Time Machine-What's it doing?

Hi-
Yesterday, I successfully upgraded the hard drive in my MacBook Pro. I did a new install of Snow Leopard to the new hard drive and used migration assistant to move over my user account, programs and system settings from my old drive. Everything went well and everything is where it is supposed to be. Thank you Apple/SJ!
However... I went to do my daily TIme Machine Back-up this morning and saw that it was copying over 64GB! I only use Time Machine to back up my documents and user library not my System Folder. So I have no idea where all that 64 GB of data is coming from as I only saved a few documents after upgrading the hard drive.
Any ideas on what this huge amount of data is or how I can check what it is trying to move over?
Thank you very much in advance.

Anyway I can get that old database file back from my old drive which still has everything on so I don't waste the 64 GB of space?
No. It's inevitable that TM will do a complete backup of a new drive. Some people would start a new TM backup on a different backup drive, keeping the old one around until the files were no longer needed, and then erasing it.

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Rob Tholemeier wrote:
Pondini,
I know there is some relationship between my iMac's MAC and the sparsebundle. But how does TM on the iMac know the file name and location?
It varies, unfortunately, between Leopard and Snow Leopard.
In Leopard, the MAC address is included in the name of the sparse bundle; for sparse bundles created by Snow Leopard, it's in a file inside the sparse bundle, but outside the disk image.
Even if I mount a sparsebundle how does TM on my Mac know to use it for backup and/or restore?
It will only use it for backups if it matches your Mac's MAC address.
If you normally back up to an external HD connected to a Time Capsule or another Mac, then connect the drive directly to your Mac, Time Machine will continue backing-up to it. But the Time Machine display doesn't expect a sparse bundle on a locally-connected drive, and won't display it unless you mount it first.
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I [10/Dec/2007:20:23:35 -0500] [Job 11] Adding start banner page "none".
I [10/Dec/2007:20:23:35 -0500] [Job 11] Adding job file of type application/postscript.
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I [10/Dec/2007:20:23:35 -0500] [Job 11] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstocupsraster (PID 336)
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Time Machine: What's taking up all of that space?

I have a 500Gb External Hard Drive, partitioned in halves for Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner.
Recently I had a main hard drive failure. CCC saved my bacon (Oh yes. It's worth having!). The local Apple Boutique restored all of our info to a new 1Tb drive from CCC on the external drive. When I brought the computer home, I popped into Time machine a couple of times to retrieve a few bits of recent info, as CCC was about three weeks old.
On approximately the third visit to TM I noticed that it was only showing a few days of information instead of the year or so that was there previously. At the same time, TM began showing an error message that "This backup is too large for the backup volume.". Although it only shows a few days worth of info to draw from, it says that only 103Gb are available of the 232Gb in that partition.
I'm doing a Disk Utility disk repair right now, but are there other things I should be looking for?
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Model Identifier:          iMac5,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
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SMC Version (system):          1.9f4

Thanks Ralph. That is a very useful page.
I found the cause of the problem: A common cause of this is restoring all your data, either to the original internal HD or a replaced one, depending on the restore method and what version of OSX you're on. In some cases, everything restored is treated as new, so must be backed-up again.
So TM is recognizing the restored data as new info and wants to stack it up on top of itself again. That explains why there isn't enough room.
My new question is this; the quick and easy would be to erase all of that old TM backup from the partition and start over. Is here no way to change its mind about duplicating all of that data and have TM carry on as normal? With my crappy and intermittent memory it would be nice to be able to go back into TM if something suddenly comes to mind along the lines of, "Hey! Whatever happened to that 'thingy' that we had last fall? I would like to have that again but it got deleted along the way somehow."

Time machine completes backup but does not actually backup any files

I have had this problem sporadically with time machine for a while now, most of the time it works great and everything is smooth sailing, but every now and then time machine will run and go through all of the steps but it skips actually backing up any files. For example, if I put a new word document on my desktop right now and tell time machine to back up, everything will go as it should and time machine will run and go through all of the stages (making back up disk available, calculating changes, cleaning up) except it doesn't actually transfer any files. When I go into to time machine the new word document won't appear in any of the backups. Restarting my computer does fix this but it is a very inconvenient way to fix the problem and it also leaves me having to manually go into time machine to make sure that it is in fact backing up files. And no I do not have some weird exclusion in the time machine preferences.
In the console my system log reads:
Jan 13 22:42:24 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Starting standard backup
Jan 13 22:42:24 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Brad%[email protected]/Time%20Capsule
Jan 13 22:42:30 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Brad%[email protected]/Time%20Capsule
Jan 13 22:42:31 brad-bargers-macbook-pro hdiejectd[8470]: running
Jan 13 22:42:33 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule/Brad Barger’s MacBook Pro_002500a2b268.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Brad Barger’s MacBook Pro
Jan 13 22:42:33 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Brad Barger’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb
Jan 13 22:42:38 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 828.8 MB requested (including padding), 153.74 GB available
Jan 13 22:42:45 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Copied 6 files (93 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jan 13 22:42:46 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jan 13 22:42:46 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jan 13 22:42:46 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Backup completed successfully.
Jan 13 22:42:48 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Jan 13 22:42:48 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[8462]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Jan 13 22:42:58 brad-bargers-macbook-pro hdiejectd[8470]: quitCheck: calling exit(0)
Jan 13 22:43:30 brad-bargers-macbook-pro com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[8463]): Exited with exit code: 255
Sorry for the info dump and I hope my question makes sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

