Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

10.5.6 TimeMachine bug?

dadudeness

dadudeness

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 31, 2007
118
11
de
Hi, I installed the update the day it came out. I'm using a USB HDD connected to my Airport Extreme n as TimeMachine Volume.

First: TimeMachine still works, BUT anytime i switch off the external HDD or power up my MB in a non-home-environment I get the '!' in the menu-bar-logo, that he couldn't do his backup job becuse there was trouble.

I never had this problem before. He never tried to backup while his backup wasn't connected

Does anyone else have this issue?
 

Attachments

  • Bild 1.png
    Bild 1.png
    30.6 KB · Views: 109
I restarted my MB and let TimeMachine run. After that I switched off the backup HDD and waited. Now he tells me that the backup is delayed again :mad:
 
Same thing happened to me and I mentioned this in a couple of threads. Whenever I was on another network (other than my home one) - I got that exclamation point and delayed error. I called support - they had no idea and just told me to "turn off Time Machine when on a network other than my home one."

What I did was change the disk in preferences back to my TC - because the current disk when I was home, said "Time Capsule-1" which wasnt the name of my TC. I changed it back when you go to "change disk" and its been fine since.

Def a 10.5.6 bug...
 
Good to hear that it ain't my fault :)

Where did you change the disc's name?

My USB-Airport-HDD is called "400gig" and that's the name I see in finder when I choose Airport. When TimeMachine is running he mounts an image called "backup of <username>".
In TimeMachine preferences he says the name is "400gig".

There are no diferences visible to me compared to 10.5.5
 
Go to Time Machine preferences, preferably when you are on your home network. Make sure the name of the disk is the correct one, if not change it.
 
Thanks, the disc-name was right but I reselected it in TM-Preferences. After the backup I switched off the drive and I'll wait what happens in about an hour...
 
Okay, after reselecting the real drive now he tells me that his backup volume is "400gig-1". He does that when the drive is not connected. When I connect to it in finder he switches to "400gig".
Rereselecting doesn't fix it, after ejecting the volume he switches back to "400gig-1"

Come on Apple, fix that!
 

Attachments

  • Bild 1.png
    Bild 1.png
    20.5 KB · Views: 1,662
After I updated my iMac to 10.5.6 I get this error message when trying to use Time Capsule.
"Time Machine Error Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while linking files on the backup volume"

However when using my MBP wirelessly things work great just like before the update.

Has anyone else had this occur?
 
srl7741 said:
After I updated my iMac to 10.5.6 I get this error message when trying to use Time Capsule.
"Time Machine Error Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while linking files on the backup volume"

However when using my MBP wirelessly things work great just like before the update.

Has anyone else had this occur?
Click to expand...

No, haven't seen that
 
srl7741 said:
After I updated my iMac to 10.5.6 I get this error message when trying to use Time Capsule.
"Time Machine Error Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while linking files on the backup volume"

However when using my MBP wirelessly things work great just like before the update.

Has anyone else had this occur?
Click to expand...

If you google TC problems after 10.5.6 or something similar - there are numerous problems going up with your problem.
 
dadudeness said:
First: TimeMachine still works, BUT anytime i switch off the external HDD or power up my MB in a non-home-environment I get the '!' in the menu-bar-logo, that he couldn't do his backup job becuse there was trouble.
Click to expand...

It's entirely possible that this behaviour is by design i.e. the've changed the behaviour of the menu bar icon to reflect the fact that under those circumstances your Time Machine backups won't be running. Previously you wouldn't have known from the menubar if the external disk had accidentally got unplugged, for example.
 
If it was a feature instead of a bug I'd expect TM to inform me that he has no connection to the backup volume instead of trying to reach it and fail.

So I don't consider this behavior a feature.
 
The 10.5.6 update broke a bunch of things apparently.

I use an NAS for my time machine backups. It has been working flawlessly for the last year. Time Machine can't mount the NAS drive anymore.

While the Time Machine is a great concept, this constant fighting to keep it alive is starting to get old.
 
dadudeness said:
If it was a feature instead of a bug I'd expect TM to inform me that he has no connection to the backup volume instead of trying to reach it and fail.
Click to expand...

Maybe it is a bug, maybe not. However:

1. It must always have been trying to reach the drive and failing when you were offsite/on another network, it just wasn't giving you any visual indication of that before.
2. It is informing you that it can't connect to the backup volume, by putting the exclamation mark in the icon.
 
This is what I could find from the Apple site regarding the update (about TC/TM):



Time Machine

Fixes issues that could cause Time Machine to state the backup volume could not be found.

Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.
 
Error Message

I kept playing around with my TC Backups and found that it's still working and backing up new files as before but at the end of the process produces that error message I posted above "Time Machine Error Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while linking files on the backup volume". I think what I am going to try next is simply deleting my entire backup file and starting the process as tho it's new. I would like to see what happends then. I have multiple copies on seperate drives anyway so it won't hurt to see what happens.

You can never have enough backup copies :)
 
Same problem here.. :mad:

I've deleted the drive, ad still there is the same problem..
It sucks soo biig..!!
 
My symptom is:

After updating to 10.5.6 both my MBP and iMac hang forever on "preparing backup"

If I try to open Time Machine from my iMac I get the "connecting to backup volume..." which appears to hang forever.

I'm most decidedly unhappy about this and I also wonder how many other Time Machine/Capsule users have this problem but just have not noticed. When I mentioned this to other users on my team and they checked their Macs -- a few had the same problem.
 
I seemed to have fixed my problem all tho I'm not sure what did the trick based on my issue i posted above. Here is what I did. I disconnected all my network drives and external drives except TC. I deleted my original backup file and started fresh. The first full backup took a bit but since each new backup seems to work fine. So i'm not sure if one of my network drives was causing the issue or if some how my original backup file because corrupt somehow?
My MBP and iMac seem to be backing up just fine now with no errors.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back