OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Backup Will Not Complete

May 30, 2012

Backup to Time Capsule will not complete.  This just started happening about a month ago.  It used to work fine.  I have tried deleting prior backups and reformatting the Time Capsule. 

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MacBook Air (13-inch Late 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Could Not Complete The Backup

Mar 24, 2012

Files can’t be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only. You may need to repair or reformat the disk using Disk Utility. If the disk can’t be repaired, you must use a different disk for backups. Open Time Machine preferences to select a different backup disk. Why is Time Machine insisting my drive is Read-only, when in fact it isn't? This is becoming a routine occurrence. What's troubling is the problem is easy enough to resolve by simply unmounting/mounting the Time Machine drive and selecting Back Up Now from the menu and it purrs like a kitten. 

After performing the step outlined above, my latest Time Machine backup is tucked neatly away and everything is fine once more.

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24-inch iMac 2.8GHz (early 2007), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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Jun 19, 2014

MacBook Pro mid-2012, 8GB RAM, 750GB hard drive, Mac OS X 10.8.5

One Time Capsule at home

One Time Capsule in vacation home 

MBP backs up everything on internal hard drive to Time Capsule at home, where we live during summer and spring. When moving to vacation home in fall and winter, MBP backs up everything to Time Capsule in vacation home. 

During the 6 months at each residence, the backups work great to the Time Capsule at that particular house. However, after some time (maybe a week?), Time Machine displays an error in Notification Center: "Time Machine can't complete backup to Home Time Capsule" (when in vacation home) or "Time Machine can't complete backup to Vacation Time Capsule" (when at home). 

It's obvious that this occurs because Time Machine was set to back up to 2 Time Capsules and expects both of them to be reachable. Is there a way to suppress these Time Machine errors for the time that we're away from one of the Time Capsules?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time-machine - Complete Backup Every-time?

Jun 25, 2012

have a MacBook Pro 15" 10.7.4 which isn't working with TimeMachine any more When starting a backup, Time Machine tells me to backup 112kB (for example) .... an running and running, and after a short time "2kB from 112kB" ... and runnig and running and then "5kb from 112kB" and so on. The progress status is updating very slowly. 

The weired thing is: the ".inProgress" file on the external hard drive (tried FireWire and USB connection) is growing to 85GB (the total used space on the hard drive) while Time machine status tells me it has saved some kB. And every backup is running in that way. Instead of backing up only the difference, all files where backuped - although the status is displaying a few 100kB - which should be the right size to backup. 

- Repaired permissions > Same error

- Tried installing combo update > Same error

- Tried another external hard drive > Same error

- Tried cloning system to different hd > Same error

- excluded the Users home folder > Same error

- Interal hard drive speed > Over 70MB/s > OK

- External hard drive speed > Over 70 MB/s > OK 

So had to be something with the System itself.

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OS X :: How To Configure Time Machine So It Doesn't Do A Complete Backup Every Time

Mar 7, 2009

Can someone tell me how to configure Time Machine so it doesn't do a complete backup every time?I seem to get constant errors because my disk space fills up quickly. For some reason I don't think it did this when I first started using it. I use SuperDuper also, but have a drive connected to my iMac all the time for Time Machine.

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OS X :: Time Machine - Unable To Complete Backup

Dec 30, 2008

I have an Imac 24" and a Mybook external HDD. ever since Leopard came out Ive been doing backups with time machine, then one day I start time machine for my weekly backup and this message comes up: "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume." Now I notice that my external HDD was almost not spinning while time machine was trying to backup the status bar of time machine saying how much files need to be copied and the total amount of space needed was super slow and stoped at something like maybe 10 mb I started time machine again same message. I though maybe Mac OSX needed some permission repaires. So I did just that and after that did time machine again same problem. then I said to myself maybe my External HDD has problems so I even formated the HDD, then stated Time machine again this time it was running smoothly just like before I had the problem but the problem came back after 6 gig being copied out of the 25 gig needed to complete the backup process. Now hope I dont need a clean install of my Mac OSX or maybe its my external HDD. maybe my USB having problems?

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Oct 5, 2009

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Jan 31, 2012

Time machine cannot complete my backup because 'an error occurred while creating the backup folder'.

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Aug 5, 2010

I have an Imac 24" and a Mybook external HDD. Ever since Leopard came out Ive been doing backups with time machine, then ...one day..I start time machine for my weekly backup..and this message comes up: "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume."

