July7Kiss1995

Q: Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.

This is the error I am receiving.

 

Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.

 

Click Start New Backup to create a new backup. This will remove your existing backup history. This could take several hours.

Click Back Up Later to be reminded tomorrow. Time Machine won’t perform backups during this time.

 

 

Can anyone tell me why?  The last back up was July24th.  I am afraid to start a new back up if I have to erase everything first.

My Mac OS X version is 10.7.4

 

Need help with this, as I am very confused why it stopped working.

Time Capsule 802.11n (4th Gen), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Aug 14, 2012 6:41 AM

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Q: Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.

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  • by Bob Timmons,

    Bob Timmons Bob Timmons Aug 14, 2012 7:03 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Aug 14, 2012 7:03 AM in response to July7Kiss1995

    This is a perplexing message when it appears.

     

    Your backups are corrupted, and Disk Utility cannot repair them. This message rarely appeared until users started installing the Lion operating system.

     

    We do not know why this error sometimes occurs.

     

    You may be able to get into Time Machine if you need to restore a file or data, but as soon as you click to start a new backup, Time Machine will automatically erase the Time Capsule and start a new backup.

     

    You might want to contact Apple Support directly for more information. They have been very silent about this.

     

    http://www.apple.com/support/contact/

  • by July7Kiss1995,

    July7Kiss1995 July7Kiss1995 Aug 14, 2012 7:21 AM in response to Bob Timmons
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    Aug 14, 2012 7:21 AM in response to Bob Timmons

    I agree with your statement about the os update. However I chose not to update it so that couldn't be my issue for now. I will be contacting apple for more support as the time capsule is only 10 months old!  Can I get the information off and put it on another external hard drive for now??

  • by Bob Timmons,

    Bob Timmons Bob Timmons Aug 14, 2012 7:32 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Aug 14, 2012 7:32 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
    I agree with your statement about the os update. However I chose not to update it so that couldn't be my issue for now

     

    We were not clear. What we meant to say was that we rarely saw this issue until Lion appeared. It did first appear under Snow Leopard. It does not seem to matter whether the user upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard, or the Mac came with Lion pre-installed.

     

    Can I get the information off and put it on another external hard drive for now??

    It's worth a try. I was not successful when I tried this in the past. The file seemed to transfer, but Time Machine could not open the file to view backups. You may have better luck.

     

    Please keep us posted on your progress and findings with Apple Support.

     

    Time Machine guru Pondini also has some good info about this issue in his excellent support documentation:

     

    http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

     

    See #C13

  • by 2ey35,

    2ey35 2ey35 Oct 14, 2012 9:50 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Oct 14, 2012 9:50 AM in response to July7Kiss1995

    I'm having a similar issue - usually about once a month - on both my Mac Mini (OSX Lion) and MBA (Mountain Lion).

     

    Both are using the same NAS (QNAP TS410)

     

    I found this:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4076

     

    which is now archived an unsupported by Apple - last modified Feb 2011.

     

    and, is more or less unslessly unhelpful.

  • by Luke Dalessandro,

    Luke Dalessandro Luke Dalessandro Nov 22, 2012 8:11 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Nov 22, 2012 8:11 AM in response to July7Kiss1995

    I have the same issue, backing up to a Synology NAS running the most recent DSM version.

  • by Vsubb,

    Vsubb Vsubb Nov 22, 2012 9:31 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Nov 22, 2012 9:31 AM in response to July7Kiss1995

    I have this issue too

    It repeats every 2 or 3 weeks and make the idea of Time Machine useless.

    Using Synology NAS DS-409+ with latest DSM and new external USB HDD from Seagate as disk for backups.

  • by soid,

    soid soid Nov 23, 2012 12:48 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Nov 23, 2012 12:48 AM in response to July7Kiss1995

    The same for me.

    I'm using "Western Digital My Book Live 2 TB Personal Cloud Storage Drive" (it's a newtwork storage).

  • by Raemahn,

    Raemahn Raemahn Nov 24, 2012 9:18 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Nov 24, 2012 9:18 AM in response to July7Kiss1995

    Same problem.  I have a Synology DS 412+.  It was working fine the other day, and Time Machine even backed up at 12 a.m. this morning.  I start to use my system this morning and discover the most recent time machine backup has failed with this message.  I am on the latest version of Mountain Lion and (as far as I know) DSM.  I have more than a year's worth of backup here.  Am I really going to have to delete and start over again?  Really?

  • by elizpick,

    elizpick elizpick Nov 25, 2012 4:04 AM in response to Luke Dalessandro
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    Nov 25, 2012 4:04 AM in response to Luke Dalessandro

    Same symptoms using Synology DS111.

  • by Helpless123,

    Helpless123 Helpless123 Nov 30, 2012 7:30 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Nov 30, 2012 7:30 AM in response to July7Kiss1995

    Yep. I can tell you why. Unfortunately Apple's "Support Communities" police have deleted my earlier post on this topic, as no doubt they will delete this one. If not, I can suggests a solution: forget Time Machine (useless)  and forget Time Capsule (useless and expensive). Both will let you down, very, very badly.

  • by Steven Daenen,

    Steven Daenen Steven Daenen Dec 1, 2012 9:02 AM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Dec 1, 2012 9:02 AM in response to July7Kiss1995

    Same problem. I'm using WD MyBookWorld in combination with OS X 10.7.5

    It starts one week after initial backup.

    It's already the third time I restart!?

     

    Does anybody has experience with OS X 10.8?

  • by upstatenysteve,

    upstatenysteve upstatenysteve Dec 2, 2012 10:05 PM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Dec 2, 2012 10:05 PM in response to July7Kiss1995

    I see the same error message randomly appear from time to time as well, also using a Synology DiskStation.

     

    One question I have for other Synology users is whether or not you've recently enabled "Antivirus Essential" on your DS.  I noticed some time ago that it flagged and quarantined some block from one of my timemachine sparsebundle backups and essentially corrupted it.  I thought that I specifically told it not to scan that backed up directory since that time, but I just saw this same message pop up and realized that Antivirus is still running on my DS.

     

    Thoughts?

     

    Edit:  I just found the following blog entry on the topic as well..

  • by elizpick,

    elizpick elizpick Dec 3, 2012 12:04 AM in response to upstatenysteve
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    Dec 3, 2012 12:04 AM in response to upstatenysteve

    I have the Synology DS111 and this problem but the antivirus package is not installed.

  • by jpw1,

    jpw1 jpw1 Dec 4, 2012 7:18 PM in response to July7Kiss1995
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    Dec 4, 2012 7:18 PM in response to July7Kiss1995

    I have the same issue with backing up my MacBook to my ReadyNas duo. Very frustrating and continues to erode my confidence in Time Machine.

     

    Also feel like apple is ignoring these concerns.

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