Thanks all for the suggestions. A litte more detail... Backups of my Macbook Pro (running 10.6.4) have begun failing part way through the back up process. I have a little Time Capsule backup widget which I have on Dashboard (can't recall name of the widget, but it gives a little extra narrative on what's happening during the back up process). A few days ago, when I noticed the back up process not completing, the widget gave the error as something to do with Spotlight. I no longer have the exact error message, but looking the error message up on the web led me to this page ...
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059555 ... which seemed to be about the problem I was having. The back up error message seemed to tie in with the fact that not long before that there was a Spotlight indexing process underway at a time I had to shutdown my machine, so interrupting the indexing process may not have been helpful. The suggestion of deleting the spotlight directory seems to make sense, and a better option than erasing the Time Capsule (which may end up being necessary if I can't get Time Capsule to index Spotlight again). Regards your questions Ronni ... > Have you been able to backup to Time Capsule initially? Yes. > Does Time Capsule appear in Disk Utility or in Finder? Yes. > Have you been able to 'select disk' in System Preferences > Time Machine? Yes. > Do Attempts to back up get "backup disk is not available" message? More detail in a second. > Or is your problem "Time Capsule gets stuck at "Preparing Backup…" ? No. > Are you using Airport Utility v5.5.1? Yes. As I type, a back up is 20GB through a 104GB back up. I have a 250GB hard disk with 100GB available. I don't know why the back up is so large. The widget I spoke of gave recent error details as ... --------------- Starting standard backup Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://steven%20know...@time-capsule.local/Data Mounted network destination using URL: afp://steven%20know...@time-capsule.local/Data QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db| No pre-backup thinning needed: 118.85 GB requested (including padding), 133.81 GB available Copied 19.6 GB of 96.5 GB, 73391 of 183430 items Stopping backup. Error: (-43) SrcErr:NO Copying /users/steven/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/NML2NDeviceObserver_2010-09-29-193147_MacBook-Pro-2.crash to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Pro (2)/2010-09-28-085307.inProgress/*******-****-****-****-************/Macintosh HD/Users/steven/Library/Logs/CrashReporter Copied 88263 files (19.9 GB) from volume Macintosh HD. Copy stage failed with error:11 Backup failed with error: 11 Ejected Time Machine disk image. Ejected Time Machine network volume. --------------- Those asterisks I've manually included, overtyping a code I thought may be private. That backup underway has just failed, with error message in widget showing .... --------------- Starting standard backup Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data-1 QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db| --------------- I've tried the suggestions re identifying the path, still no success on that note. Happy to hear other suggestions for a fix, but ultimately I guess I may have to wipe Time Capsule. Cheers, Steven On 30/09/2010, at 5:21 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > On 30/09/2010, at 8:19 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> >> On 30/09/2010, at 1:08 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: >> >>> My Macbook Pro isn't backing up to Time Capsule. >>> >>> From this page .... >>> >>> http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059555 >>> >>> ... Glenn Carter refers to the following string for Terminal ... >>> >>> sudo rm -ri /path_to_volume/.Spotlight-V100 >>> >>> where /path_to_volume is the path of the volume in question. >>> >>> >>> To replace 'path_to_volume' I've tried .... >>> >>> Volumes/Time Machine Backups >>> Volumes/Data >>> Volumes/Data/afp://Time Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data/MacBook >>> Pro.sparsebundle >>> >>> ...but all give me "No such file or directory". >>> >>> Can anyone please suggest what I should be using as the Terminal command? >>> >>> Cheers, Steven >> >> This is extremely difficult to answer without having direct access to your >> system. One way of sorting out the "/path_to_volume" is to open a Terminal >> window, then type "cd " at the prompt (note: include the space character >> after cd) then drag the icon of your Time Capsule disk onto the Terminal >> Window, and press return. If you then type "pwd" you will see the correct >> path to the Time Capsule device. >> >> The command you supply is puzzling. It literally says "recursively remove >> all files with the name '.Spotlight-V100' from the volume in question, and >> ask me each time before deleting". I'm not sure how this will help. > > Hi Steven, > > I agree with Peter, I fail to see this command helping. We need some more > information to be able to give any constructive assistance. > > Have you been able to backup to Time Capsule initially? > Does Time Capsule appear in Disk Utility or in Finder? > Have you been able to 'select disk' in System Preferences > Time Machine? > Do Attempts to back up get "backup disk is not available" message? > Or is your problem "Time Capsule gets stuck at "Preparing Backup…" ? > Are you using Airport Utility v5.5.1? > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
