Why will my Time Machine not work/

Hi all.
Today my friend did me a "favour" and removed the 'Applicaton' icon (much to my surprise) from that part of the toolbar next to my Trash basket.
When I looked in the Trash to try and retrieve it, for some reason it was not there.
No problem I thought, I clicked onto the main hard drive icon on the desktop which I call "Nemesis" and when the page loaded I went down to the pop up launch bar on the (hidden) bottom part of the screen.
When the icons popped up I selected Time machine (for Nemesis) and went back a few pages to where I thought all was O.K.
This is where the problem lay.
Every item/button within Time machine was highlighted and appeared to be in a working condition except the "Restore" button. It was greyed out and did not work!
I could not "Restore" to my desired time period.............Why?
Regards

Today my friend did me a "favour" and removed the 'Applicaton' icon (much to my surprise) from that part of the toolbar next to my Trash basket.
Open the hard drive and drag the Applications folder to the Dock (to the right of the dividing line).

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MacBook Pro
15-inch, Mid 2010
8GB Ram
OS 10.8.2
No updates available ATT.
Problem with Time Machine using Verbatim USB2TB (Verbatim # 96865) external hard drive in regular and safe boot. According to the Verbatim website, this external drive is compatiable with MAC OS 10+ and can be formatted to the specific Mac filesystems.
The following list of events below happen irregardless of running in regular or safe boot, so I noted my last attempt at a backup while in Safe Boot.
Before this last attempt, I successfully zeroed out the data on the drive in regular boot.
As you will see below, the drive works just fine until Time Machine gets it grimy digits on it and kills it like South Park kills Kenny.
---- Begin ----
Started in Safe Boot
Connected and powered on the external drive.
Erased the drive and formatted it to Extended Journaled. Partition was successfully created.
Verifying partition map for “SAMSUNG HD203WI Media”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition’s size
Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
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Verifying volume “Big2TB”
Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Big2TB appears to be OK.
Successfully copied over 2.8 GB of random data. (Screenshot)
Deleted the data and then emptied the Trash.
Started Time Machine backup.
Time Machine Created a backup folder on the external drive.
Time Machine started to transfer data then hung at 452.1 MB of 257.66 GB.
Backup failed.
--- Console ---
1/13/13 11:57:59.988 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Starting manual backup
1/13/13 11:58:04.581 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: User continued after being warned of changed destination volume identity
1/13/13 11:58:04.623 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb
1/13/13 11:58:04.628 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
1/13/13 11:58:05.156 AM mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
1/13/13 11:58:06.336 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "MainMan" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 8A3A5598-7C8B-3753-ABA8-D980E60299A3 eventDBUUID: 23107488-4BC9-49FB-818D-226AE695DE06)
1/13/13 11:58:23.346 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backup content size: 246.45 GB excluded items size: 12.21 GB for volume MainMan
1/13/13 11:58:23.368 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Found 910640 files (234.23 GB) needing backup
1/13/13 11:58:23.370 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: 281.08 GB required (including padding), 2 TB available
1/13/13 11:58:23.388 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 11:59:23.443 AM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:00:02.530 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowInfo: Invalid window 1045
1/13/13 12:00:02.530 PM Dock[259]: CGSBindWindow: Unable to obtain window information
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x415
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1044
1/13/13 12:00:02.531 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x414
1/13/13 12:00:02.532 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1043
1/13/13 12:00:02.532 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x413
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowType: Invalid window 1066
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: Invalid depth WindowID 0x42a
1/13/13 12:00:04.481 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x42a
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1065
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x429
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1064
1/13/13 12:00:04.482 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x428
1/13/13 12:00:23.497 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:01:23.549 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
1/13/13 12:01:44.830 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpcd.F5010000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[1541]) Exited: Killed: 9
1/13/13 12:01:44.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1541 [xpcd]
1/13/13 12:01:49.000 PM kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
1/13/13 12:01:49.000 PM kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
1/13/13 12:02:15.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7419.448          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 2)
1/13/13 12:02:21.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7425.451          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 0)
1/13/13 12:02:27.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7431.454          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 0)
1/13/13 12:02:58.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:          7462.473          AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8008e26000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 2)
