TimeMachine stalls - What to do?
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The Problem
I ran into an problem with 10.8.4, where the Time Machine stalls at 114MB and just won't continue backing up.
Analysis
The system.log shows
9/21/13 11:38:21.198 AM com.apple.backupd[33321]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
And there it stood waiting for more than two hours. This couldn't be right.
Solution
WroDos-MacBook-Air:~ appleadmin$ sudo mdutil -E -a[1] /: Indexing enabled. /.MobileBackups: Indexing enabled. /Volumes/MobileBackups 1: Index is read-only. /Volumes/MobileBackups 1/Backups.backupdb: Index is read-only. /Volumes/Time Machine Backup Of MacBook Air: Indexing enabled. /Volumes/Time Machine Backup Of MacBook Air/Backups.backupdb: Indexing enabled. WroDos-MacBook-Air:~ appleadmin$
Footnotes
- ↑ you might in some case need sudo mdutil -i on -a or something like mdutil -E -V /Volumes/Mavericks\ HD