Time machine will not backup my home folder

I am having problems with time machine backing up my home folder. There is nothing in the TM exclusion option except (time machine backup) which is understandable. Even if I wanted to exclude it from backups it does not give me the option like its not recognized. Could this be a problem because my home folder is encrypted? I have talked to someone at the apple store about the issue and they where unable to help.

Yes, it's because it's encrypted. Time Machine does not backup a File Vault protected Home folder as it would an unencrypted one. The File Vault disk image is only backed up after you log out. If you never log out then it will not be backed up.
If you want a "normal" backup of your Home folder you will have to turn off File Vault.

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Time machine will not back up home folder

I have been using time machine and an external HD to back up my Macbook Pro for about two years, and yesterday I needed to recover an older version of a file in my Documents folder. I went into TM to find that it hasn't backed up my home folder in over a year. I have read other threads with similar problems and tried those fixes. Specifically:
1) There is nothing on the exclusion list in TM options
2) I have reset TM (by deleting the plist file in the library and restarting) several times, with no success
3) I created a test account and verified that its home folder is being backed up normally
4) I reformatted the TM external hard drive
5) My home folder is not called "home"
All other folders are being backed up normally as far as I can tell. Any ideas for how to fix this would be much appreciated.

Also, I am not using FileVault.

Time machine will not backup but does restore

My Time machine will not backup, but will restore from prior backups - the last made three months ago (end of January). Can anyone help? When trying to run a backup the screen shows:
Select Disc (which I have already done)
704 GB of 1 TB available
Oldest backup: none
A continuosly revolving progress bar
"Preparing Backup"
Note that when I run Time Machine in order to restore, all backups prior to Jan 30th are there.
I am running OSX Mountain LIon Version 10.8.3

Mickmannock wrote:
I followed the proceedure described to delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist. However I note that there are very many versions of this file in other locations.
There shouldn't be. Delete any others.
Make sure the one you deleted was in your top-level /Library folder (not the Library folder inside your home folder). If you got the right one, when you went back to the Time Machine Preferences window, it should not have shown your TM drive or anything else.
I am running Parallels 8 and windows 7 in a Virtual machine, but these do not appear to have created problems in the past - over two years now.
You probably should exclude the VM files from Time Machine backups. That shouldn't be the cause of much of this problem, but may be a problem in the future. The reason is, to OSX, a VM file is one huge file -- if anything at all is changed, TM considers the whole thing changed, and will back it up again, taking time and lots of space on your backup disk.
Have you Verified your internal HD, and Repaired any other disks being backed-up, and your backups, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting?
What are you backing-up to (external HD, Time Capsule, etc.)?

Time Machine will not backup Time Capsule drive

I was filling up my time capsule so I bought a new 2GB drive for my backups. It is attached as an air disk on the Time Capsule as I also use it to backup other computers in the house.
My problem is that I am now using the HDD in the time capsule for my iTunes and iPhoto library, so that they can also be shared, but they are not being backed up by TM.
I have checked my excluded drives list and the Time Capsule drive isn't in there.
Any ideas/help/advice on how to get the time capsule backed up too?

Sorry, but Time Machine will not backup a network drive (i.e. TC's HDD or any USB HDD attached to the TC). It can backup TO a NAS such as TC or a USB HDD attached to the TC. You can transfer your music to another external HDD that is connected directly to a Leopard-loaded Mac and TM can backup that up to TC/HDD attached to a TC.

