10.5.3 and new Time Machine error

[mreg376]

Time Machine (external USB/SATA) on my 2-month old iMac had been working perfectly. I installed 10.5.3. Everything still works perfectly EXCEPT I get an occasional error with Time Machine's hourly backup saying it could not do the backup. I can do the backup manually and the subsequent automatic backup goes OK. It's happened twice since my installation of 10.5.3 last night. I did Repair of the external drive and no problems were found. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Sky Blue]

I've had this too. Never had one error on Time Machine since October, but I had exactly what you described today.

[mreg376]

Originally Posted by Sky Blue

I've had this too. Never had one error on Time Machine since October, but I had exactly what you described today.

Well, now we know it's not us. All we need is a solution...

[todd2000]

I was just about to start a thread on this. It just happened to me. I tried a manual backup, and it was fine, and I assume the next Automated Backup will work if yours did, but what's causing this? Here is the relevant errors from my System Log if someone can get something from it.

May 29 21:41:52 iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7740]: Starting standard backup
May 29 21:41:52 iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7740]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
May 29 21:41:54 iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7740]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 228.9 MB requested (including padding), 118.91 GB available
May 29 21:41:58 iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7740]: Stopping backup.
May 29 21:41:58 iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7740]: Error: (-43) copying /Users/Todd/Documents/iChats/.DS_Store to /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2008-05-29-214153.inProgress/F1F74F85-52EA-49EF-8373-FD3A9D7E397F/ Macintosh HD/Users/Todd/Documents/iChats
May 29 21:41:58 iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7740]: Copied 219 files (40 KB) from volume  Macintosh HD.
May 29 21:41:58 iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7740]: Copy stage failed with error:11
May 29 21:42:03 iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7740]: Backup failed with error: 11

[davidwarren]

this happened twice today for the first time on my imac at work, the imac at home and my macbook have not done this yet.

[kbmb]

Add me to the list of having this happen exactly as described since installing 10.5.3. I've been running TM on my Mac Pro since Leopard was released without any errors.

I did a manual backup after the error, and that was fine. The next automatic backup has also worked.

Anyone come up with any ideas on why this is happening?

-Kevin

[dmen]

since downloading 10.5.3 i cannot access time machine past the first or second click. it totally freezes when trying. backup are still being done i just cant look at them. apple has no answers yet!!!!

[TimMACman]

I have noticed that about every other day I will see the error described above when I come home from work and wake my machine. I can always manually back up and hourly backups work without failure while I am working on my iMac. Could be coincidence but my problems always seem to coincide with sleep mode.

[Mac In School]

Mine is doing fine, but wife's LaCie Firewire drive is doing the same thing.

[apfhex]

Originally Posted by TimMACman

Could be coincidence but my problems always seem to coincide with sleep mode.

The first time I got the error it was immediately after waking from sleep, however the second time it was after the computer had been in use the whole evening. I haven't gotten it since last posting in this thread.

[kbmb]

Originally Posted by TimMACman

I have noticed that about every other day I will see the error described above when I come home from work and wake my machine. I can always manually back up and hourly backups work without failure while I am working on my iMac. Could be coincidence but my problems always seem to coincide with sleep mode.

My Mac Pro is on 24x7, and it's having the problem, so I don't think it's due to sleep mode.

-Kevin