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXGetWindowInfo: Invalid window 1196
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM Dock[259]: CGSBindWindow: Unable to obtain window information
1/13/13 12:05:37.068 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4ac
1/13/13 12:05:37.069 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1195
1/13/13 12:05:37.069 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4ab
1/13/13 12:05:37.070 PM Dock[259]: find_shared_window: WID 1194
1/13/13 12:05:37.070 PM Dock[259]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x4aa
1/13/13 12:06:34.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:39.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:44.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:50.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:06:55.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:01.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:11.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:17.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:22.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x5
1/13/13 12:07:27.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 389120 bytes to the journal!
1/13/13 12:07:54.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:08:21.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:08:21.820 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/{CFA1AAD1-DC10-413D-875E-2F5B8A78CB3B}.zip to /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins/2013-01-13-115805.inProgress/376C91 FB-29D6-47F1-A29B-67D94CBD01BA/MainMan/Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles
1/13/13 12:08:23.122 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Stopping backup.
1/13/13 12:08:23.122 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/{CFA1AAD1-DC10-413D-875E-2F5B8A78CB3B}.zip to /Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins/2013-01-13-115805.inProgress/376C91 FB-29D6-47F1-A29B-67D94CBD01BA/MainMan/Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles
1/13/13 12:08:23.136 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Copied 817 files (572.1 MB) from volume MainMan.
1/13/13 12:08:23.136 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Copy stage failed with error:11
1/13/13 12:08:23.174 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/Big2TB/Backups.backupdb/numeroeins size:37
1/13/13 12:08:33.228 PM com.apple.backupd[1558]: Backup failed with error: 11
1/13/13 12:08:48.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:09:15.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
---- End console ---
Attempted to copy over 2.8 GB of random data again. Failed.
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--- Console ---
1/13/13 12:19:00.248 PM mtmfs[1555]: filesystem unmount attempted from stopFS
1/13/13 12:19:31.946 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:19:31.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:19:32.187 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
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1/13/13 12:19:35.129 PM WindowServer[114]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Disk Utility" after 3.22 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
1/13/13 12:20:05.375 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:05.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:20:05.390 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.153 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.153 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:20:37.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:20:48.102 PM diskarbitrationd[49]: mds [34]:20995 not responding.
1/13/13 12:21:04.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:04.451 PM com.apple.kextd[11]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 339.
1/13/13 12:21:14.854 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x7b5
1/13/13 12:21:14.854 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: kCGErrorFailure: CGSSetHideOnDeact: error getting window tags
1/13/13 12:21:15.372 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSCopyWindowColorSpace: Invalid window 0x7b5
1/13/13 12:21:22.606 PM WindowServer[114]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "com.apple.security.pboxd" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
1/13/13 12:21:23.060 PM com.apple.quicklook.satellite[1657]: bootstrap_look_up2 failed with 0x44c
1/13/13 12:21:23.081 PM mds[34]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
1/13/13 12:21:23.090 PM WindowServer[114]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "com.apple.security.pboxd" after 1.48 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
1/13/13 12:21:23.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(1658) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
1/13/13 12:21:26.021 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: CGSReleaseWindow: Invalid window 1973
1/13/13 12:21:26.021 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[1518]: _NXTermWindow: error releasing window (1000)
1/13/13 12:21:27.775 PM sandboxd[1658]: ([1657]) QuickLookSatelli(1657) deny mach-lookup com.apple.PowerManagement.control
1/13/13 12:21:52.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:57.967 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:21:57.967 PM fseventsd[44]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd/0000000000048e11 (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Big2TB/.fseventsd
1/13/13 12:21:57.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
1/13/13 12:21:58.229 PM com.apple.kextd[11]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 339.
1/13/13 12:21:58.000 PM kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: close: journal 0xffffff800908acc0, is invalid. aborting outstanding transactions
--- End Console ---
---- That's all folks! ----
Any help would be great!

The external drive is malfunctioning, or the data cable is bad, or you have another malfunctioning device on the bus, or there's an internal hardware fault.

