Time Machine unable to make backups in macOS Mojave [unofficial fix]

[dalekphalm]

On 10/3/2018 at 10:38 PM, SydneySideSteveSomewheres said:

It is like the phenomena of the fridge light turning off when you close the door...everyone needs to look and examine it until there is a common belief that, yes, the light does turn off!

Fun fact, most fridges have a physical switch that is depressed when the door closes, and shuts off the light. You can usually find the switch yourself, and press it with the door wide open, to shut off the light to see for yourself.

[Syntaxvgm]

damn shame. I like time machine, and at the time it was first released in leopard wow that was 10 years ago fuck it was, imo, pretty much THE solution for simple and easy backup for people who are only computer literate on a day-day functional level. Easy to set up, easy to understand, a lot of people have stuck with it because it's set and forget. It simply one of my personal favorite things in mac os, ever. 

Hope the acknowledge and attempt to fix it. 

[Commodus]

Just now, Syntaxvgm said:

damn shame. I like time machine, and at the time it was first released in leopard wow that was 10 years ago fuck it was, imo, pretty much THE solution for simple and easy backup for people who are only computer literate on a day-day functional level. Easy to set up, easy to understand, a lot of people have stuck with it not because it's set and forget. It simply one of my personal favorite things in mac os, ever. 

Hope the acknowledge and attempt to fix it. 

Guaranteed they'll fix it.  The functionality is still there, it's just not turning on for some people.  In my case the backup drive didn't mount and I had to reconnect it to get Time Machine going.

[dalekphalm]

Just now, Syntaxvgm said:

damn shame. I like time machine, and at the time it was first released in leopard wow that was 10 years ago fuck it was, imo, pretty much THE solution for simple and easy backup for people who are only computer literate on a day-day functional level. Easy to set up, easy to understand, a lot of people have stuck with it not because it's set and forget. It simply one of my personal favorite things in mac os, ever. 

Hope the acknowledge and attempt to fix it. 

Yeah it does seem like a fantastic piece of software overall.

 

I need to get my Fiancee's Macbook Air setup to backup over to FreeNAS at some point - I noticed you can created AFP shares, so I assume that will work with Time Machine.

[Syntaxvgm]

2 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

Yeah it does seem like a fantastic piece of software overall.

 

I need to get my Fiancee's Macbook Air setup to backup over to FreeNAS at some point - I noticed you can created AFP shares, so I assume that will work with Time Machine.

I'm sure they will, but apple has difficulty acknowledging the problem before the have a solution. Then tend to dodge or blame the user, and I get sick of it. How hard is "We know there's a problem with some users, we don't know the cause yet, we're working on it."? 
You don't blame the users and third party software until you've done your full investigation into the problem, even if you think it is. 

[dalekphalm]

24 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

I'm sure they will, but apple has difficulty acknowledging the problem before the have a solution. Then tend to dodge or blame the user, and I get sick of it. How hard is "We know there's a problem with some users, we don't know the cause yet, we're working on it."? 
You don't blame the users and third party software until you've done your full investigation into the problem, even if you think it is. 

Agreed.

[DrMacintosh]

It appears that changing the format of a drive or partition being used for Time Machine to MacOS Extended Journaled Case Sensitive fixes the issue. 

[vanished]

33 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

It appears that changing the format of a drive or partition being used for Time Machine to MacOS Extended Journaled Case Sensitive fixes the issue. 

Interesting... two questions:

1. When would that not have already been the format?
2. Why would changing it work if it used to work just fine on whatever format it was before?

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Interesting... two questions:

1. When would that not have already been the format?
2. Why would changing it work if it used to work just fine on whatever format it was before?

As far as I’m aware, only Time Capsules (Apples Backup NAS/Router) were the Only drives using Case Sensative. For any other drive Time Machine would format your drive as standard HFS+

 

As for the second question....beats me....

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On ‎10‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 10:13 AM, XenosTech said:

Even the non techie accounts at my office get that used on their personal machines. So you guys must be doing something really wrong.

Considering how it's literally just a wizard requiring two clicks, being techie or not has nothing to do with this. 

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

5 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

As far as I’m aware, only Time Capsules (Apples Backup NAS/Router) were the Only drives using Case Sensative. For any other drive Time Machine would format your drive as standard HFS+

 

As for the second question....beats me....

Question 2. Maybe this new Mac OS Mojave is addressing the memory in a different way, for example, the way in which Intel Optane drives accelerate memory accessibility OR before the Mojave update the system creates a new backup partition and Time Machine does not or cannot configure the way this new boot loader file is formatted...

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

14 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

Fun fact, most fridges have a physical switch that is depressed when the door closes, and shuts off the light. You can usually find the switch yourself, and press it with the door wide open, to shut off the light to see for yourself.

@dalekphalm you spoiled the mystery and crushed the magic light of the refrigerator, shame on you. 

[XenosTech]

6 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Considering how it's literally just a wizard requiring two clicks, being techie or not has nothing to do with this. 

So you're doing something wrong then.

[Misanthrope]

It occurs to me that we have a major update issue with both macos and Windows 10 on the front page right now.

 

So we kinda only need Android to shit the bed to have the trilogy set complete.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

5 hours ago, XenosTech said:

So you're doing something wrong then.

Are you implying you're somehow magical and doing it right then? Gee... Considering how System Restore is as broken, I don't seeing that being likely. 

[XenosTech]

20 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Are you implying you're somehow magical and doing it right then? Gee... Considering how System Restore is as broken, I don't seeing that being likely. 

If people would stop modifying the shit out of windows unnecessarily so of the stuff they claim is "broken" would actually work, or if people actually took their time and configured their shit correctly there would be fewer issues. I know it has its issues but blaming the tool for the user's incompetence is a whole other issue.

[wasab]

On 10/5/2018 at 11:50 AM, Syntaxvgm said:

damn shame. I like time machine, and at the time it was first released in leopard wow that was 10 years ago fuck it was, imo, pretty much THE solution for simple and easy backup for people who are only computer literate on a day-day functional level. Easy to set up, easy to understand, a lot of people have stuck with it because it's set and forget. It simply one of my personal favorite things in mac os, ever. 

Hope the acknowledge and attempt to fix it. 

It sounds too much like the spooky Windows backup and restore that run creepily on the background for me.