MacOS Sierra - time machine stuck preparation backup on network devices

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• Time Machine blocked preparation backup

  Hi community

  Time Machine, I get the iMac to backup, Time Capsule 371 GB of the preparation phase of backup available 998 GB for one eternity, as others have reported.

  My system is an iMac (27-inch, late 2009), processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 12 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Memory with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB video card and a physical disk internal 1 TB ST31000528AS Sata media.

  My last backup was September 16, 2016 @ 1257 GMT and my software was the last version of El Capitan.  (I backup to another external HARD drive, using Carbon Copy Cloner and backup guru Mac unfortunately I don't have a big enough other ext HDD to run a time Machine backup to as well).

  When the TC is connected I can see the iMac and iMac.sparsebundle backup folder and when I enter the time Machine I can see the chronology running back from 16 Sep and it allows me to access the files in the folders.  So, I guess that the disk HARD of TC is OK.

  Software changes have been: 1 MS a copy of CCleaner Free 1.14.451, 2 Ms Security Update 2016-001, 13 Sep Adobe Flash, 14 Sep 12.5.1, 16 Sep Digital Camera RAW compatibility update iTunes.  Never had a problem before with these downloads.  Safari updated September 20, then to Sierra 22 Sep having saved first using the CCC and MBG.

  Through the various pages of help through Google.  Follow-up advice given to reset the SMC and the PRAM, deleted Sophos home and com.apple.TimeMachine.plist and com.apple.TimeMachine.plist.lockfile.

  Rebooted and restarted the iMac and Time Capsule several times, done many backups check the reset even the time Capsule disk, but all without success.

  I'm still stuck in preparation of backup when I reselect the backup drive.

  Can someone help please?

  Finally, I had a problem in 2014 when Apple recalled the iMac to a HARD drive replacement program.  This was successful, but a few days later the Time Machine and time Capsule would not save.  This is due to the component change when the UUID was different.  The advice I would have given were to know how inherit backup and controls disk associated within the Terminal. Stupidly, I started again when the TC asked me to and then discovered the Terminal commands a few days later.  The loss of backups of 4 years was no big problem, so I suppose that if I have to, I won't again unless a member of the smart community can better advise me please?

  Good community

  I forgot to tell you that I save on a Capsule of 1 GB bought in 2010 with the iMac.

  Don't know how, but not before I finished posting my above query Time Machine kicked back in action and performed a backup pick up all the changes, about 50 GB since Sept. 16.

  He did once again this morning, so I'm sorry I can't post what Time Machine and my Time Capsule due action to act properly.

  Concerning

• Time Machine stuck at "Preparing backup...". "for external drive

  Hello.  I recently upgraded to El Capitan of Lion - a terrible experience, but finally got it work.

  Anywho, today I tried to backup on Time Machine for the first time since the upgrade.  I left it at "Preparing backup...". "about four hours without change.  Then, I checked with the activity monitor essentially ~ 0 activity (< 1.0%="" cpu). ="" i="" then="" followed="" the="" instructions="" here:="">http://osxdaily.com/2014/03/31/time-machine-stuck-preparing-backup-mac-fix/, asking to delete the "inProgress" of the hard drive.)  I deleted the file from the Recycle Bin, restarted and still no luck.  I'm not sure of the "Spotlight indexing' - as I understand, I want to ensure is completed.  So I checked the status and progress is null and has been for over an hour.  (There are no blue in the status bar, just gray.)

  I then followed these instructions: problems of time machine of El Capitan by watching the Console application.  Here is an example of one of my tests:

  10/01/16 18:44:08.123 com.apple.backupd [495]: from manual backup

  10/01/16 18:44:08.549 com.apple.backupd [495]: backup on/dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/AMYTUZ/Backups.backupdb

  10/01/16 18:44:10.193 com.apple.backupd [495]: store event UUIDS do not match for the volume: Macintosh HD

  10/01/16 18:44:13.152 com.apple.backupd [495]: event Deep scan to the path: / reason: who must analyze subdirs. new event db |

  10/01/16 18:44:13.152 com.apple.backupd [495]: running the event analysis

  10/01/16 18:44:59.269 ntpd [183]: time together + 0.387310 s

  10/01/16 18:45:07.639 netbiosd [538]: nameserver down?

