TS1550 Time Machine fails to backup after I've repartitioned the external drive

Just got this new iMac running OS X version 10.8.4 and can't get Time Machine to complete the back up... It is extremely slow... makes me think of the Windows environment I'm trying to escape from... and then after several hours (only achieving about 200MB back up) I get a message that the back up failed.
I've repartitioned the 1T HP drive several times to the Mac OS as advised by the Apple on-line advisory, and have run rhe Disk utility repair function... but still can't get it to work.
? suggestions

Hi, I never use TM, but...
Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Can't imagine something not being covered there.

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    Had a very strange thing happen...I had to do a clean reinstall of Mountain Lion and manually add back everything from various backups. After the reinstall (including a completely new computer name), I was able to access all the old Time Machine backups to restore folders from. However, once I restored one folder, TM wrote over the entire old set of backups (over 6 months worth) with a new backup of the current state, deleting everything and renaming the containing folder to the new computer name. Is there any way I can get back what it deleted? How could this have happened?
    No doubt Im done using Time Machine...no matter how anal I am about backing up, I still end up losing tons of irreplacable data (I had much of the TM backup also backed up on another external drive but, go figure that drive would fail literally simultaneously as this incident).
    Any suggestions on how to move forward, if possible at all?
    Thanks!

    Depending on how you restored your data, Time Machine may not recognize your previous backups as belonging to the same machine. It will then delete as many snapshots as necessary to make room for a full backup of all files. Once the snapshots are deleted, they can't be recovered.
    Another time, when you erase the boot volume, restore from Time Machine in Setup Assistant so that your backup history will be preserved.
    As this experience shows, you need more than one backup to be safe. I suggest you start a new backup set on another, larger, external drive.

  • Time Machine will not backup after Snow Leopard.

    Pertinent information:
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    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
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    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...
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    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
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    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.
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    09/12/2009 - 11:26PM Sep 12 2009 11:26:55 PM com.apple.backupd[1141] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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  • Time Machine fails with "error while linking files on the backup volume"

    One of my drives was nearly full. I moved some folders from that drive to one that had more space.
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    Thanks,
    harv47

    Pondini wrote:
    harv47 wrote:
    The Time Machine Buddy widget shows no messages. None of the buttons do anything.
    What am I doing wrong?
    See #A1 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
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    Backup content size: 305.5 GB excluded items size: 0 bytes for volume Bay 2 HPFS+
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  • Time Machine fails to backup HD and stalls computer when backing up to external HD (Western Digital WD5000MT) when using Firewire 800 but works fine using USB

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    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11194
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275 (note - older article)
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    http://support.wdc.com

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  • Time machine will not backup after maverick

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  • Errors with Time Machine (not completing backup, and needing to erase the ".inProgress" package)

    I have in a previous discussion been talking about errors with my Time Machine backup.  The errors were with a problem with Indexing a file, it fails and stops the whole backup.  Each time it attemps another backup, it fills my ".inProgress" package with a (nearly) whole backup, filling my Time Machine hard drive, and thus errasing my previous good backups.  The error occurs after about 95% completion.
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    This time it was the Mouse.prefPane that caused the error.  I'd like to exclude the entire PreferencePanes directory.
    This was my error message this time:
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    The problem now is that I only have 265 GB of 3 TB available on my Time Machine HDD.  If attempt another backup, it'll surely erase about 410 GB of my past saved backups.  I've already lost 6 months, and I only have two months left of backups.  I need to erase the ".inProgress" package again.  That'll take time, and it's impossible to do from this main partition, even at root access.  This ".inProgress" has a total of two (nearly) full backups; it didn't cleanup the first full backup attempt while starting the second,perhaps it would have had it finished.  But I fear even if I exclude the whole "Mac OS Lion GM" partition,  It'll create a third full backup before cleanup and erase ~400 GB of previous good backups.  Then, I'll have a total of 4 (nearly) full backups!  3 TB is just enough without any past backups.
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    Pondini wrote:
    Gator TPK wrote:
    Now I'll have to fix the small partition?  How's the best way to do this?  There could be thousands of files that won't index fine.
    See if there's anything you haven't done, that applies, in the pink box of #C3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting
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    I reviewed #C3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting and I have already done most of those things.  I have just learned something new though:
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    I never got an indexing error once in the past 2 weeks for that large Mac OS X v10.7.2 main volume, and it had appeared to finish that partition backup before running into problems with my smaller test partition.  Also, I had just updated the smaller test partition with a later build of Mac OS X.  But It appears that the beta builds are clearly not the problem.  I thought I could just restore again (from the December 4th backup) the small partition and both would be fine.
    I'll finish reviewing all the suggestions on Time Machine - Troubleshooting and go from there.  Hopefully, the _spotlight indexing simutaniously was the only problem.  It's strange that the indexing hasn't happened since the original restore last week untill I finally got a good clean complete partial Time Machine backup.  Why would the first Time Machine backup trigger indexing again?
    For now, I'm going to exclude the Main Partition again, and let another good backup run.  And try your suggestions.  (And wait till mds, mdworker, etc. to finish!)
    I have the logs of the first two sucsessful backups and the last two failed backups from the last 3 hours, if that would help.?

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