Time Machine: "Unable to copy the recovery set"
I am using OSX 10.7.5 and attempting to set up Time Machine to back up to an external 1TB WD My Passport for Mac drive. I've worked through a couple of issues during setup, but I'm still seeing some odd logging in the Console and I'm not sure it's truly working.
On initial attempts to backup, I received several of the following errors, and the backup ultimately failed:
Apr 22 13:35:06 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: CoreEndianFlipData: error -4940 returned for rsrc type FREF (id 128, length 7, native = no)
Apr 22 13:41:04 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Media/Office Themes/_Perspective.thmx.3 to (null)
Apr 22 13:41:04 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Media/Office Themes/_Pushpin.thmx.5 to (null)
Apr 22 13:41:05 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Media/Office Themes/_Venture.thmx.4 to (null)
Apr 22 13:41:07 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Media/Templates/Guided Methods/Five Rules.potx to (null)
Apr 22 13:41:09 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Media/Templates/Presentations/Multimedia Choreography.potx to (null)
Apr 22 13:51:47 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Library/Dictionaries/Oxford Dictionary of English.dictionary/Contents/Body.data to (null)
Apr 22 13:51:50 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Library/Dictionaries/Oxford Dictionary of English.dictionary/Contents/Images/snorkel.png to (null)
Apr 22 13:51:53 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Library/Dictionaries/Shogakukan Progressive English-Japanese Japanese-English Dictionary.dictionary/Contents/Body.data to (null)
Several were related to files associated with GarageBand, which I don't use, so I excluded them from backup via Time Machine Preferences. I still received a few (as above), but ultimately I see "Backup Completed Successfully". However, I still have an error message saying "Unable to copy the recovery set", so I'm wondering if the backup was not actually successful.
Apr 22 14:51:57 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Copying Lion Recovery set
Apr 22 14:52:10 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Could not backup up Lion Recovery to /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-128 "Unable to copy the recovery set" UserInfo=0x107a3be50 {NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to copy the recovery set}
Apr 22 14:52:13 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Starting post-backup thinning
Apr 22 14:52:13 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Apr 22 14:52:13 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd[1559]: Backup completed successfully.
I've erased the drive and ensured the partition format matches my main drive. I'm not sure if this is indicative of anything, but if the laptop is on battery power when Time Machine is scheduled to execute, I get 2 messages in the Console - one with my Mac name, the other with unknown. However, when Time Machine fully executes, all messages come from unknown.
Apr 23 09:01:06 Emmas-MacBook-Air com.apple.backupd-attach[78]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup - computer is on battery power.
Apr 23 09:01:25 unknown283737199992 com.apple.backupd-attach[192]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup - computer is on battery power.
I've been through the steps at pondini.org and searched the existing discussion boards but haven't found anything that matches this particular scenario. Will be very appreciative of any tips to resolve.
Thanks in advance,
Emma
Switching off the iPhoto screen saver and trashing its plist file stopped the directory corruption issue. Even so, backups would not work.
Thinking it might be a WD issue, I went to the Western Digital support site and found a firmware update (designed to eliminate hardware ID conflicts when running two WD external HDs) and a newer "drive manager" (formerly called button manager). Installing the firmware update on my backup destination and the drive manager software seems to have eliminated the problem. I've been backing up over the hub successfully for almost 24 hours. Cross your fingers.
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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 -
error: Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to Time Capsule - Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.
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.
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I have set up Time Capsule to use with Time Machine but when I open Time Machine it 'cannot find' the Time Capsule and I have to 'Select the Disk' each time. In the Next Backup tab it always says "When disk is connected" even though the disk is already connected.
Your pro doesn't matter.. I presume it is happily working.
Your imac setup has got messed up because you changed from a local (my book being USB type I presume) to network drive. Did you do a clean install of Lion?
Did you use the backup from the Pro on the imac? Otherwise I don't see how the Pro shows up in use previous disk. Where is Pondini when you need him??
You cannot download Time Machine as an App and replace the current version. It is built into the OS.. the only way to do it is a clean install. Unfortunately that might be the only way around the issue.
There is a number of issues that Pondini has covered in the setup issues of troubleshooting.
This is the most relevant I think. http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html
But look at the whole section B setup problems.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
If it was me, I would store all the info you need.. not using TM but using a straight copy of files.
Then clean install Lion. I doubt any of these issues would exist if you had not installed Lion over existing setup or used a different backup.
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I have two external hard drives. One is my Time Machine backup drive. The other I use for external storage of files (documents, photos, movies, etc). Can I set Time Machine to backup BOTH my Mac hard drive and my other external hard drive?
