I use time machine to back up my data to a 300 Gb external iomega disk that I purchased back in 2006. Yesterday, Time Machine could not complete a backup and returned a 'Could not create the backup folder' error. I ran disk utilities and it returned a host of errors, ending with the message that the disk is corrupt, could not be repaired and I had to back up my data immediately. The data on the disk was however, still accessible.
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My Time Machine backup keeps failing. How do I find out why? MacBook Pro 5,1 OS 10.5.8, 6GB ram backing up to new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 2TB.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have a problem with Disk Utility , when trying to format an external fire wire drive.
I cleaned out the drive and proceeded to erase it with zeros. After this Disk utility will not display the subdirectory or verify, repair, partition, erase the disk. The main disk name is still visible, but I cant access any functions.
Error message says input output error.
DiskWarrior will not help, as the original directory is beyond recovery.
I suppose that I have damaged the original directory, and now I would ask the honourable forum if there is any remedy for my actions?
However, my hard drive appears to be running fine - haven't noticed any degradation of performance since receiving the warnings two days ago. And HD is still running quiet (no strange mechanical noises I'm accustomed to hearing prior to a failure). Nevertheless, I'm installing a new HD tomorrow and recloning it from a backup external drive (operating from external until then).
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Solutions attempted: disk repair via custom recovery- disk utility, PRAM
Device: MacBook Pro 15" (early 2010) running 10.9
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Never had any issue with the device and this seems to have happened all of a sudden. Installed an SSD a few months ago, and just realised the ssd did not have a recovery partition. However I connected my older hardrive via USB to access recovery which seemed to work fine.
NOTE: for the past few weeks, every now and then I was unable to power the device off and whenever this occurred, there seemed to be a few bugs (ie unable to empty thrash-error 50 and enable to increase/decrease volume/screen brightness). However, holding the power button and restarting it seemed to have fixed it.
Had the same issue but this time around MBP failed to boot up.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I recently stopped at the store to see what the problem was with my disk drive and i was told that my disk drive is failing i bought my white macbook in 11/2008 and didnt purchase the extended warranty badtimes but the guy from said it would cost $250 for a new disk drive. Is it possible to buy the disk drive from somewhere else and install it my self??? Im just curious if its cheaper to do it myself or have apple do it
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy Time Machine backup is failing... and I'm a little confused as to why. I thought it was supposed to just write over the old backups? Here's a breakdown of what I have going on...
-I have two x 1TB WD MyBook's.
-I'm using one of them as storage, and the other one as my Time Machine drive. So essentially I'm doing a poor man's RAID. I just want to make sure I have a backup of my data in case the drive dies... and it's too big to back up to a cloud.
-The main drive is about half full (Available: 460.49GB)
-The Time Machine drive shows 485.48GB available. Close enough I suppose.
The backup is failing with the attached message. Yes, I added more stuff to the drive today (hence the increase in backup size), but why would it need that size all over again? Why wouldn't it just append the exsisting 485GB, and add the new 158GB. Come to think of it, there's no way what I added today increased the size 158GB, so that's strange in itself.
My Time Machine now failing to backup. The machine can see the external drive (tells me that 1.8T of 2TB available) but every time over past 14 days has failed to function and pops up error window.
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MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), Time
SMART status in my imac hard disk running Snow Leopard is failing. it is < 2 years old. No obvious issues with the machine.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was a PC user who recently moved to mac. I have a macbook (intel 2.2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD). When I was using PC, I backed up all my data to a network storage device (Buffalo LinkStation 250 GB connected to a 802.11g netgear router which is supplied by Sky) using a program called SmartSync Pro, which worked very well. Although I can connect to and mount the Share folder on this drive when the macbook is connected to the network, Time Machine will not back up to it. It wouldnt even recognise the disk on the network.
So I went onto the trusty internet, and found that you can get time machine to recognise the Share folder. (This was obtained from: http://blog.imulus.com/george/software/using-leopard-time-machine-to-backup-of-a-network/)See my comment on their page at the bottom, number 66.
It recommended entering the following in to the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Before attempting backup I have to go into "Network" and select the Share folder by double clicking on it. This seems to mount the volume. After this, it can be seen in Time Machine as a potential backup destination.
However, this method does not work for me. Time Machine "prepares" for a while, then gives the following message: Time Machine error. The backup disk image could not be created.
More internet searching took me to macosxhints which suggests creating something called a sparsebundle image on my local system. (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080420211034137) Have not tried this yet as I thought it would be prudent to seek some help first.
Apple have deliberately disabled the ability for Time Machine to back up to network attached storage, (except of course to their proprietory Time Capsule):
Is this because time machine requires a network faster than 802.11g?
