Time machine goes to almost complete (98%or so), then gives a message that says time machine delayed. I restarted time machine several times, same message when almost complete. Backup is to a NAS. Sonoma 14.0 worked fine until a day ago. Do not remember doing any updates since a good backup.
MacBook Pro 13″
<<. I have found nothing to indicate that any of the drives are faulty. >.
the steps you have taken so far are not adequate to ensure no Bad Blocks.
Disk Utility FirstAid/RepairDisk should rightly be named 'Repair Disk DIRECTORY'
It and its low-level Terminal command fsck do not read ANY blocks outside to the Directory area.
If your drive is a few years old, and has developed some Bad Blocks, it could be slowed by re-reading Bad Blocks, hoping for an error correction to yield good data. Worst case for ONE Bad Block on a rotating magnetic drive is a quarter MINUTE per block.
a SMART Utility that can read out the SMART details and show you the counters, such as DriveDX, can help you understand whether you have un-repaired "Pending Bad Blocks".
ERASE and start over repairs all Bad Blocks in most cases, unless the drive runs out if spare blocks.
josue22--
Yours is Not a "backup delayed" issue.
To get the attention YOUR unique situation deserves, use this link to start a new discussion. Give it a Title that will attract the Readers you want to hear from, and include the year of your computer and the version of MacOS:
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Lots of available space. Always stops near the end - after many tries. Network speed does not appear to be an issue . Did speed checks , look good. Also, other MACS use the same NAS and go to completion. Finally gave up and did a reformat of the NAS thinking maybe an issue with the partial backups, not likely but desperate now. THen did a backup again . Went to near completion as usual, about 225GB, then errored out with this message.
"Time Machine did not finish backing up because some files were unavailable. Backups will resume when your Mac is unlocked."
I could find no setting in preferences under security that would cause this or how to identify the unavailable files. Any suggestions?
Glad you got it sorted out.
My notes suggest Time Machine shared backup destinations (for storing on another Mac's shared drive across your network) were first available for macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Storing on a NAS has been available MUCH longer, provided the NAS was well-behaved enough to support creating a Mac Volume inside a file (sparse bindle disk image).
Hello All,
This is my first post to this forum too. I have an Intel iMac running 14.1.2. For many years I have been using two directly connected LaCie drives for my TM backup on an alternating basis; one drive is always 'off site'. Since upgrading to Sonoma I have noticed that one of the backups kept failing [ LaCie USB 3 + Firewire 800 interface ]. The other LaCie drive started failing occasionally [ Thunderbolt interface ]. In desperation I reformatted the USB 3 drive to see if there was a problem with the drive that fsck didn't find. I commenced a new backup and it ground to a halt after around 24 hours. I purchase a new LaCie drive [ USB C ] and set it up as a new TM. That backup took just under 24 hours to complete. Now I keep getting 'Backup Delayed' messages.
I do NOT have iCloud enabled to / from my iMac and I do not use any other 'Cloud' storage from my iMac.
I do not believe that there is a problem with my 3 LaCie drives. I have found nothing to indicate that any of the drives are faulty. The available storage on all 3 LaCie drives is greater than the used space in my iMac. Prior to Sonoma the two TM backups were flawless.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Thanks Grant -
Have just reported it to Apple Product Feedback (and discovered that
The latter's a little discouraging, but I can understand they're probably swamped with feedback..)
CAN YOU DEFINE "WORKED FOR ME"? THIS THREAD IS ABOUT MAC NOT BACKING UP IN TIME MACHINE AND GIVING A "BACKUP DELAYED" MESSAGE SO ARE YOU SAYING YOU DID A BACK VERIFICATION AND AFTER THAT YOUR MAC BACKED UP OK?
Sorcerer2006 wrote:
CAN YOU DEFINE "WORKED FOR ME"? THIS THREAD IS ABOUT MAC NOT BACKING UP IN TIME MACHINE AND GIVING A "BACKUP DELAYED" MESSAGE SO ARE YOU SAYING YOU DID A BACK VERIFICATION AND AFTER THAT YOUR MAC BACKED UP OK?
Please do not post all in caps. In addition to being considered rude, it's hard to read.
The person to whom you're replying appears to be saying that what BIGKID did helped. Start by reading the thread from the very beginning and read the exchange of posts between BIGKID and Grant Bennet-Adler.
igirl1 wrote:
I turned off the iCloud Drive/Photos nonsense and my stuck backup was resumed upon clicking "Backup Now".
Can't edit my previous post - but it reverted to Backup Delayed again. The iCloud stuff is not the cause.
This system is running no programs, and has almost nothing on it - new Sonoma 14.3.1 - with Adobe LIghtroom/Photoshop - and Logic Pro.
I disabled/signed out of Adobe Creative Cloud next to see if that fixed it - Not.
I'm using a 512GB SSD, which was working great (MacBook Pro w/only 200GB of data on it) - but then I started getting message it was out of space. Time Machine wasn't deleting the oldest backup to make room for the new ones. I reformatted the SSD and still got out of space - then reformatted again and now started getting this Backup Delayed issue instead.
Hi all --
Back on 16 November last year, here, I reported my problems with "Backup delayed" and failure to show the most recent previous backup in TM's "Latest Backup" line. Those problems persisted until very recently. But today TM was behaving itself perfectly -- both problems have disappeared.
Puzzling.. e.g. I've been running Sonoma 14.1 for at least a couple of months i.e. haven't upgraded yet, so it wasn't an upgrade that explains the cure.
If Apple fixed the problem -- thank you, Apple!
Good luck to you others with your variants of "Backup delayed" --
Stephen
Hello, I am facing the “Backup Delay” issue as well except that on my end, Time machine stops backing up after it reaches 20% and then it says “Te backup disk is not available. Make sure the disk is connected…”. I know for a fact everything is connected, but it just stops all of the sudden. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Several TB. I went to TM and deleted the drive, then added it back in. No change when I did another backup. Stop when almost complete. Also ** a boot of the NAS..
if you can supply a terse summary of what the problem is, Apple Product Feedback would like to hear from you:
Worked for me
Is it possible this setting is the culprit? It was off when I found it but turning it back on caused the folders mentioned above to begin offloading files again into the cloud.
Time machine says backup delayed
