Time Machine on WD MyCloud - DMG Problem

Hello,
Recently I've bought an external drive: WD MyCloud, which is connected to my wireless router by ethernet so I can access it anywhere.
Inside of WD Software there is Time Machine options, I've just enabled and then I've set on OS X Time Machine on to the WD MyCloud.
The first "problem" is that is on DMG file and I'm not sure if its the best option, because when I use to backup up on TM to other external drive, the backup was made into normal folders and then I could just go to a specific date (without opening time machine functionality on OS X) and just restore a file.
Now I can't do anything with that DMG (not mount), but I'm able to access to files over TM functionality on OS X .
The second "problem" is that every 3 days it says me that TM needs to create a new backup to increase the "reliability" of the backups and when I access time machine to restore its like it restarted and deleted everything.
What am I doing wrong and how to fix it?
Thank you in advance,
Sílvio

Time Machine and the drive you bought are not compatible, if you want to use a NAS, use a Time Capsule.

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Ciao Ragazzi ho un problema a cui non riesco a venire a capo.
improvvisamente time machine ha smesso di funzionare va veramente lento a fare backup. Copia pochi kb alla volta e impiega tanto tempo ore per chiudere il backup. (backup di poche decine di mega, 10, 20 Mb).
Ho effettuato le seguenti prove che vi elenco di seguito insieme al file log.
Prima di tutto ho fatto una copia come utente root con Carbon Copy cloner del disco del imac.(in maniera tale di poter tornare indietro in caso di disastro)
Seguendo le guide di Pondini (pondini.org) ho effettuato i seguenti passaggi:
1) Cambiato internfaccia del disco rigido da FW800 a USB (non cambia nulla, sempre lento)
2) Cambiato hd esterno con un altro per time machine con FW800 e USB (non cambia nulla sempre lento)
3) Ricreato il full Backup con time machine su entrambe i dischi (sempre lento)
4) Reinstallato il Combo pack 10.6.8 (sempre lento)
5) Re indicizzato con spootlight il disco (sempre lento)
6) A questo punto preso dalla disperazione ho reinstallato sul disco interno del mio imac il 10.6.8 creando un nuovo utente, Assistente migrazione utente dal mio hd clonato con Carbon copy cloner. Ricreato il backup completo con time machine.
Il primo full backup è veloce, ma i backup incrementali sono tornati lentissimi (come all' inizio pochi kb alla volta).
Ho confrontato il file log con quelli di un mio altro mac con la stessa configurazione ed ho trovato questi errori:
backupd[19376]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
mdworker32[20950]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Sapete darmi aiuto? Ho visto che questo errore è presente dal 10.5 al 10.7 ma nessuno ha trovato una vera soluzione alla questione.
Non ho mai installato software antivirus ed ho provato con diversi dischi esterni copn capacità uguale o superiore al disco esterno. Solo alla fine ho provato a dividere il disco esterno del backup in due parti una da 1,5TB e una da 500 Gb ma con i medesimi errori che vi ho descritto.
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Thanks for the quick response.
I followed the steps you listed and also remove the files that were creating problems spootlight, including the audio plugin and the panel preferences file.
Then I stopped by the timemachine reindexed spootlight 'option in the preferences panel spootight privacy. After I restarted my iMac and formatted the external drive again, Time Machine and restarting a full backup. This morning after a quick full backup and disk indexing completed incremental backups are always slow. Proceeds with a few kb at a time. I resend you the log files and screen capture. My iMac is constantly backed up.
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Jan 10 02:30:55 ihomez mdworker32[1098]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 02:38:32 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[937]: FontImporter: Validation failed - "/Users/home/Library/Fonts Disabled/MT Extra".
Jan 10 02:38:32 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[937]: FontImporter: Validation Result - "<CFArray 0x10256a570 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 5, values = (\n    0 : <CFString 0x104eb5af8 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityInformation"}\n    1 : <CFString 0x104eb5b18 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityTechnicalError"}\n    2 : <CFString 0x104eb5b58 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMajorError"}\n    3 : <CFString 0x104eb5b78 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityFatalError"}\n    4 : <CFString 0x104eb5b38 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMinorError"}\n)}".
Jan 10 02:38:55 ihomez mdworker[937]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 02:38:56 ihomez mdworker32[1115]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 03:09:44 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 517.9 GB of 990.4 GB, 651137 of 1771170 items
Jan 10 04:09:45 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 723.7 GB of 990.4 GB, 787449 of 1771170 items
Jan 10 05:09:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 947.2 GB of 990.4 GB, 789860 of 1771170 items
Jan 10 05:20:55 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 790597 files (982.2 GB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan 10 05:32:32 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.60 GB requested (including padding), 873.52 GB available
Jan 10 05:33:14 ihomez mdworker[1452]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 05:35:07: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Jan 10 05:35:36 ihomez backupd[479]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 05:35:45 ihomez mdworker[1475]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 05:59:42 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 699486 files (1.9 MB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Backup completed successfully.
Jan 10 07:10:09 ihomez com.apple.backupd[1752]: Starting standard backup
Jan 10 07:10:09 ihomez com.apple.backupd[1752]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeMachine LA/Backups.backupdb

