Time Machine seems to be culprit in kernel errors which crash system

I have had a rash of seemingly random crashes. The system has a kernel panic and boom I am dead and rebooting...
reinstalled OS, removed any third party extensions... no joy. Still happening.
Running time machine to Airport 3TB Time Capsule... and an external USB connected HD.
Turned off Time Machine, haven't had a repeat. Turned it back on and bam kernel panic and reboot.
Any suggestions?

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In Lion, Time Machine seems to be perpetually running - and running slowly

Up through Snow Leopard, Time Machine did its incremental backup every hour quickly and stopped.
Since upgrading to Lion back in July, Time Machine seems be be running almost all the time - and very very very slowly. There doesn't seem to be any exessive Spotlight indexing going on anymore. That was long ago. So I don't think that's it.
Preparing for backup takes a long time. It take hours to eke through the backup itself, even if there weren't many changes, and finishing backup takes a long time.
I would say each backup, no matter how small, takes more than three hours.
At these forums there seems to be lots of discussion threads about this, and help pages linked to, but the suggested solutions seem to be a jumble, with some people saying they worked and many saying it didn't.
I did do a disk repair on the Time Machine volume just in case. And there is nothing else on that drive except for Time Machine backups. The drive is directly connected to my iMac (3.06 GHz Dual Core Duo, 12 GB RAM). While not vital, I'd rather not reformat the drive and lost all my old backups, which go back over a year. If I knew for sure that was the solution I'd do it. But in the discussions here there are people who seem to have tried that and reported back that it didn't help.
Right now it says it's backing up 3.5 MB of 132.9 MB - and taking forever to do it.
I know that since the last backup I haven't changed anywhere near 132.9 MB of data. Unless Lion is making massive behind-the-scene changes.
Something definitely seems to be wrong with Time Machine in Lion.
Have there been any additional thoughts on this? Is Time Machine just buggy in Lion?
Thanks,
doug

I feel ya, dawg, as they say. Right now I'm running a backup that has taken 43 minutes thus far. On an idle machine, it backed up 29.8 MB (17,949 files) followed by 19.5 MB (17,256 files). 12 min. for the first batch, 11 min., for the second. 13 min. of "Finishing backup" until it transitioned to "Cleaning up," which just completed after 12 min. Each backup typically goes 70–90 minutes. So backups are running for 65% – 80% of the time, if I leave TM running. I don't; instead, I turn on backups before going to bed, and turn them off on the first happy occasion when I notice that TM is idle.
TM backups have been behaving this way for about 2 months. Before that they were as speedy as Snow Leopard, for a couple of weeks. Before that they were taking 3 hours with the dreaded "Waiting for index to be ready" messge repeating for on hour or more. I fixed this latter problem by "trying everything" from http://pondini.org/TM/D2.html (a fine resource but, as you say, all over the map as all of the suggestions are).
TM in Lion is hosed. It's as simple as that.

What to do when time machine seems stuck on "Preparing Backup"

This issue is happenning on my macbook pro, mid 2010. My drive setup is that I have a partition which I dedicated to time machine backups. The total size of my drive is 500GB, and I partitioned about 100GB for time machine. The reason for that is I only needed a few space since I setup time machine to include only the system and the apps, and NONE of the libraries such as itunes or photos. This means that the only backup will be for the system, profiles, and the app. I have been running this for a few months andhas been doing OK until up to now.
My problem is that my time machine seems to get stuck on "Preparing Backup". The latest backup was done last Nov 8, 2011, whcih is about 11 days from now. I am also aware that the time machine drive has only about 200 mb space left, but I am not worried at all because I've always TM to delete the oldest backup to free up space. My oldest backup was still Sept 8, and I'm ok if that will be deleted.
So I'd like to find out why it still stuck on "Preparing backup" ,and I am wondering if deleting a backup can solve it. Can it? what do I do to solve this?
Also, I use my computer alot , so it is basically running for about 18 hours a day, but still time machine didn't quite work well. I have tried reparing the disk using disk utility, but that didn't help.

