Issues with Time Machine - new backup must be created

[glazunov2]

Don't bother getting a time capsule. It does the same thing. I bought a WD MBL to try and avoid the issue when actually I should have realised it's Lion that's the problem.

[faithengineer]

Just to pipe in and share that I've experienced this problem as well. Today I got the error message for the 3rd time. I'm on a brand new macbook air with all software updated, and am using a my book live 2TB drive.  It takes a couple of days to finish the backup over wifi, and then I get the error and have to start all over again. Looking forward to a solution to this.

[mrbatch]

I have 2 macs imac and laptop that use this useless MBL to backup as it was one of theh sales features. I am having to redo backsups from scratch every 2 weeks. Because the MBL is so slow and i'm only getting a history of 2 weeks before i have to wipe it it would be easier to buy a standard backup disk and just copy stuff to it.

Also how can you release such bug ridden firmware updates that clearly haven't been tested. Shame on you WD

[ThierryB]

Hi,

To avoid making a brand new backup, the solution is here :

Re: Issues with Time Machine - new backup must be created

I had this issues 3 times on one MBP and it works every times.

Good luck

[philharve]

Hi KC5MZR

Yes, I have Snow Leopard and I am attempting a backup of 420GB with Time Machine, however, I am now at 620GB and the backing up is still continuing. This is to my NAS via a router.

I have backed up to a WD MBL connected to a USB port on my MBP using TM with no problem at all. Introduce a LAN and things have gone wrong.

I have contacted WD Support and they recommended a hard reset of the WD MBL and it made no difference at all. I deleted the backup and started a fresh backup with exactly the same problem ... the backing up just keeps on going well after it should have completed.

[gmhwd18]

hello, 

i have a WD MBL for my backup with an Imac and OS X 10.7

for the 10 last mounth i tested lots of solutions trying to resolve the same problem : need to refresh the first backup with time machine after 2 days.

and now, since i updated OS x in 10.7.4, the problem seems to be fixed...  ...i hope

it's just the first week, but the MBL backup very regularely : its a real pleasur.

every one else ?

[philharve]

Hi gmhwd18

I have yet to attempt a TM backup using my new custom i7 MBP which is running Lion but I will do so after I have succeeded in backing up my older MBP which uses Snow Leopard and cannot be upgraded to Lion.

I, too, have had trouble making an initial backup to my WD 6TB NAS but I have been chasing the problem for only about 3 weeks, not 10 months. I may yet succeed in the next few hours following a factory restore & rebuild recommended by WD Support. I think something went wrong with the original RAID 0 to RAID 1 conversion and I have to start over from the beginning.

I am encouraged by your news that the latest version of Lion works OK with your WD MBL. I am thinking about buying a WD 3TB MBL as a backup for my Safepoints.

[ThierryB]

Hi folks,

After more than 15 issues 'new backup must be created', I decided to use another backup solution instead of Time Machine. I have test Tri-Backup for a month now, and it's working really great, I'm gonna buy it.

So, it seems to be an interresting option for people like me who are not very confident in Time Machine's backup and who are bored about this issue.

The backup is a little bit longer, but there are a lot (maybe too much !) options.

The interface is less funny but the tool is efficient and reliable.

[PaulaE]

Sure wish I had seen all of this before I bought this MBL!  I am using MBL and a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard.  I did the first backup while connected by ethernet and it went fine.  Waited a couple of weeks until I saw it was running smoothly and backing up as it should and then I deleted a lot of things off my computer that were bogging it down.  Since I had them all in my backup I wasn't worried, I could retrieve them from Time Machine if I needed them.  Well now I've got the "after verification need to do a new backup blah blah blah" thing.  So does that mean that all of my data/photos/documents that I thought were safely stored are now gone forever?  The MBL won't even connect to my backup through ethernet now. 

[PaulaE]

I am definitely panicking and have been for days.  I am trying to use what you've said here but I can't even get past step 2.  I'm not sure how to get to the time machine folder on the MBL.  That's the problem, it won't show it to me.  I can see it if I'm in Dashboard on the MBL but on finder I have two things: MyBookLive which if I click I get the public folder and MyBookLive-backup which if I click it says connection failed.  There is a button that says "connect as" but when I click it I get nothing.  So I tried just putting the AFP://ip address in a finder search window and it finds nothing.  Is the ip address for MBL the same as for my network?  I just went to system preferences and clicked on network and it showed me the ip addresss.  I realize this thread is old and I sound like I have no idea what I'm talking about, mainly because I have no idea what I'm talking about.  But there is information in that Time Machine Backup that I desperately need to restore.  The only option Time Machine gives me is to do a new backup which of course will mean that's all gone.  Is there anything I can do to get that backup back whether it's stable or not?  You have no idea how grateful I would be for the help!!