Time machine not working on macbook pro 10.6.8

My time machine is not working, I want to upgrade to Lion do I need time machine?

Not to upgrade, but you may want to use Time Machine for your regular backup.
How to Install Lion/Mountain Lion Successfully - You must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 Installed
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Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Then select Disk Utility from the Utilities. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
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6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the
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1. If you have a FireWire hard drive connected, disconnect it before
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3. The installation process should not be interrupted. If a power outage or
      other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone
      installer (see below) from Apple Downloads to update. While the
      installation is in progress do not use the computer.
D. To upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion:
1. Purchase the Lion/Mountain Lion Installer from the Mac App Store.
      The download should start quickly. Lion is nearly 4 GBs so a fast
      internet connection is essential. Download time could run upwards of 4
      hours depending upon network conditions and server demands at the
      time.
2. The installer will run automatically after the download is completed.
      Click on the Install button to begin the upgrade.
3. Follow instructions for installation.
You may also wish to consider this:
Make Your Own Mountain/Lion Installer
1. After downloading Mountain/Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Mountain/
    Lion application. After Mountain/Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button.
    Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Mountain/Lion installer. Move
    the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You
    must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes
    installing.
2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
a. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
b. After DU loads select your flash drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left
      side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
c. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one.
      Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the
      partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until
      the process has completed.
d. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side
      list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
e. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the
      button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
f. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to an hour depending upon the flash
     drive size.
3. Locate the saved Mountain/Lion installer in your Downloads folder. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the installer and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Double-click on the Contents folder to open it. Double-click on the SharedSupport folder. In this folder you will see a disc image named InstallESD.dmg.
4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the content of the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
a. Double-click on the InstallESD.dmg file to mount it on your Desktop.
b. Open Disk Utility.
c. Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
d. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
e. Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
f. Drag the mounted disc icon from the Desktop into the Source entry field.
g. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable installer that you can use without having to re-download Mountain/Lion.
Note: The term Mountain/Lion used above means Lion or Mountain Lion.
As an alternative to the above (you still have to do your own download of Lion/Mountain Lion) you can try using Lion DiskMaker 2.0 that automates the process of Steps 2 through 4.

Time Machine not working as supposed to.

The other day i made changes that i wanted to "roll back". So i selected a date 1 day earlier and restored to that date. After the system rebooted it took the next 18 hours creating a new " image " in time machine.
There was no way to stop this.
Now i lost about 6 months of priors backup points.
Before i have restored from time machine(about a year ago or longer) and it was slick and painless. The computer was ready to use immediately and it did not recreate a whole disk image.
If i restored to an earlier time, it should not have to do a full time machine backup because there is already the original one.
--my time machine disk did not change.
Are others having this issue and is apple recognizing that time machine is screwing up.

freak111 wrote:
thanks, i know that was the issue, but its a stupid setup.
And it seems odd that the article says "may". They should know what the software will do.
I think that what they were trying to do (which works sometimes) is, if you restore the +*most recent+* backup, it may not do a full backup the next time. But every time I've seen it do that, it has made room for a full backup first, so may delete old backups anyway.
What if 1 day before didnt resolve my issue, and i needed to go back 100 days. Now that time has been overwritten and lost. And worse if this happens everytime i restore, and 2 restore points were needed.
You don't necessarily lose any backups; backups may be deleted only because TM needs so much space for the next one, and it deletes the oldest ones first, regardless of which one you restored.
And multiple restores will only cause multiple full backups if you do a backup after the first restore.
But don't hesitate to tell Apple about it here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/timemachine.html

Time Machine not working after ethernet card failed

A couple of weeks back my iMac Core Duo's ethernet failed. As a logic board replacement for a 3.5 year old iMac would be expensive I instead bought an Apple USB Ethernet adapter (which works great). However, now Time Machine will not work, it says it cannot find the built in network interface. It does not matter whether I connect the external drive directly via firewire or over the network to my Mac Mini (which will backup with either connection).
Here is the console error:
+Time Machine: Error setting backup path: Error Domain=com.apple.TimeMachine.Preferences Code=-1 UserInfo=0x1864bdf0 "Time Machine could not be configured. The built-in network interface could not be found."+
+_CSBackupGetMachineMACAddress - IOServiceGetMatchingServices did not find an ethernet service with kIOPrimaryInterface true+
I tried the instructions on the Apple Support page http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275#5, but that did not work. Can anyone help?

