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• Strange behavior of Time machine

  One day when nothing much was going on my system, time machine has failed.  I got the error message:

  "Time Machine could not complete the backup"Backups Time Machine".

  The backup drive ran out of unexpected place. Time Machine will try to make more space by eliminating backups expired during the next scheduled backup.

  Open Time Machine preferences to select a bigger backup disk or make the smaller backup by excluding files. »

  I don't want to exclude the files.  Once, I dropped my mac (stupid human tricks).  The mac was irreparable, and I was able to restore the latest mac with Time Machine.  Because I would like to be able to do a complete system restore, I don't want to exclude the files.  I don't want to make a larger capacity disk.

  My Macintosh HD is 500 GB on which 294 GB are available.  In other words, 206 GB are used.  My time machine drive is 1 TB.

  The backup failed was 48 GB.

  A few questions:

  1. How do I need to make a backup of 48 GB (23% of my system) when nothing much was going on my system?

  2 is it possible for a lot more free space on the disk, Time Machine?

  Go to this definitive web site for its use of Time Machine and operating problems:

  http://pondini.org/TM/home.html

  This is the troubleshooting section:

  http://pondini.org/TM/troubleshooting.html

  Ciao.

• Why finder hide Documents and office files in the home directory of the user by activating iCloud drive? What about the behavior of Time Machine backup or third-party applications?

  I'm under MacOS Sierra. I am connected to my iCloud account. I activated the option Desktop and Documents, but I did NOT activate the option optimize Mac storage, because I wanted to make sure that all my files would be available locally, just in case, I would need to work without an internet connection.

  -J' noticed there now a menu iCloud in my sidebar in the Finder, with links to Documents and desktop.

  -J' also noticed that Documents is no longer presented in my favorites in my side bar of the Finder.

  -This last suggests that files saved in 'Documents' are not saved more on my HD... but only in iCloud, which isn't what I want.

  -Then, sailing in the Finder Macintosh HD/users / 'My account' /, I noticed that my Documents and desktop folders are more visible, as if these files are not saved in my home folder most. Which raises the question: where are My Documents and files on my HD, so they are still?

  -Using a shell session in the terminal and again navigate to/Users / 'My account' /, I noticed that my Documents and desktop folders are still there. Which suggest that records and records of office reside actually still in my home folder under users, but Finder actually hide it and present them as being stored in iCloud only disc. It's very confusing.

  This raises several questions:

  -In the first place, why Apple hide Documents and office files in the directory? Why not view these folders in iCloud and directory?

  -Whence the iCloud folder or drive, reside actually on my hard drive?

  -What time Machine. Is it still back up my document files and folders?

  -What games third-party app mirroring backup of My Documents files and folders? They still work properly? (I use Livedrive backup and Sugarsync for files mirrored across several macs).

  -How can I understand that Apple is doing with my folders and files? Some users might be happy with the iCloud drive concept, without worrying about how it works, but I don't take chances, and I want to keep a good understanding about the functioning of my system.

  Could someone explain what is exactly happening?

  With office and selected Documents, access to these files are now in the iCloud Drive, not in your home folder.

  My guess would be that they do not appear in your file because it would be confusing for many people to make them in two places.

  If you want in the Favorites, open iCloud Drive and drag them in the sidebar here.

  All about iCloud drive has been saved on your Mac. With the exception of the office and the Documents, they are in ~/Library/Mobile Documents. However, if you choose optimized storage, older documents are removed from your Mac. I don't know what is "old".

  ~/Documents and ~/desktop have new metadata indicating probably Finder does not display them in a Finder window, only in iCloud drive. They are not hidden in one of the normal methods of unix.

  I have not tested Time Machine or any other backup program. The folder still exist in your directory home, and they still have all the files, I don't think that changes anything.

• Time Machine extremely slow after upgrade to El Cap

  Time Machine problem with upgrade to Yosemite to El Cap on a laptop MBPr 15 "mid-2012.

