TimeMachine backups are not accessible after the clean install of Yosemite

I have the same problem.

Identical situation as you, Yosemite and new SSD, and struggling with Migration Assistant. 650GB of data, 23 hours, but it stalls at 30 minutes. Tried wireless and with a cable now. Apple suggested I wait and it has been "34 minutes to go" for the last 20 hours. Help as well please!

So I am good to go. It finally worked.

However there were lots of permissions issues. Use Migration Assistant to make your account the same as the one on the backup.

But also you need to explore the folders in the old backup and check for locked files. If you find them, 'add administrators' and give read/write privileges. And check the button that says 'do it to all containing folders'.

This should work. It was quite the hassle. If I had to do it over again, I would restore from the backup and afterwards upgrade to yosemite.

Thank you gritzfrancais. I'll wait a bit longer, and if no progress I'll follow your advise and restore old back up.

Just had a weird glitch with Dropbox today whereby files and folders disappeared but I thought "It's ok. Everything is Time Machined. I'm fine!" only to discover that my backups on the Time Machine only extend to the last two days... which is shocking, to say the least.

I know for a fact that a few days ago I saw that my 750GB external TM drive was down to about 8GB free and now there is suddenly 82GB free, plus a never before seen folder called "lost+found" next to the Backups.backupdb folder. What is it and where did it come from?

Fortunately, Dropbox has the "Restore Files and Folders" feature so hopefully nothing is lost but this Time Machine glitch is a horrible eye opener - all of a sudden I cannot rely on my backups extending back at least a few months, like I have entrusted it to do for years.

Since upgrading to Yosemite I have had a whole bunch of... seemingly trivial... glitches and bugs (dropbox syncing errors, re-establishing Apache and a local test-server issues plus a few other minor irritants) that have now all added up to leave me anxious about what new problem is going to manifest.

For example, in trying to view any Time Machine logs that might give a clue as to when or why the backups have disappeared I opened Console only to find that the console window doesn't appear. Anywhere. Even new ones.

I'm not a geek and have no idea how Console might help me but i was simply following the instructions in this link http://www.macworld.com/article/1131534/tmeye.html but Yosemite is not doing what I think it should.

Apologies for my rant but this has been a heart-stopping few hours here trying to salvage current and past work. And, at the end of the day it still relates to the original question, my Time Machine backups are compromised since installing Yosemite.

Thank you guys.

Problem solved.

Wiped new install of Yosemite and installed Mavericks. As backup was in Mavericks, this time it did work.

Therefore: IF YOUR BACK UP IS IN MAVERICKS DO NOT TRY TO BRING IT BACK WITH A NEW YOSEMITE INSTALL.

Best and goos luck

Has anyone been able to confirm that you can't use a Time Machine backup (from Mavericks) on a clean install of Yosemite ?

Am I crazy to want to do a clean install then add my software and files?

Am I going to have to just upgrade to Yosemite, then use time machine, then do a clean install of Yosemite then use time machine to import my files?

The problem about time machine resource temporarily unavailable normaly is because the last backup has been finished.

There are a ext file ".InProgress" that must be erased.

To do this, first use "Airport Utility" in the folder Utilities, uncheck the shared disk, click Apply, check shared again and Apply again.

Now with Finder you can go in the TimeMachine em erader the "InProgress" file

Has anyone really?

I need to see some mails which I backed up at a date in the past since I have no more access to this account (Work mails). How to retrieve them from an inaccessible Timemachine backup?

mlashok wrote:

I need to see some mails which I backed up at a date in the past since I have no more access to this account (Work mails). How to retrieve them from an inaccessible Timemachine backup?

We can only help if you tell us what why and wherefore of your problem.

If the TM backup is inaccessible.. first step is to work out a way to access it.

To do that you need to tell us how, where and on what the TM backup exists.. and how you have tried to access it.

Did you try to do it directly from finder??

Do you have permissions issues?

Once we work out how to get into the backup then we can work out how to restore the emails.

http://pondini.org/TM/15.html

See the section on email for particular help.. assuming you are talking about apple mail.. which again you haven't made specific.

Hi LaPastenague! Thanks for the reply.

I have an external hard disk where I usually store my time machine backups from time to time. beginning this year I changed my internal HDD for a SSD. Since my old HDD was all cluttered I decided to start clean with my SSD. I think all the problems started there.

At least I was able to install OS X (but still there is an unidentifiable problem with App store connecting to internet)

The issue with my backup hard disk is, I can access the documents, photos..etc through finder. No problem at all. But what is inaccessible or greyed out is the backed up versions of my old computer (old HDD's backups) I couldn't restore my safari settings (all the login iDs and pw stored in keychain- i didn't want to put them on cloud for a security reason) and the mails I had in my Apple mail client.

For your diagnostics purpose I am posting the system log queries while I was trying to reach my mail backups from my external hard drive through TM.

21/01/16 00:34:55.000 kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: journal replay done.

