Q: Time Machine error?
I recently purchased a lacie 2TB harddrive from the apple store. I have an intel 2 core duo iMac from 2009. I recently upgraded to lion and bought the external drive for use with time machine. I connected the drive formatted it appropriatly as the forums have said and set it up for time machine. TM initial backup went fine but hourly backups gave me the error that "an error occured while creating the backup folder". I have erased and zero'd the drive. I changed the name and deleted the time machine prefrence files. Whenever I force the disk to unmount or I restart my computer TM will always back up fine once or twice then back to the error message. I have it connected via USB and the drive is new and works fine for all other tasks. I downloaded TM error log and it is giving me these messages pretty much over and over.
Aug 18 02:59:28 Zachary-Brickers-iMac com.apple.backupd[707]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/iMacBackup/Backups.backupdb/Zachary Bricker’s iMac size:37
Aug 18 02:59:38 Zachary-Brickers-iMac com.apple.backupd[707]: Backup failed with error: 2
Aug 18 05:12:28 Zachary-Brickers-iMac com.apple.backupd[987]: Error (256): fetching properties: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file “3.6.3.30953_0” couldn’t be opened." UserInfo=0x7f8f22507e40 {NSURL=/Volumes/iMacBackup/Backups.backu
Aug 18 06:12:32 Zachary-Brickers-iMac com.apple.backupd[1009]: Backup failed with error: 11
Aug 18 07:12:28 Zachary-Brickers-iMac com.apple.backupd[1009]: Backup failed with error: 2
Any help is greatly appreciated.
PS time machine backups that complete work perfectly and i can view them and restore from them appropriatly.
Time Machine, Mac OS X (10.7)
Posted on Aug 18, 2011 5:41 PM