  Time Machine backup plan: by wifi or LAN cable for two different hard disks attached to a Mac Mini that is on the local network. Two USB mini drives would serve as a backup for a total of 4 Mac disks at home.

  Behavior of Time Machine in Yosemite: dead normal. Backups were fast (10 Mbit/s in wifi, 80 MB/s when I plugged the MBPr on my LAN using a bolt of lightning for the Ethernet card.) Restored backups (I test them sometimes) fine.

  I upgraded yesterday to El Capitan. Behavior of the time Machine now: excruciatingly slow. All the steps (preparation, backup, cleanup) takes hours. My laptop was connected to the wired LAN for 9 hours now and is only 1.26 GB thanks to a backup of 3.82 GB. Speed (from MenuMeters) is under 10 KB/sec - Yes, it is * kilogram * bytes/s.

  Speed of transfer of files between the two machines via drag & drop is very good, ~80MB/sec both on the LAN, about 12 MB/s in wifi. Laptop computer interacts with the web at normal speeds. It does not appear that Time Machine, which is watered, and only on my laptop of Capitaned newly-El. My other domestic machines (all on Yosemite still) back up normally.

  I tried:

  -power / reboot both machines.

  -power / restart the LAN together.

  -cycle Time Machine power switch in the Prefs system.

  -Remove the two drives as backup targets TM laptop, then re - specify with preferences TM;

  -other things that I found through the search for this problem.

  It is a common problem in judging by the many valuation model who met it. I searched a lot and found nothing that helped me.

  I can't work without a viable backup. For now, I use Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate my SSD MBPr for an external hard drive. Not really satisfying.

  Did someone solved this problem? Can someone tell me or suggest a solution? Thank you very much!

  Please make a copy of test in the Finder of the source for the backup volume. Is it too slow? Delete the files copied from the backup volume after the test.

• Strange behavior of Yosemite after restoring from Time machine

  Hello

  After having passed my MacBook Pro to El Capitan, I tried the same thing with my Mac Mini (mid 2011).

  Has not completely, because the system is stuck on the gray screen with the bar locked (10 hours) in advance. Impossible to get on this screen (sometimes P - ram reset restart, try Mode safe without success), I decided to return to Yosemite using my full time Machine backup.

  This operation was successful, but with a few strange things:

  • Normally, my system language is set to French. But at startup (i.e. asking the password), the system speaks English. It's extremely confusing, because the layout of the keyboard is also different (for example, the first key of the letter is 'Q', where on a French keyboard the first key is 'A', other differences of keyboard also). Once a user is logged on, the system returns itself to the lay-out French!
  • The new pit of backup Time Machine does not start. It remains suspended in the "preparation of files for backup" (= free translation).
  • The fan is working at high speed.

  Repair permissions and restart didn't help.

  Someone has an idea?

  Details: Mac Mini (mid-2011), Yosemite 10.10.5, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5

  Thanks much, much in advance!

  First D1 in the 1st article linked.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

  Yosemite: If Time Machine still at the stage of the "preparation".

  Try a SMC reset. Article covers when necessary, but this will not affect anything.

  Reset the SMC

• Time Machine acting strange

  iMac - Mountain Lion 10.8.5

  Since the last backup with time machine, I just added a few Photos to my iPhoto Library (1.4 MB) and made very few minor changes to certain documents. The next backup should have been more than 50 MB. Instead, Time Machine backup and backup. He went about like this:

  backup of 4 MB to 5 MB

  12 MB to 16 MB

  30 MB to 40 MB memory

  1 GB 2 GB

  and so it went upward and upward. I stopped the backup when she went from 14 GB to 16 GB of backup.

  What could it maybe be back up?

  Until the backup is started, I had just deleted multiple iPhoto libraries starting from Time Machine backups. Could it be, this time Machine tries to reconstruct those yet? I thought that when you delete something of Time Machine, it is permanently deleted.

  Hi, how do you delete things,™, in the Finder or™?

