TimeMachine Backup (of localhost) takes forever
I have a problem with TimeMachine on my 10.6.2 Server I don't understand. Basically, the backup takes forever, it's currently at "Stopping Backup..." since almost an hour.
I have a Nehalem Mac Pro with a 640 GB "main" disk and two 1TB disks as mirrored RAID. The system is installed on the main disk, so this is my startup disk, only 150GB is used, the rest is free space.
On the RAID I store daily backups (good old Linux rsync style with a loooot of hardlinks) from different network machines which can be accessed through SMB. The server has only an Apache and MySQL running, no Mail or Proxy or other fancy stuff.
TimeMachine is configured to *ignore the RAID disks* and only backup the main disk, and the backups went smoothly before I added the RAID. Now whenever TM starts, I see a process "sharePoints_backup" in Activity Monitor, eating up to 4 GB of RAM! And, as mentioned, backups take forever. On the Backup disk, there are only backups of the startup disk, so indeed it does not backup the RAID disks.
I suspect that the server calculates the backup for the RAID also, which it shouldn't to my understanding. How can I prevent this? Or is it something else?
This other thread solved this problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11198756
Seems to be a bug in ServerBackup, it does not respect exclusion paths set by TimeMachine.
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This is my first post, so be gentle!
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Log follows!
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Runtime corruption detected on /Volumes/WD_Backup/Jazzbook.sparsebundle (fsck_hfs -q termination status: 3)
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/WD_Backup
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Deleted backup image: /Volumes/WD_Backup/Jazzbook.purgeable. 1.21 TB available on host volume.
Creating disk image /Volumes/WD_Backup/Jazzbook.sparsebundle
Failed to hide extension on /Volumes/WD_Backup/Jazzbook.sparsebundle, error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "The file “Jazzbook.sparsebundle” doesn’t exist." UserInfo=0x7fa553101bd0 {NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/WD_Backup/Jazzbook.sparsebundle/, NSFilePath=/Volumes/WD_Backup/Jazzbook.sparsebundle, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fa553101530 "The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory"}.
Disk image /Volumes/WD_Backup/Jazzbook.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
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Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/WD_Backup
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Disk image already attached: /Volumes/WD_Backup/Jazzbook.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
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487.14 GB required (including padding), 1.21 TB available
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Copied 29.55 GB of 405.95 GB, 507353 of 936300 itemsHi there,
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This configuration was working perfectly via WiFi for nearly two years now, at the beginning with Snow Leopard, then with Lion and now with Mountain Lion.
So to cut a long story short, yesterday the old MacBook reported, that the last update is already more than 11 days ago and that it has todo a full backup with over 120GB. As this surprised me completely I checked the backup disc and noticed that it was nearly empty. It seems that the complete image file (in case of WiFi backup the backups are placed in an image file) for the time machine backup was deleted and a new one was started.
I even checked the console logs and it was stated there, that there was a partially deleted file found, which was afterwards deleted and then a one was created. I haven't got the logs here now, but it was nearly the same as in the log from maz100 with the only difference that it did no report me "runtime corruption" on the image file, it reported me a "partially deleted file" found.
I checked also the other partition on that disc and the backups from my 13" book are still there. So I got no clue why the complete image file of my 15" book has been deleted and a new one has been created, it's running now since yesterday to make the new full backup.
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I know there are a few questions with this title, but they are really about SpotLight taking forever to prepare the indexing. In my case, it takes forever to index. It starts, get a few pixels' worth of the progress bar done, and then stops forever. I've left my computer on for hours on end hoping SoptLight will eventually finish its job; it doesn't. (By the way, it also doesn't give me an estimated remaining time; I just get the progress bar.)
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I'd never had this problem before, and I've restored data from TimeMachine backups in the past.
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The first terminal command resulted in the following (not knowing whether they are privacy-related or not, I replaced the hex codes after MDSImporterProxy with Xs):
Oct 4 17:25:46 (Error) ImportServer: <MDSImporterProxy 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO> still waiting for plug-in info from bundle finder
Oct 5 12:14:16 (Error) ImportServer: <MDSImporterProxy 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO> still waiting for plug-in info from bundle finder
Oct 5 18:20:28 (Error) ImportServer: <MDSImporterProxy 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO> still waiting for plug-in info from bundle finder
Oct 6 08:27:29 (Error) ImportServer: <MDSImporterProxy 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO> still waiting for plug-in info from bundle finder
Oct 6 19:48:33 (Error) ImportServer: <MDSImporterProxy 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO> still waiting for plug-in info from bundle finder
Oct 7 09:23:53 (Error) ImportServer: <MDSImporterProxy 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO> still waiting for plug-in info from bundle finder
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3 - reboot
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Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.1 or higher are Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. Versions 1.5.1 or later are Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts had been significantly reduced in Tiger and Leopard. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard and should not be installed.
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Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
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Carbon Copy Cloner
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Deja Vu
iBackup
JaBack
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Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
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