Time Machine Error

Just out of interest - the LaCie's are preformatted on purchase right?

Is it possible that they are they still Fat32? (or anything other than Apple's preferred HFS+?). Thus no hard linking for subsequent backups?

i have still been unable to get a backup... reformatted the drive once name has no spaces "backup"
I have excluded a number of folders in order to try and get something initial working.
this is a new 500 gb drive

this is what i am seeing in the crash log

Process: backupd [8618]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd
Identifier: backupd
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]

Date/Time: 2007-10-28 02:33:41.587 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5 (9A581)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC BADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x00000000000ea000
Crashed Thread: 1

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looking at the time this is found in the system log
Oct 28 02:25:59 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8618]: Error: (-43) copying /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/ OptionParser/RequiredArgument/cdesc-RequiredArgument.yaml to /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Darrin's Mac/2007-10-27-145458.inProgress/2AC03D45-C04E-4F2E-80E6-528B16AB6825/Macbook/S ystem/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/Opt ionParser/RequiredArgument

okay this morning i tried again

Oct 28 08:51:22 Macintosh ReportCrash[8843]: Formulating crash report for process backupd[8826]
Oct 28 08:51:23 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd[8826]): Exited abnormally: Bus error
Oct 28 08:51:25 Macintosh ReportCrash[8843]: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/backupd 2007-10-28-085115Macintosh.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0

was only trying to backup 3gb worth of data, got about 1gb done and then crashed...

I too am having the same issue with TM & a LaCie drive each time it trys to back up an error window reports "An error occurred while creating the backup directory" . Going back to CCC for the time being I think.

I'm going on 12 hours at only 8.43GB of 49.73GB backing up to a FireWire 400 disk which is very fast copying files to manually.

I cannot believe its taking this long. There are no other applications running and I have left the computer alone.

I am having the same trouble. It is just backing up remarkably slow, nowhere near the theoretical 400 mbps. Yeah, I understand it will probably never get to the theoretical amount, but still, it is ridiculously slow.

I also got the error saying that it could not complete, so only 8-9 GB is backed up. Now I am waiting for TM to do one of its hourly backups, and so far it has been Preparing for 5 minutes.

I noticed that too...my Repair Disk Permissions has become very slow since I plugged in my TM backup drive. It has been so slow that it really hasn't shown anything, and I get impatient then quit (although I give it a good 5 or 6 minutes of nothing before I quit).

Leave permissions longer, mine took upwards of 15 minutes, but did eventually work.

I am having the exact same problem, but with a WD 1TB drive. I have it partitioned for back. I keep getting the exact error message after about 2 hours. I did an upgrade rather than an A+I. Right now I am using Backup 3 to back up the system. Then I am considering an A+I. I am worried that I will have to reinstall all my other apps... including MS 04. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I am having the exact same problem, but with a WD 1TB drive. I have it partitioned for back. I keep getting the exact error message after about 2 hours. I did an upgrade rather than an A+I. Right now I am using Backup 3 to back up the system. Then I am considering an A+I. I am worried that I will have to reinstall all my other apps... including MS 04. Does anyone have any suggestions?

After some more digging in console. I have determined that the failed backup have to do with the i Life 08 suite. There is a significant error that comes up when time machine tries to back up either i Web, i DVD, i Photo, i Work 08 etc... I think this is the major problem causing time machine to crash.

I have excluded my entire applications directory with no changes

I am also having the same problem. After I installed 10.5, Time machine did 14 backups and then started reporting the same error as you. TM preferences says I have 151 of 250 GB remaining on my B/U drive. Error message says the drive cannot be found even though it is mounted and the TM sees it in the Options window.

i deleted my backup and tried again... only have about 30gb to back up and it fails with about 3.5gb remaining..

but have no idea why... except that it gives a bus error

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I have had all the same problems. It seems as though the issue is related to the i work and i Life suite. Also time machine is having problems with xml.

Sounds like I have the same or a similar problem. Western Digital 500Gb disks attached via USB (through a Belkin hub).

First time backup of 70Gb disk sometimes completes without an error message (although I only get 47 Gb on the backup volume ) and the second time it runs I get the same error “Time Machine Error. Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume.” Tried everything - repartitioning the drive, renaming partitions, deleting the TM prefs file from the library, erasing the partition, changing the settings to prevent sleep mode/screensaver/putting the hard disk to sleep. Nothing. Disk just keeps spinning indefinitely. Have a support call into Apple but I think they are slammed with support call questions from Leopard - wait time is ugly. Any ideas?