Comments inline below.
Pondini wrote:
joshua raphael wrote:
This issue is happenning on my macbook pro, mid 2010. My drive setup is that I have a partition which I dedicated to time machine backups. The total size of my drive is 500GB, and I partitioned about 100GB for time machine. The reason for that is I only needed a few space since I setup time machine to include only the system and the apps, and NONE of the libraries such as itunes or photos.
You may want to revisit that strategy:
A backup on the same drive isn't very secure -- when (not if) the HD fails, you risk losing everything.
In most cases, if there's a problem with OSX the best way to fix it is to just install a fresh version. But you can't do that from that backup.
Indeed!
Backing-up apps that way will also be useless in some cases. 3rd-party apps that came with their own installers put other files in other places (and sometimes "helper" apps as well). Unless you know what and where they all are, and restore them, too, the restored app won't work properly, if at all.
I think you're confusing each other with terminology. iTunes music and iPhoto pictures are NOT "Libraries", which has a specific meaning when it comes to OS X. "Libraries", in OS X normally refers to /Libraries and ~/Libraries folders. This is not where iTunes music and iPhoto pictures are stored. iTunes music and iPhoto pictures are stored within ~/Music and ~/Pictures, respectively.
I have tried reparing the disk using disk utility, but that didn't help.
Disk Utility changed a bit in Lion. When you select an entire disk, it only repairs the partition map, not all the volumes. You must repair each one separately.
Wow, good to know. (What a stupid change to make, for backwards compatibility, if for no other reason!)
See #D1 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting to figure out why the backups are hanging.
Whew. This editor makes it so hard to make comments inline. The key thing when time machine seems stuck is patience. Sometimes it needs to be left to run overnight. Unfortunately, it doesn't log or report it's progress very well.
Opening Time Machine settings in Preferences plus a command like this left running in Terminal.app is how I monitor progress. And even so, there is very little logging indicating progress.
sudo tail -f /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/My\ Computer/2012-07-11-133352.inProgress/.Backup.363731632.496216.log
The parts in italics will need to be adjusted. Tab completion makes this easy, e.g type
sudo tail -f /Volumes/
and hit tab, type the first few letters of the relevant volume name, hit tab...
Also, I have a hypothesis which needs testing.
I know that Time Machine gets confused if one deletes large files from a backup - specifically, Time Machine doesn't recognize that the size of the backup has changed.
I know because this made restoring a thinned out time machine backup ("thinned out" by deleting files from within the GUI while inside the Time Machine) to a small SSD harder than it should have been. I had to restore to a big disk and then clone that volume to the SSD - even though the SSD had enough space, Time Machine didn't think so; it didn't "understand" that it had been thinned.
My hypothesis is that Time Machine also gets confused if the Time Machine partition is resized. I shrunk a Time Machine partition (no it wasn't on my main disk!) and about that time, Time Machine stopped working. After thinning the volume, it started working again.

