Time Machine could not perform the backup. Problem with a complicated solution

This week after these days of vacation the iMac at home has been off more than normal and we are not saying that this is the culprit of an error that appears on some Macs and that it is made with the backup copies in The Machine, simply I think this is a mere coincidence. In my case, the error that appeared yesterday afternoon on my Mac ends up directly deleting all the contents of the backup and re-partitioning an external hard drive to store the backup copies of my Mac. It seems that the The problem was in the disk but in any case it can be a problem with a complicated solution when the message appears: Time Machine could not perform the backup.

In short, if we do not have problems with the Mac, the only problem is that all backup copies can be affected, something that does not pose any problem for most users but that can be somewhat annoying if we trust that we have that copy of more ago time stored on disk. In my case these messages appeared when starting the Mac after vacation and after trying to recover the information of the disk:

 

Seeing this error, I try to make a copy of the disk on another disk but for whatever reason I have not succeeded in any way, so I have had to disconnect the disk "with the loss of all stored copies" for now and configure another disk to store Time Machine copies. In my case I have to clarify that I do not use the internal disk of the Mac, I was using an external disk and that may be the problem, but at the moment the disk that I used for the copies is disconnected waiting to see if I can discover the problem of its operation. This disk contains two partitions, the Time Machine one and another in which I have foreign files and documents that are not damaged, the part destined for Time Machine is simply affected.

If this happens to you before doing anything you have to be quick to use another disk and use it as a backup, think that the longer we are without a copy, the more options we have to lose everything we have on the Mac if an error occurs. In my case I can understand that it is a disk problem but it is strange that it is not more than that specific partition so I will try to recover the data and format the disk later.


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  1.   franctastic franctastic said

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  2.   Rodrigo camacho said

    that happens to me frequently and the worst thing is that there is no update that fixes that

  3.   Pedro said

    I don't know if it's a coincidence. But after coming back from vacation and stopping my computer for 5 days I have encountered the same problem.

  4.   Alexander De Castro said

    The exact same thing happens to me on a mac mini with an external disk. The saddest thing is that it has happened to me several times and Apple does not give a serious answer.

    This leads me to look for other safer backup media, such as some of the cloud storage options (Google Drive, Skydrive, Dropbox, etc.)

    Greetings from Rosario, Argentina.