  Start the restore Partition holding CMD + r to start, use disk Utillity to repair two discs... any change after a normal start then?

• Strange/false Machine, Time Capsule, icons in the applications folder on the time

  Hello

  A few days ago I discovered, that the application on my time Machine icons - backup are false. (iMac 27;) OS X 10.11.2; Time Capsule 3TO via WiFi).  If I open the backups.backupdb file on my Machine of time with the finder, the initial backup of my iMac shows these icons as seen in my screenshot. 'Restore' Time machine panel shows the same icons, too.

  All other files are ok.

  First I thought it's because my WiFi network is slow, so I plugged my Time Capsule via the LAN. Same result as above, wrong icons.

  Management of time Machine on a USB HD normal all right...

  I ' v reinstalled Mac OS, created a new Sparsebundle file via Airport utility. Without success, the problem persists.

  However, I am able to restore apps, but it's annoying...

  Anyone know it what is wrong?

  Thank you

  Rüdiger

  Your Time Machine backup files are not intended to be modified in any way. Please leave them alone or your TM backup may be compromised. You can access the folder of applications through the user interface, as described in using Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support in the restoration of a section of backup Time Machine.

• As a Time Machine backup, it keeps adding to the size of the backup?

  TM starts the backup and starts suddenly to add to the size of the backup, it will do. This means that no player will never be large enough to accommodate the backup because it keeps growing in size (as each block of data is added, the size of the backup continues expansion of the same amount). I have attached 2 screenshots showing what has happened in the minute to restart the backup. TM is backup on an external WD hard drive via the USB-3 port on my MacBook Pro (retina, 15 inches, end of 2013). 1.9 TB of data backup - there should not be a problem because the external hard drive has 3 TB of space and has been freshly formatted before being used for the first backup on this drive. As you can see from the screenshots, the backup is much larger than it should be.

  

  1 minute later screenshot:

  

  Before this behavior, I have had problems with Time Machine while using another backup drive (a drive LaCie Quadra) with for example, ignored backups, backups landed at calculation time, backups, partially blocked by a backup for more than 36 hours etc., error messages from read-only TM etc... I tried several solutions on this forum and none seem to have corrected these strange behaviors. It felt like I've solved a problem, shortly after another was about to begin.

  I stopped finally try the solutions suggested here in the forums, as well as some external sites such as Pondini and chose to use another drive (HD freshly cleared using disk utility - the WD drive that is currently attached to the MBP). The WD external drive worked well on the Mac Pro in the office, and I have no reason to suspect that this is the problem (I ran some tests after erasing it and there is no error reported).

  Well, the first symptom that something still was wrong was when backing up to disk WD has slowed to a crawl yesterday afternoon, but I left it on overnight. At noon today the backup was still running, but about ⅔ complete (very, very slowly - running data blocks are moving into very small pieces), but I have to bring the MBP to a meeting and everything stop. Then my back and everything by plugging, TM started upward and all seemed well, until I noticed that the backup data was almost 2.5 to. I restarted the MBP. It's once again, I noticed that Time Machine did not work as I expected. The size of the backup continues to expand... I was expecting TM that she had about 250 GB left to save, but as see you from the screenshots it much much smaller than that. I have let it run like that for about 2 hours, hoping that it was just a small mistake, but the HD continues to fill, only 185 GB of space left. Strangely, I can enter TM and see my data.

  Suggestions please? Very much appreciated.

  Stu

  Nobody answered, so I thought I'd share the temporary solution I came up with.

  I started in safe mode, deleted the backup external TM drive I was using and launched a full backup with TM (always in safe mode). I leave TM turn all night and a full backup has been completed. I rebooted, entered TM and restore some files to confirm that I was actually able to restore the backup pieces. Since that time, I did have problems with TM make scheduled backups, with one reading errors etc.

  I will continue to spend some time to know what triggered these questions... since I was able to make a backup in safe mode, this means that I have other avenues to explore.

  I will report back if I find anything.