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

My TM backups started to fail on a Mac Book Pro running 10.5.8 a few weeks ago with the 'Copy stage failed with error:11' message. It seemed to happen after coming out of hibernation from clamshelling the laptop.
This happened a few times before when I had initially set TM up so to 'fix' it I just blew away the TM backups and started fresh. I would rather not do that this time as I have accumulated 3 months worth of backups.
My TM is on a samba share, I've searched a bit and followed a guide:
http://blog.robberthamburg.nl/mac-osx-leopard-repair-a-time-machine-error-11-pro blem
to try and fix the problem by deleting a .inProgress backup but this has not helped. unfortunately this has did not fix it. I had also read that there are sometimes problems with TM and Spotlight indexing so I have turned spotlight off completely. Still no luck.
Here is a log dump of my latest backup attempt:
Sep 12 01:31:59 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backup requested by user
Sep 12 01:31:59 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Starting standard backup
Sep 12 01:32:04 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Mounted network destination using URL: smb://mdaemon@io:139/timemachine_lysithea
Sep 12 01:32:04 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/timemachine_lysithea
Sep 12 01:32:06 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Disk image /Volumes/timemachinelysithea/lysithea0025bcdeabda.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine
Sep 12 01:32:06 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backing up to: /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Sep 12 01:35:44 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 7.61 GB requested (including padding), 89.80 GB available
Sep 12 01:35:44 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Waiting for index to be ready (-1 < 0)
Sep 12 01:40:51 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 01:45:49 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 01:50:50 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 01:55:49 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:00:50 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:05:49 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:10:50 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:15:52 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:20:52 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:25:51 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:30:50 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:32:05 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:32:37 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:33:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:33:42 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:35:52 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:38:38 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:39:08 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:39:51 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:40:27 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:42:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:42:43 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 12 02:43:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Stopping backup.
Sep 12 02:43:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Error: (-43) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/mdaemon/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DirectoryUtility.plist to /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/lysithea/2009-09-12-013213.inProgress/466ADDEF-7D04-45 15-B024-C02ADF152EA7/Macintosh HD/Users/mdaemon/Library/Preferences
Sep 12 02:43:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Copied 16247 files (5.9 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 12 02:43:12 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Copy stage failed with error:11
Sep 12 02:43:18 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backup failed with error: 11
Sep 12 02:43:18 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Restarting backup after linking failure.
Sep 12 02:43:18 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Starting standard backup
Sep 12 02:43:18 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backup destination alias resolved to path: /Volumes/timemachine_lysithea
Sep 12 02:43:18 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Disk image /Volumes/timemachinelysithea/lysithea0025bcdeabda.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine
Sep 12 02:43:18 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backing up to: /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Sep 12 02:43:42 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Waiting for index to be ready (-1 < 0)
Sep 12 02:51:03 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 509.8 MB requested (including padding), 83.21 GB available
Sep 12 02:51:03 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Waiting for index to be ready (-1 < 0)
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Indexing a file failed. Returned -12 for: /.DS_Store, /Volumes/lysithea Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/lysithea/2009-09-12-013213.inProgress/AB3F09D7-61EB-4D 9F-B0EF-AC4C1E0712EA/Macintosh HD/.DS_Store
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Stopping backup.
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Copied 0 files (0 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 12 02:51:09 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Copy stage failed with error:11
Sep 12 02:51:14 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Backup failed with error: 11
Sep 12 02:51:15 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Sep 12 02:51:18 lysithea /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[763]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

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

HT3275 Time machine couldn't complete the backup. an error occured while creating the backup folder

Time machine couldn't complete the backup. an error occured while creating the backup folder Why does this happen?

hello,
http://pondini.org/TM/C10.html
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Can't imaging something not being covered there.

Time machine only copies User Info and Users (Applications, Library, and System are missing) from my quad core Mac Pro. 45 Gb of 162 Gb are missing. Any one having success with time machine copying all folders using Mavericks? What do I need to do dif

Time machine only copies User Info and Users (Applications, Library, and System are missing) from my quad core Mac Pro. 45 Gb of 162 Gb are missing. Any one having success with time machine copying all folders using Mavericks?
What do I need to do differently?

The late, great Pondini was investigating that issue before he passed away.
See here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5125969
I think there might be information there on how to reset Time Machine to do a full backup. I think you basically have to reset it and start over.

I am getting this error message on my iMac. Time Machine unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the back up folder. Any ideas on how to fix???

i am getting this error message on my iMac. Time Machine unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the back up folder. Any ideas on how to fix???

See Pondini's TM FAQs

Keep getting this message when trying to back up iMac to time Machine: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume.

Keep getting this message when trying to back up iMac to time Machine: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume. tried everything.

Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.
Time Machine- Troubleshooting backup issues

When time machine does a backup I get an error message

Added a new Seagate 3T external as a backup drive Every time Time Machine does a backup I get an error message that the disk was not ejected properly, no bid deal just a pain. System 3.5GHz Intel Core i7... 16GB DDR# memory ... OSX 10.8.4. How do I get rid of this error??

Notes/Tips on OS X 10.8.5 External Drive Eject During Sleep:
Updated the previous page on OS X 10.8.5 Problems/Notes and Tips with more info regarding external drive 'eject' in sleep and on drives going to sleep/spinning down despite ES settings. I ran some tests with drives I had but so far have not seen those problems with my setup/drives at least. Apparently many have based on the still growing number of threads on the subject in Apple's Mountain Lion forum.
... you posted inaccurate information about a Mac that I pointed out.
Posts from and about Hackintosh do get removed.

