Time Machine not working with Verbatim USB2TB External HDD

MacBook Pro
15-inch, Mid 2010
8GB Ram
OS 10.8.2
No updates available ATT.
Problem with Time Machine using Verbatim USB2TB (Verbatim # 96865) external hard drive in regular and safe boot. According to the Verbatim website, this external drive is compatiable with MAC OS 10+ and can be formatted to the specific Mac filesystems.
The following list of events below happen irregardless of running in regular or safe boot, so I noted my last attempt at a backup while in Safe Boot.
Before this last attempt, I successfully zeroed out the data on the drive in regular boot.
As you will see below, the drive works just fine until Time Machine gets it grimy digits on it and kills it like South Park kills Kenny.
---- Begin ----
Started in Safe Boot
Connected and powered on the external drive.
Erased the drive and formatted it to Extended Journaled. Partition was successfully created.
Verifying partition map for “SAMSUNG HD203WI Media”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition’s size
Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
The partition map appears to be OK
Verifying volume “Big2TB”
Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Big2TB appears to be OK.
Successfully copied over 2.8 GB of random data. (Screenshot)
Deleted the data and then emptied the Trash.
Started Time Machine backup.
Time Machine Created a backup folder on the external drive.
Time Machine started to transfer data then hung at 452.1 MB of 257.66 GB.
Backup failed.
--- Console ---
1/13/13 11:57:59.988 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Starting manual backup
1/13/13 11:58:04.581 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: User continued after being warned of changed destination volume identity
1/13/13 11:58:04.623 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb
1/13/13 11:58:04.628 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
1/13/13 11:58:05.156 AM mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
1/13/13 11:58:06.336 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "MainMan" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 8A3A5598-7C8B-3753-ABA8-D980E60299A3 eventDBUUID: 23107488-4BC9-49FB-818D-226AE695DE06)
1/13/13 11:58:23.346 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backup content size: 246.45 GB excluded items size: 12.21 GB for volume MainMan
1/13/13 11:58:23.368 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Found 910640 files (234.23 GB) needing backup
1/13/13 11:58:23.370 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: 281.08 GB required (including padding), 2 TB available
1/13/13 11:58:23.388 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 11:59:23.443 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:00:02.530 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowInfo: Invalid window 1045
1/13/13 12:00:02.530 PM Dock[259]: CGSBindWindow: Unable to obtain window information
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x415
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1044
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x414
1/13/13 12:00:02.532 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1043
1/13/13 12:00:02.532 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x413
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowType: Invalid window 1066
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: Invalid depth WindowID 0x42a
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x42a
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1065
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x429
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1064
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x428
1/13/13 12:00:23.497 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:01:23.549 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:01:44.830 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpcd.F5010000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[1541]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/13/13 12:01:44.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1541 [xpcd]
1/13/13 12:01:49.000 PM kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
1/13/13 12:01:49.000 PM kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
1/13/13 12:02:15.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7419.448          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 2)
1/13/13 12:02:21.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7425.451          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 0)
1/13/13 12:02:27.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7431.454          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 0)
1/13/13 12:02:58.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7462.473          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 2)
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowInfo: Invalid window 1196
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM Dock[259]: CGSBindWindow: Unable to obtain window information
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4ac
1/13/13 12:05:37.069 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1195
1/13/13 12:05:37.069 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4ab
1/13/13 12:05:37.070 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1194
1/13/13 12:05:37.070 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4aa
1/13/13 12:06:34.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:39.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:44.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:50.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:55.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:01.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:11.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:17.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:22.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x5
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 389120 bytes to the journal!
1/13/13 12:07:54.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:08:21.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:08:21.820 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/{CFA1AAD1-DC10-413D-875E-2F5B8A78CB3B}.zip to /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins/2013-01-13-115805.inProgress/376C91 FB-29D6-47F1-A29B-67D94CBD01BA/MainMan/Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles
1/13/13 12:08:23.122 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Stopping backup.
1/13/13 12:08:23.122 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/{CFA1AAD1-DC10-413D-875E-2F5B8A78CB3B}.zip to /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins/2013-01-13-115805.inProgress/376C91 FB-29D6-47F1-A29B-67D94CBD01BA/MainMan/Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles
1/13/13 12:08:23.136 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Copied 817 files (572.1 MB) from volume MainMan.
1/13/13 12:08:23.136 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Copy stage failed with error:11
1/13/13 12:08:23.174 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins size:37
1/13/13 12:08:33.228 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backup failed with error: 11
1/13/13 12:08:48.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:09:15.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
---- End console ---
Attempted to copy over 2.8 GB of random data again. Failed.
Now the drive is completely useless until it is erased. Also will not eject properly anymore. Force eject took 3 minutes.
--- Console ---
1/13/13 12:19:00.248 PM mtmfs[1555]: filesystem unmount attempted from stopFS
1/13/13 12:19:31.946 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:19:31.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:19:32.187 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:19:32.910 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Disk Utility" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
1/13/13 12:19:35.129 PM WindowServer[114]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Disk Utility" after 3.22 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
1/13/13 12:20:05.375 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:05.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:20:05.390 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.153 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.153 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:20:48.102 PM diskarbitrationd[49]: mds [34]:20995 not responding.
1/13/13 12:21:04.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:04.451 PM com.apple.kextd[11]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 339.
1/13/13 12:21:14.854 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x7b5
1/13/13 12:21:14.854 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: kCGErrorFailure: CGSSetHideOnDeact: error getting window tags
1/13/13 12:21:15.372 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSCopyWindowColorSpace: Invalid window 0x7b5
1/13/13 12:21:22.606 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "com.apple.security.pboxd" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
1/13/13 12:21:23.060 PM com.apple.quicklook.satellite[1657]: bootstrap_look_up2 failed with 0x44c
1/13/13 12:21:23.081 PM mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
1/13/13 12:21:23.090 PM WindowServer[114]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "com.apple.security.pboxd" after 1.48 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
1/13/13 12:21:23.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(1658) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
1/13/13 12:21:26.021 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSReleaseWindow: Invalid window 1973
1/13/13 12:21:26.021 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: _NXTermWindow: error releasing window (1000)
1/13/13 12:21:27.775 PM sandboxd[1658]: ([1657]) QuickLookSatelli(1657) deny mach-lookup com.apple.PowerManagement.control
1/13/13 12:21:52.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:57.967 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:21:57.967 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:21:57.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:58.229 PM com.apple.kextd[11]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 339.
1/13/13 12:21:58.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: close: journal 0xffffff800908acc0, is invalid. aborting outstanding transactions
--- End Console ---
---- That's all folks! ----
Any help would be great!