  10/01/16 18:45:18.381 com.apple.cts [41]: com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.keep - living-on-sale: Planner returned false. However, this task is overdue 1 seconds. Run anyway.

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.625 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.625 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.626 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.626 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.626 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:10000 regularImport:0 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.626 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.669 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:643) SDB consistency check from

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.671 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.672 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.672 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.672 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.674 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:10000 regularImport:0 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.674 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.677 [60]: checksum (DiskStore.Normal:658) SDB full for 0 items

  10/01/16 18:46:12.141 netbiosd [538]: nameserver down?

  10/01/16 18:47:27.183 netbiosd [538]: nameserver down?

  Uh, help?  Haha!  Thanks for reading.  Hope that someone has comments.  El Capitan has forced me to learn more about Mac than ever.  -My first upgrade!

  So, my guess is that your external drive is not happy.

  I suggest to run disk utility and see what it reports.

  This disk must be reformatted.

• macOS sierra time capsule does not

  I have upgraded to iOS sierra on my MacBook 2013 and 2015 s pro on 24/09/16. The time machine-

  Time capsule has not worked since. Wifi works but not the backup. We need real expert

  help solve this problem, not conjecture. I understand that if I use others

  equipment suppliers, it can give wrong. But I'm all Apple. Help, please. I should have mentioned

  It's a new time capsule airport which was working fine until I changed the Sierra.

  Thank you

  Bill

  afternoon, this seems to be a common problem - I came here looking for an answer as well. There is a smc / ram p reset fix floating MacOS Sierra - time machinestuck preparation backup on network devices. There is also an exclusion to spotlight some suggest work. I have tried both and neither worked for me, a lot more. I ended up clear time capsule. Airport utility > change > disks > erase disk. has immediately started a new backup and have not had a problem since.

• Time Machine is not backup as I loaded Sierra

  My time Machine says that it has not saved for 890days? Since I loaded Sierra now its in "preparing backup" permanent mode

  Reboot, try again.

• Using Time Machine for subsequent backups

  I would like to know how can I use Time Machine for frequent backups after the initial. Specifically, I want to know how I can assure you that Time Machine DO backup files that have changed since the initial AND only the new backup files that have been added to the hard drive since the last backup?  In other words, Time Machine will do it automatically or it will save all the entire hard drive again?

  Time Machine which will automatically

  Yes.

• Mac OSx Sierra Time Machine WD my cloud

  Since upgrading to Mac OSX Sierra my Macbook Pro and Macbook Air are not capable of doing Time Machine back Ups to a WD MyCloud drive that is connected to our router.

  We have updated the firmware on the WD My Cloud drive to the latest version and contacted WD on this problem, so far they have not come with a solution to the problem.

  If you open Time Machine preferences and then observe what happens, by hitting 'Back Up Now' systems do "Looking to save the disc" then "Preparing backup" then stop and then go back to the status of 'rest' without backup anything to the top at all. It is the same on both machines. You can see here: Time Machine Back Up My Cloud

  Notice how the drive icon changes to the point where it stops working and then goes to the other drive which is a USB.

  Now, to complicate the issue further... an iMac connected via Ethernet to the router can go back to the My Cloud drive perfectly as before. If Apple changed something with the wireless protocols I think but that?

  Hi stevefrompembury,

  Thanks for posting in the Community Support from Apple! I understand that your or your Mac back up Time machine since the update. Backups are certainly crucial to ensure that your data remains secure, so I'm happy to offer some suggestions.

  You have already tried a few milestones. I recommend you take a look through this article so that you have covered all the steps mentioned, including the section titled 'Control your readers': If you can not back up or restore your Mac with Time Machine

  See you soon!

• OS Sierra - Time Machine

  Since I upgraded my iMac 27 "I can no longer use Time Machine to recover.