Time Machine seems to be deleting files from the backup disk.

My main disk has about 400 GB of data including nearly 300 GB of movie files. Since I started using Time Machine in February, the backup disk has had about 400 GB of data on it. This morning Time Machine has said on the System Preferences display that it is "finishing backup" and in the process the backup disk contains only 108 GB of something - hopefully some of my data. The file structure looks OK on the backup disk but I am not sure that the data is there.
I turned Time Machine off and back on and for awhile it seemed to be moving data to the backup disk but then it went back to the "finishing backup" mode and the amount of data on the backup disk began to decrease again. This evening I turned Time Machine off and left it off but it turned itself back on. Somehow this does not seem right. This has happened a number of times.
The net result is that I have about 400GB of data on the iMac system disk and about 108 GB on the backup disk. What can I do to get out of this trap and start getting valid backup?
For starters I will dismount the backup drive and then disconnect the backup drive and at least I will have something left on the disk.
Thanks for the help.

Well, I can't really say what the problem is. You could try to repartition (not just erase) the HD and start Time Machine over again.
Or you could check Time Machine's logs in Console.app, and maybe someone else can help you if it's putting out errors (not my area of expertise).
Message was edited by: bcr88

Time machine seems to crash my MacBook

I hope someone can help. I have a MacBook and back it all up on a 1tb partitioned external hdd via my airport extreme over my network. This has been working fine for the past 2 months on hourly backups but two days ago when the backup started it would search for the hdd, not actually start the backup and freeze. The screen would darken and a message across the screen pops up saying I need to restart my MacBook. After a hard restart I have to turn off time machine to ensure it doesn't happen again. It would if I didn't turn time machine off. Am I sceptical that this timing is linked to me attempting to update to 10.7.3 at the same time and for some reason it didn't complete the download and install the update. I hear this update is flawed and the timing was the same as when this problem first happened. Can anyone help please? (I hope this makes sense!) Michael.

Is this what you want?
Thu Feb 23 20:04:16 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80004db38c): "hfs_getnewvnode: bad ca_blocks (too small)"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.24.8/bsd/hfs/hfs_cnode.c:1046
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff804166b900 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff804166b980 : 0xffffff80004db38c
0xffffff804166ba70 : 0xffffff80004e37e9
0xffffff804166bc20 : 0xffffff80003169a4
0xffffff804166bc60 : 0xffffff80002f494a
0xffffff804166bce0 : 0xffffff80002f37bc
0xffffff804166bd80 : 0xffffff80002e3abe
0xffffff804166bf50 : 0xffffff80005caa9b
0xffffff804166bfb0 : 0xffffff80002d8363
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: backupd
Mac OS version:
11C74
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: <edited out>
System model name: MacBook7,1 (Mac-F22C89C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 13085868023578
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com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice        3.0.1
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily          1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 403
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 2.0.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily   3.0.1
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family       411.1
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com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6.7
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System Profile:
Model: MacBook7,1, BootROM MB71.0039.B0E, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 2 GB, SMC 1.60f5
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, NVIDIA GeForce 320M, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 1 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54313132533654465238432D47372020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 1 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54313132533654465238432D47372020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x93), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.100.98.75.18)
Bluetooth: Version 4.0.1f4, 2 service, 11 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02, 250.06 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8507, 0x24600000 / 2
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x06600000 / 3
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8218, 0x06630000 / 5
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0236, 0x06300000 / 2

Time machine seems stuck

During backup, the time machine tries for hours and never completes a backup-- The time machine logo just spins in the menubar. I finally have to force a close. This is for an incremental back up, not the initial back up, so in theory this should be quick. Volume should be light-- 5 music CDs and 25 photos.
How do I get unstuck?
The last successful back up was July 18th.

