My TimeMachine hangs >48 hours in "preparing backup...". It is backing up to a 750 GB SATA drive plugged directly into my Mac Pro, which has 142 GB free (more than the total to back up). TimeMachine is disabled right now, and I just rebooted after turning it off.
I tried to remove its in-progress backup (which is empty), and failed:
So I tried removing immutable flags:
This directory is empty:
How can I remove these directories?
More generally, how can I get TimeMachine to work again?
I tried to remove its in-progress backup (which is empty), and failed:
Code:
pwd
/Volumes/Scratch/Backups.backupdb/tjrob
sudo rm -fr 2008-11-07-125153.inProgress
rm: 2008-11-07-125153.inProgress/34575222-4ADE-4A62-B4EE-A73586D4B7CF: Operation not permitted
... three moreNote: There was a power failure during this backup.
So I tried removing immutable flags:
Code:
sudo chflags -R nouchg,noschg 2008-11-07-125153.inProgress
... same four "operation not permitted" (rm->chflags)This directory is empty:
Code:
du 2008-11-07-125153.inProgress
0B 2008-11-07-125153.inProgress/34575222-4ADE-4A62-B4EE-A73586D4B7CF
0B 2008-11-07-125153.inProgress/5D431E82-23E6-410C-B382-4920920836A7
0B 2008-11-07-125153.inProgress/92CC593C-55CA-4D19-9A21-1D6E63E9751B
0B 2008-11-07-125153.inProgressHow can I remove these directories?
More generally, how can I get TimeMachine to work again?