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OldManJimbo

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Jun 1, 2004
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MacAir, High Sierra. Brand new WD 3TB drive. No password protection on WDdrive. USB connection (not WIFI).
The WD is formatted correctly. When I use Time Machine to back up (112GB), the Time Machine will run for about 2GB then STOP, with no error message.
Ideas?
 

cowdog

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MacAir, High Sierra. Brand new WD 3TB drive. No password protection on WDdrive. USB connection (not WIFI).
The WD is formatted correctly. When I use Time Machine to back up (112GB), the Time Machine will run for about 2GB then STOP, with no error message.
Ideas?

Some clarifying questions:

What are the numbers you refer to? 3TB drive, is that the source, or the target?

What is 112GB? The amount of data to be backed up?

When you say STOP, I understand there is no error message, but is there any other message, such as "Backing up" (but with no progress ever seeming to happen)? I ask this because this is another scenario that could be described as STOP by some people, and I have no way to know if you are one of those people.

How much free space is available on the source (that is not a typo) drive?

With which file system is the WD drive correctly formatted? What does Disk Utility show it as?
 

OldManJimbo

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Jun 1, 2004
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Some clarifying questions:

What are the numbers you refer to? 3TB drive, is that the source, or the target?

-- The 3TB drive is the target (the backup drive)

What is 112GB? The amount of data to be backed up?

-- Yes, there is 112GB to be backed up.

When you say STOP, I understand there is no error message, but is there any other message, such as "Backing up" (but with no progress ever seeming to happen)? I ask this because this is another scenario that could be described as STOP by some people, and I have no way to know if you are one of those people.

-- During the Time Machine's process, it will start to backup files, and then the status will change to "stopping" after about a minute, it will revery to the status it had before the backup started.

How much free space is available on the source (that is not a typo) drive?

-- The source drive (my Mac hdd) has about 12GB of free space (it's a 128GB SSD)

With which file system is the WD drive correctly formatted? What does Disk Utility show it as?

-- It is Journaled HFS+

-- Thanks for asking good questions.
 
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