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Backing up an External Hard Drive using Time Machine

I have a brand new iMac 21.5" (late 2012) 3TB Time Capsule, and a 1 TB Western Digital Passport external drive. I use the Passport to share files between my iMac and MacAir.


I am using Time Machine to back up all my Apple Computers to Time Capsule.


I have formatted my Passport in Mac OS Extended Journaled, Encrypted.


I have the Passport set up to back up through Time Machine on the iMac.


It seems it backs up the entire Passport every time I hit Back up now onto the Time Capsule. But it only shows NOW as the only available revision in Time Machine.


It seems to be backing up the entire drive each time and not saving revisions. The only revision that is available is the NOW one.


I have disabled the security on the VCD portion of the Passport, it has Western Digital Software on it.


I have had the same issue with the Passport formatted in Mac OS Extended Journaled with no encryption as well. But I really need to passowrd protect the passport since I travel with it constantly in case I lose it.


Any ideas on how to get it to back up to Time Machine properly?

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Time Machine

Posted on Dec 19, 2012 2:53 PM

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User profile for user: SmithBHS
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Dec 19, 2012 4:26 PM in response to SmithBHS

Yes it is removed and not excluded.


It takes all night to back it up. And the space taken up on Time Capsule indicates there is an image on it. The problem is it seems to do a entire new backup each time not just changes. If I hit the backup button it starts the process of backing it up all night again.


It is Formatted Mac OS Extended (journaled, encrypted)

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User profile for user: Linc Davis
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Dec 19, 2012 6:01 PM in response to SmithBHS

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.

Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.

Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Post the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear.

Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.

When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.

Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.


Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — edit that out, too, but don’t remove the context.

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Dec 21, 2012 9:01 AM in response to Linc Davis

I backed up the iMac and Passport yesterday. It was successful. The issue seem to be incremental backups. It did not backup after my First original backup of the passport. The backups of the iMac seem to be working normal and at ever hour.


Here is a string of a Automatic backup this morning when the computer was "sleeping" with the passport connected. I did change the passport yesterday to Sleep to never before i plugged it in to my iMac using the software on my Mac Air.


12/21/12 7:46:29.454 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Starting automatic backup


12/21/12 7:46:29.459 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Brad%20Smith;AUTH=SRP@Smiley%20Blue._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data

12/21/12 7:46:40.211 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Data using URL: afp://Brad%20Smith;AUTH=SRP@Smiley%20Blue._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data

12/21/12 7:46:40.000 AM kernel[0]: ASP_TCP asp_tcp_usr_control: invalid kernelUseCount 0

12/21/12 7:46:40.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/Data, pid 2071

12/21/12 7:46:40.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount : succeeded on volume 0xffffff81c8d40008 /Volumes/Data (error = 0, retval = 0)

12/21/12 7:46:51.394 AM mds[55]: (Error) Volume: Root store set to FSOnly with matching create! (loaded:1)

12/21/12 7:46:52.069 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups

12/21/12 7:46:52.070 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb

12/21/12 7:46:52.904 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Using file event preflight for Macintosh HD

12/21/12 7:46:52.966 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Will copy (8 KB) from Macintosh HD

12/21/12 7:46:52.966 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Found 11 files (8 KB) needing backup

12/21/12 7:46:52.968 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: 900.9 MB required (including padding), 1.77 TB available

12/21/12 7:47:03.425 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Copied 227 files (8 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.

12/21/12 7:47:03.437 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Using file event preflight for Macintosh HD

12/21/12 7:47:03.438 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Will copy (Zero KB) from Macintosh HD

12/21/12 7:47:03.438 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Found 5 files (Zero KB) needing backup

12/21/12 7:47:03.438 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: 900.8 MB required (including padding), 1.77 TB available

12/21/12 7:47:07.789 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Copied 125 files (82 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.

12/21/12 7:47:08.391 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Created new backup: 2012-12-21-074707

12/21/12 7:47:08.509 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Starting post-backup thinning

12/21/12 7:47:08.509 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist

12/21/12 7:47:08.711 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Backup completed successfully.

12/21/12 7:47:11.153 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle

12/21/12 7:47:11.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/Data, flags 0, pid 2097

12/21/12 7:47:11.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : We are the last mnt/sbmnt using volume /Volumes/Data 0xffffff81c8d40008

12/21/12 7:47:11.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : We are the last volume using socket /Volumes/Data 0xffffff81c8d40008

12/21/12 7:47:11.609 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.

12/21/12 7:47:11.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : afpfs_DoReconnect sent signal for unmount to proceed



I am currently trying to run a Manual backup. When I go into Time Machine preferences it shows it backing up. But it is incrementally increasing what needs to back up. As it backs up what needs to be backed up keep increasing. It is currently at 25 GB and increasing.


12/21/12 11:32:29.083 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Starting manual backup

12/21/12 11:32:29.085 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data

12/21/12 11:32:30.476 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35

12/21/12 11:32:31.628 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups

12/21/12 11:32:31.629 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb

12/21/12 11:32:32.748 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Passport" (mount: '/Volumes/Passport' fsUUID: 953CB615-811D-34EF-A58D-6DD7A90A193B eventDBUUID: 01E640D8-2915-484E-8715-B9C29176B241)

12/21/12 11:32:36.354 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Deep event scan at path:/Volumes/Passport reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|

12/21/12 11:32:36.354 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Finished scan

12/21/12 11:32:52.530 AM System Preferences[2466]: Cannot setMachineString without first being authenticated

12/21/12 11:32:52.570 AM System Preferences[2466]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.

12/21/12 11:32:52.571 AM System Preferences[2466]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.

12/21/12 11:32:52.573 AM System Preferences[2466]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.

12/21/12 11:32:52.574 AM System Preferences[2466]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.

12/21/12 11:33:05.236 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Found 74801 files (52.7 MB) needing backup

12/21/12 11:33:05.239 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: 964.1 MB required (including padding), 1.77 TB available

12/21/12 11:33:18.575 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.qtkittrustedmoviesservice[2447]) Could not terminate job: 3: No such process

This String seems to pop up a few times while it is doing this manual backup

12/21/12 11:36:30.487 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35

12/21/12 11:36:31.645 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups

12/21/12 11:36:31.726 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data

12/21/12 11:36:33.084 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35

12/21/12 11:36:34.334 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups

12/21/12 11:36:34.411 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data


It is curretnly at backing up 36.0 GB of 39.65 GB and increasing.

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User profile for user: Linc Davis
Linc Davis
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Dec 21, 2012 9:34 AM in response to SmithBHS

Why would my passport backup ony when I do a Manual backup?


Probably because it's not mounted or not responding at other times. Some external drives spin down when not in use.


Why would it begin to backup the entire drive again but this time it doesn't know the entire size that needs to backup but is calculating it as it backs up?


Those estimates are often wildly inaccurate. You still haven't posted anything that allows me to see what's really going on.

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Backing up an External Hard Drive using Time Machine

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