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Time Machine not backing up

I recently installed a new 4 TB ssd drive. to use as a Time Machine drive.

The drive was ejecting while in sleep.

I turned off sleep mode and reformatted ssd drive.

Now I am getting the following error:

Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “Time Machine”

“/usr” could not be backed up.

Mac mini, macOS 13.2

Posted on Jan 28, 2023 4:10 AM

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Posted on Jan 28, 2023 5:11 AM

Bernie Renton wrote:

I recently installed a new 4 TB ssd drive. to use as a Time Machine drive.

The drive was ejecting while in sleep.

I turned off sleep mode and reformatted ssd drive.

Now I am getting the following error:

Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “Time Machine”

“/usr” could not be backed up.

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