b_cubed wrote:
Thanks you for your response. I was wondering if it didn't have to do with disk utility in some way. Just to be clear what do you mean when you say "altering other volumes on the same drive"?
If you have more than one partition on a drive, and add, delete, or resize any of them, Disk Utility does a +*Verify Disk+* on the entire disk. So even if you didn't touch the boot volume, whatever DU does will cause what you've seen.
It is rather odd, that it only affects some of us. Those who have it, have it consistently. It happens on any number of hardware configurations, and I could always reproduce it with a fresh install of SL on an empty partition, so it's clearly nothing to do with any settings, preferences, 3rd-party anything, etc.
This was reported to Apple in October; on November 12 the TM engineers were able to reproduce it. They don't tell us any more than that; all we can do is hope it'll be fixed in a future update.

Time Machine to another mac does not work

Hi,
I am experiencing a really huge problem with my time machine backup.
Setup:
I want to backup my Macbook onto a external hard drive connected to my Macmini. Both are connected to my Airport extreme. AFP on the Macmini is enabled and I am able to access the drive on the Macbook.
If I mount the backup drive before starting the backup manually I have these errors in my system.log:
Aug 9 13:30:27 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: Backup requested by user
Aug 9 13:30:27 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: Starting standard backup
Aug 9 13:30:27 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: Network mountpoint /Volumes/MacUpa not owned by backupd... remounting
Aug 9 13:30:30 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: Failed to remount network volume.
Aug 9 13:30:35 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: Backup failed with error: 19
If I do not mount the drive first I get the following errors:
Aug 9 13:32:34 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: Backup requested by user
Aug 9 13:32:34 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: Starting standard backup
Aug 9 13:32:37 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: FSMatchAliasBulk returned -5023 while resolving alias to backup target
Aug 9 13:32:42 danst /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[237]: Backup failed with error: 19
I am really unhappy with this it would be great if somebody could help me.

That's great. Now I need to troubleshoot why only the Mac directly connected to my back up drive will work. The other macs will not let me select it...
Does it have to use the GUID partition Map? I have two USB drives connected now and the one I am using for Time Machine is not showing up as a valid drive for TM. THe other drive is though.
What did you end up doing to finally get it to work?

Time Machine Restore slow and does give any staus info.

I had issues with my HD and it was unrepairable via Disk Utility and would not unmount via OSX Install dis >utilities>disk utilities>repair, etc.
I decided to to do a complete restore with time machine. The size of the restore is around 100gb. I am doing so through an external drive and usb connection.
Everything seemed to be going well, it took a while for the estimate of file size required to finish but then it began the restore process. Now 12 hours later, there is no status update (% completed, estimated time left, etc.) The status bar still seems to be active though (status bar is still animating and is full). I can still access some options in the OSX installer if I need to quit the process but do not want to quit the restore if it is still restoring.
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Pondini wrote:
Yeah, it sure sounds like it. There's a chance it will complete if you re-start. Note what the last message was, so you can watch for it next time.
If you monitor with the log, you'll see it runs in spurts of activity, then no messages for a few seconds or several minutes. When it gets to the message you noted, give it an extra long time, but if it really seems hung again, we'll go to Plan B.
That's doing an Erase and Install, then Migration from your TM backups. Full instructions for this are in the *Erase, Install, & Migrate* section of the Glenn Carter - Restoring Your Entire System / Time Machine post at the top of this forum.
It seems to be working well now. I restarted it and tried to repair the disk again through Disk utility with OSX install disc. That worked so I then when through the restall process again. It is up and runnning now. Took about 2 hours to erase, restore and reboot. Thanks... I probably would have waited another 10 hours or so before restarting because I had seen so many others with rather long restore times.
Thanks again.

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I have a PowerMac G5 Tower with Dual 1.8Ghz, 3GB Memory.
The internal system disk is a WD 1TB(931.4GB) disk, but it has serious volume structure errors that are not recoverable with First Aid or Micromat TechTool. The 1TB disk was only about 1/3 full(~350GB used).
Fortunately, I have been using time machine since July, using the exact same type of disk(WD 1TB), which is external..
I installed another external 1TB that is exactly the same as the original system disk(WD 1TB - 931.3GB).
I am able to select the backup source of the original disk from the time machine disk, but when I select the destination(new 1TB disk which is completely empty and reformatted), I get the following error:
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Phil

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The new replacement disk I chose was an internal Seagate SATA disk. I was wrong in the previous note, the original internal system disk that had the volume corruption was also a Seagate SATA disk, not WD(though, the external 1TB was a WD). I did duplicate the bug mentioned in this bug with this disk before I installed the OS, so the problem had nothing to do with Seagate vs. WD, or internal vs. external. I booted from the replacement, then used the setup assistant to transfer data from a time machine backup.
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