Yes you can make multiple backups on one hard drive, for example if you’ve 1TB hard drive installed in your PC and you’ve two Mac Machines with 500GB drive each then you just make two backup images with size of 500GB each.
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I get the following message - "Time Machine could not complete the backup." "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.""
This MAC is partioned with Windows 7 with only 50 gig devoted to Windows so my son can play Flight Simulator X on the machine.
I have a WD Passport External Hard Drive for the Back Up
I have spoken with WD Tech Support and they have been fantastic but I still keep getting this message. Any thought?
MaxxReboot the TC.. it sometimes gets lost on the network.. are you still actually using 10.6.8 as the problem is more prevalent on Lion and ML it seems is no better.
You might find reset of the TC is needed. change the names to short, no spaces pure alphanumeric.
Reset the TM to the new name.. use the A4 in Pondini's great KB.
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I recently starting receiving the error message "Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to... An erro occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk. I have had no problems backing up my MacBook Pro 2011 to my Western Digital My Book Live through a Linksys EA4500 router until recently. I've made no major changes. I've ran a diagnosis on my back up drive with no problems. The Time Machine back up starts, but about after about 5 to 10 minutes I get the error message. I can see the shared drive in Finder. The light on the drive blinks while it starts the back up. I can see the shared folders on the networked drive. The backup process starts but for some reason it just stops. Can anyone help?
You can't repair a network volume in Disk Utility.
Backing up to a third-party NAS with Time Machine is risky, and unacceptably risky if it's your only backup. I know this isn't the answer you want, and I also know that the manufacturer says the device will work with Time Machine, and that it usually seems to work. Except when you try to restore, and find that you can't.
If you want network backup with Time Machine, use as the destination either an Apple Time Capsule or an external hard drive connected to another Mac or to an 802.11ac AirPort base station. Only the 802.11ac base stations support Time Machine, not any older model.
If you're determined to keep using the NAS for backup, your only recourse for any problems that result is to the manufacturer (which will blame Apple.) -
I've been getting this warning on my MBA for the last week: "Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “LaCie-2big-NAS.” an error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, us Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
I have MBA and iMac, both running Maverick (10.9.4), backed up to LaCie NAS. However, when I go to Disk Utility on the MBA and the iMac, the LaCie does not appear and thus can't be selected to run repair. The iMac seems to be backing up to LaCie without problem. And even seems that MBA is backing up sometimes; when I check Time Machine, I can find files added in the last couple of days.
Is this a real problem? What's fix?
ThanksYou can't repair a network volume in Disk Utility.
Backing up to a third-party NAS with Time Machine is risky, and unacceptably risky if it's your only backup. I know this isn't the answer you want, and I also know that the manufacturer says the device will work with Time Machine, and that it usually seems to work. Except when you try to restore, and find that you can't.
If you want network backup with Time Machine, use as the destination either an Apple Time Capsule or an external hard drive connected to another Mac or to an 802.11ac AirPort base station. Only the 802.11ac base stations support Time Machine, not any older model.
If you're determined to keep using the NAS for backup, your only recourse for any problems that result is to the manufacturer (which will blame Apple.) -
My Airport TM will not backup and i keep getting the error msg "Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup...An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
My Airport TM will not backup and i keep getting the error msg "Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup...An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
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I bought a new Time Capsule 2Tb. I connected it to my internet router. I manage to set it up as base station but when i try to use it with time machine I always get the message "Check your IP addres"? What am I doing wrong? On my computer I have OSX 10.7.5
What IP address does the TC have and what IP does the computer have?
We need more info as we really have no idea what your network looks like.
Modem router, model, type of broadband?
TC setup as bridge or router?
Is the computer getting internet via the TC?
Are you using wireless or ethernet?
Have you set IPv6 correctly to local link in the computer on whichever network client is doing the connection?
Did this work the first time for backup and has now failed? If so simply reboot the TC. It is a constant bug that the TC is lost to the network. -
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
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Time Machine could not complete the backup "Time Capsule". Unable to access disk image backup "/ Volumes / Time Capsule / iMac.sparsebundle" (error 112).
How can I fix it?You might want to take a look at Pondini's excellent support document......Time Machine Troubleshooting
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
See # C17 -
The message I get recently and often is "Time machine couldn't complet the backup to "LaC TmMachn". Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder."
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Can time machine and carbon copy cloner use the same backup drive?
Can time machine and CCC use the same esata backup drive?
Yes, but you will need to first partition the drive so that TM and CCC will backup to their own respective volumes. This way the CCC volume can accommodate a bootable clone.
Be sure the TM volume has adequate space. A TM backup volume should have about twice the capacity of the volume it backs up.
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