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time machine fails

my Mac book is running Catalina 10.15.7 ive been trying to back up using time machine bt it keeps failing about half way through theres almost a TB of date on laptop, ive tried 2 different 2 TB hardrives but results are the same

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Nov 29, 2020 4:38 AM

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Posted on Dec 1, 2020 1:11 PM

tried two harddrives and different cables but it now seems to be sorted , MacBook had software issue that it seemed to be that it was performing as encrypted when it wasn't so it was failing during back up , the classic turn on the encryption and then back off seems to have solved it

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Dec 1, 2020 12:08 PM in response to pcashtray

pcashtray wrote:

my Mac book is running Catalina 10.15.7 ive been trying to back up using time machine bt it keeps failing about half way through theres almost a TB of date on laptop, ive tried 2 different 2 TB hardrives but results are the same


Typically a failure like this would indicate a bad TM drive/enclosure/cable


https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/time-machine-troubleshooting-mh15653/mac


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