I've just set up a new external disk as my TM backup. I set TM to run and it has been stuck at 490.1 MB of 67.61 GB for the last half hour.
MacBook Pro 2.2 Quad i7-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), iPhone 4S, iPad 3
Start over.
Clinton
I've started over at least 10 times already. This is where it gets stuck:
Never gets past this. I've stopped TM, erased the disk, deleted TM .plist preferences file and started again. Same thing.
Give Pondoni a shout in the WC. I'm out of ideas!
Clinton
Will do.
Hi,
An initial backup will often seem to "hang" like that early, but not for an hour.
That sounds like a problem with the TM drive, but could be a number of things. Is it a new drive, or an old one being re-purposed?
Be sure it has the GUID partition map scheme, and Mac OS Extended (journaled) or Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled) format. Is the drive connected directly (no hubs or daisy-chaining)?
Is Spotlight busy indexing your Mac? If so, wait until it's done -- that can slow a backup to a crawl.
Have you been backing-up to a different drive with TM, with no problems? If so your Mac is likely ok.
If not, ie, you haven't used TM before (or recently):
• Run Verify Disk on your internal HD to be sure there's not a directory problem.
• Are you running any anti-virus software? Some of that can interfere.
You might want to look at your logs. See if there are I/O errors, indexing messages, or anything odd sent by the backupd process.
See #D2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Turned out to be a directory problem on the internal. Once fixed it's going again.
Great! 🙂
Time Machine stuck in backup
