Time machine osx 10.6.8 problem slow backupd CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary. mdworker32 kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

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Time machine osx 10.6.8 problem slow backupd CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary. mdworker32 kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Hello Guys I have a problem that I can not get to the bottom.

Time Machine has suddenly stopped working it really slow to make up. Copy a few kb at a time and long hours it takes to close the back. (up to a few tens of megs, 10, 20 Mb).

I made the following list of tests that will follow along with the log file.

First of all I made a copy as root with Carbon Copy Cloner disk of the iMac. (So that they can go back in case of disaster)

Following the guides Pondini (pondini.org) I did the following steps:

1) Changed the internfaccia FW800 to USB hard drive (does not change anything, still slow)

2) Changed to another external HD for time machine with FW800 and USB (nothing changes still slow)

3) Recreated the full backup with Time Machine on either drive (still slow)

4) Reinstalled the 10.6.8 Combo Pack (still slow)

5) Re spootlight indexed with the disk (still slow)

6) At this point, in desperation I reinstalled on the internal drive of my iMac 10.6.8 creating a new user, User Migration Assistant from my hd clone with Carbon Copy Cloner. Recreated the full backup with Time Machine.

The first full backup is fast, but slow incremental backups are back (as to 'start a few kb at a time).

I compared the log files with those of my other machine with same configuration and I found these errors:

backupdir [19376]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData (): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

mdworker32 [20950]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint () to catch errors logged as They Are.

You know help me? I saw that this error is from 10.5 to 10.7, but no one has found a real solution to the issue.

I never installed antivirus software and tried with different external drives COPN capacity equal to or greater than the external drive. Only at the end I tried to divide the external drive to back up into two parts by a 1.5 TB and 500 GB but with the same mistakes that I have described.

thanks

Stefano

Ciao Ragazzi ho un problema a cui non riesco a venire a capo.

improvvisamente time machine ha smesso di funzionare va veramente lento a fare backup. Copia pochi kb alla volta e impiega tanto tempo ore per chiudere il backup. (backup di poche decine di mega, 10, 20 Mb).

Ho effettuato le seguenti prove che vi elenco di seguito insieme al file log.

Prima di tutto ho fatto una copia come utente root con Carbon Copy cloner del disco del imac.(in maniera tale di poter tornare indietro in caso di disastro)

Seguendo le guide di Pondini (pondini.org) ho effettuato i seguenti passaggi:

1) Cambiato internfaccia del disco rigido da FW800 a USB (non cambia nulla, sempre lento)

2) Cambiato hd esterno con un altro per time machine con FW800 e USB (non cambia nulla sempre lento)

3) Ricreato il full Backup con time machine su entrambe i dischi (sempre lento)

4) Reinstallato il Combo pack 10.6.8 (sempre lento)

5) Re indicizzato con spootlight il disco (sempre lento)

6) A questo punto preso dalla disperazione ho reinstallato sul disco interno del mio imac il 10.6.8 creando un nuovo utente, Assistente migrazione utente dal mio hd clonato con Carbon copy cloner. Ricreato il backup completo con time machine.

Il primo full backup è veloce, ma i backup incrementali sono tornati lentissimi (come all' inizio pochi kb alla volta).

Ho confrontato il file log con quelli di un mio altro mac con la stessa configurazione ed ho trovato questi errori:

backupd[19376]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

mdworker32[20950]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Sapete darmi aiuto? Ho visto che questo errore è presente dal 10.5 al 10.7 ma nessuno ha trovato una vera soluzione alla questione.

Non ho mai installato software antivirus ed ho provato con diversi dischi esterni copn capacità uguale o superiore al disco esterno. Solo alla fine ho provato a dividere il disco esterno del backup in due parti una da 1,5TB e una da 500 Gb ma con i medesimi errori che vi ho descritto.

grazie

Stefano

File LOG:

Jan 9 00:31:37 ihomez newsyslog[19803]: logfile turned over

Jan 9 00:33:26 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 534.0 GB of 1020.2 GB, 649387 of 1786353 items

Jan 9 01:33:27 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 728.3 GB of 1020.2 GB, 805293 of 1786353 items

Jan 9 02:33:27 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 938.5 GB of 1020.2 GB, 807979 of 1786353 items

Jan 9 02:55:58 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 808871 files (1012.7 GB) from volume i5 2TB.