BavarianWheels wrote:
Thank you for your reply and help...I don't understand what I did, but I tried to do as you suggested and it SEEMED to work fine. The whole thing got backed up, but as this is a macbook pro, I don't want to keep the thing connected to the ext. drive 24/7. I assumed I should just click the 'stop' button and procede to eject the drive, but I rcvd an error message when it stopped that the backup failed...
Yes: if you interrupt a backup, it didn't complete. That's not a successful backup.
So how does one use this TM thing if it runs continually in the background and when you want to eject the backup drive, it fails?? Do I need to make an appt at the genius bar for explanations? It seems there is VERY LITTLE information or documentation on using TM. All I find is "Connect the drive and voila..." It's certainly NOT that easy.
Your first backup copies your entire system. That obviously takes a long time; more in your case because of whatever is/was wrong slowing it down.
But that's only the first one. Once you get a successful, completed backup, subsequent ones are "incremental" -- only what's changed. Ordinarily they should be very quick (especially if you've really solved whatever was slowing down the first one).
I understand that you don't want to be "tied" to the external drive all the time; but the more often you let TM run it's hourly backups, the better you'll be protected.
While it's not a good idea to interrupt a backup, TM will usually recover from it the next time. But until you get a normal completion, they're going to take a while. You'll see a long "preparing" phase in each attempt until then.
You might want to review this: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#tutorial=leopardtimemachine
and this: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
and perhaps this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018

Time Machine seems confused - can somebody explain what I am seeing?

This is on my new MacBook Pro retina 13 inch. And I just started using Time Machine with it about 10 days ago.
I was just looking at a certain folder via Time Machine and found the following strange results, as I "go back in time."
Now: a folder and 3 files (that is correct).
Today at 12:47 pm: 1 file (that is correct, because I created the folder after that, and added the 3 files).
Today at 12:47 pm: no content - why is this entry even here? It's time-stamped the same as the later one.
Today at 11:46 am: a folder and 3 files! The same as "Now." Why would that be? It doesn't make any sense.
Today at 11:45 am: the same folder and 3 files as "Now" - with a time-stamp one minute earlier.
Today at 11:45 am: a repeated entry.
It seems to be confused with all the entries prior to Today at 12:47 pm.
Any idea why?
Thanks,
Doug

Anyway, I see what the Time Machine problem is. It is an artifact resulting from the fact that the finder window I was examining is on an external monitor.
Time Machine displays on the MBP monitor, but none of the items are selectable, and some entries are incorrect.
If I move the finder window to my MBP display and run Time Machine the entries are correct and selectable.
So Time Machine apparently just doesn't play well with what is showing on an external monitor.
AppleCare's response to that was: "Well, that is odd."
Anyway, that is how it appears to work. I'll just make sure to not use Time Machine with a finder window on an external monitor for now.
I don't know whether to mark this as "resolved" or not. I think I will, but Time Machine does seem to have a bug regarding finder windows on external monitors.
doug

Time machine backups to external drive causing kernel panics

Hi,
I am using an early 2011 MBP with a 1TB WD My Passport as a Time Machine backup disc.
Time Machine has been working fine until 2 days ago when I tried to perform its backup to disc.
It performed the usual backup but only up to 50MB of 2GB before it caused a KP.
Tried it using a different USB port with the same results.
Here's the report:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1466729 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          6
Anonymous UUID:                    A63997A0-A90D-471D-A39B-CC79EBB585A3
Thu Dec 20 09:18:19 2012
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff80004e6b17): "hfs_vnop_link: error 2 updating vp @ 0xffffff8015d4f3e0\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.32.7/bsd/hfs/hfs_link.c:643
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff807f5bb9f0 : 0xffffff8000220792
0xffffff807f5bba70 : 0xffffff80004e6b17
0xffffff807f5bbb80 : 0xffffff800031a158
0xffffff807f5bbbe0 : 0xffffff800030c4a7
0xffffff807f5bbf50 : 0xffffff80005ce4cb
0xffffff807f5bbfb0 : 0xffffff80002daea3
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: backupd
Mac OS version:
11G63
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: FF3BB088-60A4-349C-92EA-CA649C698CE5
System model name: MacBookPro8,1 (Mac-94245B3640C91C81)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 1642602634871
last loaded kext at 950709485490: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC          4.1.22 (addr 0xffffff7f807e0000, size 16384)
last unloaded kext at 1018418960143: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC          4.1.22 (addr 0xffffff7f807e0000, size 12288)
loaded kexts:
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com.apple.filesystems.autofs          3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver          122
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com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily          1.7.2
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore          28.18
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform          1.5
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily          2.7
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily          1.4
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Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel HD Graphics 3000, Built-In, 384 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54333235533642465238432D48392020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54333235533642465238432D48392020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xD6), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.198.19.22)
Bluetooth: Version 4.0.8f17, 2 service, 11 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Serial ATA Device: TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF, 500.11 GB
Serial ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5970H
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in), apple_vendor_id, 0x8509, 0xfa200000 / 3
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfa100000 / 2
USB Device: HUAWEI Mobile, 0x12d1 (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.), 0x1001, 0xfa130000 / 7
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 4
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x821a, 0xfa113000 / 6
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0245, 0xfa120000 / 5
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3
Am I correct in assuming that my external drive is the problem?
Is there any way around it?
Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks.

