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May 22, 2012

OSX Lion 10.7.4 Time Machine recently started randomly failing, so I swapped out the external hard drive and failures continue.  I'm wondering if its software or maybe the USB ports failing at this point. 

Logs look like below (when it works): 

5/22/2012 2:57:54.360 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
5/22/2012 2:57:54.943 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/MBBackup/Backups.backupdb
5/22/2012 2:57:58.000 PM kernel: disk2s1: device is not ready.

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