Now I notice that my external HDD was almost not spinning while time machine was trying to backup ... the status bar of time machine saying how much files need to be copied and the total amount of space needed was super slow .... and stoped at something like maybe 10 mb ...

I started time machine again ... same message.

I though maybe Mac OSX needed some permission repaires. So I did just that and after that did time machine again ... same problem ....

Then I said to myself ... maybe my External HDD has problems ... so I even formated the HDD, then stated Time machine again ... this time it was running smoothly just like before I had the problem ... but the problem came back after 6 gig being copied out of the 25 gig needed to complete the backup process.

Now ... I hope I dont need a clean install of my Mac OSX ... or maybe its my external HDD ... maybe my USB having problems?

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Time Machine Could Not Complete Backup

May 18, 2012

I have moved a network time machine backup disk to a new computer. Now when the time machine starts a backup it produces an error message: "Time machine could not complete the backup. An error occured while creating the backup folder."

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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X :: Time Machine Not Working Fine / Unable To Complete Backup

Feb 13, 2009

So I finally got around to getting a 1tb drive to hook up to my airport extreme to do TM backups. I have ~420gb to backup on my mbp's hard drive. To avoid an absurdly long backup, I did the initial backup via usb (took the better part of the day).

Just now I was excited because it finished - I hooked the drive up to the extreme, mounted the drive so that it would show up as an option in the TM pref pane for a backup disk, and thought I was good to go. However, when I tried to get TM to do a backup so I could see it work (by selecting Back Up Now from the menubar), it took a ridiculously long time "preparing" and I saw that it was trying to create a whole new TM backup on the drive based on my computer's network name. It even had the audacity to think that the previous backup file was ~2gb, which freaked me out because I thought it had deleted it. But sure enough when I canceled the new backup and hooked it up to my mbp again, the backup was the correct size.

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Aug 29, 2014

iMAC with OSX10.9.4 ; 8GB ram ; two partitions external disk formatted MAC jurnaled ; connected via Fire Wire or USB2 .

During Backup the sistem get stack and display into the "details window"  Time machine was unable to complete the backup because unable to complete the backup folder.

This problem happens with USB and Fire Wire. The file backups.backupdb is excluded from virus scanning.

Also happens time to time that (without doing things) both the partitions of the external disk disappaire from the desk-top and a message "the disk must be ejected properly" is displayed.

This two problems are independent une to the other. I have change the backup disk but both the problems persist.

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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 8GB ram ; external backup HD

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Jun 12, 2012

I'm using 10.5.8 and Time Machine on a time capsule which should have enough space.  I've unchecked the "ask before deleting" option in Time Machine but no dice.  I suspect that the problem stems from when I copied my iTunes folder into my public folder so that I can share among user accounts.  It's not a copy of the folder but rather I moved it. Still, I think that time machine is trying to hold onto two copies.

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iMac (24-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Identity Of The Backup Disk Has Changed On External HD Time Machine Backup

Apr 30, 2012

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)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Way To Make A Backup Of Time Machine Backup On A 2nd Hard Drive?

Mar 9, 2012

Is there a way to make a backup of your Time Machine backup on a 2nd hard drive? I want to be doubly sure that my data is backed up!Right now I get an error saying that the second hard drive isn't authorized to copy my Time Machine data from the original hard drive I have set up as my Time Machine.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Backup Is Too Large For The Backup Disk?

Feb 10, 2012

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

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Unable To Complete Backup, An Error Occurred While Creating The Backup Folder?

Jul 2, 2012

TIME MACHINE ERROR:Unable to complete backup, An error occurred while creating the backup folder. 

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Capsule, Time Machine Is Asking To Make A Full Backup?

Mar 11, 2012

I have a MacBook Air and a Time Capsule - both from november 2011.Using Time Machine is givning me som problems.It works fine for some days, an is backing up as planned.But at least 5 times since I got the Time Capsule, Time Machine is asking to make a full Backup, and when I look in Time Machine, it says that there is no "old backup". It has been runing since november 2011.When I start a new backup, as it ask for, it takes at least 24 hours to finish - some times even longer.Is this normal? If not, what do I do?

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Time Machine, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Hardware :: Time Capsule Cannot Complete Backup Using TM

Oct 2, 2010

My 1st Gen Time Capsule cannot complete a backup using Time Machine. TM says that the disk is not available, yet, it is mounted and I did a Disk Verify on it and it was "OK." Is this a sign of issues with the TC, itself? There hasn't been a backup done in 2 weeks AND internet speeds have been up and down during that time as well. I thought it might be my old "modem" or my ISP, but now I am thinking it might be the TC. If it dies, I think I might just get an AE and get a USB HDD for TM backups in addition to my weekly clones. It is too bad that Apple doesn't support TM backups on the AE and a USB HDD.

