The backup disk is not in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required.

Question

Level 1

27 points

The backup disk is not in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required.

Hey guy's. Just yesterday my computer did a back up to my "My Book for Mac" external hard drive. I guess it tried to do it again at 5.54pm yesterday and now it is failing because of this "The backup disk is not in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required."

Thing is, it just backed it up a few hours before. Why is it all of a sudden not working? How do I fix this? I did read another post on this same subject and some said to reformat the hard drive. Well, I really don't want to do that because I have almost a terabyte of stuff already saved on it. Again, I just don't know why all of a sudden this has become a problem? Any suggestions on how to make it work again with out having to reformat the drive?

Thanks

Kim

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 31, 2020 7:15 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Top-ranking reply

leroydouglas

Community+ 2024

Level 10

188,712 points

Mar 31, 2020 7:57 AM in response to justcruzin

justcruzin wrote:

Ok, just did the repair and it failed. Here is what it says,

First Aid process has failed. If possible back up the data on this volume. Click Done to continue. Couldn't copy the rest of the text so I took a pic.

Your drive has failed in some regard—

You can try erase/ reformat GUID/HFS+ and see if it comes back to life.

All drives fail and can do so at anytime. Backup, backup, backup.

3-2-1 Backup Strategy: three copies of your data, two different methods, and one offsite.

Boot clone https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10081

How to use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250

Use DiskUtility Restore feature https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/restore-a-disk-dskutl14062/mac

note: >System Preferences>Security & Privacy >Privacy>Full Disk Access

unlock the padlock, press the + button and add Disk Utility

Reply

Answer 2

justcruzin Author

Level 1

27 points

Mar 31, 2020 7:53 AM in response to leroydouglas

Ok, just did the repair and it failed. Here is what it says,

First Aid process has failed. If possible back up the data on this volume. Click Done to continue. Couldn't copy the rest of the text so I took a pic.

Reply

Answer 3

justcruzin Author

Level 1

27 points

Mar 31, 2020 9:01 AM in response to leroydouglas

So, I turned off "automatic updates" because it was getting irratating it giving me the error message every 10mins or so. Not sure why it is wanting to back up that often, but anyway. I then decided to just restart my computer. Once it was up and running again, before I did anything, I told it to back up. This time it worked, but when I turned the automatic updates off, it must have also unchecked the box that you check if you want it to skip certain files and such. It backed up the whole computer. No biggie, at least it backed it up. LOL

Honestly, I think it is more of the fact that I probably need a new computer, not external drive. LOL My son say's my computer is getting to old and that is why it is slow. Sometimes it is so slow at opening things I think I am on dial up. LOL

Anyway, I will just try to back it up once a day manually and not worry about the automatic updates. If I have to, I'll restart my computer everytime I want to update. :D

Reply

Answer 4

Mar 31, 2020 7:42 AM in response to justcruzin

Use the Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your backup drive, If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Repair a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

Reply

Answer 5

justcruzin Author

Level 1

27 points

Mar 31, 2020 7:33 AM in response to justcruzin

I just looked in my Disk Utility and found external hard drive. This is what it say when I hit the "info" tab on it. It actually says "extended Jounaled format in it. So why is it still not working?

Reply

The backup disk is not in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required.

Similar questions