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• MacOS Sierra - time machine stuck preparation backup on network devices

  Since I've upgraded to Mac OS Sierra, cannot use my local backup USB. Time Machine is stuck with the message "preparing backup" - more than 12 hours - for network devices, an Apple FileVault and another NAS device. Works very well with the local USB drive.

  Something funny underway with network devices such that she works for the drives the.

  Hope Apple take note and fix.

  I have the same problem. I found this,

  macOS, problems of the Sierra: Time Machine backup Mac

  Time Machine problems prevented the Mac owners of their devices to backup since the upgrade to Mac OS Sierra, and the problem is widespread enough that Apple has published a guide on what to do if you can't back up:

  Discount for the iMac SMC

  1. turn off the device

  2. unplug the power cord from the monitor

  3. wait 60 seconds

  4 reconnect the power cord

  5. DON'T TURN ON DEVICE

  Reset the PRAM

  1. the computer must always be switched off.

  2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: command, Option, P, and r. you need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.

  3. press and release the power button to turn on the computer.

  4. press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You have to press these keys before the gray screen appears. Continue to hold the keys down until the computer is restarted, and you hear the tone of starting for the 3rd time.

  5. release the keys.

  You can then try to save again. If this does not work, try to disable indexing on the drive you want to back up.

  but I'm not sure it's the same question. I'll try it and report.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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".

• 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 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.

• Time Machine crashes during backup

  Hi all

  I have a crush of Promise Raid connected to a Mini Mac OS X Server 10.9.5 (Mavericks) running. I have two volumes of backup Time Machine, 1 is a partition of the Raid itself, and the other is a 5 TB USB external drive. The goal was to have Time Machine backup ping-pong between the two. And for a while, that's how it worked.

  After about a week of reliable backup, Time Machine will now just hang it on a point in the backup and do nothing. I let it run for as long as 2 weeks just to be sure, but it never moves. I have to jump the backup. Then, it hangs on the other disk in the same exact spot.

  I tried to reformat completely each player and the best I've managed to do is backup successfully for nearly a week. Readers have enough space, but for some reason, the backup no longer works.

  I've been struggling with this for over a year without success. The worst is that when I think that I have work, I return back to retrieve something and find that he has not worked for a week (or more). Very frustrating.

  At this point, I'm looking in a 3rd party like Carbon Copy Cloner utility. But I like the ease and the Time Machine product structure. We do hard backups on DVD, so it's really just for jobs, we kept on our server that exist for about a month before be saved permanently.

  Thanks for the help,

  Rob

  I think maybe it's time to give up that hard drive and get a new start.  You might be able to fix it, but I wouldn't try to fix it without already having another backup in place.    The fact that it failed sporadically for more than a year is not a good thing.  Always have at least two copies of any data that is essential at all times *:

  http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html

  * Links to my pages give me an allowance.

• 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.

• Is there an advantage to having a backup disk image of Macintosh HD (for MacBook Pro) to ease/speed of recovery after a disk failure rather than using Time Machine to recover?

  I'm trying to understand the best way to prepare for the recovery of a failure in the drive for a MacBook Pro.

  I do not understand the nuances of the time Machine - I know from personal experience that it is a recovery tool great when your existing drive is intact and you're just trying to restore a file.  But what happens if the drive has a hardware failure and needs to be replaced?

  Is there an advantage to take periodic images of Macintosh HD for quick recovery (and then using the incremental backups Time Machine to catch up to the current position).  Or Time Machine may facilitate a recovery in case of failure of the disc just as easily/quickly that will give it to have a separate image backup?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  YES!.  If you have a clone boot disk, you can either connect it to a MBP or Exchange it with the internal HDD failed and be back in business quickly.  Time machine, as good as is, can take several hours to restore your system, depending on the amount of data.

  For cloning, I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner.  It is not free, but it's worth the price:

  https://Bombich.com/

  I use it in conjunction with Time Machine.  (two backups are better than one)

  Ciao.

• Opening iPhoto library from a backup Time Machine in pictures

  I'm trying to make sure I have backups of all the photos of my old iPhotos library (something that I can open the individual files in the Finder, not just a copy of "iPhoto" Library). I turned on my old iMac that is not used much more to make copies, and when I open 'Photos' my iPhoto library is not linked. When I hold "option" at the opening of the Photos app, I see these options:

  

  I think I'm trying to access the old iPhoto library, so I click on it, but then I see this message:

  

  I tried to go to disk utility to repair permissions, but the problem persists. My next thought was to open an old Time Machine backup and try and open the backup iPhoto library, but when I do that, I see this screen:

  

  Any suggestions on how to access my old photos? What I am doing wrong?

  Thank you!

  Are these old libraries or backups Time Machine? TM backups cannot be opened directly, you must first use TM to restore the disk

  and where are these libraries? On the main drive or on an eternal drive? If on a DHM what format is and how is it connected?

  LN

• Time Machine asking to create new backup, backups, but seems to work very well

  Time Machine tells me that he wants to delete my backup history and create a new backup volume, but it seems to be back up files very well. I use an Apple AirPort WiFi. Must I just keep ignoring Time machine to start a new backup volume? I really don't want to lose my backup history.

  Something is not here.

  When time Machine tell the backup is corrupt and he must wipe... then it can save is more to it.

  That probably makes TM uses your local hard drive to a backup snapshot from the network on your Time Capsule version (or AE more USB drive) is now corrupted.

  Sorry, but your history of Time Machine is now dead and lost... and just need to bury. There is rarely any great point by making a backup of the sparsebundle... but if you are adamant then for sure just copy the sparsebundle to a different location... erase the drive, and then start over... You have no choice.

• Time Machine backup failure

  I get the message:

  Time Machine could not complete the backup "Backups Time Machine". Full backup impossible. An error occurred during the creation of the backup folder.

  I reboot the system and am able to do the backup.

  Three questions:

  1 is my default backup drive and must be replaced?

  2. If I get a new drive, do I need to do any formatting when connecting it to my system?

  3. is there anything else that would work not to mention that the system restarts?

  Thank you!

  I should add that failures occur about once or twice a week.