Jan 9 03:08:03 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 383.44 GB available

Jan 9 03:10:13 ihomez backupd[19376]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 03:27:54 ihomez [0x0-0x12012].com.getdropbox.dropbox[0]: Sampling process 12446 for 5 seconds with 10 milliseconds of run time between samples

Jan 9 03:27:59 ihomez [0x0-0x12012].com.getdropbox.dropbox[0]: Sampling completed, processing symbols...

Jan 9 03:28:00 ihomez mds[19366]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

Jan 9 03:28:00 ihomez [0x0-0x12012].com.getdropbox.dropbox[0]: Sample analysis of process 12446 written to file /Users/home/.dropbox/s4f0a50aa

Jan 9 03:33:30 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 717781 files (13.0 MB) from volume i5 2TB.

Jan 9 04:06:38 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Starting post-backup thinning

Jan 9 04:06:38 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist

Jan 9 04:06:39 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Backup completed successfully.

Jan 9 04:33:45 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Starting standard backup

Jan 9 04:33:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machime LA/Backups.backupdb

Jan 9 04:33:46 ihomez mds[19366]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

Jan 9 04:40:18 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 382.47 GB available

Jan 9 04:59:25 ihomez backupd[20287]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 05:31:48 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Copied 720482 files (13.0 MB) from volume i5 2TB.

Jan 9 05:45:22 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 381.98 GB available

Jan 9 06:05:14 ihomez backupd[20287]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 06:32:57 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Copied 12.7 MB of 12.7 MB, 538084 of 538084 items

Jan 9 06:36:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Copied 717781 files (12.7 MB) from volume i5 2TB.

Jan 9 08:12:05 ihomez mds[19366]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /

Jan 9 08:12:30 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Preference bundle "/Users/home/Library/PreferencePanes/Archives.prefPane" is misplaced, ignoring...

Jan 9 08:12:32 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHD Audio, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:\n /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Jan 9 08:12:32 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x20056cb80 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)

Jan 9 08:23:40 ihomez mdworker[20945]: Error, could not create MachMessagePort for com.apple.AddressBook.abd

Jan 9 08:23:46 ihomez mdworker32[20948]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 9 08:23:52 ihomez mdworker32[20950]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 9 08:30:47 ihomez com.apple.Finder[225]: Failed to send message to backup server: error = -2

Jan 9 08:30:41 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Starting post-backup thinning

Jan 9 08:30:49 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist

Jan 9 08:30:51 ihomez com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1001017c0.mach_init.mdworker[20949]): Exited: Killed

Jan 9 08:35:39 ihomez mdworker[20959]: (Normal) Import: Spotlight giving up on importing file /Users/home/Desktop/testdisk-6.11.3/recupero/recup_dir.34/f2515784.abcdp after 240.256 seconds, 239.841 seconds of which was spent in the Spotlight importer plugin.

Jan 9 08:35:39 ihomez com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1001017c0.mach_init.mdworker[20959]): Exited with exit code: 75

Jan 9 08:36:55 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Backup completed successfully.

Jan 9 08:37:17 ihomez mdworker32[20974]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 9 08:39:36 ihomez mdworker[20969]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 08:41:09 ihomez mdworker[20969]: Corrupt JPEG data: 10053 extraneous bytes before marker 0xed

Jan 9 08:41:37 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[20969]: zip importer encountered an error (3) scanning "/Users/home/Downloads/Griffin Seconda serie.zip".

Jan 9 08:45:44 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[20969]: FontImporter: Validation failed - "/Users/home/Library/Fonts Disabled/MT Extra".

Jan 9 08:45:44 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[20969]: FontImporter: Validation Result - "<CFArray 0x10204f310 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 5, values = (\n 0 : <CFString 0x102762af8 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityInformation"}\n 1 : <CFString 0x102762b18 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityTechnicalError"}\n 2 : <CFString 0x102762b58 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMajorError"}\n 3 : <CFString 0x102762b78 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityFatalError"}\n 4 : <CFString 0x102762b38 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMinorError"}\n)}".

