Mac Time machine problem

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Any mac guru out there know how to fix a stuck Time Machine backup?

I know I have to delete the appropriate .inProgress file and reboot and reindex, but there seems to be no way to delete it though finder or command line.

Do I really have to format the drive and lose all my backups?
 
Local disk, or to a time capsule or nas?

Is there a 'Latest' soft link / alias in the dir for this computer in the backup folder?

That should link to the last good completed backup. Any obvious complaints in the error logs viewed thu console.app?
 
Ditched timemachine as its ultimately fails when drive is full. Using Cloud station on Synology server which works better for me.
 
No problem. I googled it and decided that you couldn't just delete stuff because there needed to be some sort of consistency between all the various files, and they're actually OS X packages too.

Never had any issues with time machine. The comment above about full disks, I wonder if they know there needs to be a big space overhead to flatten old backups down. Technically I think it needs 2x the capacity of the disk being backed up.

Oh and for reference/posterity, in case anyone else searches about this. Do not back up disk image files for parallels, VMware, or the free virtualbox thing, they will have been constantly modified and will get copied over and over wasting space on the backup volume.
 
Time machine.

Hi All,

I have no wish to detract from the original poster but as this is a time capsule question I hope you will forgive me.

I have looked at getting a time capsule but have read a few indifferent reports, and of course some very positive. I really don't do a great deal on my mac its sort of recreational. My back up is a seagate hard drive and it works just fine. Apart from my bike a bit tech stuff is my other weakness.

Other apple products that would use the capsule is my wife's iPad and my daughters mac when she comes home.

So would you buy a time capsule if it was to be used for the same purpose as I would use it for. By the way all photographs are backed up on a windows machine which in turn has a separate hard drive back up.

Thanks all.

SteveC
 
The iPad won't back up to it, just iTunes and iCloud depending on how you have things set up.

The roaming Mac would be better off using time machine to a USB drive, and also your home one unless you need a new router.

Time machine, the Mac backup software.
Time capsule, AirPort Extreme with a disk built in.
 
Hi ianf,

Thanks for that, certainly didn't know about the iPad. My present router if fine and with the seagate backup I currently have I think things will just remain as they are.

SteveC
 
Question - still on backups !!
I recently got a 2nd iMac which has backed up to an external 500gb hard drive no problem using Time Machine.

What I would now like to do is backup my 1st iMac to the same drive.
Will this work - would each machine "recognise" its own backup - or does each one need putting into its own folder - and would Time Machine then still be able to find them?

Mike (Mac numpty)
 
I think it will work, but i also think you'll need a bigger drive.
 
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