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kmraj

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Oct 4, 2011
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Greetings,

I tried backing up using Time Machine for the past week and all it does it freeze (longest time before forced shutdown was 5days).

I am running 10.7.5, 15" MBP (early-11), a 256 GB SSD and 8GB RAM.

I have this url from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4077 to address some of the files.

Your documents : ~/Documents and ~/Desktop
Mail data and settings : ~/Library/Mail/V2
iTunes data and settings : ~/Music/iTunes/
iPhoto data and settings: ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/
Address Book data and settings : ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
iCal data and settings : ~/Library/Calendars/
Safari data and settings : ~/Library/Safari/
Fonts : ~/Library/Fonts/
Keychain data and settings : ~/Library/Keychains/
Stickies : ~/Library/StickiesDatabase
Other preferences : ~/Library/Preferences/

But are there others?

Thanks in advance!
 
That looks like it would cover all your data.

Ho is the Time Machine disk attached? Is it just a standard USB drive formatted to Mac OS Extended?

TM uses the Spotlight index to ID files, and sometimes a Spotlight reindex can help. Run the command below in Terminal and wait for the reindex to finish.

Code:
sudo mdutil -E /

Then also try a command-r boot to recovery and run Disk Utility from there and do a repair disk. Does that show any errors.

After that erase the external drive completely and try TM again.
 
#1 : "Ho is the Time Machine disk attached? Is it just a standard USB drive formatted to Mac OS Extended?"
Resp: TM is attached as a usb drive to a usb disk fomatted as OSX / Extended with two partitions, TM and extended (this is a new setup when the old TM started to go wacky). Still having issues.

#2 - Reindex TM using spotlight
Resp: Will try.

#3: Erase and reindex and try again.
Resp: I didn't erase and reindex, but used a brand new drive formatted as noted in #2. To preserve older backups and ensure a third fallback point.
 
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