Jan 9 08:45:55 ihomez mdworker[20969]: Error, could not create MachMessagePort for com.apple.AddressBook.abd

Jan 9 08:46:09 ihomez mdworker[20969]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 09:03:32 ihomez mdworker[21011]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 09:04:02: --- last message repeated 5 times ---

Jan 9 09:05:15 ihomez mdworker[20969]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 09:05:43 ihomez mdworker32[21036]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 9 09:05:44 ihomez mdworker[20969]: iCal.mdimporter: could not parse ICS file: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/EntourageCore.framework/Versions/12/Resources/it.lproj/Timezones.ic s

Jan 9 09:13:28 ihomez mdworker32[21053]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 9 09:16:17 ihomez mdworker32[21074]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 9 09:33:45 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Starting standard backup

Jan 9 09:33:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machime LA/Backups.backupdb

Jan 9 09:40:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 381.68 GB available

Jan 9 09:57:57 ihomez backupd[21102]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 10:29:58 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Copied 718890 files (12.9 MB) from volume i5 2TB.

Jan 9 10:43:35 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 381.48 GB available

Jan 9 11:02:16 ihomez backupd[21102]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 9 11:31:08 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Copied 12.7 MB of 12.7 MB, 642967 of 642967 items

Jan 9 11:33:07 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Copied 716189 files (12.7 MB) from volume i5 2TB.

Jan 9 13:26:26 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Backup deletion was canceled by user

Jan 9 13:26:26 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Starting post-backup thinning

Jan 9 13:26:27 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Backup completed successfully.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 9, 2012 4:58 AM

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Pondini

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Jan 9, 2012 10:58 AM in response to Stefano Cutelle'

Stefano Cutelle\' wrote:

. . .

I compared the log files with those of my other machine with same configuration and I found these errors:

backupdir [19376]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData (): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

mdworker32 [20950]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint () to catch errors logged as They Are.

Those aren't really errors, they're notices to developers.

Most of the other messages don't relate at all.

Jan 9 08:12:05 ihomez mds[19366]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /

That may be a clue. Spotlight is creating a new index for your startup volume. There's no indication why, but that will take a long time, and slow down everything else. It may also make a TM backup slow to a crawl.

Is that the time when you manually started a re-indexing? If so, it's normal (but will take a fair amount of your CPU, and may slow or prevent indexing of the backups until it's done.

Jan 9 08:12:30 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Preference bundle "/Users/home/Library/PreferencePanes/Archives.prefPane" is misplaced, ignoring...

Jan 9 08:12:32 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHD Audio, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:\n /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Jan 9 08:12:32 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x20056cb80 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)

Some sort of a problem with what looks like a 3rd-party add-on to System Preferences. Something to do with Archives and/or Audio?

Jan 9 08:35:39 ihomez mdworker[20959]: (Normal) Import: Spotlight giving up on importing file /Users/home/Desktop/testdisk-6.11.3/recupero/recup_dir.34/f2515784.abcdp after 240.256 seconds, 239.841 seconds of which was spent in the Spotlight importer plugin.

More Spotlight trouble, with a folder on your Desktop. Another thing that could slow your backups while Spotlight is trying to deal with this.

Jan 9 08:41:37 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[20969]: zip importer encountered an error (3) scanning "/Users/home/Downloads/Griffin Seconda serie.zip".

Another indexing problem with a file in the Downloads folder of your "home" user's home folder.

There are several others indicating various indexing problems. It doesn't look like there's really a problem with Time Machine iteself, but Spotlight (the mds, mdworker, and mdhelper processes) trying to deal with them all is interfering with your backups.

The only suspicious Time Machine messages are like this:

Jan 9 11:33:07 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Copied 716189 files (12.7 MB) from volume i5 2TB.

The file count is enormous.