HT201250 Time Machine Solution to Microsoft Word Problem

Can Time Machine be used to remedy a problem with Microsoft word for MAC? Suddenly, any new or revised document in "Word" cannot be saved. Word freezes when I'm trying to save a document. I went into Time Machine and clicked on word to resolve the problem, but it just duplicated what I already saved. Is there any way to get back to where the Microsoft Word Program was using Time Machine? Please help. Another question: If I uninstall and reinstall "word", can I use the same product ID to reinstall the program?

OK - this is solved.
I followed the instructions from the right hand column under "Re: I cannot enter time machine when I press the icon to enter time machine".
Basically it was some sort of disply glitch. Unplugging the Cinema Display and restarting the computer allowed the system to enter the "outer space" view again.
Plugging in the Cinema Display again hasn't recreated the problem.
Thanks for helping out.

Time machine and hard drive space problems

It's a long story, but in a nutshell...I've had some problems with my time machine backups on my external hard drive and my MacBook Pro has been taking a long time time boot up. So, I decided to wipeout the backups on my external by deleting them (I know that's a bad idea) and then I started to transfer all the stuff from my MacBook Pro that I wanted to backup, and now I have ran out of room on the external (1TB) drive. However, the space that is being used doesn't seem to match what should be available. There is around 200gb (I think) that isn't accounted for.....is there some hidden stuff I might have missed?

johnl927 is suggesting you wipe your external hard drive to remove any ghost files or errors in the file system. That would be the fastest and least time consuming way to go.
Your alternative is to run Disk Utility, verify disk and the partitions of the external hard drive, and if still in doubt verify permissions. The disk may sometimes claim to have less free space than really available because at some point in the past your computer or else where you plugged it in forgot to do some general housekeeping on the external hard drive.

Time Machine fails repeatedly with no problem detected on the external disk

Since a couple of days, Time Machine fails repeatedly, several times a day. I repair the disk with the Disk utility, that finds no error, then I reset Time Machine as indicated, and after one or two successful backups, it fails again, with the following report given by the Time Machine Buddy widget:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Copies de sauvegarde Time machine/Backups.backupdb
Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.ModelID path:/Volumes/Copies de sauvegarde Time machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac de MM size:8
Error: (-50) Creating directory 2010-09-22-231449.inProgress
Failed to make snapshot container.
Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.ModelID path:/Volumes/Copies de sauvegarde Time machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac de MM size:8
Backup failed with error: 2
I insist, the disk utility doesn't find any problem in the external USB disk. Should I reinstall the OS?
Thanks a lot for any help!
Best regards
Mauricio

This is the message after the ejection failure:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Copies de sauvegarde Time machine/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 5.63 GB requested (including padding), 541.66 GB available
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Device not configured
Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/mauriciomilchberg/Movies/Evenements iMovie/Nouvel événement/Edgar 4.mov to /Volumes/Copies de sauvegarde Time machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac de Mauricio Milchberg/2010-09-24-025248.inProgress/5034B0A3-F84E-4992-A7B8-8B9166E9AD42/Mac intosh HD/Users/mauriciomilchberg/Movies/Evenements iMovie/Nouvel événement
Stopping backupd because the backup volume was ejected!
Stopping backup.
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/mauriciomilchberg/Movies/Evenements iMovie/Nouvel événement/Edgar 4.mov to /Volumes/Copies de sauvegarde Time machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac de Mauricio Milchberg/2010-09-24-025248.inProgress/5034B0A3-F84E-4992-A7B8-8B9166E9AD42/Mac intosh HD/Users/mauriciomilchberg/Movies/Evenements iMovie/Nouvel événement
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
Copied 4768 files (2.8 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
Copy stage failed with error:11
The word "événement" has been written not by me, but by the translation.
Anyway, I'll follow your advice and start with the combo.
Thans a lot again.
Best regards
Mauricio

"Time Machine completed successfully", restart. Problem - Does not boot?

