Time Machine not working with Yosemite

I did a Fresh install of Yosemite (Thanks to File Vault Hanging then corrupting the boot loader) then used my Time machine backup to restore my user profile. it took 2.5 hours and everything went well. After getting everything up to date I plugged in my time machine and did another initial backup using the old time machine drive to backup Yosemite and noticed that I could click on any of the side folders to go into my past data... but I could only see the current folder, the other windows are a greyed out color and the time bar on the right does absolutely nothing. SO i figured.... Id just go to best buy and pickup a 2GB Western Digital My Passport for Mac portable drive and do some brand new backups. I will say I like the 3.0 USB speeds in backing up my Mac now....anywho I digress.

The one thing I notice now is that the back ups are not a consistent interval between backups. Since my first initial backup with this new drive at 6:58pm AZ time last night.... I have 12 backups and one being performed as I type this paragraph, I noticed that the backup times are not say 6:58, 7:58, 8:58.....etc.. I'm no programmer or Mac guru by any means.... but I think Time Machine (The App itself) is having Indexing issues. Here is why I think this. When I see my time machine drive on my desktop, I can click it and go into it and see the "Backups.backupdb" folder and go into it, I can see my "Jeffs Mackbook Pro" folder and with in it see all my Time Machine created Folders and can go in them and see and access all the data that has been backed up. So in my mind that tells me that 1. Data is being backed up and 2. I can recover Documents and Most importantly my VM's.

So... IM not sure what to do next other than wait for Apple to read this thread and come up with some type of solution.

Still a Happy Mac User and I really like what I see in Yosemite.

Jeff 😀

Getting something similar here after upgrade to 10.10 Yosemite, pretty well everything else seems great BUT it didn't seem to want to play with the existing Time Machine external USB HD. Same as others, took forever to say how long it will take to do what should have been a quite small incremental backup, running at a few kB per minute... Looking at posts elsewhere (as Time machine is one of 3 backups, and the actual migration seemed good) I reformatted this external HD and started again. No change... Its definitely doing one file at a time, found this in the console log (for every file) after filtering by backupd, for EVERY file (I think)

18/10/2014 16:16:40.000 kernel[0]: /SourceCache/AppleFSCompression_kexts/AppleFSCompression-68.1.1/Compressors/Dat aless/compressorType5Kext.c:537: Error: post_request error for /Volumes/TimeMachine01/Backups.backupdb/Derek’s iMac/2014-10-18-160455.inProgress/4FA83DD3-491E-48FD-97F5-02955A2676BD/Macintos h HD/.DocumentRevisions-V100/PerUID/501/7/com.apple.documentVersions/F3F8CFF2-CF7 F-4951-B16A-E3E77DB76B45.jpg: 35

Does this mean anything to anybody?

Cheers Derek (looks like the first time machine backup will take a VERY long time!)

Im not having issues with slowness in the backups, if anything, this new USB 3.0 WD Passport drive is pretty darn fast. Here is something interesting, when I disconnect my TimeMachine drive and then click on "Enter Time Machine" I get this error " Your Time Machine disk Can't be found" BUT..... I can see it tries to load the current index (shows me the folders behind the error) of all my backups but goes away when I hit "Cancel" but what I see in the center of all those folders is the name of the folders that go back in time...... when I hook up my TM again.... and I look at the same folder..... I might see 2 folders that look like i can click on them.... and the other ones are just Ghosts with no name of the folder in the center of those windows..... which again.... make me think that there is some type of bad database indexing going on.... regardless of TM from your Mavericks or Current Yosemite backups. I think the coders who handle Time Machine need some of our Log files too see what is or isn't going on with out TM backup indexes. Until we see an update or a fix... I don't think there is anything we as end users can do for the time being..... :-/

Reverted back to Mavericks. I have seen a lot of bugs in Yosemite.

If you are a programmer using MySQL and Java, you will find lots of issues.

1. Time Machine is not working. This keeps hanging. Cannot backup and cannot restore from Yosemite TM UI. Had to reboot and restore from recovery UI.

2. You cannot update Java. It just downloads the update but could not install.

3. MySQL won't run. New MySQL version in download site doesn't support 10.10 just yet. Nice!

4. Installed Viber app doesn't work. You have to reinstall.

5. etc etc

I have the exact same issue with Time Machine ! I can see all my previous backups since april 2014 but cannot access the files within the Time Machine interface. I can see and access all items on the right hand. They become red when I hover over them, but nothing much happens when I try to select one.