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Recent Time Machine and Airport Leopard update causes Kernel panic

I had 15 iMac's in a classroom that were all updated to the new Leopard update for Time Machine and Airport. When they restarted, they all gave a kernel panic error. Successive restarts continue with the screen starting with the kernel panic error message and asking for a shutdown.
I am extremely sure that it had to be those updates because they were all fine before that. I doubt 30 pieces of RAM could have gone kaput all at once. Since we have a dual boot setup, if I press the alt key when I restart, I can boot into the Windows side without any problems.
If somebody has had a similar problem and found a way to do something about the kernel error, please let me know. Thanks in advance. I did the usual zapping RAM and stuff. It didn't help.

More information - from the crash report:
Tue Mar 25 11:23:14 2008
panic(cpu 6 caller 0x001A8C8A): Kernel trap at 0x004095b9, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000018, CR3: 0x00d7b000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x0bb2c200, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x0c0915a0
CR2: 0x00000018, EBP: 0x82ffbcc8, ESI: 0x0c09de00, EDI: 0x0c09bfa0
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x004095b9, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x82ffbad8 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x82ffbb0c 0x133230 0x0)
0x82ffbb28 : 0x1a8c8a (0x461720 0x4095b9 0xe 0x460ed0)
0x82ffbc08 : 0x19ece5 (0x82ffbc20 0x1 0x82ffbcc8 0x4095b9)
0x82ffbc18 : 0x4095b9 (0xe 0x10048 0xbbb0010 0x3e0010)
0x82ffbcc8 : 0x40960c (0xc09de00 0xbbdf900 0x1 0xc09de00)
0x82ffbce8 : 0x40d648 (0xc09de00 0xc09dd00 0x0 0x3ea76c)
0x82ffbd38 : 0x40d7fb (0xc09dd00 0x4 0x0 0xb6dde00)
0x82ffbd58 : 0x84047d77 (0xc09dd00 0xc09dd00 0xbda3760 0x11a1d4)
0x82ffbdc8 : 0x8404bf21 (0xbb2c200 0x82ffbdfc 0x82ffbdf8 0xbb2c200)
0x82ffbe08 : 0x8404c236 (0xbb2c200 0x0 0x0 0xbb2c200)
0x82ffbe28 : 0x8404c2ba (0xbb2c200 0x840555a0 0x0 0x0)
0x82ffbe48 : 0x40fd82 (0xbb2c200 0xbbdf900 0x1 0x3ea740)
0x82ffbea8 : 0x411c17 (0xbbdf900 0xbb2c200 0xbbead40 0xbb46300)
0x82ffbf28 : 0x41147b (0xbbdf900 0xbbb66c0 0x0 0xffffffff)
0x82ffbf78 : 0x4100f7 (0xbbdf900 0x0 0x82ffbfac 0x1)
0x82ffbfc8 : 0x19eadc (0xbbddb40 0x0 0x1a20b5 0xb9445d0)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.faronics.driver.DFXDriver(4.0.1f23)@0x84046000->0x8405afff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x83483000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.2)@0x8375f000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9C7010
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro2,1 (Mac-F4208DA9)

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