Time machine will not backup to empty external hard drive after replacing Mac's internal hard drive and restoring

First - I live in a tiny fishing village in Belize, so getting support here is virtually non-existent. There is no one else in my village who even uses a Mac. Recently, my hard drive in my 2012 Macbook Pro 13" went bad (said it suffered a "shock"?) and I was traveling to Cozumel, Mexico, so had it replaced there. We used an external hard drive backup to restore the data to it's last time machine backup (October of 2014). Everything was working fine, until I returned home, added some pictures, and wanted to do a fresh backup. Now, time machine will start the backup, but gets about 113,000 of 181,000 done, and it locks up. I can do nothing - everything freezes, and I have to eventually power down the computer. I even tried deleting the old backup from the external hard drive, erasing it completely, and reformatting the external hard drive using disk utility. Still locking up. It is a 5 GB external hard drive, so space shouldn't be an issue, and it was backed up to the same external hard drive previously with no issues. I'm still running Mavericks, and don't want to try to upgrade to Yosemite until I can be sure I have a backup of my old data and pictures. I am a writer, and use that to make my meager living LOL
I'm stumped. I've looked through the files endlessly but can't find anything similar to my issue. Any suggestions? I know just enough to be dangerous, and don't want to lose everything we worked so hard to retrieve when my hard drive crashed last month.
Thanks!

SMH5206 - I tried letting it sit and crank overnight twice. First time I thought it was my error causing it to lock up. Now I know better. I haven't changed any of my time machine settings - and actually never used time machine regularly. Only reason I had a fresh backup from last Oct was because I did one before I upgraded to mavericks. Everything worked fine then - and we used that to restore when the hard drive crashed and was replaced. I have actually deleted hundreds of pictures off my hard drive and one entire user, so it should actually be a much smaller backup - so if it did it before on the same external hard disk, I don't understand why it won't now. I'm really confused.
Kahjot - the external hard drive is the same one I backed up to previously - and I have completely erased it and reformatted, and the information I'm backing up now is less, so there should be no reason why it doesn't have enough room now, when there is actually less information on my current hard drive (see my reply to SMH5206). When I plug it in, it says it is a 500.07 GB WD "My Passport"
I've even tried to have time machine only backup certain files, and not the whole thing. Still locking up.
I'm sure it's my error somewhere, - I just don't know how or where

Time machine will not backup after maverick

This is a major problem, not addressed in the installation instrucitons. The disk runs eternally "preparing backup", I mean all night.
This happened to two machines on entirely separate backup disks. And if we are sacraficing the old data in reformating the drive, I would like to know about that before choosing to upgrade.

Update: Finally...
At least for the Promise Pegasus R4... but I noticed on other threads that WD drives are also acting up too so this might work with them too.
I turned off Time Machine, and deleted that pesky .plist file, again. I unplugged the R4, power and thunderbolt, then played whack the gopher with the drives swapping them around randomly. I reintalled Mavericks from a fresh download, yet again, then set Time Machine to backup on a fast USB 3TB drive (which it did in 6 hours or so). Then I turned off Time Machine, deleleted that .plist file again, rebooted the iMac, plugged in the R4, reformatted it again with Disk Utility, then hooked it to Time Machine, said a few slightly heretic prayers to whatever demons came with Maverick, and 2 minutes later Time Machine started to backup and report 1 hour to complete... the hour isn't up yet, but I'm crossing everything I have 2 of...
I've noticed a few other 'didn't copy over or mesh well' things with Maverick, but that's a different thread and 2 updates from now once we all suffer through this extended beta-test by Apple.
John Galt posted this on another thread... to find and delete that pesky .plist file:
or "error ... while creating the backup folder."
and follow that to:
http://pondini.org/TM/A4.html

Time Machine will not backup after an error creating the backup folder.

