Linc Davis has figured it out. Makes sense with the suggestion he gives and the poster said it worked.
Connect the drive directly to a USB port on the MBP.
In the Energy Saver preference pane, uncheck “Put hard disks to sleep…” if checked.
If neither of the above helps, boot in safe mode and try again.
via Time Machine: “An error occurred while…: Apple Support Communities.
Poster solves his own problem with Safari running slowly and taking excessive CPU’s. Interesting troubleshooting.
Videobox was the culprit! I must\’ve accidentally installed the plugin when I used it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I turned off the plugin and my Safari\’s cpus have dropped to about 10! Amazing. I also took your advice and rebuilt the 1password data file and things are getting faster. I\’m going to keep going through the logs to see what other problems I have and try and troubleshoot from there. The only other program that has gotten slow is iPhoto \’09. Think I should rebuild the library? Thanks again for your help. I will list your answer as the correct one.
via Time Machine Question: Apple Support Communities.
Pondini solves the issue. Other common Time Machine issues can be found here.
That’s quite strange.
There must be something damaged in your installation of OSX. I’d suggest downloading and installing the 10.6.6 “combo” update. That’s the cleverly-named combination of all the updates to Snow Leopard since it was first released, so installing it should fix anything that’s gone wrong since then, such as with one of the normal “point” updates. Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349 Be sure to do a Repair Permissions via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.
If that doesn’t help, reinstall OSX from your Snow Leopard Install disc (that won’t affect anything else), then apply the “combo” again.
Did you know that Time Machine works great with many third party NAS?
via Apple – Support – Discussions – Time Machine wont start up ….
EvilGator shares with us the solution. Nice work!
I finally got on the phone with a Senior Advisor at Apple. We created another user account (System Preferences > Accounts). Time Machine worked for that user. So, the Time Machine problem was user-specific.
We went back to the original user and moved to trash the folder <home folder>Library/Caches. From there we went and moved to the desktop <user>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist.
We then restarted the mac. Upon restart, we entered Time Machine and it worked fine. The timeline had reappeared!Apparently there was something in the Cache that was causing the problem.
Time Machine has had a few issues. The biggest one seems to be this.
via Apple – Support – Discussions – Timeline not appearing in Time Machine ….
UPDATE: The blog no longer exists. Try this article instead for some NAS action.
Nice simple terminal command that might allow your NAS to be a Time Machine volume. This is super easy on Mac OS X 10.6 server.
via Edge IT
open terminal and type in “sudo defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1″ (minus quotes) then through finder connect to the root of the drive you want to back up for time machine & BOOM. … Read More