{"id":939,"date":"2008-08-13T00:11:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2008-08-13T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T05:11:03","slug":"fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/13\/fixing-time-machine-backup-failed-with-error-11","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Time Machine: Backup failed with error: 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got the dreaded &#8220;Backup failed with error: 11&#8221; with Time Machine. Actually, I only got the dreaded message from the Console &#8211; the application itself, just kept failing silently with no suggestions (Apple, this is your cue to make Time Machine a little more useful). Nothing in Apple&#8217;s knowledgebase. Nothing seemingly useful come up in a Google search (i.e. something conclusive)<\/p>\n<p>Solution? Delete:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n\/Time Machine Backups\/Backups.backupdb\/nameOfComputer\/date.inProgress<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll ask for your password, and be gone with the file. Now the backups should start working again.<\/p>\n<p>An example of what the Console showed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code><br \/>\n13\/08\/2008 12:51:57 \/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/backupd[4946] Error: (-43) copying \/Users\/byte\/Library\/Application Support\/Adium 2.0\/Users\/Default\/Logs\/AIM.bytebotdotnet to \/Volumes\/Time Machine Backups\/Backups.backupdb\/lovegood\/2008-08-13-125154.inProgress\/424A6617-37A5-4C20-8845-764D9167E317\/Macintosh HD\/Users\/byte\/Library\/Application Support\/Adium 2.0\/Users\/Default\/Logs<br \/>\n13\/08\/2008 12:51:57 \/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/backupd[4946] Copied 702 files (169 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.<br \/>\n13\/08\/2008 12:51:57 \/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/backupd[4946] Copy stage failed with error:11<br \/>\n13\/08\/2008 12:52:03 \/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/backupd[4946] Backup failed with error: 11<br \/>\n13\/08\/2008 12:55:31 com.apple.launchd[73] (0x10dbd0.Locum[4961]) Exited: Terminated<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the dreaded &#8220;Backup failed with error: 11&#8221; with Time Machine. Actually, I only got the dreaded message from the Console &#8211; the application itself, just kept failing silently with no suggestions (Apple, this is your cue to make Time Machine a little more useful). Nothing in Apple&#8217;s knowledgebase. Nothing seemingly useful come up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,397,398,5,396],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-apple","tag-error","tag-knowledgebase","tag-macosx","tag-time-machine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-f9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}