Monterey Time Machine not working

Thanks for the recommendation. I ran the remove command again, no dice. I re-excluded the ~Library folder, which had been producing backups; failed again.

Something else is going on here. I went through the logs and wasn't able to pinpoint anything specific in the past. I don't feel like wasting more time on the issue unless something promising appears. Let's hope Apple can figure it all out soon.

I take it back; excluding the entire library folder works; I forgot that I had manually excluded the findmy... folders and files, and that failed to do the job. I'm sticking with that for now, and CCC for the Library folder.

Manually excluding the ~library folder does not produce a successful backup on my system. Although i do get a report telling me some files were inaccessible rather than just the blanket fail. The previous terminal command: tmutil addexclusion ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.findmy* also does not produce a successful backup either.

I have switched on my iMac today and I noticed that the TM was working. It has backed up everything. This is the first time in months that it has attempted anything. I have altered absolutely nothing at all so cannot explain what the problem was. There has been no update whatsoever!!!!!

Same for me. I actually had disconnected my backup drive, but plugged it back in after seeing your post. It completed the "first" Time Machine backup and now there are visible files in my drive finder window. Everything is now running on schedule and working the way Time Machine is supposed to.

I had followed all of the suggestions in this thread, including starting up in Safe Mode and excluding Library files, but none of it worked. The size of my drive kept going down like something was being backed up, but 0 files showed up in the drive finder window and Enter Time Machine module. There have also been no OS updates since 12.1, so this really is a mystery on how my backup drive is suddenly working. No matter; glad it is fixed.

It's finally fixed!

I just installed MacOS 12.2, erased my external USB hard drive using Drive Utility, and initiated the first backup to it from Time Machine. Of course it ran awhile, but everything finished as it should and my next backup started and finished properly. I believe they have finally addressed this long-standing bug completely to my satisfaction.

I had finally succeeded in getting an initial backup of a Monterey M1 laptop in early February after many attempts (apparently it does not like more than one volume in the TM container in your APFS-formatted external drive) but I could not get it to finish an incremental backup today. After reading this and another thread I decided to go into Time Machine and "exclude" all local folders (in my case for One Drive and Box) that were using on-demand or partial syncing to the cloud. Backup completed quickly and smoothly once that was done. Victory! I hope this works for some of you, not sure we are all hitting exactly the same problem with TM and Monterey/M1 - its been a very frustrating experience. And I hope this continues to work for me...

The same over here. After update to Monterey my backups stopped and timemachine always fails to find the backup NAS WD4100 volume, which is properly connected and can be accessed via finder and network ip. then I wanted to reset Time Machine connection and now the NAS isn't showing up at all, but is still regularly connected

Honestly. I work in IT and it’s very rare that time machine will work (it works more often on older Macs). I feel that this is on purpose on apples part because they want to force people into using iCloud, which feels pretty illegal and some legal action should definitely be taken.

• Time Machine creates individual backup snapshots, not folders.
• Time Machine will delete older backups when the space of your backup disk becomes full.

Same, I also don't know.

• I also have a 1 TB drive, but only have 63.5 GB left. TM still hasn't deleted the older backups.

No problem. I had posted the command earlier in this thread.

- Pie Lover

I have another question: why does my Mac back up over 10 GB of data almost every time?

Here is the screenshot:

I hope Time Machine will delete the oldest backups when my backup disk becomes full.

Same here. Apple did f*** up big time with Timemachine on Monterey, it seems... same with Photos, b.t.w. - it stopped importing.