21/01/16 00:35:01.034 com.apple.backupd[33317]: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target

21/01/16 00:35:02.289 WindowServer[158]: Display 0x4273240 captured by conn 0x156ab

21/01/16 00:35:02.612 identityservicesd[262]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fd243f01f10>: notification observer: com.apple.iChat notification: __CFNotification 0x7fd243c50f50 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbEnabledNotification}

21/01/16 00:35:02.613 imagent[272]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f9c31d0ab60>: notification observer: com.apple.FaceTime notification: __CFNotification 0x7f9c31e27990 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbEnabledNotification}

21/01/16 00:35:02.666 imagent[272]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f9c31d0ab60>: NC Disabled: NO

21/01/16 00:35:02.666 identityservicesd[262]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fd243f01f10>: NC Disabled: NO

21/01/16 00:35:02.688 identityservicesd[262]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fd243f01f10>: DND Enabled: YES

21/01/16 00:35:02.688 imagent[272]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f9c31d0ab60>: DND Enabled: YES

21/01/16 00:35:02.688 identityservicesd[262]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fd243f01f10>: Updating enabled: NO (Topics: (

))

21/01/16 00:35:02.688 imagent[272]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f9c31d0ab60>: Updating enabled: NO (Topics: (

))

21/01/16 00:35:03.431 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: Failed to obtain sandbox extension for path=/Users/mlashok/Library/Caches/com.apple.quicklook.satellite. Errno:1

21/01/16 00:35:03.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: QuickLookSatelli(33336) deny(1) mach-lookup com.apple.nsurlstorage-cache

21/01/16 00:35:03.437 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: Failed to obtain sandbox extension for path=/Users/mlashok/Library/Caches/com.apple.quicklook.satellite. Errno:1

21/01/16 00:35:03.469 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

21/01/16 00:35:03.469 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: Invalid Connection ID 0

21/01/16 00:35:03.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: QuickLookSatelli(33336) deny(1) mach-lookup com.apple.networkd

21/01/16 00:35:03.478 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: __net_helper_get_connection_block_invoke_3 could not connect to networkd

21/01/16 00:35:03.478 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: __nw_path_evaluator_start_helper_connection_block_invoke net_helper_path_evaluation_start callback failed, dumping backtrace:

[x86_64] libnetcore-583.20.10

0 libsystem_network.dylib 0x00007fff94909ba5 __nw_create_backtrace_string + 123

1 libsystem_network.dylib 0x00007fff94922e68 __nw_path_evaluator_start_helper_connection_block_invoke + 22

2 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff8a19491f _xpc_connection_reply_callout + 26

3 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff8a1948c0 _xpc_connection_call_reply + 36

4 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d53733f _dispatch_client_callout + 8

5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d53bf6f _dispatch_queue_drain + 754

6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d54263b _dispatch_queue_invoke + 549

7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d53ac87 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 538

8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d53aa34 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91

9 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff87f9568f _pthread_wqthread + 1129

10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff87f93365 start_wqthread + 13

21/01/16 00:35:03.479 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: nw_path_evaluator_start_helper_connection net_helper_path_evaluation_start failed, dumping backtrace:

[x86_64] libnetcore-583.20.10

0 libsystem_network.dylib 0x00007fff94909ba5 __nw_create_backtrace_string + 123

1 libsystem_network.dylib 0x00007fff9491f228 nw_path_evaluator_start_helper_connection + 196

2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d542871 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12

3 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d53733f _dispatch_client_callout + 8

4 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d53bf6f _dispatch_queue_drain + 754

5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d54263b _dispatch_queue_invoke + 549

6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d53ac87 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 538

7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d53aa34 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91

8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff87f9568f _pthread_wqthread + 1129

9 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff87f93365 start_wqthread + 13

21/01/16 00:35:03.497 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

21/01/16 00:35:03.497 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

21/01/16 00:35:03.497 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

21/01/16 00:35:03.564 sandboxd[121]: ([33336]) QuickLookSatelli(33336) deny file-issue-extension /Users/mlashok/Library/Caches/com.apple.quicklook.satellite

21/01/16 00:35:03.622 sandboxd[121]: ([33336]) QuickLookSatelli(33336) deny mach-lookup com.apple.nsurlstorage-cache

21/01/16 00:35:03.682 sandboxd[121]: ([33336]) QuickLookSatelli(33336) deny file-issue-extension /Users/mlashok/Library/Caches/com.apple.quicklook.satellite

21/01/16 00:35:05.753 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-234837/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:06.180 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-224736/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:06.385 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-224454/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:06.590 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-214354/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:06.754 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-204115/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:06.944 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-192056/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:07.157 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-173445/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:07.409 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-163344/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:07.658 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-153245/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:07.866 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-143146/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:08.074 Mail[33325]: Error fetching accounts from TM snapshot /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/Ashok Munusamy’s MacBook Pro/2016-01-20-133046/Ashok's MBP13/Users/mlashok/Library/Mail: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:08.465 QuickLookSatellite[33336]: In -[NSApplication(NSQuietSafeQuit) _updateCanQuitQuietlyAndSafely], _LSSetApplicationInformationItem(NSCanQuitQuietlyAndSafely) returned error -50

