Re: Time machine not working

[Kris Tilford]

On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Brian Christmas wrote:


Any thoughts on what I can do to fix, or should I lodge a bug?


I think in Lion 10.7 this was a bug that was fixed by the 10.7.5  
update. I'm not using Time Machine with any Mountain Lion Macs, but  
the 10.8.2 update was issued at the same time as 10.7.5, so if you're  
not at 10.8.2, upgrade and see if that fixes it? I know this is the  
"one off" rule, but we need to get migrating to an Intel list for  
current Intel Mac issues.


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Re: Time machine not working

[Bruce Johnson]

On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Brian Christmas  wrote:

> G'day listers
> 
> This is a bit off topic, as it relates to an iMac running Mountain lion.
> 
> Two days ago I was testing an applescript, and put my clock forward by a year 
> to make sure a yearly report was sent.
> 
> Time machine stopped backing up, and having two CCC backups, I decided to 
> erase and re-write over theTime Machine disk.
> 
> Time Machine is now telling me it's got 1,583 days to go, and is gradually 
> counting down the items.
> 
> Any thoughts on what I can do to fix, or should I lodge a bug?

Hmmm, I had a case of that happening recently where reformatitng the Time 
Machine drive fixed it. :-/

Here's an idea: 

Check in the Console.app to see if errors are popping up. It might be a disk 
going south.

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Time machine not working

[Brian Christmas]

G'day listers

This is a bit off topic, as it relates to an iMac running Mountain lion.

Two days ago I was testing an applescript, and put my clock forward by a year 
to make sure a yearly report was sent.

Time machine stopped backing up, and having two CCC backups, I decided to erase 
and re-write over theTime Machine disk.

Time Machine is now telling me it's got 1,583 days to go, and is gradually 
counting down the items.

Any thoughts on what I can do to fix, or should I lodge a bug?

Regards

Santa

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