Recently Time Machine has stopped backing up to my Time Capsule on both my MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. It spends a few hours "Preparing backup" and then just gives up.
I've had a look in Console and when it says it is "Preparing backup" com.apple.backupd
is running an initial consistency scan for '/'
and then when it stops I get the following messages in the Console:
Error writing event cache at /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/... : Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=20 "Not a directory"
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:***
The latest backup on my MBA is 23 July and on my MBP is 24 July so I think that coincides with me updating OS X but I can't be sure. These are the things I have tried so far (I've turned Time Machine off on my MBP so I can focus on getting the Air working first)
- Turning time machine off and back on again
- Reselecting the back up disk
- Hard resetting the time capsule
- Factory resetting the time capsule
- Booting into Safe Mode on my MBA and then restarting into normal mode
- "First aid" (Disk Utility) on my MBA
- Renaming the Time Capsule to a short name
The only thing I haven't done is erase the contents of the Time Capsule for two reasons. 1) I don't have a hard drive with enough capacity remaining to archive the data to. 2) When I enter Time Machine all of the backups are there and available for me to restore so I don't want to loose all that.
Please let me know if you have any ideas. The TC has over 300 GB of space remaining.
UPDATE Here is the contents of the .sparsebundle
(located within the 'Data' folder) that is the backup (the bands
folder is empty):
.sparsebundle
as I don't have a 'Backups.backupdb' folder which I believe is because I'm backing up over the network? Let me know if you need any more information... Thank you in advance.