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| Started by | Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> |
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| First post | 2013-11-10 10:50 -0500 |
| Last post | 2013-11-10 10:48 -0600 |
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Time Machine oddity. Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-10 10:50 -0500
Re: Time Machine oddity. Lloyd E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-11-10 10:33 -0600
Re: Time Machine oddity. Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-10 11:42 -0500
Re: Time Machine CORRECTION. Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-10 11:44 -0500
Re: Time Machine CORRECTION. Lloyd E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-11-10 10:48 -0600
| From | Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> |
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| Date | 2013-11-10 10:50 -0500 |
| Subject | Time Machine oddity. |
| Message-ID | <l5o9vc$7vp$1@dont-email.me> |
Opinions/comments on this?
I have two external backup disks. One is a whole disk, 500 GB (WD500).
Other is an 800 GB partition (WD800) in a 2 TB disk.
Today, I got a pop-up that Time Machine (TM) could not complete the
backup on WD800.
Opened TM preferences, and it was "preparing to backup" on WD500.
Opened Finder to check size (with GetInfo) and saw the symbol that
backup is in progress on WD800 ! Checked the size--lots of free space.
After a long time, TM was still "preparing" on WD500
So, pop-up says backup on "eight" failed; Finder says it is still
happening on "eight" and TM says it is working on "five"
??
--
Wes Groleau
I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming
intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared
from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with
the release of MS-DOS.
— Larry DeLuca
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| From | Lloyd E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> |
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| Date | 2013-11-10 10:33 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <l5ocgi$mqm$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #52100 |
On 2013-11-10 15:50:03 +0000, Wes Groleau said: > Opinions/comments on this? > > I have two external backup disks. One is a whole disk, 500 GB (WD500). > Other is an 800 GB partition (WD800) in a 2 TB disk. > > Today, I got a pop-up that Time Machine (TM) could not complete the > backup on WD800. > > Opened TM preferences, and it was "preparing to backup" on WD500. > > Opened Finder to check size (with GetInfo) and saw the symbol that > backup is in progress on WD800 ! Checked the size--lots of free space. > > After a long time, TM was still "preparing" on WD500 > > So, pop-up says backup on "eight" failed; Finder says it is still > happening on "eight" and TM says it is working on "five" > > ?? Wes, are you on Mavericks? I noticed some oddities along the way with TimeMachine and since I didn't actually need the backup that was there, I just killed it and started anew. Now things are as they are supposed to be. Of course, I haven't come close to filling the 2Tb TimeCapsule with new TM backups from a 128Gb MBP! :) -- Lloyd
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| From | Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> |
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| Date | 2013-11-10 11:42 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <l5od22$ov0$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #52102 |
On 11-10-2013 11:33, Lloyd E Parsons wrote:
> On 2013-11-10 15:50:03 +0000, Wes Groleau said:
>
>> Opinions/comments on this?
>>
>> I have two external backup disks. One is a whole disk, 500 GB
>> (WD500). Other is an 800 GB partition (WD800) in a 2 TB disk.
>>
>> Today, I got a pop-up that Time Machine (TM) could not complete the
>> backup on WD800.
>>
>> Opened TM preferences, and it was "preparing to backup" on WD500.
>>
>> Opened Finder to check size (with GetInfo) and saw the symbol that
>> backup is in progress on WD800 ! Checked the size--lots of free space.
>>
>> After a long time, TM was still "preparing" on WD500
>>
>> So, pop-up says backup on "eight" failed; Finder says it is still
>> happening on "eight" and TM says it is working on "five"
>>
>> ??
>
> Wes, are you on Mavericks? I noticed some oddities along the way with
> TimeMachine and since I didn't actually need the backup that was there,
> I just killed it and started anew. Now things are as they are supposed
> to be.
>
> Of course, I haven't come close to filling the 2Tb TimeCapsule with new
> TM backups from a 128Gb MBP! :)
Yes. I have had other weird things on TM before, but never this one.
Most of the others seem to be due to some obscure bug in disk
management. External drives suddenly become read-only, fixed by unmount
and re-mount. And then I have to (sometimes) re-add the drive to TM.
--
Wes Groleau
------
“The reason most women would rather have beauty than brains is
they know that most men can see better than they can think.”
