Resolved Time machine stopped working..

[jake.f]

Hi
I've had time machine performing regular backups for a while now to the same disk and recently they stopped working. I have not changed anything relating to settings or how it is plugged in but I get the message as shown in the attachment.
Help appreciated,
Thanks.

 

[MarkMS]

Something could be wrong with the external drive. Have you checked to see if it mounts properly?

 

[jake.f]

The drive is there, both the backup and other partition I have on it are find and can be written to if i just copy something.

 

[MarkMS]

What does it say when you go to System Preferences>Time Machine>and click on the red "i" next to "Latest backup: Failed"?

 

[jake.f]

The following message appears upon clicking the red notification:

 

[MarkMS]

Try restarting the computer. I've seen this happen a few times and a simple restart fixing it.

 

[MacmancUK]

Hi
I've had time machine performing regular backups for a while now to the same disk and recently they stopped working. I have not changed anything relating to settings or how it is plugged in but I get the message as shown in the attachment.
Help appreciated,
Thanks.

I had this once, a couple of years ago.

In the end I had to reformat the external HDD, good job TM is only a backup.

No problems since.

However I do not keep TM running all the time, just power up after major downloads or folders clean up, perhaps once every two days.

I now have backups going back two years on my 500gb TM HDD, which I needed a few days ago.

 

[jake.f]

Restart doesnt make a difference, it's been happening for about 10 days I just haven't had time to try fix it.

 

[MarkMS]

Have a look at this: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/C10.html

 

[jake.f]

Repairing the partition through disk utility worked, Thanks.