The external drive is malfunctioning, or the data cable is bad, or you have another malfunctioning device on the bus, or there's an internal hardware fault.

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      Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the
      partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until
      the process has completed.
d. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side
      list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
e. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the
      button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
f. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to an hour depending upon the flash
     drive size.
3. Locate the saved Mountain/Lion installer in your Downloads folder. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the installer and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Double-click on the Contents folder to open it. Double-click on the SharedSupport folder. In this folder you will see a disc image named InstallESD.dmg.
4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the content of the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
a. Double-click on the InstallESD.dmg file to mount it on your Desktop.
b. Open Disk Utility.
c. Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
d. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
e. Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
f. Drag the mounted disc icon from the Desktop into the Source entry field.
g. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable installer that you can use without having to re-download Mountain/Lion.
Note: The term Mountain/Lion used above means Lion or Mountain Lion.
As an alternative to the above (you still have to do your own download of Lion/Mountain Lion) you can try using Lion DiskMaker 2.0 that automates the process of Steps 2 through 4.

Time Machine not working after ethernet card failed

A couple of weeks back my iMac Core Duo's ethernet failed. As a logic board replacement for a 3.5 year old iMac would be expensive I instead bought an Apple USB Ethernet adapter (which works great). However, now Time Machine will not work, it says it cannot find the built in network interface. It does not matter whether I connect the external drive directly via firewire or over the network to my Mac Mini (which will backup with either connection).
Here is the console error:
+Time Machine: Error setting backup path: Error Domain=com.apple.TimeMachine.Preferences Code=-1 UserInfo=0x1864bdf0 "Time Machine could not be configured. The built-in network interface could not be found."+
+_CSBackupGetMachineMACAddress - IOServiceGetMatchingServices did not find an ethernet service with kIOPrimaryInterface true+
I tried the instructions on the Apple Support page http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275#5, but that did not work. Can anyone help?

