kernel panic when using timemachine

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mulberry58 Author

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kernel panic when using timemachine

I'm getting a kernel panic when backing up to an external drive with TimeMachine. I'm using a MacBook Air 2020, intel.

Any suggestions what to try?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.3

Posted on Jun 20, 2022 6:01 AM

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mulberry58 Author

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Jun 21, 2022 1:28 AM in response to Owl-53

Problem solved: It was an external drive used with an older Mac and it was still formatted in MacOs Journaled (extended). I reformatted it in APFS and could make a TimeMachine backup without any problems

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Owl-53

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Jun 20, 2022 7:32 AM in response to mulberry58

Good trouble shooting thus far 👍

Hardware issue ?

1 - There could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.

2 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.

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