Make sure the indexing of the internal HD completed. Check the Spotlight icon at the right of your menubar. If it has a tiny dot inside it, it's busily indexing something. Click it to see what, and if there's an estimate of how long it will take.

Also investigate the System Preferences problem, and the one with a file on your Desktop.

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Answer 2

Jan 9, 2012 10:29 PM in response to Pondini

Thanks for the quick response.
I followed the steps you listed and also remove the files that were creating problems spootlight, including the audio plugin and the panel preferences file.

Then I stopped by the timemachine reindexed spootlight 'option in the preferences panel spootight privacy. After I restarted my iMac and formatted the external drive again, Time Machine and restarting a full backup. This morning after a quick full backup and disk indexing completed incremental backups are always slow. Proceeds with a few kb at a time. I resend you the log files and screen capture. My iMac is constantly backed up.
Thank you for your time.
Stefano

File log:

Jan 10 00:30:05 ihomez newsyslog[757]: logfile turned over

Jan 10 00:43:30 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sampling process 278 for 5 seconds with 10 milliseconds of run time between samples

Jan 10 00:43:35 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sampling completed, processing symbols...

Jan 10 00:43:35 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sample analysis of process 278 written to file /Users/home/.dropbox/s4f0b7ba2

Jan 10 00:44:08 ihomez mdworker32[805]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 01:00:51 ihomez mdworker[579]: -[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] Can't ABACQUIRE_FILE_LOCK /SourceCache/AddressBook/AddressBook-883/Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m: 3314

Jan 10 01:04:41 ihomez osascript[897]: Initializer-based scripting additions have been deprecated. Please update this addition: "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax"

Jan 10 01:07:56 ihomez mdworker32[930]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 01:08:01 ihomez mdworker32[931]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 01:09:44 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 94.7 GB of 990.4 GB, 506176 of 1771170 items

Jan 10 01:13:34 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sampling process 278 for 5 seconds with 10 milliseconds of run time between samples

Jan 10 01:13:39 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sampling completed, processing symbols...

Jan 10 01:13:39 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sample analysis of process 278 written to file /Users/home/.dropbox/s4f0b82ad

Jan 10 01:14:19 ihomez mdworker32[946]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 01:20:02 ihomez mdworker32[969]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 02:00:16 ihomez mdworker32[1025]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 02:09:44 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 316.2 GB of 990.4 GB, 530801 of 1771170 items

Jan 10 02:10:51 ihomez mdworker32[1052]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 02:11:00 ihomez mdworker[937]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 10 02:15:01 ihomez mdworker[937]: Corrupt JPEG data: 10053 extraneous bytes before marker 0xed

Jan 10 02:15:37 ihomez mdworker32[1063]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 02:30:55 ihomez mdworker32[1098]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 02:38:32 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[937]: FontImporter: Validation failed - "/Users/home/Library/Fonts Disabled/MT Extra".

Jan 10 02:38:32 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[937]: FontImporter: Validation Result - "<CFArray 0x10256a570 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 5, values = (\n 0 : <CFString 0x104eb5af8 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityInformation"}\n 1 : <CFString 0x104eb5b18 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityTechnicalError"}\n 2 : <CFString 0x104eb5b58 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMajorError"}\n 3 : <CFString 0x104eb5b78 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityFatalError"}\n 4 : <CFString 0x104eb5b38 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMinorError"}\n)}".

Jan 10 02:38:55 ihomez mdworker[937]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 10 02:38:56 ihomez mdworker32[1115]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Jan 10 03:09:44 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 517.9 GB of 990.4 GB, 651137 of 1771170 items

Jan 10 04:09:45 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 723.7 GB of 990.4 GB, 787449 of 1771170 items

Jan 10 05:09:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 947.2 GB of 990.4 GB, 789860 of 1771170 items

Jan 10 05:20:55 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 790597 files (982.2 GB) from volume i5 2TB.

Jan 10 05:32:32 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.60 GB requested (including padding), 873.52 GB available

Jan 10 05:33:14 ihomez mdworker[1452]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 10 05:35:07: --- last message repeated 5 times ---

Jan 10 05:35:36 ihomez backupd[479]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 10 05:35:45 ihomez mdworker[1475]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

Jan 10 05:59:42 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 699486 files (1.9 MB) from volume i5 2TB.

Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Starting post-backup thinning

Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist

Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Backup completed successfully.

Jan 10 07:10:09 ihomez com.apple.backupd[1752]: Starting standard backup

Jan 10 07:10:09 ihomez com.apple.backupd[1752]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeMachine LA/Backups.backupdb

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Answer 3

Pondini

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Jan 10, 2012 9:09 AM in response to Stefano Cutelle'

Looking at the entries from backupd for process 479, that appears to be the full backup. In spite of all the other problems noted, it seems to have run very quickly, and completed at 6:34.

It looks like it started before midnight, so backing-up nearly 1 TB in 6-7 hours is quite fast, indeed. How is your Mac connected to the backup drive?

It also appears that a very large number of processes started after the full backup started, since the next one is numbered 1752. That's often a clue that some process is starting over and over.

But I don't see any messages from the incremental other than the last two that just show it starting.

I don't use dropbox, so don't know if it's normal, but it's sending a lot of messages.

You also seem to have some sort of font problem. See the messages at 02:38. You might want to use the Font Book app to validate & repair your fonts.

And still a lot of messages from mdworker.

You might want to have Apple take a look. If you're near an Apple Store: http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/

If not: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1434?viewlocale=en_US

or click the Contact link at the bottom of this page.

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Answer 4

Jan 10, 2012 12:43 PM in response to Pondini

Thank you for your time.
Now I try to disable dropbox
I'll keep you updated. thanks for your interest.
See you soon

PS

I always use the FW800 drives for backup, and this was so fast!

stefano

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Answer 5

Jan 15, 2012 10:09 AM in response to Stefano Cutelle'

Hello Pondini,

I wanted to inform you that in the end I managed to solve the problem.

I re-read your guide I read some post in the forum and I ran the sergeant steps:

1) enabled the root user and logged

2) disabled the backup from the preferences panel

3) disabled spootlight

4) delete the following hidden folders from the diskboot and external drive backup (. Fseventsd and. Spootlight-V100)

5) restarted the machine

6) spootlight rehabilitated (note that the disk to index this time it did not take 2 / 3 hours but 10 hours)

7) Time Machine Work now

I hope that this small procedure can be useful to other users.

It's all over now as a Swiss watch, as is usually the Mac!

Stefano

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Answer 6

piamador

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Sep 26, 2012 3:02 AM in response to Stefano Cutelle'

Buongiorno Stefano ,

ho incontrato lo stesso tuo problema . Ho un Mac Book Pro (OS Lion). Avevo recentemente re-installato Lion per alcuni problemi e ripristinato un backup da timemachine (Uso time Machine con HD Esterno Timecapsule 2TB)

Al momento di eseguire il primo backup dopo il ripristino di Lion ho incontrato una estrema lentezza di tutta la procedura .. sia mediante Wifi che cavo ETH . le ho provate tutte .. formattato TimeCapsule, ricreata partizione in formato GUID letto mille forum ecc... Tolto indicizzazioni da Spotlight .. NEssun risultato dopo due giorni di attività aveva copiato solo 10 GB. Impossibile. Per capire se fosse un problema dell'HD ho provato ad installare Carbon Copy Cloner ed effettuato un primo backup completo . In 6 ore ha copiato 120 GB . Per cui il problema risiede in TIme Machine . Uso anche io Dropbox e leggendo il tuo post ho provato a disabilitare la sincronizzazione e ho escluso la cartella dropbox dal backup di time machine . : E' partito come una scheggia e ha copiato 3 GB in qualche minuto .. ma poi .. si è bloccato di nuovo . Ho prenotato una chiamata dal supporto apple per domani ma le ho provate quasi tutte . Ho paura che dovro' abbandonare Time Machine per Carbon Copy Cloner .

Ti chiedo la cortesia di aggiornare il post se hai novità .

