RE: My MacBook Pro...
My time machine has been backing up for over 18 hours! I back up weekly. Set it at night and it's usually done by morning. But...the last time it was sill working after 24 HOURS so I finally had to eject it. Now it is over 18 HOURS...so what do I do??
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.6
Your internal drive is an SSD. these tend to fail suddenly when they fail.
Your backup drive, if a rotating Magnetic drive, may be developing more and more Bad Blocks and getting ready to fail.
I suggest you obtain another backup drive, and ADD it to your Mac as an additional backup destination. Your Mac will alternate drives, every-other backup goes to every-other drive, until you decide to stop using the old drive.
Your new drive will be a new, stand-alone backup set, starting with today, and all your older stuff will be on the older drive.
Your internal drive is an SSD. these tend to fail suddenly when they fail.
Your backup drive, if a rotating Magnetic drive, may be developing more and more Bad Blocks and getting ready to fail.
I suggest you obtain another backup drive, and ADD it to your Mac as an additional backup destination. Your Mac will alternate drives, every-other backup goes to every-other drive, until you decide to stop using the old drive.
Your new drive will be a new, stand-alone backup set, starting with today, and all your older stuff will be on the older drive.
So...I just need to purchase a new external hard drive? As you can see, I"m not as computer literate as some....
How old is your? Mac What model-year?
how old is the drive onto which you are copying? how large is that drive?
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017
Back up disk:
Capacity-639.79 GB
Available-50.41 GB
Thank you for your help. This is really frustrating and bothers me not to have a backup!
The determining factor is that you strongly don't want to be "working without a net".
So you need a solid backup before you can fiddle with the one you are trying to use today.
Thank you so much for all your help and suggestions! They are very much appreciated!!!
Time Machine backups
