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Mojave Time Machine Backups Fail

Hello. I had no issues with backups prior to upgrading to Mojave. I initially thought the Lacie backup HDD could faulty as it was around 4 years old so I replaced the internal disk, the problem persisted. I tried another external hard disk and this also failed. There is around 400GB of data to backup and the backups fail at between 200 and 300GB.

The Mac is an iMac i7 with 32GB of RAM and a 3TB Fusion drive. The only thing I have noticed is that as the backup proceeds it slows significantly around half way before throwing up the message that the backup has failed.

Any ideas?

Kind Regards,

Pathfinderoz

Posted on Oct 1, 2018 5:56 AM

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Posted on Oct 6, 2018 1:11 PM

OK, if you have App Cleaner and Uninstaller follow the steps in this screenshot. This App not only killed Time Machine but also backups/clones using other software. This resolved my backup problems.

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Oct 28, 2018 10:12 AM in response to Natemo80

Ti ringrazio, ho risolto anch'io con il tuo suggerimento.

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Oct 31, 2018 8:37 PM in response to Lost4

Perfect! I was using this App and all is good now... ridiculous. Poor developers.

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Nov 5, 2018 2:18 AM in response to Lost4

Thank you! This fixed the problem for me :-)

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Nov 7, 2018 4:04 PM in response to deijmaster

Yes, thought the same, not good enough.

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Nov 11, 2018 1:25 AM in response to Lost4

Worked - Thanks so much!!

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Dec 2, 2018 2:01 PM in response to Lost4

**** dude, I love you. Been checking periodically for this solution forever, and never could find a logical answer.

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Dec 2, 2018 2:50 PM in response to ravenchalk

😃👍-1F3FB;

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Dec 4, 2018 10:58 AM in response to Lost4

It worked for me. Thank you for sharing this information.

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Jan 7, 2019 12:35 PM in response to Lost4

Yes this worked for me, actually there was 2 folders with the same name "App Cleaner & Uninstaller", i delete both.

A new one was generated when i restarted App Cleaner.

Thanks

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Jan 21, 2019 5:45 PM in response to Lost4

It works! after a few months struggling.

Now I can finish my first full backup.

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