Time machine is on an external HD - works fine. Installed a new 1TB HD into a Dual PPC G5 MAC. Used Leopard disk to go to UTILITIES - PARTITION - ERASE on the new HD. Everything looked good. I then RESTORED FROM BACKUP under UTILITIES. I did not reinstall the Leopard OS from the disc, since it was on time machine. Proceeded to restore and after two hours, I got a message that stated "RESTORE COMPLETE SUCCESSFULLY", restart computer. Took out the Leopard disc, restarted computer and that is where I experienced the following. PROBLEM: On booting, I hear the music; then get the gray apple; then get the gear going around for a few minutes; then black screen; then the process starts over again. It will just keep up this loop until pressing the power off. Got out the leopard disc. Went to UTILITIES - REPAIR DISC - "appears ok". Then REPAIRED PERMISSIONS - Warning - came back with four SUID files that were modified but not repaired. It stated that permissions were repaired. I look at the new HD in UTILITIES and it looks like 204GB of data is on it, which is from the restore from TIME MACHINE. Do not see anything that appears wrong. Any help would sure be appreciated as I am not sure what to do next.

Solved this problem differently than what I would have guessed. Did a lot of reading and it seems that I did everything according to how it was supposed to be done. Went back in and redid time machine and this took hours to accomplish. Used the Leopard disc again and ran into the identical problem. I decided to install Leopard and then I restored the time machine to the new hard drive. Nothing else I tried worked until I installed the OS. From there it was rather easy and it appears that everything is as it was on the original HD. I would still like to understand why restore did not work the other way. I'm on an iMac now but will be back to the G5 shortly. Good luck if anyone runs into this problem.

Time Machine Backups external drive developed problem which the disk repair utility cannot fix, so suggested reformat. I can't reformat because the "Resource Busy". How can I reformat this drive?

My Western Digital external hard drive which I use as a Time Machine Backup stopped working. I tried repairing the disk using the Disk Utility program,but got the message that the utility can't repair the disk and to erase and reformat the disk. When I try that, I get the message the operation can't be completed because "Resource Busy", even though Time Machine is turned off. Any suggestions for repairing the drive/disk?
Thank you.

See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.

Time Machine and .dmg

Snow Leopard 10.6.8
external hard drive (GUID)
1 partion (Mac OS Extended Journaled)
1 x sparsebundle.dmg (Mac OS Extended Journaled)
I formatted the drive specifically for Time Machine to use the .dmg for it's backup - but in TM preferences I can't see the .dmg as a "select disk" option. It's mounted and I can read/write to the .dmg.
What am I doing wrong? It's driving me crazy.
I've reformatted the drive 3 times, but still no joy. I've reset PRAM.

Hi, a quick update...discovered that you can do it and I succeeded to create backup to .dmg with encryption where TM will automount the .dmg
I'm left with a Keychain problem which I've yet to crack, but my objective of having a password protected external drive for TM backups is met, so I'm happy. It's not 100% perfect in terms of accessing the backups via TM interface, but that's not an issue.
I found this post very helpful: http://www.practiceofcode.com/post/749686705/encrypted-rotating-time-machine-bac kups-on-snow
Thanks for your assistance.
Cheers.

