Error Occurred While Copying Files Backup Disk Time Machine
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the problem persists, Disk Utility to repair your backup disk. This is how I fixed this particular Time machine
The Backup Was Not Performed Because An Error Occurred While Copying Files To The Backup Disk
error: Open the Console log Go to Utilities From within Utilities go time machine couldn't complete the backup an error occurred while copying files to "Console" Filter results by "backupd" and copy and paste the error of the failing file. Scroll to
Time Machine An Error Occurred While Creating The Backup Folder
the bottom of the filtered log and follow this figures instructions. In this case the problem files were non-crucial library files. Therefore, I pasted the Console log error and edited time machine buddy the message to just contain the file path information. Next, I edited the file path to the parent directory as in my case there were many file errors within this parent directory /usr/local/lib/node_modules/generator-chrome-extension/. Open a terminal window and execute the following command to exclude this directory from backups. sudo tmutil addexclusion -p /usr/local/lib/node_modules/generator-chrome-extension/ The -p switch gives a permanence to the time machine logs exclusion. Restart Time machine. sudo tmutil startbackup http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.1/css/font-awesome Comment on this article? Pushed on 01/24/2014 by Christian Made with ❤ in New Hampshire 100% organic content by Minimul Important QuickBooks Integration references Ask a QuickBooks Integration question QuickBooks Online API Reference REST essentials for the QuickBooks Online API QuickBooks Desktop Integration Reference Top 20 Intuit Developer Questions QuickBooks Developer Hub Intuit Platform System Status https://twitter.com/intuitdevstatus Getting on the Intuit App Store IIF File Support Get IIF Journal Entries into QuickBooks Online OAuth & OpenID Requirements and Best Practices QuickBooks Desktop Web Connector QuickBooks Web Connector Overview QBXMLOn Screen Reference Migrating a QBD Online REST Integration to QBSDK QuickBooks Ruby Newsletter The qbo_api gem Rails & the QuickBooks Web Connector Christian Pelczarski, a.k.a Minimul, a QuickBooks integration consultant and a Minimal Viable Products (MVP) expert. My home base is near Keene, New Hampshire. I help businesses realize greater profits through a successful and reliable QuickBooks integration. I am available for hire, contact me. Twitter Github Google+ Minimulcasts All articles Learn Tmux christian@minimul.com Micros OCR Content © minimul
may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my posts in your inbox. Thanks for visiting!My SO has
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a Mac, and she was using Time Machine to back it time machine error up. As someone who cut his teeth with Amanda backups back in the day, Time Machine is
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a beautiful, intuitive backup solution. Really, it is. However, a while ago the backups stopped working. She saw this error message: "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while http://minimul.com/time-machine-error-copying-files.html copying files to the backup volume". I googled around for it and saw this KB article from Apple, which wasn't too helpful, as the only troubleshooting suggestion was a reboot (hmmm, sounds a bit like Windows). I tried doing that multiple times, and still saw the error message. So, we tried a different hard drive. That still http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/992 didn't seem to work-same error message. Finally, I did some more googling and ran across this forum post (yes Jeff Atwood, forums are indeed the dark matter of the web), which gave me additional troubleshooting tips. Basically, if you are seeing this error on time machine: connect your time machine disk drive to your Mac turn off time machine by opening the time machine prefs and select ‘none' for the backup disk open up your console click on ‘system.log' click ‘clear display' turn on time machine by opening the time machine prefs and selecting your disk drive watch the system log for errors that look likeMar 9 12:14:14 computer-name /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[905]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /path/to/file/file.name to (null) remove those files restart time machine by repeating steps 2 and 6. I am not sure how to fix the issue if you can't remove those files. The files that were causing issues for our Mac were imap mailabox files from Thunderbird, so I just uninstalled Thunderbird and removed the m
an OK button. It's really not OK. Why not? Because it didn't tell me where the problem was.As I've said before, I love the simplicity of Time Machine, though presenting an error message like this is not very helpful. Something http://www.davidalison.com/2008/05/fixing-simple-time-machine-error.html - anything - to indicate what went wrong would be a good idea. I accept that http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/time-machine-backup-not-working-help-needed.1411685/ you don't want to scare off the non-techies with a detailed error message but having a little "more" link that described what the problem is would have helped.Rather than investigate I decided to go with the flow. I clicked the OK button and then told Time Machine to back up now. It happily whirred away and looked like everything was fine, then at the very end time machine up popped the failure notification again. Crap.I did what I always do when something unexpected happens on my computer: I Google'd up the error message. There were a number of solutions offered up, many involving reformatting the TM drive. I felt that was a little drastic so I looked into the Backup drive in Finder and saw that the last folder was:2008-05-30-064104.inProgressI dragged that folder into the Trash can and was prompted for my login credentials. The file was whisked away and error occurred while I asked Time Machine to do another backup and it proceeded fine.Finding out what happenedWanting to understand why this occurred I popped around looking for logs. In reviewing the current System Log (/var/log/system.log) I found entries that indicated one of my Growl plugins had a problem being written to the backup. Once that occurred the "in progress" backup file was corrupted and needed to be deleted in order for Time Machine to continue.I'm not sure what caused the problem. The backup and main disks appear to be operating fine; I ran Disk Utility's Verify Disk on both and they came up clean. Perhaps a Growl notification opened the plugin in mid-read? Not too sure but it all seems fine now.If you happen to get the error message above you may want to just check your backup volumes to see if you've got an open backup that's listed as In Progress, even though Time Machine is not running. Try deleting that to see if it allows your backups to continue. At least that's what worked for me! Posted by David Alison on 5/30/2008 Labels: Mac, Rant 102 comments: Fred said... Hi Dave,You just switched a few month ago, and now, I learn ton of good tricks from you.Thanks so much for sharingFred(I switched in 1984 ;-))) May 30, 2008 at 2:15 PM Tom said... A handy tip, don't go manually searching through logs. Instead, run the Console application in your Utilities folder, and select All Me
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