Is this because a time machine backup to a network attached storage device is unreliable and the data is corrupted?
I dont want to shell out more cash for a time capsule. I would prefer not to have to hardwire to an external drive (which I will also have to go out and buy). Any thoughts?
I have a external HD which has always worked fine under snow leopard. Since upgrading to lion I keep getting the following message The identity of the backup disk has changed since the previous backup.The disk may have been replaced or erased, or someone may be trying to trick your computer into backing up to the wrong disk. And after this the drive disappears from the desktop appearing agian only after restart. What can I do do rectify this? Delete and re-intialise the drive?
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MacProQuad2.6 4gbRam, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
I have an Imac '07, its not got any os installed. well i formated the drive because it had came up with an error "smart failing" and now I can't install any OS because internal hardrive is failing. I couldnt back up using time machine because there was problems with privileges, but did manage to back up my main files to an external drive. I have OS X LION backed up on a BOOTABLE DVD because the os was running on OS X LION BEFORE THIS FAILING SIGN APPEARED. I was woundering if there was any terminal commands to sort it out?And also would I by any chance be able to add another partition to an external hardrive without erasing it? if so, how?
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
my TM wil not back up! It states that this backup is too large for the backup disk. The back up disk requires 573.50 GB but only 225.23 GB are available. The TM needs work space on the backup disk, in addition to the space required to store backups. Upen TM perferences to select a LARGER backup disk or make the backup smaller by excluding file.
Okay I;m sorry but obvioulsy I dont get this. I've never called Apple for help! I have every product they sell practically including Protection Plans I never used and no one will help me with this. My MAC is starting to have black or white screens and i can hear it running but it will not do anything so i have to reboot it, it screws up Enturage and then I have to rebuild that ( 5 times this year) anyway... I would like to back everything up- can I delete everything on the Time Capsule or Time Machine; god I dont even know what it is called Im so MAD... help if you can please. I'm going to have to take this to the genius people at the store and probably buy another computer but like before they will not save my files.
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Mac OS X (10.7.3), time cap or Time Machine
This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 344.98 GB but only 216.11 GB are available.
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iphone4, iOS 4, imac 24
Can I make a disk image of my macbook pro for backup? I'm using Lion, have 8 g memory and 500 HDD.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm trying to copy my backup drive data to a new drive. The first one ran out of space, so I bought a larger one and am trying to transfer all the data. I have tried using disk utility, but it refuses to copy it. Also dragging and dropping the file doesn't work either.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I just bought MacBook Air yesterday (the 80GB version), and love it! It makes a nice companion to my MacBook Pro. I have now one problem. How do I get my Time Machine backup from my Firewire disk to the MacBook since MBA does not have a Firewire port?
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MACBOOK PRO, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
I have to erase my HDD, due to a problem in the booting. It gets stuck at the grey logo screen. I�ve tried all possible solutions, but to no solution. So, i was wandering if it is possible to make a copy of some of my work files to an external hard drive trough Disk Utility, since my external HD doens't have enough space. Also, i�ve noticed that i only have acess to certain system files, trough the disk utility. No desktop folders or aplications.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am trying to set up timeMachine on my new mac book pro over a regular home network on a shared network drive. I have tried everything but I keep getting "The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features." I am on lion with the lateset unpdate (10.7.4). I have even tried creating sparebundles on from tutorial that I have found online, but non of the hacks that I have tried seemed to work. Have anyone figured out a way around this? If so, can you share, it will be greatful. I could just buy the time capsule that apple sells but I already have a 2TB internal HDD in an old pc that's hosting my file server so no need for the time capsule hardware.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
i forgot the synchronising password for my mac pro lion backup disk
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have this issue in both macs I own, a 2010 MBP, and a 2012 Mac mini. After I upgraded to yosemite, Time Machine will not find my backup disk. I have been using the same network attached storage drive for 4 years for time machine backups. I has worked fine with all the macs I've owned until now. I can see the disk in Finder, I can go to disk utility and mount the Time Machine disk, but when I go to Time Machine preferences and try to select the list, the disk is not listed there, even though is mounted.
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My MacBook Pro 2011 stopped booting up. Shows just a white screen. I can get to utilities but disk repair fails, asking me to back up and format / restore the hard drive. How do I back up my data to an external drive?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I've sold my old Macbook pro and bought a shiny new one. I want to take a clone of the disk on my old one in case there's anything I've forgotten to copy over.
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G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Want to make backup of Lion downloaded from App Store. No disk image in downloads folder.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core, 10GB ram
I connected Lacie Backup Disk and used Time Machine to select the disk. But then a warning popped up telling me to eject the disk properly next time before disconnecting it, even though I never disconnected the device. Now time machine does not even recognize it.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