  Stu

• Time Machine keeps make full backups

  I have a TM drive (3 TB) backup 3 partitions (about 1.2 TB total) since October 2014.  TM keep doing strange things when I'm doing something unrelated to the TM. For example, temporarily starting in Mavericks (I'm under 10.6.8) completely wrecks TM in same 10.6.8 so I turned off it and physically disconnected the disk until I'm back in 10.6.8.  I spent 2 months with the support of Apple earlier this year to try to figure out how to make it work again in 10.6.8.  I have reset TM (Pondini.org pages) several times.  The most recent problem occurred when I tried to resize a partition on a disk mirror (excluded in the TM).  After you have finished resizing, TM has made a backup of 600GO when he was that nothing changed on any of the 3 targets TM usually saves.  I had to upgrade to a larger disk, earlier this year because of this kind of behavior (2 TB-3 TB >) and I have reset the UUID of the new drive so that it would continue from where the 2 TB drive left using the xattr and fsaclctl commands (it worked perfectly!).  I'm slowly running out of space again.  Does someone understand why this is happening?  More importantly, is there a way to delete a backup and do not have TM do it again.  I could easily delete the most recent backup but I suspect that the next time that TM made a backup, it will be rebackup the 600 GB. I suppose that one solution is to buy another drive and reset the UUID, but this does not solve the problem of weird behavior.  TM is an archive history is important, but it's a royal pain!

  Start with D3 and 4 in 1 related article.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

• Distnoted and Time Machine problem

  Since the update to El Capitan, I had a real problem with the stability of the iMac.  From time to time - a couple of maybe days, three times a day, maybe - it would just freeze with BBOD on the login screen.  So, in general, after wake from sleep or screen saver.  Execution of SSH on the iMac would show distnoted clocked at > 380%; kill that process would be to release all.  He seemed to be repercussions for this purpose - for example, Time Machine, notifications would stop appearing - backups work (depending on the Console) would simply not be notified.

  Anyway, I actually had my TM drive disconnected for more than a week now, and the problem occurred.  So it seems to be one of the three possibilities:

  • bad interaction between distnoted and TM or processes
  • defective drive.  It's a mobile hard drive from Lacie P9223 (but I also have a second desktop Lacie drive that causes the same behavior).  Disk utility shows no problem with either of the readers.
  • bad driver/firmware.  Maybe... in light of the same manufacturer.  I tried the update of the LaCie firmware but it just does not recognize the plugged into readers - I assume that the update is for one or more different models.

  Short run out and buy another drive from a different manufacturer - and who knows how different the internal components are really - someone has an idea how I could continue this?  Everything was ok before the upgrade; I remember that with a previous version of OSX external drives popular of some manufacturers stopped working, I had this problem at the time.

  Determine if the same problems occur when running in "safe" mode: OS X El Capitan: start in safe mode

• Time machine restore bugs too?

  I have MacBookPro Early 2015 with ElCapitan 10.11.4 installed on it. Offlate, MBP started erratic behavior, to be insensitive and frozen in the workplace.  Do not take the keyboard or touchpad controls.

  I took the latest TimeMachine backup.

  My question is if I restore the Mac with latest TimeMachine backup, he would restore the bugs too? If Yes, then what is the method to solve the bugs. And then, what is the use of Time Machine restore?

  If Yes, then what is the method to solve the bugs. And then, what is the use of Time Machine restore?

  The easiest solution is to simply remove the software that is causing the "bugs".

  The system itself and not operating not cause the problems you are having. They are probably caused by third-party software, but could be a problem with your trackpad or hard drive.

• What version of my file I respond Time machine?

  How Time Machine handle delete and updated files when rolling up hourly, weekly, monthly backups?

  -TM hourly day 1

  Monday morning: I have the v1 of 'myfile '.

  Monday afternoon: I have v2 "myfile."

  -TM rolls up day 1

  I have my backup file Time Machine Day1 V2.

  Tuesday: I have V3 "myfile."

