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Time machine not working [message #26559] Sun, 25 November 2012 19:21 Go to next message
Brian Christmas is currently offline  Brian Christmas
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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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Re: Time machine not working [message #26564 is a reply to message #26559] Wed, 28 November 2012 12:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bruce Johnson is currently offline  Bruce Johnson
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On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Brian Christmas <ozsanta@gmail.com> 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: <http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1347081>

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

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Re: Time machine not working [message #26599 is a reply to message #26559] Wed, 28 November 2012 13:43 Go to previous message
Kris Tilford is currently offline  Kris Tilford
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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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