Restoring from time machine error 22

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Restoring from time machine error 22

I've tried to restore my MacBook pro from my time machine backup about seven times now with the same error. The only error code I can find is "error -22 when restoring /long/file/path.ext to (null)" and it says that for three files in my application folder. I succeeded in restoring once but that wasn't from the newest restore point. So I thought it was working from now on and tried to restore from the newest one again, but that failed and now I can't restore from the old one either. I would post the error log, but I don't have access to a working mac computer to get the file (saved to my backup drive), but I'll post it when I have it.

Has anyone had similar problems?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 18, 2011 4:36 PM

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Answer 1

Linc Davis

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Jun 18, 2011 4:56 PM in response to jswetzen

Has anyone had similar problems?

Yes: people who use unqualified network storage devices with Time Machine.

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Answer 2

jswetzen Author

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Jun 18, 2011 5:00 PM in response to Linc Davis

I have a 1TB LaCie drive, so that isn't the issue.

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Answer 3

ds store

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Jun 18, 2011 5:13 PM in response to jswetzen

Just use the free Carbon Copy Cloner with a powered external Firewire/USB Disk Utility > HFS+ Journaled formatted drive equal too or greater than your boot drive.

You can then hold option and boot from it and reverse clone onto your old or new drive or to another drive.

It's as easy as that.

It also can be scheduled to self update. It's good to have two clones in rotation.

TimeMachine is not bootable, is prone to problems etc and as a restore image, it's files are not accessible from another Mac or PC with MacDrive installed.

If you need the file backup software, look at the free SyncTwoFolders for Mac on CNET Downloads.

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Pondini

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Jun 18, 2011 5:38 PM in response to ds store

ds store wrote:

Just use the free Carbon Copy Cloner with a powered external Firewire/USB Disk Utility > HFS+ Journaled formatted drive equal too or greater than your boot drive.

How will that help restoring from Time Machine?

it's files are not accessible from another Mac

Yes, they are, via the Browse Other Time Machine Disks option. And bothSetup Assistant and Migration Assistant can transfer from another Mac's Time Machine backups.

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Pondini

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Jun 18, 2011 5:40 PM in response to jswetzen

jswetzen wrote:

. . .

The only error code I can find is "error -22 when restoring /long/file/path.ext to (null)" and it says that for three files in my application folder.

It's hard to say until you can get the log, but your backups may be corrupted. Try repairing them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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Linc Davis

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Jun 18, 2011 5:41 PM in response to jswetzen

Please post the full log of a failed restore (messages in the system log from backupd only).

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jswetzen Author

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Jun 19, 2011 10:07 AM in response to jswetzen

I managed to get my data back by reinstalling Snow Leopard an using the Migration Assistant. However, it seems the backup I did just before erasing the drive wasn't saved. Or maybe the one time I successfully restored (with error messages, but it worked at least) it deleted the latest backup just because I restored from the second latest backup instead. Looking through the backup drive, it seems the data is indeed lost, but at least I got most of it back.

I'd love to know why it didn't work, but maybe I shouldn't care but just ditch Time Machine. It seems like it's just a false sense of security. Is Carbon Copy Cloner really the way to go?

If anyone is interested, here is the (as far as I can see) relevant part of the log:

EDIT: Is there no better way to post logs? It's impossible to read!

Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] restoring from: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] restoring to: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] filelist: (\n    ".DS_Store",\n    ".file",\n    ".vbt5",\n    ".vol",\n    "Anva\U0308ndarhandbo\U0308cker och information",\n    Applications,\n    bin,\n    cores,\n    Developer,\n    etc,\n    imageout,\n    "Incompatible Software",\n    Library,\n    "lost+found",\n    "mach_kernel",\n    Network,\n    opt,\n    sbin,\n    System,\n    tmp,\n    "tmp.3jLDGt",\n    "tmp.3jLDGt.meta",\n    "tmp.738HCU",\n    "tmp.738HCU.meta",\n    "tmp.BPQfwE",\n    "tmp.BPQfwE.meta",\n    "tmp.BvLcpj",\n    "tmp.BvLcpj.meta",\n    "tmp.hHW90u",\n    "tmp.hHW90u.meta",\n    "tmp.hpmksm",\n    "tmp.hpmksm.meta",\n    "tmp.IA0gAl",\n    "tmp.IA0gAl.meta",\n    "tmp.iCgAhv",\n    "tmp.iCgAhv.meta",\n    "tmp.k2xOHl",\n    "tmp.k2xOHl.meta",\n    "tmp.kWBZr0",\n    "tmp.kWBZr0.meta",\n    "tmp.KXMAGr",\n    "tmp.KXMAGr.meta",\n    "tmp.mlbpTh",\n    "tmp.mlbpTh.meta",\n    "tmp.mrpnCY",\n    "tmp.mrpnCY.meta",\n    "tmp.p5cfcC",\n    "tmp.p5cfcC.meta",\n    "tmp.qEJHpM",\n    "tmp.qEJHpM.meta",\n    "tmp.qV0rad",\n    "tmp.qV0rad.meta",\n    "tmp.S0NAW3",\n    "tmp.S0NAW3.meta",\n    "tmp.S0rcMA",\n    "tmp.S0rcMA.meta",\n    "tmp.TGjgGM",\n    "tmp.TGjgGM.meta",\n    "tmp.UExGFz",\n    "tmp.UExGFz.meta",\n    "tmp.vGOV1M",\n    "tmp.vGOV1M.meta",\n    "tmp.VPaApw",\n    "tmp.VPaApw.meta",\n    Users,\n    usr,\n    var,\n    Volumes,\n    "xbmc.log",\n    "xbmc.old.log",\n    "private/etc",\n    "private/tftpboot",\n    "private/tmp",\n    "private/var"\n)
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: Constructing critical restore paths
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] 1:            restoring .DS_Store
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                         from source path: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/.DS_Store
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                      to destination path: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] 2:            restoring .file
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                         from source path: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/.file
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                      to destination path: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] 3:            restoring .vbt5
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                         from source path: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/.vbt5
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                      to destination path: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] 4:            restoring .vol
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                         from source path: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/.vol
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                      to destination path: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] 5:            restoring AnvaÃàndarhandboÃàcker och information
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                         from source path: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/AnvaÃàndarhandboÃàcker och information
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                      to destination path: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] 6:            restoring Applications
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                         from source path: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/Applications
Jun 19 06:16:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]:                      to destination path: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Jun 19 06:20:02 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] Error -22 while restoring /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/en/Configuration/Libraries/Sounds.fla to (null)
Jun 19 06:33:22 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] Error -22 while restoring /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/Applications/The Sims 3.localized/The Sims3.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Caches/Sunset Valley.objectCache to (null)
Jun 19 06:33:46 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] Error -22 while restoring /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/Applications/The Sims 3.localized/The Sims3.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/GameData/Shared/Packages/FullBuild1.package to (null)
Jun 19 06:33:47 localhost OSInstaller[154]: [RESTORE] Error -22 while restoring /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb/Johan SwetzeÃÅns MacBook Pro/2011-06-18-002034/Macintosh HD/Applications/The Sims 3.localized/The Sims3.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/GameData/Shared/Packages/FullBuild2.package to (null)
Jun 19 06:35:15 localhost LCA[79]: Child exited with status 11
Jun 19 06:35:18 localhost Unknown[270]: Launching the Installer Crash Log Viewer
Jun 19 06:35:52 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Process:         Mac OS X Installer [154]
Jun 19 06:35:52 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Path:            /System/Installation/CDIS/Mac OS X Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Mac OS X Installer
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Identifier:      Mac OS X Installer
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Version:         ??? (???)
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Parent Process:  LCA [79]
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]:  
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Date/Time:       2011-06-19 06:34:50.242 -0700
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432)
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Report Version:  6
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]:  
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000011
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]:  
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: Application Specific Information:
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]: objc_msgSend() selector name: release
Jun 19 06:35:53 localhost ReportCrash[268]:

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jswetzen Author

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Jun 19, 2011 10:09 AM in response to Pondini

There were no problems found with either the MacBook or LaCie disk.

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