My time capsule is perpetually "waiting to complete first backup."
My timecapsule recently informed me that my backup was corrupted and it needed to remake it. Fine, but after several days it was still "Waiting to complete first backup."
I followed the advice of many threads and deleted the .plist file
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
That didn't work.
So I formatted the disk AND deleted the .plist, cleaned out my trash and rebooted. Let the backup run for days. Still waiting to complete first backup.
I run the following command in terminal:
clear; printf '\e[3J' && log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info --last 24h | grep -F 'eMac' | grep -Fv 'etat' | awk -F']' '{print substr($0,1,19), $NF}'
And get this result:
2018-06-24 22:45:04 Copied 1.1 MB of 104.9 MB, 726177 of 6150231 items
2018-06-24 22:59:58 Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
2018-06-24 23:28:56 Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
2018-06-24 23:45:50 Copied 896.3 MB of 896.3 MB, 1056224 of 6150231 items
2018-06-24 23:57:18 Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
2018-06-25 00:18:12 Unexpected result from MDBackupIndexFile (1) for: /Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/BriMacPro/2018-0 6-24-204440/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ko.lpro j/ABPeoplePicker.nib, /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/BriMacPro/2018-06-24-204440.inProgress/1D304C5F-67AC-4 F2D-B3B1-AA09AB89DB7B/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ko.lpro j/ABPeoplePicker.nib
2018-06-25 00:18:12 Stopping backup.
2018-06-25 00:18:12 : Input/output error
2018-06-25 00:18:12 Error: (-34) SrcErr:NO Copying /Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/BriMacPro/2018-0 6-24-204440/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ko.lpro j/ABLabelsAndProperties.strings to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/BriMacPro/2018-06-24-204440.inProgress/1D304C5F-67AC-4 F2D-B3B1-AA09AB89DB7B/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ko.lpro j
2018-06-25 00:18:12 Copied 423682 items (2.21 GB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 721261.
2018-06-25 00:18:12 : Input/output error
2018-06-25 00:18:13 : Input/output error
2018-06-25 00:18:13 : Input/output error
2018-06-25 00:18:13 : Input/output error
2018-06-25 00:18:13 Copy stage failed with error:28
2018-06-25 00:18:14 Unmounted local snapshot: com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-06-24-204440 at path: /Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/BriMacPro/2018-0 6-24-204440/Macintosh HD source: Macintosh HD
2018-06-25 00:18:14 : Input/output error
2018-06-25 00:18:14 : Input/output error
2018-06-25 00:18:14 : Input/output error
2018-06-25 00:18:14 Backup failed because the network destination disk was ejected or disconnected unexpectedly!
2018-06-25 00:18:14 Backup failed with error 26: The connection to the server was interrupted.
2018-06-25 00:18:14 FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
2018-06-25 00:18:14 Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -134; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
2018-06-25 00:18:14 Failed to eject Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/BackupsNotHiccups/BriMacPro.sparsebundle
2018-06-25 00:27:18 Starting automatic backup
2018-06-25 00:27:18 Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Brian;AUTH=SRP@TimeCapsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local./BackupsNotHiccups
2018-06-25 00:27:25 Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/BackupsNotHiccups using URL: afp://Brian;AUTH=SRP@TimeCapsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local./BackupsNotHiccups
2018-06-25 00:27:34 Checking for runtime corruption on /dev/disk3s2
2018-06-25 00:31:09 Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=21 "(null)" UserInfo={MessageParameters=(
2018-06-25 00:31:09 Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -136; status: -36; dissenting pid: -1)
2018-06-25 00:31:10 Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
2018-06-25 00:31:11 Backup canceled.
2018-06-25 00:31:11 FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
2018-06-25 00:31:11 Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -136; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
I see so many candidates for the problem in there I don't know where to begin. Can anyone who is fluent in diagnostics see where I should start?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.6)