Hello, I was always able to enter Time Machine in 10.6.X, and still can on an upgradged 10.7 MacBook Pro. But on my clean installed 10.7 iMac, when I click Enter Time Machine it says Connecting To Backup Volume (something like that) then nohing happens?
iMac
I believe it has to be assigned a Backup drive and perform the first backup which can last quite lang the first time.
I have done all of that, it's been backing up successfully for two days.
Same problem here on a MacBook Air I've updated from SL: TimeMachine simply doesn't open the "Star Wars"-Window.
Exactly, cant find an answer either. Hopefully will be fixed soon.
Launch Console from Utilities and use backupd as a filter in the top box.
A normal backup looks like this:
07/08/2011 12:33:40.364 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
07/08/2011 12:33:40.945 com.apple.backupd: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Colin%20Robinson@Colin-Robinsons-Time-Capsule.local/Colin%20Robinson's%20 Time%20Caps
07/08/2011 12:33:50.577 com.apple.backupd: Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Colin Robinson's Time Caps using URL: afp://Colin%20Robinson@Colin-Robinsons-Time-Capsule.local/Colin%20Robinson's%20 Time%20Caps
07/08/2011 12:33:55.305 com.apple.backupd: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
07/08/2011 12:33:58.295 com.apple.backupd: Disk image /Volumes/Colin Robinson's Time Caps/Colin Robinson’s iMac.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
07/08/2011 12:33:58.623 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
07/08/2011 12:34:38.602 com.apple.backupd: 11.62 GB required (including padding), 86.23 GB available
07/08/2011 12:37:47.736 com.apple.backupd: Copied 1957 files (956.7 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
07/08/2011 12:37:49.382 com.apple.backupd: 1.28 GB required (including padding), 86.23 GB available
07/08/2011 12:38:11.889 com.apple.backupd: Copied 969 files (27.5 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
07/08/2011 12:38:19.303 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
07/08/2011 12:38:41.631 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Colin Robinson’s iMac/2011-08-06-113534 (1.05 GB)
07/08/2011 12:38:41.631 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
07/08/2011 12:38:41.996 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
07/08/2011 12:38:46.238 com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
07/08/2011 12:38:48.395 com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
You may be able to spot something unusual that might help others answer your problem.
Regards,
Colin R.
And hopefully without word wrap it would looklike this:
com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
com.apple.backupd: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Colin%20Robinson@Colin-Robinsons-Time-Capsule.local/Colin%20Robinson's%20 Time%20Caps
com.apple.backupd: Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Colin Robinson's Time Caps using URL: afp://Colin%20Robinson@Colin-Robinsons-Time-Capsule.local/Colin%20Robinson's%20 Time%20Caps
com.apple.backupd: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
com.apple.backupd: Disk image /Volumes/Colin Robinson's Time Caps/Colin Robinson’s iMac.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
com.apple.backupd: 11.62 GB required (including padding), 86.23 GB available
com.apple.backupd: Copied 1957 files (956.7 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
com.apple.backupd: 1.28 GB required (including padding), 86.23 GB available
com.apple.backupd: Copied 969 files (27.5 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Colin Robinson’s iMac/2011-08-06-113534 (1.05 GB)
com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Message was edited by: Colin Robinson PS nope still unreadable :(
I have a MacBook Pro and a MacBook now both running lion and I CANNOT launch the time machine starwars window on either system, however I can backup both systems.
The above console displays that I am backuping up but has no entries for the enter time machine problem!!
HELP.
Thanks
Graham
Unable To Enter Time Machine?