Time Machine Problem after restore

I had a hard drive crash, and after repair, I restored from a time machine back. Everything seemed fine, although a few sets of photos were missing from iPhoto. After things seemed to be fine I have started doing time machine backups again.
My problem is that they take a very long time to complete. I expected the first one or two to take a long time, but not since then. I have given it weeks to make sure that it has had enough time.
Every single time the verifcation stage shows 10s of thousands of files. Even if I have not made any changes. In my console log I see:
6/7/12 11:17:34 AM
com.apple.backupd[61578]
Node requires deep traversal:/Users/dersh/Pictures/iPhoto Library reason:contains changes|must scan subdirs|fsevent|missed reservation|
For every single backup. It seems like it is not actually fixing this. From googling around, I expect that this should take a long time the first time or two, but then should finish. It then says that it is backing up about 600 meg. The exect number seems to change with each backup, depending on what I am doing, and what changes I have made. But even if I do nothing, it still is in that range. It then appears to complete, although it takes a long time. I would guess that since it is doing the deep traverse it then has to match up a bunch of files, so doing the actual backup takes much longer then it should. For example it might sit for a good few minutes at "backing Up: 105.2 MB of 580.2 MB" Then it moves on to 107.6. Finally, the cleanup takes a very long time. So overall each backup is taking 10s of minutes. Even if I am not doing anything with the computer.
I am using a firewire drive directly connected to the computer. I have done a repair of the external time machine drive, and have done a verify of the internal drive, with no issues.
I see that I have plenty of space on the external drive.
So, it seems like what is happening is that it doesn't "know" that it has done a succesful backup of iPhoto, each time so it does a deep traverse and then backsup something like 600 meg of data from there. How can I get it to "understand" that it has done this? Can I force it to do it once correctly, so that it will take?
Any other suggestions?

UPDATE
Happen to have a QNAP NAS from work at the house which has Time Machine support and can select and initiate a backup there, no problem!
So, it's something about the Mac Mini or drive? I didn't do anything to the Mac Mini in the process other than removing the USB drive and plugging it back in.
As far as the drive, I dumped it and re-partitioned it with two partitions one for the Mini and one for the iMac. The Mac Mini is backing up to it locally, no problem.

Time machine - 2 problems I can't solve

Time Machine problems... I have them. And I have given up after spending hours googling, reading, trying and getting nowhere. I really hope there is some experts out there who have the time and energy to help me out. So, here goes. Crossing my fingers!
Problem 1:
After putting a new hard drive in my old Macbook Pro, I did the first Time Machine backup a few days ago. Everything was fine until today, when I opened the Star Wars Display. I only have _one_ backup of my old hard drive along with about ten of my new hard drive. I have been using Time Machine for backing up to an external drive for over a year, so - where are all my old backups?
When I access the sparsebundle on my backup drive through Disk Utility, I get to Backups.backupdb > MyDriveName > about ten backup folders. The oldest being the same as I can see in the Star Wars Display.
I have checked the box in the Time Machine preferences which prompts Time Machine to tell me if older backups are being deleted. I have not gotten such a notification. So where are my old backups? Are they gone? If so, why? What did I do wrong? Why did Time Machine not warn me?
Problem 2:
I have an old backup on the same drive as mentioned above. It is not in the form of a sparsebundle but as a folder named Backups.backupdb. It has three years worth of backups. I have not been able to access them since I formatted my old hard drive a year ago and gave it a new name in the process. Since then, the backups have been placed in the above mentioned sparsebundle.
I am able to open the backup in the Star Wars Display by choosing this backup as an alternative drive holding down the option key when clicking on the Time Machine logo in the menu bar. But all directories are just empty shortcut folders - exactly as if I just open the folders in the backup folders in the Backups.backupdb folder. I hope that makes sense.
Is there any explanation for this? How can I access the folders, since they are not working in the Star Wars Display? Are the files gone?
Also, after I open the sparsebundle (from problem 1), it appears in Finder as a drive. Thus, I can access the sparsebundle as a regular folder. What will happen, if I move the Backups.backupdb folder to the sparsebundle? Can I try or will that just screw everyting up?
Bonus info:
In regards to space, my backup drive has 2 TB capacity. The sparsebundle has a size of 435 GB and the Backups.backupdb folder has a size of 53 GB. But when I check the info on the drive, only 58 GB of space is left. How does that make sense in any way?
English is not my native language, so I apologize for the ramble - it is hard enough to describe technical problems without writing in a foreign language.
If anybody chooses to answer me, know that I am not familiar with Terminal, but I can follow precise instructions
Thank you!

The backup drive is not directly connected, I backup via the network. As mentioned, I have two files/folders at the root of the hard drive: A sparsebundle and a Backups.backupdb folder. These are two different backups - the sparsebundle being the newest. I suspect that Backups.backupdb folder stems back to when I started to backup and I did connect the backup drive directly to the computer. Even though I later began to backup wirelessly, the backups continued to be saved in the folder. And then - as I tried to explain in the original post - I did a formatting of my Maca year ago, renaming and it and thus began a new backup which was being saved as a sparsebundle instead of as a Backups.backupdb folder.
I appreciate your response, however it is not solving any of my two problems - I do need my backups

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