and had it back up just the iMac to Time Capsule (about 120 GB) which it did no problem (I initially had my LaCie drive excluded). I then un-excluded my other drive, where all my photos and music reside (about 130 GB). Since then, it keeps trying to back up about 102 GB each time. Looking at the list of backups it does not appear that it has ever successfully backed up the LaCie. I am not aware of any error messages, but I have not been home much. I normally shut down the computer at night but I have been leaving it on trying to let Time Machine do its thing. All I can say is that every time I am at the computer TM is running and it always looks like it is in the middle of backing up 102 GB (usually seems to be near the beginning, never seem to see it more than halfway done). Looking at the TM panel it says the latest backup was 2 days ago. I'd appreciate any advice!

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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.
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.
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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.
Will the daily or weekly back up get the new music files?
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.
First, check TM Preferences > Options. Be sure nothing is listed there that would prevent any iTunes data from being backed-up.
If you still don't see them, download the TimeTracker app, from www.charlessoft.com.
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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
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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.
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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.

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I have a 2011 iMac with two internal hard drives---a 2TB HDD and 256GB solid state.
I plugged in a 3TB FW800 external to use with Time Machine.
Based on adding up the used space from both drives as seen in disk utility (totalling 1537.36 GB), it doesn't appear that Time Machine is backing everything up (total backup of 1.49 TB).
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Taylor

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
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sudo tmutil compare
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Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
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At the end of the output, you’ll get some lines like the following:
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