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#1 2008-12-16 12:36 pm
- ramcclain
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X.5.6. Time Maching bug??
My Time Capsule has not backed up since uploading the update yesterday. EAch time it tries, I get the error message "backup failed". Apparently, on teh Apple site, others are having the same problem. Anyone know a fix yet?
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#2 2008-12-16 2:27 pm
- sturner
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Re: X.5.6. Time Maching bug??
There seems to be a problem with Time Machine. If you can afford to, wait a bit. They will fix it.
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#3 2008-12-16 10:12 pm
- Jyri Erik
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Re: X.5.6. Time Maching bug??
What's your setup? I'm running a PCIe G5 with an external FW400 backup drive and time machine is running as I write this.
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#4 2008-12-27 3:48 pm
Re: X.5.6. Time Maching bug??
I get an error that says ". and a bunch of numbers," and that I don't have permission. I tried this Terminal solution:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?sto … 2221334401
But it didn't work for me. I barely go into the Terminal; is there another solution? I tried the whole "Get Info" and I have permission on my Time Machine-designated drive. I don't want to have to back up everything AGAIN onto another drive.
Any thoughts?
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heath
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#5 2009-01-02 12:47 am
Re: X.5.6. Time Maching bug??
Your mileage may vary.
MacBook and TimeCapsule over wireless. Initial backup successful and then "Cannot mount time capsule" or some such nonsense. Goto Airport, Manual Setup, and rename the TimeCapsule AND drive to something like tcl and tcl.local NO SPACES. Goto TimeMachine pref, change disk, use for backup. enter the pw and voila the drive should show up on your desktop.
good luck
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#6 2009-01-02 9:00 am
Re: X.5.6. Time Maching bug??
Here is what I had to do to fix it when it happened to me: shut it down, scrap all previous backups, start it back up, let it rebuild.
I worked fine for me after that.
Then again Time Machine is one of multiple backup systems I use so I really felt no risk in doing it.
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#7 2009-01-03 12:16 am
Re: X.5.6. Time Maching bug??
The final solution may be to erase the time capsule hard drive. Of course, this will erase ALL backups on the time capsule. You can do this with the airport utility, manual setup, disks, if you select the disk properly you will be given an option to erase the disk. Then you are back to square one.
Edit... So far after erasing my time capsule hard drive, my MacBook has been successful in backing up over wireless. I will keep my fingers crossed 
Last edited by Gandolf (2009-01-04 8:05 pm)
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