Grazie

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Answer 7

Oct 5, 2012 7:51 AM in response to piamador

Scusa il ritardo della risposta,

Dovresti seguire i passaggi che ho elencato in inglese comunque li rimetto in italiano:

Ho risolto eseguendo i seguenti passaggi:

1) abilitato l'utente root e loggato

2) disabilitato il backup dal pannello delle preferenze

3) disabilitato spootlight

4) eliminare le seguenti cartelle nascoste dal disco del mac dove è installato osx e dal disco di backup esterno (. Fseventsd e. Spootlight-V100)

5) riavviare la macchina

6) spootlight riabilitato (si noti che il disco per indicizzare questa volta non ha preso ore 2/3 ma 10 ore)

7) Time Machine funziona ora

Mi auguro che questa procedura di piccole dimensioni può essere utile ad altri utenti.

E 'tutto fila come un orologio svizzero, come è di solito il Mac!

Tienimi aggiornato

Stefano

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piamador

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Oct 5, 2012 8:00 AM in response to Stefano Cutelle'

Grazie mille Stefano,

avevo già provato a seguire il tuo consiglio ma non avevo avuto risultati .. sono stato diverso tempo al telefono con il supporto apple che mi ha fatto provare altre operazioni e mi ha spiegato che lo stesso problema a Time Machine puo' essere riconducibile a diverse cause .

Ebbene dopo diverse prove non ci siamo riusciti e il supporto mi ha consigliato di fare una inizializzazione del disco e di fare una installazione pulita di Mac OS Lion senza poi pero' ripristinare un vecchio backup da time machine altrimenti potrei ritrovare lo stesso problema .Dovrei quindi procedere ad un ripristino manuale delle cartelle che mi interessano .

Attualmente ho preferito diasbilitare Time Machine e utilizzare Carbon Copy Cloner che è risultato essere una scheggia .

Quando saro' ispirato magari procedero' all'installazione pulita di Lion ..

Grazie per il feedback

Pierpaolo

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Answer 9

steve626

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Oct 12, 2012 1:44 PM in response to Stefano Cutelle'

I think it might be worthwhile including the deletion of the invisible fseventsd file in the Pondini troubleshooting list ofthings to try, perhaps when all else has failed. In my case, my wife's hard drive failed and was replaced; we had the choice of restoring the entire drive to its new replacement from (a) Time Machine, or (b) a SuperDuper clone.

I decided to restore from the clone (b). The restore worked, and Time Machine resumed immediately with a full backup of the entire (new) drive, which I sort of expected, but then after several days the backups were taking 1-2 hours to backup just a few tens of MB, which included a few hundred thousand files. When an hourly backup takes several hours, basically the computer is constantly backing up ...

I deleted the invisible fseventsd file, restarted, Time Machine then did a deep traversal, and from then on backups each took about a minute.

This won't solve everyone's problems, but it helped in this case where hundreds of thousands of files totalling just some tens of MB were being backed up every time, taking ~ hrs for each such backup. Now the backups take a minute or so.

I have gone into Time Machine to do some spot checks and we have successfully restored a few files and folders that had been accidentally deleted, so at least for those spot checks, the Time Machine backups seem to work for restoring. I still do a clone now and then as a backup to the backup.

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Pondini

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Oct 12, 2012 4:00 PM in response to steve626

steve626 wrote:

I think it might be worthwhile including the deletion of the invisible fseventsd file in the Pondini troubleshooting list ofthings to try, perhaps when all else has failed.

There's a similar discussion going on towards the end of this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3992838

I decided to restore from the clone (b). The restore worked, and Time Machine resumed immediately with a full backup of the entire (new) drive, which I sort of expected

Yes, on Leopard or Snow Leopard. On Lion and later, there's a UNIX command that can prevent it, per #B6 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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piamador

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Oct 16, 2012 2:07 AM in response to Stefano Cutelle'

Dear All,

I solved my issue after a long phone call with Apple Support. "Estrema Ratio" :I needed to initialize Machintosh HD and make a new clean installation of Lion iOS.

I didnt' restore the previous time machine backup but I did it manually with folders of interest.

Now I have a "new " Mac Book pro ultra Fast , clean, and with fast time machine backup .

greetings

Pierpaolo

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