— James Dobson
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| From | Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> |
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| Date | 2013-11-10 11:44 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: Time Machine CORRECTION. |
| Message-ID | <l5od5s$ov0$3@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #52105 |
On 11-10-2013 11:42, Wes Groleau wrote:
> On 11-10-2013 11:33, Lloyd E Parsons wrote:
>> On 2013-11-10 15:50:03 +0000, Wes Groleau said:
>>
>>> Opinions/comments on this?
>>>
>>> I have two external backup disks. One is a whole disk, 500 GB
>>> (WD500). Other is an 800 GB partition (WD800) in a 2 TB disk.
>>>
>>> Today, I got a pop-up that Time Machine (TM) could not complete the
>>> backup on WD800.
>>>
>>> Opened TM preferences, and it was "preparing to backup" on WD500.
>>>
>>> Opened Finder to check size (with GetInfo) and saw the symbol that
>>> backup is in progress on WD800 ! Checked the size--lots of free space.
>>>
>>> After a long time, TM was still "preparing" on WD500
>>>
>>> So, pop-up says backup on "eight" failed; Finder says it is still
>>> happening on "eight" and TM says it is working on "five"
>>>
>>> ??
>>
>> Wes, are you on Mavericks? I noticed some oddities along the way with
>> TimeMachine and since I didn't actually need the backup that was there,
>> I just killed it and started anew. Now things are as they are supposed
>> to be.
>>
>> Of course, I haven't come close to filling the 2Tb TimeCapsule with new
>> TM backups from a 128Gb MBP! :)
>
> Yes. I have had other weird things on TM before, but never this one.
> Most of the others seem to be due to some obscure bug in disk
> management. External drives suddenly become read-only, fixed by unmount
> and re-mount. And then I have to (sometimes) re-add the drive to TM.
OOPS, backup. I do have 10.9, but today I booted 10.8 to look for a
prefs file that was trashed by the 10.9 installer. So the
above-described weirdness happened on 10.8
--
Wes Groleau
After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed
all the way home in the back seat of the car. His father asked him
three times what was wrong. Finally, the boy replied, “That preacher
said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, and I wanted to
stay with you guys."
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| From | Lloyd E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> |
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| Date | 2013-11-10 10:48 -0600 |
| Subject | Re: Time Machine CORRECTION. |
| Message-ID | <l5odc4$rt7$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #52106 |
On 2013-11-10 16:44:45 +0000, Wes Groleau said: > On 11-10-2013 11:42, Wes Groleau wrote: >> On 11-10-2013 11:33, Lloyd E Parsons wrote: >>> On 2013-11-10 15:50:03 +0000, Wes Groleau said: >>> >>>> Opinions/comments on this? >>>> >>>> I have two external backup disks. One is a whole disk, 500 GB >>>> (WD500). Other is an 800 GB partition (WD800) in a 2 TB disk. >>>> >>>> Today, I got a pop-up that Time Machine (TM) could not complete the >>>> backup on WD800. >>>> >>>> Opened TM preferences, and it was "preparing to backup" on WD500. >>>> >>>> Opened Finder to check size (with GetInfo) and saw the symbol that >>>> backup is in progress on WD800 ! Checked the size--lots of free space. >>>> >>>> After a long time, TM was still "preparing" on WD500 >>>> >>>> So, pop-up says backup on "eight" failed; Finder says it is still >>>> happening on "eight" and TM says it is working on "five" >>>> >>>> ?? >>> >>> Wes, are you on Mavericks? I noticed some oddities along the way with >>> TimeMachine and since I didn't actually need the backup that was there, >>> I just killed it and started anew. Now things are as they are supposed >>> to be. >>> >>> Of course, I haven't come close to filling the 2Tb TimeCapsule with new >>> TM backups from a 128Gb MBP! :) >> >> Yes. I have had other weird things on TM before, but never this one. >> Most of the others seem to be due to some obscure bug in disk >> management. External drives suddenly become read-only, fixed by unmount >> and re-mount. And then I have to (sometimes) re-add the drive to TM. > > OOPS, backup. I do have 10.9, but today I booted 10.8 to look for a > prefs file that was trashed by the 10.9 installer. So the > above-described weirdness happened on 10.8 Odd. I've had good luck with TM over the years. But there have been a very few times when things got hinky and the only solution offered from Applecare was wipe and redo. In my case that isn't an issue since I've never had to go to a TM backup to get anything other than as a test to see if it worked. but it does put the backup in question doesn't it? -- Lloyd
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