Intel Mac :: Storage For Time Machine Backup Cannot Be Found

Mar 22, 2012

Late last night I accidentally ejected Time Machine from the Devices section of the Finder window. I've now spent half a day trying to get the computer to recognise my external hard drive again as attempting to use Time Machine results in the message "Storage Machine for Time Machine backup can't be found." I can find my WD desktop 1TB drive with Disk Utility but not in Finder. If I click on the WD Ext HDD 1021 Media in Disk Utility there is the option to Verify in the top menu, but nothing happens when I click on it. All the options verify, and repair are greyed out. I've checked the computer hard drive and done the verify and repair disk and permissions process.

I've turned off the computer, disconnected the external hard drive, turned off time machine, then turned everything back on but still can't get the external hard drive to be recognized. This is extremely frustrating and I have run out of ideas. I know it all started when I clicked on the eject button for the external hard drive in the devices section of the finder. Such a simple mistake, but I have searched everywhere online and can't find a resolution that I can actually try. I can't verify and repair the WD hard drive if these options aren't available in Disk Utility.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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OS X Yosemite :: How To Set Up External Storage And A Time Machine Backup

Dec 6, 2014

I am trying to organize my external storage for a new iMac with an 500G SSD drive.  I have a new thunderbolt G-Raid drive and an aging Airport Time Capsule.  I was thinking of storing music and pictures, as well as a Time Machine backup of the SSD, and storing  a Time Machine backup of my music and pictures on the Time Capsule. Will I need to partition the G-Raid? 

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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), SSD drive

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OS X Mavericks :: Time Machine Encryption Can't Be Found For New Portable Backup HDD

Aug 22, 2014

I might be going mad but I have bought a new portable hard drive today & I erased it using disk utility as it was a Windows one and then added it as a new disk in Time Machine. 

I expected to find a check box to encrypt the data but its not there. 

I encrypted the other portable HDD's I have but can't see from the description now if they are or not. I am certain that they are however. 

The new disk is 1.55 TB free of 2 Tb's, the previous one is 1.43 free of 2 Tb and my oldest is only 253Gb free of 1Tb. I guess that the difference is the amount of old data and backups I have done with Time Machine already or hasn't it backed up properly? 

One last thing, on the Time machine prefs there is an option button & when I click it it says "excludes these items from backups" and it lists the new portable HDD and the size of the backup which is 447.09Gb. It estimates the size of the full backup as 492.65 Gb. What this means & whether its set up correctly? 

I am using Mavericks 10.9.4 & an iMac 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 machine

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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5

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OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Time Machine - "The Backup Volume Could Not Be Found" Alert

May 17, 2012

I need to change my backup volume for Time Machine. But I don't see [Preferences] or [Change Disk] when I click on Time Machine from the System Preferences.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Time Machine: "Backup Volume Could Not Be Found."

Feb 15, 2012

I saw that this issue has been addressed and there seems to be a few solutions for it but I had a hard time understanding some of the steps described in previous posts. I am running OS Leopard 10.5.8 and I am using a FreeAgent 500GB hard drive for Time Machine. Today I tried to back up and all of a sudden I'm getting the "Backup Volume Could Not be found" error. I tried deselecting it and reselecting it, and now its saying it doesn't have enough space to back it up. 

I really don't want to completely erase the hard drive if that isn't going to fix it. Before now it would just overwrite a few old backups and make enough room for a new one, while leaving 2 old ones on there. I want it to do that. 

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Mar 19, 2012

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PowerBook G4, IMac, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

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Intel Mac :: Time Machine Switches Itself Off Before Backup?

Apr 25, 2012

This morning I turned on TimeMachine (I do a weekly back up) and it showed a back up would occur within the hour. When I went back to look an hour later it was set on off. I turned it back on and within a minute it turned itself off. I have a lot of memory available on my standalone hard drive so what the heck is up with this shutting itself off?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

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Jun 7, 2012

I want to download Lion OS and I will call Apple for help, but I know they will ask if I've backed up everything. I'd like for Time Machine to completely back up my hard drive but I can't seem to find out how to make it do that.

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iMac G4, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Intel Mac :: Time Machine Does Not Recognize Backup

Jun 15, 2012

I just did a clean install of Lion on my 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo iMac. Before I did that, I made sure that everything was backed up on an external drive through Time Machine. Now I want to restore everything and when I enter Time Machine, all that is visible for back ups are those that were done after the clean install of Lion. 

when I open the files on the external back up drive through Finder, I can still see all of the back ups that were completed, including the most recent that I want to use to restore my iMac. I am considering another clean install to start the process again. 

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo

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Jun 24, 2012

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Intel Mac :: Time Machine Not Set Up And Cannot Get Backup Files (OS X 10.7.4)

Jun 25, 2012

I have recently ran the latest update 10.7.4 (11E53) for my iMac OSX Lion and using Safari browser 5.1.7 and since then I am experiencing intermittent problems with my Time Machine not backing up. The light on the front is on and it looks like it is working however it remains static and will not strobe as previously. The Time Machine is a WD MB Studio 1034. When I select the time machine symbol I get a message to say that the Time Machine is not set up and I cannot get to my backed up files. My last back up was done on 11th June 2012. Since then the back up drive has not automatically backed up.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Intel Mac :: What Is Encrypting On Time Machine Backup

Jun 28, 2012

i just bought a 1T lacie external hard drive?i chose to encrypt the the back up not sure why..it just seemed to be the prudent thing to choose it is still encrypting the data after 7 hrs? what's going on?can i change this?also can i change the schedule of backups the time machine does?