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
It's a long shot, but try a "Full Reset" of Time Machine, per item #B3 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.
TM uses your Mac's Ethernet Address, which is embedded in the hardware of, guess what, your logic board, to identify your computer. This is how it keeps the backups for each Mac separate, so you can back-up more than one Mac to the same place without conflicts.
To find this address, use the System Profiler app (click the Apple icon at the left of your Menubar, then +About this Mac,+ then +More Info.+
Select Network in the sidebar, then Ethernet then find a line like this: +*MAC Address: 0a:1b:2c:3d:4e:5f+* That code, omitting the colons, is what TM puts in a hidden file on your TM volume to identify it as your Mac's backups.
Since your internal Ethernet card failed, you may not see that at all. If not, neither, apparently, can Time Machine. Other than getting a new logic board, I don't think there's a workaround.

Time Machine not working after Restore.

Yesterday, for reasons I could not ascertain, OS X died on me. After much fannying about, I put in my Leopard install disc and restored the OS from a Time Machine backup. No problems at all. Good job Apple. Apart from a few stray emails, everything worked as far as I could tell.
Except, Time Machine no longer works. Backups are failing and I'm not sure why… can anyone help?

I am experiencing exactly the same thing after restoring my hard drive from a Time Machine backup. I checked my backup log and I got the following messages:
12/20/07 9:49:11 PM /Library/Application Support/LaCie/LaCie Backup/laciebackupd.app/Contents/MacOS/laciebackupd[120] laciebackupd could not register hot key: -9878
12/20/07 10:02:51 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] Backup requested by automatic scheduler
12/20/07 10:02:51 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] Starting standard backup
12/20/07 10:02:51 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] FSMatchAliasBulk returned -35 while resolving alias to backup target
12/20/07 10:02:51 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] Backup failed with error: 19
12/20/07 10:02:51 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] 10 days since last backup
12/20/07 10:03:25 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] Backup requested due to disk attach
12/20/07 10:03:25 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] Starting standard backup
12/20/07 10:03:25 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] Volume at path /Volumes/Time Machine Backups does not appear to be the correct backup volume for this computer.
12/20/07 10:03:25 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[329] Backup failed with error: 18
12/20/07 10:14:41 PM /Library/Application Support/LaCie/LaCie Backup/laciebackupd.app/Contents/MacOS/laciebackupd[120] laciebackupd could not register hot key: -9878

Time Machine not working after Lion install

After Lion install at first Time Machine would not back up-then it did, but backed up the entire HD-now Time Machine will no longer function in trying to retrieve any data from Mail or anything else

After consulting with maker of back up drive (LaCie) I opted to format the drive. Lost some stuff but nothing critical. I then backed up and now all appears to be working, i.e drive is backing up and Time Machine is now functioning.

TIme Machine not working after upgrade to snow lep.

I just updated to snow lep version from lep and now my time machine can't backup. It give an error message of "The backup disk image “/Volumes/Kelly Turner's Time Capsule/Kelly Turner’s iMac.sparsebundle” could not be created (error 22)."
I try to open airport utility and it finds my time capsule, but when chosen, this error message "Make sure your AirPort wireless device is plugged in and in range of your computer or connected via Ethernet and try again. (-6722)" comes up after a long search to find configurations.
When open time capsule utility, it shows the capsule, but hangs when "making backup disk available" and fails to start backup.
I have had this setup for four years and not problems with connectivity or backups. I can still get on internet using wireless with airport, but the time capsule can't see it.
HELP!

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
It sounds like you need to reset your Time Capsule; probably a "soft reset" is enough. See [Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule FAQ|http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728].
You might also need to do a "full reset" of Time Machine, per #A4 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Oddly enough, the name of your Time Capsule may be part of the problem. See #C9 in Troubleshooting. Why it sometimes works for a while, then suddenly doesn't, is a mystery.

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