Q: Time Machine Backups are Empty
Hey guys - I have this weird problem with time machine. I'm backing up and iSCSI target to an external drive (also an iSCSI target). Time goes through its whole thing and reports a successful backup but the backups are empty. A folder was created for the volume being backed up but there is nothing in there.
Some information
- 10.5.8 with Server App
- Volume is 6TB with about 3.7TB of data to be backed up
- Backups were successful at one point in time, one day the directory just started showing up empty
- I've verified that there is enough space on the backup disk to hold all the data
- ATTO iSCSI initiator
- SAN is an MSA P2000
What I've tried so far
Performed a "hard reset" on time machine
- disabled time machine
- unmounted backup volume
- /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
- remounted backup volume
- added volume back into time machine
- reconfigured my exclusions
- manually ran a backup
Backups successful but directory is still empty
Also should mention that I removed the .spotlight file from the volume to be backed up. I just looked at the most recent backup attempt in console, it says "copying 0KB from <VOLUME TO BE BACKED UP>". there is 3.7TB of data in there!
Any ideas?
Thanks guys
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Posted on Oct 9, 2014 6:22 PM