time machine not backing up

[rph105]

for some reason, when i go in time machine, i cant go back in time, the only day tht is avaiable is 'today', i cant right click the drive anymore and press back up now, anyone know whts up?

 

[Cinematographer]

the only day tht is avaiable is 'today'

Same here. But that's because I started Time Machine today. There are no earlier backups available yet.

i cant right click the drive anymore and press back up now

You have to right-click on the programm icon in the dock. Does that work?

 

[numbersyx]

for some reason, when i go in time machine, i cant go back in time, the only day tht is avaiable is 'today', i cant right click the drive anymore and press back up now, anyone know whts up?

Having the same problem. I backed up the day of Leopard's release and two weeks later could only go to 'Today'. I erased that backup and re-backed up. Still the same problem..... don't know what to do....

 

[theBB]

Are you guys using an HFS+ formatted external hard disk connected to your drive?

 

[wheezy]

Are you guys using an HFS+ formatted external hard disk connected to your drive?

That's probably what it is my guess, My external Seagate is HFS+ and it's using Time Machine flawlessly.

Most, if not all of the External Drives you buy somewhere are formatted FAT32 I believe, so it's plug and play for both Windows/Mac. I would think that Time Machine uses spotlight technology somewhat for the back in time traveling, which requires an indexed drive, which requires HFS+ formatting.

Well, you can force-index a FAT32 drive, but you have to actually do that in Terminal I believe... then it might work for Time Machine.

 

[Cinematographer]

Sounds reasonable. But I'd expect Time Machine to check that at start.

 

[numbersyx]

Are you guys using an HFS+ formatted external hard disk connected to your drive?

Mine is partitioned: it has a HFS+ drive with TM on it and a FAT 32 drive with my individual file backups that can be moved across to Windows... You think that might be the problem?

 

[rph105]

Mine is partitioned: it has a HFS+ drive with TM on it and a FAT 32 drive with my individual file backups that can be moved across to Windows... You think that might be the problem?

i dunno what mine is started using time machine when i bought leopard too, and it workedd fine, now i can only go to today, what is the problem, tried re-formatting, no luck, what should i do

 

[numbersyx]

Fixed It!!!!

The solution to my problem was that my computer was not named. I went into Sharing and put in a computer name and viola it now works....