Comments on: Time Machine stopped working? Fix it!

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:56:01 +0000

@Jose I think I used [1], it offered to update the My Book’s firmware on its own.

[1] http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=104&sid=79&lang=en

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:02:51 +0000

What do you mean by “firmware upgrade”? I guess you have downloaded and installed one of the items in the “software to download” list in

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=103&lang=en

but, which one?

Thanks

Jose

By: Per Arne Kvamsø

Per Arne Kvamsø — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:06:29 +0000

I have two WD 1TB My Book Home edition disk, one of them I use for TM backing up both the systemdisk and the other HD.

TM was working fine for maybe 3 weeks and then it stopped working. I got the same error message “Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume.” (just the norwegian version..)

I tried to delete the “.in progress” folder and update the firmware for the TM-disk. But it didnt work.

I figured out It stops every time it tries to backup the system-disk. I excluded it in the TM-panel and it backed up my other WD 1TB (identical) HD just fine.

The data on the other disk is the most important, but it would be nice if it could bacup my system disk also.

any ideas what could be wrong?

perarne

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:18:04 +0000

Hi Stefan,

thanks for pointing this out — my fault.

Julian

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:59:23 +0000

Hi,

the mysterious file “2008-01-20-161645.in Progress” is no file,
it’s a folder, like the Mac *.app folders.
After the backup is finished, it will just renamed in the folder name “2008-01-20-161645″ without the extenion “*.in Progress”.

You can verify this in the terminal or with the Finder (Show Package Content).

Cheers,
Stefan