I Also noticed that when I open the Time Machine Backup HD in Finder, all my backups are there. But when clicking on the HD to see the remaining space on this 1.5Tb HD, It says that I have 1.1Tb available...This is very strange because, I'm backuping almost all of my 1Tb MacIntosh HD, that is near to 800Gb of data ?!?!

I hope someone will find a fix for that strange behavior !

Torp

Same problem here - did clean Yosemite install after doing a final backup to Time Machine. I now cannot access thiis last backup - Time Machine just says "Waiting". I tried opening "Bands" folder but just get a spinning ball and no result. To say I am ****** off is a gross understatement...I am beyond angry.

*** Apple?

How on earth am I going to get my 50,000 song iTiunes library and 15,000 photo iPhoto library, and that is not even considering all all my document files going back 10-12 years.

Help!

And this auto editing of my post is even more of an insult by Apple.

As noted by AHappyMacUser, the key to using TM in Yosemite is to FIRST select your system HD (in Finder). Then entering TM will give you access to all your backups. One in TM, having selected a date, you will need to drill down from your HD entry to get to your files, but at least you can get to them.

It appears that Apple broke the Finder Sidebar links when they released Yosemite. So if you start with a sub folder selected in Finder (example: Documents), the TM looks like your history of the Documents folder doesn't exist. But if you select the system HD in Finder first, and THEN open TM, you will see an entire history of the HD, from which you can select a date and then drill down to (in my example) the Documents folder. (Note that if you do start with your HD in Finder, get to the date of interest and then try to use the sidebar link to, in this case, Documents, the link doesn't take you anywhere. Just drill down by successive selection of sub folders until you get to the folder of interest.)

So Apple has messed up the interface of TM in the Yosemite release, (specifically the side bar links of Finder), but they haven't lost your backups.

Have exactly the same problem. I did a clean install of Yosemite and now I do not have access to Time Machine backups. I use the Time Capsule, I enter Time Machine, I see the backups on the time line, but do not have access to them. Is there any safe way to return to the Mavericks and reset the system as it was?

Check your network settings. I had everything running great on Beta 6, with several NAS devices, a Time Capsule and lots of Macs running on it. After upgrading to the public release on Thursday on just my Mac Mini, all my network settings got screwed up. Backups were not completing, were taking hours for just a few MB's to move, or were completely inaccessible. After I rebooted my network and verified that all my settings were back to what they should be, Time Machine started working normally and all my files were accessible again. Something went wrong between Beta 6 and the build that was released to the public on Thursday. I was smart and ONLY upgraded one and left all my other machines on Beta 6 for now. As soon as I turned off the upgraded Mac, the other Macs running Beta 6 that hadn't been upgraded had no problems connecting, even with the changed network settings. It was just the Mac I upgraded that went blooey and messed everything up. And there are a few other things that should be working now that aren't, like Notifications. That never worked right in any of the Beta versions and it's not working now. Sloppy work, Apple. Looks like Yosemite was still at least another week from being ready for public consumption. I don't mind and enjoyed subjecting the machines I chose to subject to the Beta, but it's bad business to release an operating system before it's fully functional, let alone completely debugged. This launch was worse than IOS 8. When they fix it, we will all be very happy with Yosemite, though.

Once you have loaded Yosemite, what is the best way to reassociate an external drive that has Time Machine backups already on it?

Reinstalled Yosemite from scratch - and selected restore from Time Machine - just checked on progress - 112 hours to go.. DIsgraceful!

This worked for me!

In Finder double-click "Mac-SSD" and then open time machine. Now I can go back in time...

T

Migration Assistant took about 12 hours restpring from my Time Machine - it just finished. AM checking results now, but am encouraged that my major worries, iTunes, iPhoto and my Docs are all restored. Phew!!! Now only hope it did not restore old junk I wanted to get rid of by doing a clean Yosemite install. Am sure I will find out soon.

Sorry for the prior rants, but I was seriously worried and upset. Feeling better now!

I have been having similar issues trying to recall old versions of Documents. Got around it my very helpfull suggestions here of clicking into the time machine hard drive.

Can I be clear? this is not how Time machine should be working? its an issue with Yosemite? I bloody well hope so or its back to mavericks for me!

Thanks