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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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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Won't Backup

Jun 28, 2012

For the past two days, Time Machine has been giving me an error message:I have an iMac with an internal hard drive of 2GB. Attached to the iMac is a 2GB external drive which is used only by Time Machine. The internal drive shows 888GB free. The backup drive shows 943GB free. I thought that when more space was required for backup, Time Machine would begin deleting old backups ... which is fine with me since old backups (say, six months and older) probably won't be of much use to me. 

So I'm really puzzled by Time Machine's error.(TimeMachine has been running in this configuration for over a year now - never had a problem so far. No changes made to the config ever. And I run the Repair Permissions regularly ... last weekend I even did the Cmd-R permission repair in Lion.)  Can I manually delete old backups? How will I know which ones can be deleted? 

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 16GB RAM, 2GB internal drive

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Intel Mac :: Restore Lion OS From Lion Server Time Machine Backup?

May 3, 2012

I am running a Intel Imac 2008 clean install SL then Lion upgrade, followed by Lion Server install.I have multiple home macs, and intnded the server as a way to monitor and restrict kids internet use.In short, it has changes/screwed up multiple programs, and complicated home sharing issues considerably. Mail on the server machine has permission problems (cannot send mail, unable to sign), Spotlight in mail is non-functioning, finder spotlight searches are inconsistent, etc.I want to revert to plain old Lion.

I have done disk utility/verify disk and verified/repaired permissions, and have 'fiddled' (i'm not an expert) in the keychain/certificates areas, but I think the best solution is a clean install of Lion. When I backup to TIme Machine, is there a way to pull a 'Lion' version of my disk image back, and just not upgrade to Server? I understand I can disable Server and turn off applications in Server, but it doesn't fix my buggy machine. My options are to back up my 250GB of music, 100GB of photos, 100GB of movies, etc on to external drives, and clean install and then reimport everything, but even that will probably mean I cant reinstall my single user licesnse of MS office, VMware fusion, etc that I didn't buy on the App store.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Feb 9, 2012

For some reason Time Machine has not done a backup in 3 weeks. Everything appears to be functioning properly, it indicates it has been backing up, however, it has not. It "Preparing backup...>FInishing Backup...>Cleaning Up..." in about 3 seconds, but does not copy any files.

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Mar 26, 2012

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Backup Failing?

Apr 9, 2012

My 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. 

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Apr 11, 2012

I recently got a new MacBook (upgrading to 7.2 with lion) and put all my old data on it using a time machine backup from an external hard drive. Now, when I try to create a backup on time machine to the same external device I get an error message that says I don't have enough free space on the drive to complete the back-up. I've deleted some of the oldest back-ups from the external drive, but time machine doesn't seem to notice the newly available space.

Is the first backup on the new computer larger then normal? It says it requires 215gb but the external drive is 250gb so clearly I haven't needed that much space in the past as there are numerous back-ups from my old Macbook on this drive.

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Archive Only The Last Time Machine Backup?

Apr 14, 2012

So i've done a "clean reinstall" of Lion and restored some of my files manually from TM backup located on an external hardrive by dragging them over via Finder. Now I want to delete all old TM backups on my ext hardrive and only save the last backup (the one I did before the Lion reinstall). 

If I save the latest TM backup folder (named ~/Backups.backupdb/~/2012-04-11-233905) and delete all the older ones – would that save my entire last backup? Or does that folder contain aliases to other files in previous backup folders? i.e. does the last created Time Machine backup folder contain all files from the last backup? 

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

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May 18, 2012

Today I bought an external harddrive to make a backup and the first hour went fine, which told me the backup would take 14 hours. Suddenly my Mac frooze so I rebooted and now Time Machine tells me the backup will take 3.5 million days! What shall I do?

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Restore From Backup On Time Machine?

Jun 24, 2012

I had an issue with my HD on my Macbook Air. The genius bar wiped my HD clean and re-installed LION. When I got home, I tried to restore the MB Air from my most recent backup. I keep getting the error "The backup cannot be opened."If this is a password protected backup, you may have entered an incorrect password or the backup may be damaged". 

I know that I must have entered the right PW since it let me in to the Backup drive. I am using a brand new macmini server with the G-technology 8TB G-Speed raid solution as my backup system. So right now I have a MacBook air that has NONE of my stuff on it and it won't let me restore it either

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MacBook Air

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