TM finishes preparing, but won't back anything up to Time Capsule
Hi. For the past couple days, Time Machine finished the Preparing Backup step, but is stuck at "Backing up 0 KB of..." It never backs up anything, just spins and spins. I've left it running for as much as four hours, and it's still stuck at 0 kb. For example today, it's "Backing up 0 kb of 571.7 MB". Time Machine Buddy reports the following:
+Starting standard backup+
+Backup destination alias resolved to path: /Volumes/Time Capsule-1+
+Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule-1/iMac 24_0017f2cd495d.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of iMac 24+
+Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of iMac 24/Backups.backupdb+
+No pre-backup thinning needed: 882.4 MB requested (including padding), 482.61 GB available[/code]+
I've repaired my sparsebundle on the Time Capsule. It did have some errors, but now it's fully repaired and I still have the problem. I re-ran Disk Utility and the errors did not get re-introduced--the sparsebundle is clean.
I also verified my source drives (boot drive and USB drive for my iTunes) -- they're clean as well.
I've searched these forums haven't found this problem before -- perhaps it's here but I'm not searching correctly.
Can anyone help?
I read a few other threads and did this:
Excluded the mounted sparsebundle from Spotlight (but the Time Capsule folder had already been automatically excluded)
Quit out of every app except Finder
This solved the problem, for now. The backup had some weird messages in there, so no need to reply unless you see something that would ring alarm bells...
Starting standard backup
Backup destination alias resolved to path: /Volumes/Time Capsule-1
Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule-1/iMac 24_0017f2cd495d.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of iMac 24
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of iMac 24/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 882.7 MB requested (including padding), 482.61 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (910 > 0)
Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
Error: (-39) SrcErr:YES Copying (null) to (null)
Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
Copied 11595 files (28.7 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copied 13454 files (571.9 MB) from volume ComStar160.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 199.4 MB requested (including padding), 482.03 GB available
Copied 1838 files (3.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copied 1842 files (3.2 MB) from volume ComStar160.
Starting post-backup thinning
Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of iMac 24/Backups.backupdb/iMac 24/2009-05-09-222108: 482.05 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of iMac 24/Backups.backupdb/iMac 24/2009-05-09-211830: 482.07 GB now available
Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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