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
It's a long shot, but try a "Full Reset" of Time Machine, per item #B3 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.
TM uses your Mac's Ethernet Address, which is embedded in the hardware of, guess what, your logic board, to identify your computer. This is how it keeps the backups for each Mac separate, so you can back-up more than one Mac to the same place without conflicts.
To find this address, use the System Profiler app (click the Apple icon at the left of your Menubar, then +About this Mac,+ then +More Info.+
Select Network in the sidebar, then Ethernet then find a line like this: +*MAC Address: 0a:1b:2c:3d:4e:5f+* That code, omitting the colons, is what TM puts in a hidden file on your TM volume to identify it as your Mac's backups.
Since your internal Ethernet card failed, you may not see that at all. If not, neither, apparently, can Time Machine. Other than getting a new logic board, I don't think there's a workaround.

After upgrade to Snow Leopard, Time Machine not working

Hi all,
About two days ago I upgraded my MacBook 4.1 to Snow Leopard.
Now Time Machine cannot backup to my external HDD anymore. One error message stated that it would not fine the settings file.
Please help.
What do I need to do to get my backups working again?
Thank you

Pondini - I have an issue too. And so I went to the troubleshooting tips you listed here and was not able to find a solution. Specifically, I don't get a message. I plain ole don't get nothing. After I installed Snow my first backup failed. Funny thing is the backup on my wifes computer also failed. She does not have an Intel Mac. It's a PowerBook G4. Hence no Snow Leopard there. I have a iMac 24 Aluminum. My Time Capsule backup worked fine until Snow. My TC is wired via ethernet. There is no latest date. When Time Machine backup starts the TM preference pane says it's "Making disk available" Something to that effect. And that's where it stays. If I then try to do anything with the preference panel - like close it - I find out the Preferences are not responding. So I force quit. I try to stop Time Machine backups and it's no good. The TM indicator - that little backwards running clock - in the menu bar just keeps on it's merry little way. The only way to stop it - shutdown. Strange thing is shutdown then refuses to - well, shutdown. I end up having to hold the power button for 5 seconds. I don't get error messages. I get nothing indicating what may be causing this problem. I have been searching these and other forums looking for an answer. I had hoped the user tips you listed would have a solution, but, alas, no. I deleted the timemachine plist in the "higher" library. No luck. I have powered down everything. No luck. Those were two ideas I saw that said they worked. So where do I go from here? Where do I look for error messages that will point me in the right direction? I'd appreciate any help from anybody.

Time Machine stopped working after using two external drives

I'm using a MacPro OS x 10.5.8. I started using Time Machine in April 2011 to back up my files to a 2TB Lacie external drive connected via firewire. Everything has been working fine until recently. A friend needed some files transfered from Seagate 1TB to another external drive. I bought a Lacie 1TB USB 3 drive and connected it to my Mac to make the file transfer. After doing this I noticed that the generic drive icon for my 2TB Lacie backup drive had disappeared. I could see the generic icon for the new 1TB Lacie drive. Then I noticed a Lacie icon on my desktop. I clicked on it and found it was my 2TB backup drive.
I decided to check Time Machine to see if it was still working properly. When I tried to restore to a previous time, the restore button stayed grayed out and didn't respond. Other times it would light up and respond when I clicked on it but I got an error message. I would like to restore my system back before I connected the two ext hard drives used for file transfering in case that was what caused the problem. Could connecting another new Lacie 1TB USB 3 external drive have caused my problem? I haven't had this problem with other external drives.

First, merely connecting another drive could not have caused Time Machine to stop working.
Since your backup is in a doubtful state, your highest priority should be to protect your data by making another backup to a different drive. You need more than one backup anyway. Connect an empty drive, select it in the TM preference pane, and start a new backup set. Once that's done, I suggest you run "Repair Disk" in Disk Utility on the old backup volume.

Time Machine stopped working with new Mac address.

Greetings,
I have an IOMEGA 500, FireWire which I used to use for Time Machine. I now have a new Mac address and do not have access to the old Mac address. Is there any way that I can get the IOMEGA to start working with Time Machine? If so please give me step by steps instructions on how to make this external hard drive work again with Time Machine.
Any help is most appreciated.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

macuserr222 wrote:
Greetings,
I have an IOMEGA 500, FireWire which I used to use for Time Machine. I now have a new Mac address
Do you have a new Mac, or a new logic board? Either will get you a new MAC (Media Access Control) address, which Time Machine interprets as a different Mac.
Do you mean you haven't started doing backups of the new Mac, and want to view the old ones? If so, see #E2 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
If you want to use the old backups to set up a new Mac, see [Setting up a new Mac from an old one or its backups|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
When you do your first backup, OSX should ask how you want to handle the old backups. See #B5 in Troubleshooting for details.
If that's not what you mean, please explain exactly what's going on, and what happens when you try to do whatever you're doing.
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Does Time Machine ONLY work with Time Capsule?

