Mojave time machine back up failing

Thanks but unfortunately, I don't have Acronis installed on my Mac thus, this answer doesn't work for me!

My last available Time machine is 3 months old! and I don't have any backup since Novembre...

Please Apple, work on it !

Hey Apple guys,

do you really care of your customers?

I have no Time Machine backup since November, and none of all these answers did solve the problem.

Do you really want me to switch to microsoft and android? I am almost ready. Really fed up against Mac and all these problems...

Say you want a version of a document as it was on Feb 15th 2016. How do you do that with Superduper or CCC? They have a use for total recovery but cannot do what TM can. TM is brilliant and never let me down in 7 years.

True, but in my case, ALL important "stuff" is already backed up 2x on separate hard drives. I use Super Duper to back up my OS X system. They simply don't make a hard drive big enough to back up everything I have, in particular photos .... not yet.

Apropos "storage / manage" -- Thanks for the tip. I never even noticed those small words up at the top. Very interesting. I shall see what I can chop.....(It's tough keeping up with all these innovations when you are 83. I guess I'll have to find "MOJAVE FOR DUMMIES"... LOL)

peter_watt

Thanks again for pointing out the "Storage/Manage" function that I was totally obvious to. I found and deleted over 95 Gbs. A "newest" screen dump program was saving everything in a "for me secret folder". Like I said, it's tough to keep up with progress when you are 83+. LOL

I tried everything from the post but I can't get it fixed. My TM Backup stops at around 25% for one hour and then continues the backup. It always stops at the same file. Is there any terminal command / application which shows which file causes the problem?

It's under your user, not at the top of the MacintoshHD.

Users/[your name]/Library/Containers

The Library is hidden by default.

To show it, open a desktop window and either:

1- Select the GO menu and press the alt/option key. Library will appear

or

2- Click on your name (your environment) on the left side and press Shift-Cmd-. (period) This will show hidden files and folder.

You should be able to see Library and then Containers.

Don't forget to press Shift-Cmd-. again to hide back those essential folders, to make sure not to move or delete them by mistake.

To peter_watt

Why third party security? Out of long-established habit, really, and perhaps originally (years ago) recommended by tech specialists at work. Not sure about the ins and outs of the matter, but it's always extra security, isn't it? It's free, and I know Sophos is a very reputable company and while I know PCs are much more exposed I occasionally read here and there that Macs are exposed too, arguably more so than in the past. Also, apart from this backup hiccup, I do not think there are any counter indications or down sides to having Sophos security. But would be interested to know more, if you or others have any relevant information.

Yeah, something is defiantly wrong and we need an engineer to look at it. This is crazy.

Same here 😭

Very disappointed!!!!

Did you revert to High Sierra and Time Machine started working or were you just saying that everything was working when you were on High Sierra?

Ive had this same problem. It has happened on two seperate hard drives. One is brand new. Hopefully this can be fixed ASAP.

Wow, how did you manage to find this info out? We need to tell someone at Apple about this.

Yep, same behavior for me. I’ll be sure to tell the Senior Tech that I’ll be calling later today about this thread.