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Re: Another TM problem - what now?

From jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: Another TM problem - what now?
Date 2020-08-05 23:40 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 05/08/2020 20:31, jbrennand wrote:
> Doing a TM backup tonight (MBAir/10.15.6) to a external HD that I have 
> used several times this year and got some strange behaviour.  About 2/3 
> through it - for no apparent reason it all went pear shaped. The main 
> issue was an error message about not being able to "load System 
> Preferences".  I couldn't do anything.  Sys Prefs wouldn't force quit 
> and "shut down" did nothing".  I had to bomb out and restart.
> 
> When all was back up, I looked in the TM disk and saw the backup was 
> there as "in  progress".  I thought the best option was to delete that 
> and start again.  So tried that but the waste basket has been deleting 
> for >1 hour.
> 
> Is this normal ?  Any suggestions?  I would like to get to bed tonight :-)
> 
> Cheers  JohnB
Update.

Erased the partition and tried again, at 17 mins left it crashed out 
with the same "System prefs error".  MBAir was dead in the water.

Had to restart on the power button.

Will try a different external HD tomorrow and also get CCC ready to go.

JohnB

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Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-05 20:31 +0100
  Re: Another TM problem - what now? Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-08-05 19:54 +0000
    Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-05 21:09 +0100
  Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-05 23:40 +0100
    Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-06 02:07 +0100
      Re: Another TM problem - what now? David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-08-06 07:33 +0100
      Re: Another TM problem - what now? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-06 10:03 +0000
        Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-06 11:44 +0100
          Re: Another TM problem - what now? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-06 11:54 +0000
            Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-06 13:28 +0100
  Re: Another TM problem - what now? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-06 10:02 +0000

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