  Whenever I want to use it, I get a black screen and I can't chose the files I wish to recover. Backup itself does not turn.

  I reformatted the drive that I use for Time Machine (drive external usb with a capacity of 0.5 TB) during the upgrade of OS Sierra.

  On my laptop - still running Yosemite - recovery works very well >

  Someone has an idea of what is goiing evil?

  Thanks for any suggestions...

  Hello! Is someone there?

• Sierra Time Machine / Time Capsule problem

  After installation of Sierra, I am unable to use Time Machine to a Time Capsule.

  There was a MacBook Air with two bootable partitions. The partition Macintosh HD has a system of Yosemite and the score of 'second' was a partition of El Capitan, which was created by a clean install and then allow Migration Wizard copy on Macintosh HD, all accounts, settings, networks and other files. The two partitions have been saved by Time Machine to a Time Capsule. The Macintosh HD partition has been erased and Sierra has been installed on Macintosh HD and Migration Wizard was allowed to copy during the second all accounts, settings, networks, and other files.

  Time machine has not worked since. It gets the error message 'no available backup drive.' However, using the Finder, I can get the time Capsule, open the sparsebundle and see all the individual backups. Because I had erased Macintosh HD, I went through the steps to http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html 'reconnect to my backups. Which made no difference (probably because Time Machine is not really see her driving the sparsebundle to the Time Capsule, even if the Finder does no harm to open it).

  Then I tried to select again the Capsule as the backup drive. It asks for a password. I give the password and shortly after it comes up with the error message: 25299 Keychain error when creating a system keychain to the URL entry and the user name '< name >' "afp: / / < name > @2%20Tb%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local./Data.

  (where < name > is the name of the logged-in user) I get the same error message if the user is an independent Director. Despite saying that it was not able to create an entry in the system Keychain, Keychain Access shows that there is an entry with the password. In addition, despite being unable to choose as the backup drive time Capsule, he mounted and left on the desk, the time Capsule (containing the sparsebundle) data folder.

  Any suggestions?

  You are the second today with errors of Keychain.

  Time machine on network not connection

  Sierra is a new OS will have a few bugs... but I think that the way you did this configuration is problematic.

  Actually, you have now two partitions with different BONES, but they will have identical computer names (migration has more the name). And it could also spoil the UUID of the disc.

  I guess, but I would say

  1. change the name of the computer.

  2. start a new backup... do not try and link the existing backup.

  3. If you still have no success Delete TM (A4 Pondini) plist and reconfigure.

  No post luck returns.

• Sierra &amp; Time Machine in Mac OS problem

  Since the upgrade to Mac OS Sierra I can't backup using Time Machine to an external hard drive. The backup took three hours for 5 MB of data backup! Out on the kind of Apple it if you please. Anyone know the answer?

  Do you have an antivirus running? If so, try tuning it out.

• First Time Machine to NAS backup freezes at the same point, Console polluted by the same mistakes.

  I just configured my LaCie 5big Network2 act as a time Machine, but it is not back up correctly. When I run it always freezes at 14.70GB/237.71GB, even after deleting the backup and starting up again. I don't know if it of related or not, but the Console is littered with the same error messages (even if Time Machine is not running):

  

  If I stop the backup and restart it, it will get stuck after 7KB. If I delete the backup and starting a new one, it will get stuck at 14,70 Go again. This could be the cause? The NAS is configured correctly and firmware is up to date, disks are operational and functioning perfectly.

  My system is a 2015 retina MBP 15 "16GB / 500GB.

  Time Machine is a LaCie 5big Network2.

  LaCie can support this, but isn't Apple. the NAS can have its own propreitary features or a network can introduce the software is not designed for questions.

