Are Time Machine, Mountain Lion and Retina able to work together?

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Are Time Machine, Mountain Lion and Retina able to work together?

I have been using for a while Time Machines with various Mac's and OS X systems with no problem.

But Time Machine (backing up on a 2TB Time Capsule) + Mountain Lion (10.8.2) + a Retina Mac Book Pro have been not able to appropriately work together for the last 2 months:

- TM displays 'none' for 'Oldest Backup'

- the corresponding-sparse bundle reaches 578 GB

- whereas the present tinner storage of the Mac is only 200 GB

- TM seems to restart in a given way the full backup every time (2 millions itesm..)

- but it does not take too much time

- and 'entering' in TM displays daily bakcups for the last week, but not beyond (compared to 2 months), and several (hourly-like) backups for the last day

Unfortunately, the recipes given by http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html seem to be inefficient.

Thank you for sharing your experience(s) with this kind of problem and solution(s) is you have !

Regards, 🙂

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Time Machine 2 TB

Posted on Mar 9, 2013 7:42 AM

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Answer 1

Eric Root

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Mar 9, 2013 12:24 PM in response to scherzo15

You might try deselecting the drive in System Preferences and then adding it back.

Restart the Backup drive.

Apple support:

Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems

Time Machine General

More information:

Commonly Used Backup Methods

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Answer 2

Linc Davis

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Mar 9, 2013 12:22 PM in response to scherzo15

Open the Time Machine pane in System Preferences. If it shows that Time Machine is ON, click the padlock icon in the lower left corner, if necessary, to unlock it. Scroll to the bottom of the list of backup drives and click Add or Remove Backup Disk. Remove all the disks, then add them back. Quit System Preferences. Test.

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Answer 3

scherzo15 Author

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Mar 10, 2013 3:52 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks for your post.

However, I did mention that:

"Unfortunately, the recipes given by http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html seem to be inefficient."

I cheked again that a hard restart of the Time Machine does not solve the problem.

I still hope that something else can do it !

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Answer 4

Linc Davis

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Mar 10, 2013 4:26 PM in response to scherzo15

Maybe you would care to tell us which "recipes" you've already tried. That could save some wasted effort on the part of the people trying to help you in their spare time.

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Answer 5

scherzo15 Author

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Mar 10, 2013 11:31 PM in response to Linc Davis

I certainly appreciate the time you devote to help people.

However, I gave the link

http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html

to these recipes that often cited... and presented as a full resset of Time Machine. With respect to your suggestion, it adds the deletion of the file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

I did once with no reuslt. Following your post, I tried only the resset without this deletion. Still no result.

Thanks !

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Answer 6

Linc Davis

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Mar 11, 2013 6:30 AM in response to scherzo15

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. If you don't see that menu, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar.

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. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.

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 this discussion.

Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

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Answer 7

scherzo15 Author

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Jun 1, 2013 4:08 AM in response to Linc Davis

I'm sorry to say that your suggestion to search 'starting' on the console brings at most one line (instead of thousands!). Furthermore, it does not seem connected to time capsule:

5/26/13 6:14:18.697 PM MIDIServer[xxxxx]: MIDIServer [xxxxx] starting; arch=x86_64

where 'xxxx' is a given 5 digit number

no more than that ! 😟

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