  Newlyweds: I have V4 "myfile."

  Game: I remove V4 "myfile."

  ....

  -TM has day 1-7 in week 1, deletes the backups day 1-7.

  Q1: The last existing V4 will be there and can be restored, sauvegardΘ week1 - or not?

  -TM brings week1-4 months1, removes backups week 1-4.

  Q2: The last existing V4 will be there and can be restored, months1 sauvegardΘ - or not?

  Thank you

  Virtually everything known (by end users) on the behavior of the TM is here:

  http://pondini.org/OSX/home.html

  Time Machine stores snapshots based on time, it is not a system of archives or a version control system. For these, you need other systems. Some OS X apps store previous versions of files.

  C.

• Folder by default, Time Machine

  I had this problem in Mavericks and now it also occurs in ElCapitan:

  I am in the Finder and want to enter Time Machine. The Finder currently on the top window can be anywhere on any of my internal or external drives.

  I will go into the Time Machine and the window comes down to my home folder. I then went back to the window, that I intend to display.

  This behavior was not there before the Mavericks, and I realized that it was a matter of Mavericks. Why then done in El Capitan? Is there some prefs to remove file or a way to solve this problem, while Time Machine opens the window that I am consulting?

  You can try to delete the .plist, but it may not work.

  Delete the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file (in your library folder level, not the library folder inside your home folder, where are most user preferences).

• Why my Time Machine backups are sometimes surprisingly high?

  I've got Time Machine on a hard drive external and everything seems to work fine, but every day the backup is surprisingly wide - as in, 30-50 GB or more. I'm certainly not do anything that would lead to these major changes - no video editing or anything like that. Time Machine is set to the default backups every hour. What also confuses me, is that I've got Time Machine will a player all the time (well well, every hour) and also an extra drive I plug in every day or two. 'All the time' by car has just been a 30 GB backup an hour - and now I plugged the drive "every day or two", and that's just make a backup of 1.4 GB, even if it has not been saved since yesterday. Why is this happening? It's sort of expected behavior? Why a player thought he had to be updated with 30 GB, and the other drive think it only needs to be updated to the same situation with 1.4 GB?

  Speculation: would be updated to it somehow in my library of Evernote? (Which is about 30 GB). As far as I know Evernote is not supposed to change a lot, but maybe the changes I'm making some notes are somehow make a brand-new 'package '. Or, would she be Plex-related? My video library for Plex is on a separate hard drive, but is there some kind of another image for this on my main computer? I have no idea if either of these possibilities in any sense, but these are only guesses than i've got, and I only started to use Plex a month ago - which is at the same time, this problem appeared.

  Thanks in advance!

  Could be the apps you mentioned. Here's the general idea: http://pondini.org/TM/9.html

• calculation of the space of time machine

  I'm not to give lectures on safeguards. Before yesterday I made a backup on a disk IDE 80 GB about 2 years ago, and I got my MBP since I bought it in mid-2009. Recently, I tried a new backup on the same drive, but my data were passed to about 150 GB, so TM reported that there was not enough space. This is why I bought a 250 GB SATA drive and started the backup. TM was told he had 150 GB for backup and that it would take about 5 hours. In an hour or two it was over and the amount of space occupied on the SATA was just below 80 Gb. Strange - I think - but everything seemed ok. I used the disk utility to check the SATA and he said it was ok. Then, I connected the HDD IDE 80 GB, erased all the data and set as the backup in MT and Mt finally told me that he had 150 GB for backup and the 80 GB drive has been insufficient. What is going on? Is it possible that I can check that the SATA drive contains a full backup? (Note that I did not exclude anything to save.)

  I've seen similar and I suspect the backup that you did on the largest disk is correct. Time Machine backup of data, applications and operating system, but there are a lot of things, he's not back until - caches, mobile backups and other files of the operating system or applications can recreate. Algorithm of TM to estimate the amount of space required does not appear, however, to take into account the files, it won't save.