I've 2020 Imac Time machine stopped backing the system?

[surfbug]

My imac time machine stopped backing the system today. Can anybody help me pleasse? Thx

 

[chscag]

Have to ask.... how much space remains on your Time Machine backup drive? And, have you run a First Aid check on that drive? Finally, did you try rebooting?

 

[Fishrrman]

Get rid of some of the old backups and free up space on the backup drive.

For a better method of backing up, I suggest you look into either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper.

Either one will keep AN EXACT COPY of your internal drive that is BOOTABLE as well. TM can't do that.

And the backup will not keep growing in size the way backups do on a TM drive.

 

[surfbug]

Get rid of some of the old backups and free up space on the backup drive.

For a better method of backing up, I suggest you look into either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper.

Either one will keep AN EXACT COPY of your internal drive that is BOOTABLE as well. TM can't do that.

And the backup will not keep growing in size the way backups do on a TM drive.

How do I get rid of the old backingand free up backingup? Do. Idelect the backup folders from the screen shot?

 

[mj_]

You don't have to free up space on the drive. Time Machine does that all by itself, no need to worry about it. And you should never EVER manually delete folders on your backup drive. That will destroy the integrity of your backup and basically render it completely useless.

I would suggest ejecting the drive, unplugging it, and rebooting your Mac first. Then plug it back in and try to backup anew. If it still keeps throwing error messages report back but chances are the reboot will end up fixing it.

At the end of the day Macs are only computers.

 

[surfbug]

You don't have to free up space on the drive. Time Machine does that all by itself, no need to worry about it. And you should never EVER manually delete folders on your backup drive. That will destroy the integrity of your backup and basically render it completely useless.

I would suggest ejecting the drive, unplugging it, and rebooting your Mac first. Then plug it back in and try to backup anew. If it still keeps throwing error messages report back but chances are the reboot will end up fixing it.

At the end of the day Macs are only computers.

I unpluged the external hd rebooted my imac and plugged in my external hd but it still doesn't work. What do u suggest now?

 

[chscag]

I unpluged the external hd rebooted my imac and plugged in my external hd but it still doesn't work. What do u suggest now?

Did you do a First Aid check on that drive as I suggested to you? There's always a chance the drive has failed or is failing.

 

[surfbug]

I found the error on March 29. Do I remove them or no?

 

[surfbug]

Can somesody check my result Thx?

 

[Fishrrman]

If it was me, I'd just ERASE the ENTIRE backup drive, and start over again.

Again, I recommend CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper as the backup utilities to use.

Or just erase it and start over with time machine.

 

[jwhittaker]

How much space on your hard drive? Space left on your HD makes a huge difference also, chances are you will need to delete some of the time machine files on your hard drive not your time machine backup disk. do you know how to use terminal?

 

[bernuli]

Could you post the Time Machine logs? You can retrieve with the Terminal command:

printf '\e[3J' && log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info --last 6h | grep -F 'eMac' | grep -Fv 'etat' | awk -F']' '{print substr($0,1,19), $NF}'

(one liner from leroydouglas at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250226175 )


Simplified version of that command:

log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info --last 6h