Why is my Time Machine backup to a standstill?

MacBook Pro

10.11.2

I7 to 2.2 GHz

16GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Wipe the disc Time Machine and started from scratch.

Trying to save the system itself and 1.25 to iTunes media since a Transcend 2 TB to 2 TB Seagate external hard drive: the external hard drive.

It seems to back up the internal system OK but he's stuck at 4.99 GB when I include the external hard disk to the backup list.

I am getting many errors of Spotlight in Console like below but not knowing in the text what they have to do with the iTunes backup media etc.?

com Apple.corespotlight.log.index] caught error while you are talking to the agent of the index, index:, error: domain error = NSCocoaErrorDomain Code = 4099 "the connection to the service named com.apple.spotlight.IndexAgent was invalid." UserInfo = {NSDebugDescription = the connection to the service named com.apple.spotlight.IndexAgent has been invalidated.}

Thanks in advance for any help.

I tried many suggestions from other threads:

  • Rebuild the e-mail accounts
  • Delete all messages with attachments in case of corruption
  • Log off, and then back in iCloud
  • Re-index the internal drives and two external drives
  • Start in safe mode and then start normally again and try again
  • Connect to other user accounts (no point since guest users are disabled)

All without success so far.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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