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Trying to back up my Mac Studio using an external drive and Time Machine. After about 20% done, it says "skipping" on it, stops, and kicks my Lexor Drive off of my desktop. I have already done a search on AI and tried their suggestions. Don't understand the word "skipping" that comes up, and then STOPS, and even removes the icon from the desktop. Any suggestions?
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Mac Studio (2023)
I suggest you run Disk Utility Repair Disk on every component {Volume, Container-disk, Physical device} of the backup drive.
Let Readers know what you find out.
In addition to Grant Bennet-Alder excellent suggestion, I would also like to suggest that you grab a free utility from The Eclectic Light Company, called the "The Time Machine Mechanic". It reads through your Mac's system logs and creates a summary of the Time Machine backup(s) process so that you can get a better idea of what's going on ... or not going on.
I believe they are saying it would be the backup drive that you would run Disk Utility's First Aid process on.
However, this type of Time Machine issue could be caused by a corrupted file on the Mac's internal drive ... so running DU, in Recovery Mode on your Mac's drive, would be a good idea as well.
BACKUP Drive.
My thought was that the Backup Drive has some Directory issues, and that is what caused your backup to both be interrupted and the drive to be dismounted.
It is not a bad idea at all to do the Boot drive as well, but that has to be from recovery as Tesserax suggested, or just the Volume by restarting in Safe Mode (which does the Boot Volume automatically as MacOS starts up.)
March 24, 2024
Update and Success: Ran Disk Utility on my Lexor Backup Drive, and it DID fix something. I was then able to back up using Time Machine successfully. Thanks for your comments and help.
Hi Grant: Can you give me more detail (step by step) on doing what you suggest? Are you saying run Disk Utility on my Mac Studio OR on the backup drive.
March 18, 2024
Hi Grant and Tesserax: Thanks for your responses. Yes, I will post results. However, give me a few days before I do the troubleshooting.
Glad you kept pushing at it and got this resolved!
Now you are free to go forward and do your important work.
How to fix time machine "Skipping" issue while backing up my Mac