21/01/16 00:35:18.000 kernel[0]: hfs: Removed 0 orphaned / unlinked files and 9143 directories

21/01/16 00:35:18.000 kernel[0]: hfs: mounted My Passport on device disk2s2

21/01/16 00:35:19.088 fseventsd[45]: event logs in /Volumes/My Passport/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (1154 66 1155)

21/01/16 00:35:21.124 fseventsd[45]: log dir: /Volumes/My Passport/.fseventsd getting new uuid: DDB6B64B-FC9D-4E10-9C67-7712EAEA40D5

21/01/16 00:35:26.791 identityservicesd[262]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fd243f01f10>: notification observer: com.apple.iChat notification: __CFNotification 0x7fd243c2a030 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbDisabledNotification}

21/01/16 00:35:26.794 imagent[272]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f9c31d0ab60>: notification observer: com.apple.FaceTime notification: __CFNotification 0x7f9c31f0b2b0 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbDisabledNotification}

21/01/16 00:35:26.850 identityservicesd[262]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fd243f01f10>: NC Disabled: NO

21/01/16 00:35:26.850 imagent[272]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f9c31d0ab60>: NC Disabled: NO

21/01/16 00:35:26.869 identityservicesd[262]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fd243f01f10>: DND Enabled: NO

21/01/16 00:35:26.869 imagent[272]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f9c31d0ab60>: DND Enabled: NO

21/01/16 00:35:26.869 imagent[272]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f9c31d0ab60>: Updating enabled: YES (Topics: (

"com.apple.ess",

"com.apple.private.ac"

))

21/01/16 00:35:26.869 identityservicesd[262]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7fd243f01f10>: Updating enabled: YES (Topics: (

"com.apple.private.alloy.icloudpairing",

"com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.encryption",

"com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.activity",

"com.apple.ess",

"com.apple.private.ids",

"com.apple.private.alloy.phonecontinuity",

"com.apple.madrid",

"com.apple.private.ac",

"com.apple.private.alloy.phone.auth",

"com.apple.private.alloy.keychainsync",

"com.apple.private.alloy.fmf",

"com.apple.private.alloy.sms",

"com.apple.private.alloy.screensharing",

"com.apple.private.alloy.maps",

"com.apple.private.alloy.thumper.keys",

"com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.tethering"

))

21/01/16 00:35:27.910 WindowServer[158]: Display 0x4273240 released by conn 0x156ab

21/01/16 00:35:31.280 mds[59]: (DiskStore.Normal:1705) Starting health check...

21/01/16 00:35:34.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: mdworker(33341) deny(1) mach-lookup com.apple.distributed_notifications@1v3

21/01/16 00:35:37.352 fseventsd[45]: implementation_removed_client: did not find client 0x7f8acbeae350 for path = '/.docid'

21/01/16 00:35:37.363 mdworker[33319]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb

21/01/16 00:35:37.372 mdworker[33295]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb

21/01/16 00:35:37.373 mdworker[33297]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb

21/01/16 00:35:37.376 mdworker[33296]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb

21/01/16 00:35:37.379 mdworker[33303]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb

21/01/16 00:35:37.379 mdworker[33298]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb

21/01/16 00:35:40.830 mds[59]: (Backup.Error:201) MDSBackupTask:0x0 Undispatched backup task:101662721 resolved:0 cid:428276:-1 finished:-1

21/01/16 00:35:42.000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on My Passport on device disk2s2

21/01/16 00:35:42.185 deleted[285]: normalizeUserMountpoint:736 volRoot failed for /Volumes/My Passport

21/01/16 00:35:42.185 deleted[285]: _validateVolume:758 unable to normalize volume: "/Volumes/My Passport", vol: (null)

21/01/16 00:35:42.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: Mail(33325) deny(1) mach-lookup com.apple.cache_delete

Thanks in advance

Ashok

There are too many errors for me to follow what is happening.

You are going to need to try and do a full recovery.

The method you have been doing backups is not going to get good results.. so you need to understand this is going to be problematic at best.

I presume this computer is the same one used to create the TM backup you are attempting to recover. I presume also you have the account access password.

Plug the Hard Disk with the TM backup you want to recover.

Plug a blank hard disk into the computer that you will recover the install to.

Boot the computer to the recovery partition.

Start TM and go to the TM backup at a suitable date where your emails etc can be found.

Recover the entire install to the USB drive you have now designated as the target.

Migration Assistant Help

The first part of this is how to use migration.

The second part is how to use boot recovery and total restore of the TM backup to a different target drive.

I recommend you use the later.

Please follow that because I put a lot of effort into the screenshots to make it easy (as possible) to follow.. when TM acts bonkers as it does a lot now.

Once you have a full restore to the disk you can then simply copy and paste the file from the restored disk to your normal mail. You might even be able to boot from it.. if it is the same computer.

Hi kmilarov,

I am struggling too access a sparse bundle after I had to create a new wi-fi network at home, any time capsule saved before the new network is not appearing when I open time capsule. I have followed your instructions that you posted and would like to know if the screen grab is what i should expect to see as the bands folder loads?

Best wilfnoggins