I have TM that will not make backups anymore after getting an error trying to create the backup folder. It wasn't able to complete that backup so it will not create new ones.
I also have a huge file in the backup directory:"dateofbackupattempt.inprogress". It is 231 Gb as if it was trying to do a complete backup instead of an incremental one.
Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!

georgefrommosman park wrote:
Thank you Pondini.
The Time Machine symbol in the menu appears as a grey ghost, not the black symbol usually seen.
That sounds like Time Machine is turned OFF (on the Preferences panel).
I assume you clicked the TM icon in your menubar or Dock and selected Back Up Now?
It had not saved a thing and the partial file in the folder was dated back to Feb when it all stopped recording. I repaired the disc again. No issues noted.
That sounds like a backup didn't get started at all.
Tried to restart Time Machine. Same grey ghost.
Do you mean moving the big slider button on the TM Prefs panel to ON, or Back Up Now?
Decided to erase and start anew. Got the message cannot erase as disc cannot be unmounted.
Where to next? Help!!!!
Assuming you were doing Back Up Now, let's see what your logs show. Use the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to display the backup messages from your logs. Locate the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages here.
Also either tell us what's on the Preferences panel, or post a screenshot of it.

Time Machine will not backup after Snow Leopard.

Pertinent information:
Macbook Pro pre-aluminum body
Time Machine backing up over network to a ppc mini with 500 gb external drive.
This worked fine with Leopard for over a year. I installed Snow Leopard last week and this is the first time I got a chance to try a Time Machine backup. Doesn't see to want to backup no matter what I do.
I tried:
- Renaming the sparsebundle
- Disconnecting/reconnecting the external drive.
- Re-selecting disk in Time Machine config and nothing works.
- Even ran Verify Disk and Repair Disk on the external drive. Found a header error, but Disk Utility said it was minor and fixed it.
It seems that Time Machine isn't even trying to figure out what needs to be backed up. Here is the log. Below this snippet of the log I will post some of the other things I see...
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Starting standard backup
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backup
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backup
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Warning: Destination /Volumes/Backup does not support TM Lock Stealing
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:31 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Warning: Destination /Volumes/Backup does not support Server Reply Cache
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:33 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Disk image /Volumes/Backup/mbphome_001ec2038641.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of mbphome
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:34 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:38 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:47 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:47 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Backup canceled.
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:47 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -138; status: -36; dissenting pid: -1)
09/12/2009 - 7:01PM Sep 12 2009 7:01:48 PM com.apple.backupd[5688] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Notice the:
Destination /Volumes/Backup does not support TM Lock Stealing
and:
Destination /Volumes/Backup does not support Server Reply Cache
Does anybody know what that means?
I also see this maybe every third time I try a manual backup. There are many more lines, I'll post a few for you to get the gist:
09/12/2009 - 6:49PM Sep 12 2009 6:49:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5560] Error: (6) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb/mbphome/2009-08-16-173353
09/12/2009 - 6:49PM Sep 12 2009 6:49:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5560] Error: (6) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb/mbphome/2009-08-20-192750
09/12/2009 - 6:49PM Sep 12 2009 6:49:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5560] Error: (6) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb/mbphome/2009-08-27-220252
09/12/2009 - 6:49PM Sep 12 2009 6:49:36 PM com.apple.backupd[5560] Error: (6) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb/mbphome/2009-09-09-013744
Can't really find any info on any of these errors. I search through discussions and it doesn't seem that anybody is having the same problems as I'm having, seems they are having different problems.
Thanks in advance for any kind of information you can provide on this problem.

Unfortunately a "full reset" didn't do it. The log looks almost exactly the same...
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:47 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Starting standard backup
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:47 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backup
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:48 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backup
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:48 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Warning: Destination /Volumes/Backup-1 does not support TM Lock Stealing
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:48 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Warning: Destination /Volumes/Backup-1 does not support Server Reply Cache
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:50 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Disk image /Volumes/Backup-1/mbphome_001ec2038641.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of mbphome
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:50 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of mbphome/Backups.backupdb
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:52 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:54 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:54 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:54 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Backup canceled.
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:55 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:55 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Still confused over the "does not support TM Lock Stealing" and "does not support Server Reply Cache"? Are those the possible causes? I'm really at a loss cause like I said in my reply before, Time Machine just always worked.

Time machine will not backup to Synology NAS DiskStation.

