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Folbo Author

Level 1

108 points

Time Machine Frequent "Start New Backup"

Why does my MBP time machine keep telling me that it needs to create a new backup?😠

It only seems to happen when the system comes out of sleep .... (wireless connection) ...

It happened to backups on my Time Capsule so often that I stopped using my time capsule for that ... it is now happening the same on my synology NAS ...

I cannot try a third option ... I don't have one!!!

I want to prevent it happening ... but do not know the cause ... and do not know how.

Apple's help on this is insulting (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh34042.html) ... I can read the dialogue box ... how does the help 'help' in any way? There does not seem to be any acknowledgement of this elsewhere from Apple ... and no way to contact them.

It has only been happening since Lion ... th same hardware has been fine for 12 months before that. It only happens on my MBP (17 " Mid 2010) and not on my children's MB, wife's MBP (13") nor my iMac.

Thanks.

Macbook Pro 2010, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 25, 2012 9:32 AM

394 replies

cbrownfl

Level 1

0 points

Mar 22, 2016 5:48 PM in response to brendanfromwilliamstown

I have had this problem as well. I have to delete my Time Machine backup every few days (sometimes even more frequently). It is very frustrating! I filed a bug report, but Apple said that they do not support my Buffalo NAS, and would not offer any additional support.

Apr 25, 2016 6:21 AM in response to Folbo

Pretty sad that this issue has been going on for YEARS with no solution. I back up using Time Machine in the Server app to a wired drive. Several machines do this constantly. But, any machine that has a hard drive directly connected never has this issue. I thought I'd find a solution here, and I guess I did.... stop using time machine in Server and have a hard drive attached to each Mac for backup. Clunky, but better than not really having a backup. Because if my backup needs to be redone daily, time machine is utterly pointless.

Dec 14, 2016 10:03 AM in response to Folbo

This is still going on after all those years. The problem persists and it's pretty easy to reproduce. Just do a backup over wi-fi and switch connection or disable it while running and your backup will become corrupt.

I can't believe Apple hasn't yet adopted a policy to keep backups working even if a currently running one gets interrupted for whatever reason.

Bix Byte

Level 1

4 points

Oct 3, 2017 6:46 AM in response to Bix Byte

Oh oh oh!Thank you Murphy.

Just started a new backup!

Luckily, this time, I just lost 22 hours of old backup!

Time Machine Frequent "Start New Backup"