  If you want to use a NAS for backup, you can consider Carbon Copy Cloner as alternative

  For more information on the use of a 3rd party with network drive time machine see these article

  http://pondini.org/TM/2.html

  https://www.Google.com/?client=Safari#q=time+machine+over+network+drive

• Time machine keeps 'prepare' update

  I noticed yesterday that this time machine turned when I was on finder. (the small wheel circulating)  I checked and the last update was December 27, several days ago.  I have not updated anything or any news apps in.  Nothing has changed.  I am running Yosemite 10.10.5. on my day 2010 27 "iMac.  After searching for communities, I saw one say to uncheck "put the hard drives to sleep when possible" under the energy saver.  I did and it made no difference.  I get all records of time machine that there is a problem, he just keeps trying to update.  I disabled the time Machine for some time and then restarted, it and got the same.  I removed the current and then attached to time machine backup drive, but no difference.  (the disc has 855 GB 2T available and is about a year.) Have no idea that it would take 5/6 days to prepare to be updated even though I had added something new.

  If I update to El Capitan would be it reset Time Machine.  I've been putting it off power to ensure that most of the bugs are out.

  Thank you

  Judy

  Start with D1 & D2 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".

• Time machine sees the backup, but not connecting to new machine

  Just did a transfer from MAC to MAC using Thunderbolt cable - everything is good!  Then, I wanted to make sure that the new Mac can access Time Machine backup file on the network file server.

  Old MAC - running El Capitan 10.11.3 - TM full backup to the network Central of Seagate drive is successful.

  New Mounting successful MAC - running El Capitan 10.11.4 - Time machine disk Seagate file

  . Name of the new Mac is slightly different because of the collision of network host names

  Various attempts to select the reader appear to succeed but the backup information (Date of last backup) are not displayed.

  Entering Time Machine will display the finders stacked, but it will timeout to 30 seconds, saying: he cannot connect to the backup file.

  UNIX command 'mount' shows the machinery once mounted via afp: in /Volumes

  (From old Mac - should be present)

  Rich@SeagateHomeDisk._afpovertcp._tcp.local./SeagateHomeDisk%20TM%20Backup on the Volumes/SeagateHomeDisk TM Backup (afpfs, nobrowse)

  (But on the new Mac - mounts like this)

  [email protected]/SeagateHomeDisk%20TM%20Backup on the Volumes/SeagateHomeDisk TM Backup (afpfs, nodev, nosuid, ridden by rickenne)

  To verify access to the backup file, I started the old Mac and accessed fine.

  Note that I try to not to have the two machine upwards at the same time.

  Should I clean server Seagate Keychain Access permissions for the file mounted correctly?

  How is the drive connected to the network?

• time machine remove the backup target drive

  Running El Capitan - I have set up three units for Time Machine backup: a RAID and a dock that is used for a pair of alternation of readers of archive. One of two archives training to life in a safe Bank and I have Exchange it with the current drive once a week.

  Before I upgraded my OS, Time Machine would simply be two backups between some readers were available and do so without comment. Now, after the upgrade, Time Machine sees that one of the pair is missing and he complains. This means that one time every three hours Time Machine issues a warning that one of the players is not available.

  I have not found a way to disable this warning.

  Be resigning myself to this, I decided that I simply change the names of readers Archives are identical, and then remove the 'third' drive in the list. With this version of Time Machine, I don't see a button "select disk" or any other way for the list of target readers and remove one of them. The options button allows you to control the volume of the source, not the target volumes.

  Either I have to stop the needless alert or remove a drive in the list.

  Any suggestions?

  Re: community - the only results of a search of a community of Time Machine is under Mountain Lion. Sorry if this is too broad

  After losing all kinds of weather (including a right click on the list of drives for backup and the research in all directions - including multiple searches on google), I discovered that you have right click on the drive icon in the list to use or remove the drive. This follows a different set of rules than the Finder user interface.

• Is time Machine a safe backup

  I use Time Machine to back up files on my iMac.

  Some of these files (credit card info, etc) can be found in a special Folder.dmg that I created with the disk utility application.

  This Folder.dmg is a disk image that is password protected, so whenever I want to access the files in Folder.dmg I have to enter the password that I attributed to him.

  My question is: the Time Machine backup, I create also require this password to access the files in Folder.dmg?

  (In other if someone steals my back upwards, would words, know the Folder.dmg password to access its content?)

  Thank you very much.

  That is right.