This happened last night, and best I can tell, from cruising the intertubes is that error -11 indicates a hardware problem. But then TM seemed to go ahead with backups through the afternoon and evening. Checked this morning, all looked fine. But I just got that same error a few minutes ago.

I copied the TM messages out of console this time, and I'm also seeing error -43. No joy finding WTF this one means, but ran across some solutions ~ some sane, some ridiculous over at Apple Support Discussions.

Is it just that TM wants to stuff more on my 500GB Seagate than it wants to hold? Right now, it's backing up everything, which is kinda dumb I guess. I don't really need to back up my system stuff, right? (Leopard 10.5.6, MacPro single quad, 320GB)

I'm determined to learn this stuff, so thank you for your time, attention and patience.

LL

Once the initial backup is done, I think it only backs up changed/new items after that. I'm not at my computer at the moment, so I can't tell exactly what I have excluded from backups. I think I excluded browser caches for one. I also have network mounted volumes excluded (my wife's Mini). I have seen some dmgs trigger a backup when they are mounted - I cancel those backups before they execute.

Back up everything

I am not sure if that is a Pram battery or a ram problem ? ? - Just back up everything

No, I've received the -11 and the -43 a couple of times recently and have seen it on clients machines a few times, and I have plenty of space left on my drives. Both refer to an error in reading a file. It backed up fine the next time around. As often as I've seen them it's some glitch in TM I'd say as the machines it happens on are all healthy otherwise.

Yep, it backed up just fine about half an hour ago. Weird thing is, this happened about the same time, both evenings. OK, I'll trust it not to eat my stuff.

Michael, I've tweaked out stuff I don't really need backed up, and no network here. carp, I figure if my Seagate melts down it can't be as bad as losing my G5 last month. If I hadn't been a psychOCD MacBabe type about backing up my stuff, I'd have been waaaay beyond SOL when my old guy bit the biscuit.

Thank you, gentlemen.


LL