I own a MacBook Pro8.2 (15-inch, Late 2011) running on Mac OS X 10.7.5. Time Machine backups go to a Synology NAS DiskStation, which works fine with my wife's MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011) also running on Mac OX X 10.7.5. If I try to backup the 15-inch MacBook Pro, I can get started but down the road I get the following message: "The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup dish". Try several times again but it always fails again. Does anybody have a good suggestion how to solve the problem? I am puzzled.

Most likely, the backups are corrupted. Try to Repair them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Time machine will not backup

I've been having a lot of difficulty with my time machine backups. For the past month or so I been trying all sorts of things to try and get TM to back up. I tried starting from the begining a few times but that doesnt seem to help. I tried deleting "com.apple.TimeMachine.plist" , that didnt work. Here is the error I get "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder."
I really could use some help with this.
Here's what comes up with when I go into console and search "backup"...
5/27/13 1:13:56.270 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Copied 67.16 GB of 368.55 GB, 349504 of 858678 items
5/27/13 2:13:56.861 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Copied 128.35 GB of 368.55 GB, 676953 of 858678 items
5/27/13 3:13:57.121 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Copied 196.59 GB of 368.55 GB, 765040 of 858678 items
5/27/13 3:21:56.833 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:56.834 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/nicholas/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/dropTheVibe.com/dropTheVibe.com/Across The Light (Original Mix).mp3 to /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Nicholas’s MacBook Pro/2013-05-27-121355.inProgress/D5460D00-758D-4315-85F5-7A14D262B720/Macintosh HD/Users/nicholas/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/dropTheVibe.com/dropTheVibe.com
5/27/13 3:21:56.835 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Stopping backup.
5/27/13 3:21:56.869 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:56.869 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/nicholas/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/dropTheVibe.com/dropTheVibe.com/Across The Light (Original Mix).mp3 to /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Nicholas’s MacBook Pro/2013-05-27-121355.inProgress/D5460D00-758D-4315-85F5-7A14D262B720/Macintosh HD/Users/nicholas/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/dropTheVibe.com/dropTheVibe.com
5/27/13 3:21:57.192 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:57.222 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:57.252 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:57.252 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Copied 766384 files (204.05 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
5/27/13 3:21:57.281 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:57.281 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Copy stage failed with error:11
5/27/13 3:21:57.310 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:57.339 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:57.368 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
5/27/13 3:21:58.795 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Nicholas‚Äôs MacBook Pro size:37
5/27/13 3:28:48.459 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Backup failed with error: 11
5/27/13 3:29:09.453 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Starting manual backup
5/27/13 3:29:11.184 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error determining directory contents for /Volumes/Backup: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file “Backup” couldn’t be opened." UserInfo=0x7fbc5121d060 {NSFilePath=/Volumes/Backup, NSUserStringVariant=(
Folder
), NSUnderlyingError=0x7fbc5120ac50 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -36.)"}
5/27/13 3:29:11.245 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
5/27/13 3:29:11.853 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Nicholas‚Äôs MacBook Pro size:37
5/27/13 3:29:11.855 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Nicholas‚Äôs MacBook Pro size:37
5/27/13 3:29:21.871 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Backup failed with error: 2
5/27/13 3:29:27.705 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Starting automatic backup
5/27/13 3:29:27.721 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error determining directory contents for /Volumes/Backup: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file “Backup” couldn’t be opened." UserInfo=0x7fbc511683b0 {NSFilePath=/Volumes/Backup, NSUserStringVariant=(
Folder
), NSUnderlyingError=0x7fbc51164410 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -36.)"}
5/27/13 3:29:27.774 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
5/27/13 3:29:27.850 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Nicholas‚Äôs MacBook Pro size:37
5/27/13 3:29:27.851 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Nicholas‚Äôs MacBook Pro size:37
5/27/13 3:29:38.078 PM com.apple.backupd[582]: Backup failed with error: 2

See C 10 in the first article.
Time Machine Troubleshooting
Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems

Time Machine will not backup Lacie 1TB Rugged (Biometric) drive

I have a Lacie 1TB Rugged Drive running Lacie Safe Manager (Biometric Login). I use this for my iPhoto libraries and Final Cut Pro media and would like this to be backed up by Time Machine.
Problem is that even when the Lacie drive is unlocked and available, and removed from the Time Machine (exclude these discs) option, it still will not back up this external drive?
It seems like the only way to back stuff up is to have it on the main OS X volume? Is this correct?
Also....the Lacie drive which has been formatted Mac Journaled does not display with a firewire icon (despite the transfer speeds being nice n fast)?
Just shows up as a white disc icon?

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, or by a peripheral device.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including Wi-Fi on certain iMacs. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin. Test while in safe mode. Same problem? After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test.

Time Machine will not backup to my external Hard Drive even though it works on another Mac

I have a WD My Book Studio Edition II that backs up perfectly fine on my iMac 2008 ,but when it comes to my Mac Pro 2001 it just comes up with a "Calculating size..." Message that goes on forever.

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.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

Time Machine does not backup home/user directory (on separate drive)

I recently installed a SSD into my Mini. Due to size restrictions, my home/user directory has to be kept on another drive. I retained the stock 1TB drive that came with the Mini for this.
Ok, installed the SSD, restored a Time Machine backups (sans user data). Used a different admin user and configured my user to use the 1TB drive for it's home directory (/Volumes/1TB/home/<user>). Restart, log in as my user, all is good. All data, settings, etc is there. Everything looks normal.
Time Machine REFUSES to backup this directory. It will backup the 1TB drive and anyting else I create in it, but not the home directory. I tried every permission trick I could think of or found online. I even tested it further by formatting the 1TB drive fresh, adding a new user, configuring the user to use the 1TB for their home directory and it still won't back it up (this was a test of permissions the OS set, to make sure I didn't change my data perms somewhere along the way). Time Machine would not backup the new user's home directory on the 1TB drive.
Any thoughts? I can't be the first person to have their home directory on a non-OS drive.
If I were to create a folder/file in /Volumes/1TB/<test file> ... Time Machine gets it perfect. It just will NOT touch /Volumes/1TB/home/<anything here>
Thanks!

Open the Time Machine preference pane and unlock the settings, if necessary. Click the Options button. If there is one particular folder with items that are not being backed up reliably, add it to the list of excluded items. If there are many such folders, add your home folder to the list, or add a whole volume (i.e., what Apple calls a "disk.") Save the changes.
Start a backup, or wait for one to happen automatically. When it's done, open the preference pane again and remove the exclusion(s) you made earlier. Back up again and see whether there's a change.

Time Machine will not properly backup to new 8TB glyph drive.

Time Machine will not properly backup to new 8TB glyph drive. Folder reads ".inProgress". Can't see any files.
How can I set it up to do proper, regular backups?

8TB? holy cow.
It's likely overwhelmed and doesn't know what it's looking at.
Try using Carbon Copy Cloner instead, at least it will be bootable to use the computer.
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Time Machine will not let me restore from backups after June, 2013. I can see the files on the external hard drive but Time Machine skips all of them and goes back to June, 2013. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?

Time Machine will not let me restore from backups after June, 2013. I can see the files on the external hard drive but Time Machine skips all of them and goes back to June, 2013. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?

rtilghman wrote:
telling me to buy a new router is NOT a solution.
And why not? Apple is selling these things like BigMacs. They can't make enough of them. You've been suffering since May because you refuse to get a decent router.
Can you imagine if a company that makes a refrigerator told me that I needed to upgrade my electrical system to rectify a problem with their device? What kind of response IS that?!?!
What if the problem with their device is that it requires a new-fangled "grounded" outlet and your circa 1890 house doesn't have grounded outlets. Would you refuse to purchase a $ 25 adapter on principle?

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