Hiya-
I've got a La Cie big ethernet disk that I've been using for my back-ups and finally stumbled across time machine and thought it would work better than the La Cie back-up software, however Time Machine doesn't seem to want to know anything about any other mounted disks unless they're through an airport.
My ethernet disk is connected through a netgear router and mounts just fine on my pwr book.
I am doing something wrong or is this just a nifty system feature to coax folks into buying a time capsule (even if they're on a pc!).
Cheers in advance,
tripp

MrSunshine wrote:
Hello Pondini,
I am able to back up fine with an external disk attached via USB directly to my MBP. This is a OS X formatted disk from WD. But TM does not back up if I connect the disk to my Airport Extreme (via USB).
It sounds from your comment that there is a way around this ... could you please explain how I should use the terminal command?
Be extremely careful when using Terminal. It is a direct interface into UNIX, the underpinning of OSX. There are few protections against making a mistake, which can cause untold damage.
Open the Terminal app (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
In Terminal, the prompt looks like this: user-xxxxxx:~ <your name>$
(where <your name> is your short user name). It's followed by a non-blinking block cursor (unless it's been changed via Terminal > Preferences).
Copy the following, exactly, after the prompt, then press Return:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Time Machine Not Backing Up to an External Hard Drive - Error 11

Hi!
I am unable to backup my MacBook with my external Hard Drive. My Mac is a fairly new machine (September 2009) and I have backed up since upgrading to Snow Leopard previously but I cannot backup at all at the moment.
I have run disk utility and repair completed without any issues, in fact it told me that the drive was running ok. I have also reformatted my drive (mac os extended (journaled) ) and made sure the partition is GUID. The following is the message that appears when the backup fails:
"The backup was not performed because an error occured while copying the files to the backup disk. The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use disk utility to repair your backup disk."
I have had a look at the log using the Time Machine Widget and the following is what has been generated:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/MAC/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
Backup content size: 100.2 GB excluded items size: 85.9 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 17.11 GB requested (including padding), 148.45 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/crox3tbo.pcf.gz, /Volumes/MAC/Backups.backupdb/Eric O'Mahony’s MacBook/2010-05-02-210743.inProgress/E450C379-52F6-48A3-99D7-F45043074122/Macin tosh HD/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/crox3tbo.pcf.gz
Aborting backup because indexing of file failed.
Stopping backup.
Copied 158300 files (12.5 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
The problems seems to be with indexing a file....a font?? Can anyone help me? It is driving me crazy and I need to backup my files.
Thank you for your help!

ericomahony wrote:
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/crox3tbo.pcf.gz,
The problems seems to be with indexing a file....a font??
Yes, indeed. Start by just excluding it, per the blue box in #C3 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If the backup then runs ok, you'll need to figure out what's wrong with that file.
If you get another error, see the rest of #C3.

HT1175 3TB time capsule not working with new iMac

I have a 3TB time capsule that's c. 2 years old. It worked perfectly with my old iMac. I bought a new 27" one when it came out this year and since the time capsule will not work.
I had to clear all the data as a starter. Now it gets a little into the backup taking c. 1 day then resets. It's connected via ethernet cable and has been told to join an existing network.
Currently it says it's backing up 922,498 items, after 2 hours (this is the third attempt, it resets then has no record of the old backup) it says 10kb of 789.44 GB - About 4,664,440 days remaining!!
To clarify I'm trying to use Time Machine with the Time Capsule.
Please help!!

You have made a mistake in the setup.
You do not "Join an existing networking" and use ethernet.. they are mutually exclusive.
What you are doing is backing up over double hop wireless which is slowing to a crawl.
You need to put the TC into bridge mode.. and plug it into the main router by ethernet. Then use wiretess to the TC if you are too far away or ethernet if you are close by..
As soon as you put the TC into join a wireless network it deactivates the ethernet.

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