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Applications :: Time Machine Taking Long Time To Backup - Changing Backup Time?

Dec 11, 2009

I have looked into this a lot already. It is to much that Time Machine backs up every single hour! It would be nice to set it to something like 3 or 5 hours. I have tried a 3rd party app to do this, but... If my computer was off or asleep when it was supposed to back up, it would get an error. It would not just do the backup when i turned it on or when it came out of sleep like stock Time Machine does. I have also seen a way to change the time incraments in the Terminal.(I am very good with it, not a noob) I have tried this and it screws up time machine completely. Maybe it does not work with the newest OS X. By the way... I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, got it 2 months ago.

Does anyone know a solid 3rd party app, that will work seamlessly. Or has anyone changed the time in Terminal and are currently using something different than 1 hour. There is a lot of examples online, but I would like the codeing that you literally used.

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Intel Mac :: Time Machine Taking Longer To Backup?

Mar 12, 2012

Since the recent update to the time machine software it has been taking about twice as long to complete each hourly backup.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), WD backup disk

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Mar 17, 2012

I need to deploy multi iMac for my company with exact same setup.I am able to do this with the Time Machine without problem.But I would like to know is there a way to backup the "Time Machine" USB HDD I have created, just incase my USB HDD is corrupted or I need to distribut the Time Machines to other office for deployment? Can I create a dmg file with my existing Time Machine USB HDD. so that I can make multi copy of USB HDD with the same dmg by restoring the dmg?

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Mar 25, 2012

mac online did a complete resetting and reinstallation on my iMac.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), mail

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May 25, 2012

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Jun 25, 2012

time machine does not backup iphoto library anymore, iphoto library is in previous backups, but since a couple of days it is no longer in the folder picture of my backups.I checked in the exclude and it is not excluded?

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Jun 25, 2012

My iMac running 10.7.4 freezes when trying to backup files using time machine. I must reboot each time to stop time machine, and use the iMac.

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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Jun 28, 2012

I am trying to create a backup of my hard drive with Time Machine, but every time I do it gets stalled. Sometimes it gets stalled during the backup, other times it just gets stuck during preparation. The reason I need this backup is because I want to update to Snow Leopard (so I can buy Mountain Lion when it is available) and I want to be sure I won't lose any data on my computer. I am using [URL] (2 TB). I have tried using Disk Utility to make a backup but that froze too.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Feb 20, 2012

I'm running Snow Leopard on an Intel iMac, everything up to date, and Disk Utility finds no error on any of the drives. I have a 1 TB external drive connected to USB (bus powered, with a power USB connection to a powered hub, so it has more than enough power). Time Machine fails with a totally unhelpful message that the backup could not be created because a folder could not be created. The external drive has 318 GB used, 481 GB available, so it's not disk space. Yesterday I repartitioned the external drive using the GUID partition scheme, creating a 750 GB Mac extended journaled partition "Time 1GB Tosh" just for Time Machine. I've been through the Time Machine Troubleshooting FAQs

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Mar 15, 2012

i checked disk utility and no errors. the external is not full.

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Mar 19, 2012

When I go to the Time Machine menu and hit option to get the Verify Backup command, "verify backup" is grayed out. How do I verify backups?I'm using a G-Drive Mini ext hard drive with a Mac Lion 10.7.2 machine.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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Apr 10, 2012

All our itunes songs are no longer on our hard disk thumbnails of photos there - but can't access them on main screen.I backed up a week before info ws lost using time machine backup.How do i retrieve these pics, songs etc?

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May 22, 2012

Ever since receiving my iMac back from the genius bar my external hard used by time machine randomly ejects. Apple Care had no answers for me. They told me I would have to research it then I would be able to fix it?

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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Jun 4, 2012

I just did and automatic update that consisted of about 6 items, now my external hard drive is not even recognized! Long story short, Time Machine can not find my external to do a backup. I have already done all the unplugging and restarting and searching for the disk... Nothing! my external is Lit and seemingly functioning. 

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Jun 8, 2012

I've accidentally deleted (fool that I am!) all my bookmarks from my Firefox browser. Can they be restored from a Time Machine backup? If so, how?

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Oct 26, 2008

I am getting the following error from Time Machine when doing my first backup. The startup disk being backed up, and the TM disk are both the same size.

Macintosh HD: 465.44 (total); 393.99 (free); 71.45 (free)
Time Machine: 465.44 (total); 465.29 (free)

The Time Machine error is: Quote:

"This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 472.7 GB but only 465.3 GB are available." why would this be? Other disks are excluded from the backup, and Time Machine is telling me that it needs more space than it actually needs. What should I do?

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Intel Mac :: Time Machine Backup Cancelled - Disk Returned Error

Feb 27, 2012

Time Machine will not back up, with following error message.

Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/My Book/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Error: Flushing index to disk returned an error: 0
Backup canceled.
iMac running 10.6.8
2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

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iMac9,1, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

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May 7, 2012

How I can erase my old time machine backups on my old external hard drive and re-use for something else to back up.

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