Comments on: Fixing Time Machine: Backup failed with error: 11 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11 A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:35:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Al http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-138939 Al Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:20:55 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-138939 Look in Activity Monitor and see if ATSServer is grabbing lots of CPU.<br>If it is, your problem is not your respective backup drives; it is a combination of SpotLight not having had your external drives added to exclusion lists and ATSServer trying to do font substitution on PDF documents.<br>Turn both off an you'll be better placed to diagnose the error - but it's usually this. Just poor design, and why they don't fix this long standing issue I have no idea. Look in Activity Monitor and see if ATSServer is grabbing lots of CPU.
If it is, your problem is not your respective backup drives; it is a combination of SpotLight not having had your external drives added to exclusion lists and ATSServer trying to do font substitution on PDF documents.
Turn both off an you'll be better placed to diagnose the error – but it's usually this. Just poor design, and why they don't fix this long standing issue I have no idea.

]]> By: Mac OSX Leopard Repair a Time Machine 'Error 11' problem | Blog Rob http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-138715 Mac OSX Leopard Repair a Time Machine 'Error 11' problem | Blog Rob Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:40:34 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-138715 [...] Charles worked out the basic problem and solution, but his description only seems to apply to locally-attached disks. For network-mounted disks, [...] [...] Charles worked out the basic problem and solution, but his description only seems to apply to locally-attached disks. For network-mounted disks, [...]

]]> By: Don http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-138436 Don Fri, 22 May 2009 18:35:29 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-138436 I've gotten error 11's with Time Machine for as long as I've been running it and they've never been more than a nuisance. Usually immediately having Time Machine do another backup solves the problem. If not, I do as the hint says and kill the in progress files left behind. On my machine it is always dot files (invisible files whose name is preceeded by a period, i.e., .DS_Store) which cause the problem. I’ve gotten error 11’s with Time Machine for as long as I’ve been running it and they’ve never been more than a nuisance. Usually immediately having Time Machine do another backup solves the problem. If not, I do as the hint says and kill the in progress files left behind.

On my machine it is always dot files (invisible files whose name is preceeded by a period, i.e., .DS_Store) which cause the problem.

]]> By: 10.5: Repair a Time Machine ‘Error 11′ problem - News ums Netz http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-138435 10.5: Repair a Time Machine ‘Error 11′ problem - News ums Netz Fri, 22 May 2009 14:59:25 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-138435 [...] Charles worked out the basic problem and solution, but his description only seems to apply to locally-attached disks. For network-mounted disks, [...] [...] Charles worked out the basic problem and solution, but his description only seems to apply to locally-attached disks. For network-mounted disks, [...]

]]> By: Bill Eccles http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-138429 Bill Eccles Thu, 21 May 2009 13:15:21 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-138429 @EldRick-- The one thing that SuperDuper does not do (that I know of, anyway, even as an owner and user of it) that Time Machine does with any drive, Time Capsule or not, is keep... whatchacallit... hmm. For lack of better term, let's call them "snapshots" of the drive in time. I know there's a proper term, but I can't think of it at the moment. Anyway, SuperDuper keeps one copy of the drive as it was last backed up. If you need a file that was deleted before your last SD backup, it's gone. If a file gets corrupted, it's corrupted on your SD copy. Only manual management of multiple backups can deal with this. Just food for thought. /Bill @EldRick–

The one thing that SuperDuper does not do (that I know of, anyway, even as an owner and user of it) that Time Machine does with any drive, Time Capsule or not, is keep… whatchacallit… hmm. For lack of better term, let’s call them “snapshots” of the drive in time. I know there’s a proper term, but I can’t think of it at the moment.

Anyway, SuperDuper keeps one copy of the drive as it was last backed up. If you need a file that was deleted before your last SD backup, it’s gone. If a file gets corrupted, it’s corrupted on your SD copy. Only manual management of multiple backups can deal with this.

Just food for thought.

/Bill

]]> By: EldRick http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-138421 EldRick Wed, 20 May 2009 00:12:17 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-138421 I've since discovered that Spotless will reproducibly re-create the problem. As a result, I'm selling my Time Machine, and will use SuperDuper to an external drive as my backup. It's a no-overhead solution, creates bootable backups, and has no software dependencies that force me to use Spotlight. I’ve since discovered that Spotless will reproducibly re-create the problem. As a result, I’m selling my Time Machine, and will use SuperDuper to an external drive as my backup.

It’s a no-overhead solution, creates bootable backups, and has no software dependencies that force me to use Spotlight.

]]> By: EldRick http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-138420 EldRick Tue, 19 May 2009 16:05:00 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-138420 A couple of weeks after disabling Spotlight, mine started giving error 11 on the following file: May 18 20:35:55 my-mac-mini /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[174]: Indexing a file failed. Returned -12 for: /.DS_Store, /Volumes/Capsule 1/Backups.backupdb/My Mac mini/2009-05-18-130134.inProgress/7E63C514-FA9B-4293-A658-1BDF220214AF/HardLife/.DS_Store Re-enabling Spotlight (ugh) and forcing it to re-build its index cured the issue, but now I'm not comfortable disabling spotlight again... A couple of weeks after disabling Spotlight, mine started giving error 11 on the following file:

May 18 20:35:55 my-mac-mini /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[174]: Indexing a file failed. Returned -12 for: /.DS_Store, /Volumes/Capsule 1/Backups.backupdb/My Mac mini/2009-05-18-130134.inProgress/7E63C514-FA9B-4293-A658-1BDF220214AF/HardLife/.DS_Store

Re-enabling Spotlight (ugh) and forcing it to re-build its index cured the issue, but now I’m not comfortable disabling spotlight again…

]]> By: 10.5: Repair a Time Machine ‘Error 11′ problem | MacRevu http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-138419 10.5: Repair a Time Machine ‘Error 11′ problem | MacRevu Tue, 19 May 2009 15:41:13 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-138419 [...] Charles worked out the basic problem and solution, but his description only seems to apply to locally-attached disks. For network-mounted disks, [...] [...] Charles worked out the basic problem and solution, but his description only seems to apply to locally-attached disks. For network-mounted disks, [...]

]]> By: Al http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-135960 Al Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:29:40 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-135960 Look in Activity Monitor and see if ATSServer is grabbing lots of CPU. If it is, your problem is not your respective backup drives; it is a combination of SpotLight not having had your external drives added to exclusion lists and ATSServer trying to do font substitution on PDF documents. Turn both off an you'll be better placed to diagnose the error - but it's usually this. Just poor design, and why they don't fix this long standing issue I have no idea. Look in Activity Monitor and see if ATSServer is grabbing lots of CPU.
If it is, your problem is not your respective backup drives; it is a combination of SpotLight not having had your external drives added to exclusion lists and ATSServer trying to do font substitution on PDF documents.
Turn both off an you’ll be better placed to diagnose the error – but it’s usually this. Just poor design, and why they don’t fix this long standing issue I have no idea.

]]> By: Michael Fox http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/08/13/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11/comment-page-1#comment-135532 Michael Fox Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:28:10 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=939#comment-135532 My wife and I have a 1Tb Time Capsule and its been a pretty good unit. Of course the odd issue after a machine has been rebuilt, but thats the perfect time to start it over again. My wife's MacBook Air has been backing up since the day we got the unit. She has an oldest backup of Apr 11th 2008. My wife and I have a 1Tb Time Capsule and its been a pretty good unit. Of course the odd issue after a machine has been rebuilt, but thats the perfect time to start it over again.

My wife’s MacBook Air has been backing up since the day we got the unit. She has an oldest backup of Apr 11th 2008.

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