{"id":17325,"date":"2011-12-26T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2011-12-26T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:34:39","slug":"mac-nerd-friends-a-little-help-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/mac-nerd-friends-a-little-help-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac nerd friends: A little help here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Hello, my name is John, and I practice unprotected computing\u2026&#8221;<\/em> (&#8220;Hello, John.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Until I upgraded my Mac to Lion, I was a rigorous user of Time Machine: I&#8217;d plug in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drobo.com\/\">Drobo<\/a> at work, and I&#8217;d connect to a Time Capsule at home. It paid off when my hard drive died &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/05\/area_mans_bacon_saved_by_time_capsule.html\">my bacon was saved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since moving to Lion, though, I&#8217;ve been unable to back up. Connecting to either backup produces a &#8220;Preparing to back up&#8221; cycle that can last for hours or even days. It&#8217;s unusable to the point that I think I should just wipe the backups and start fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where more problems ensue, however:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deleting the backup from the Drobo was <em>incredibly<\/em> slow, to the point that I reformatted the drives and thus somehow rendered them inoperable (!). I need to carve out time to work with Drobo tech support, but I haven&#8217;t been able yet.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t wipe my Time Capsule (which contains other data), and due to space constraints, I can&#8217;t start a new Time Machine backup without trashing the first. I fear the process taking more hours or days.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, fine&#8211;for now I&#8217;ll just buy a new, fresh, cheap hard drive. Without doing research (!), I grabbed a big Seagate 2TB USB 3.0 drive. &#8220;No prob,&#8221; I figured, &#8220;this thing should be USB 2.0-compatible and more future-proof.&#8221; Now, however\u2026<\/li>\n<li>After reformatting the drive, Time Machine backups continuously fail. Things seems to go great for tens or even hundreds of GB of data&#8211;then simply stall out forever. This has happened several times, always at different points, even across reformatting.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, <em>fine<\/em>&#8211;forget Time Machine, let&#8217;s do Carbon Copy Cloner. Unfortunately, even after reformatting (again) per CCC&#8217;s instructions, the backup failed ~66GB in. Given the TM failures, I&#8217;m not inclined to try again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m wondering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is there something wrong with the data on my Mac&#8211;something that would cause old backups to stall &amp; new ones to fail? \u00a0And if so, is there a diagnostic I can run to find &amp; hopefully fix the problem?<\/li>\n<li>Is there something screwy with Mac OS support for USB 3.0 devices?<\/li>\n<li>Is there something screwy with this particular drive?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My Google-fu has failed to provide a solution, so thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hello, my name is John, and I practice unprotected computing\u2026&#8221; (&#8220;Hello, John.&#8221;) Until I upgraded my Mac to Lion, I was a rigorous user of Time Machine: I&#8217;d plug in a Drobo at work, and I&#8217;d connect to a Time Capsule at home. It paid off when my hard drive died &amp; my bacon was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}