Wd My Passport For Mac Backup __FULL__
Clarabella Doom
In new macOS 10.14 (Mojave), some issues are causing with Time Machine while taking backup on external drive and My Cloud network devices. I hope, Apple would fix it soon.
Did you try to check it on another macOS version computer such as Sierra or High Sierra for same issue?
Start up Time Machine, remove your existing backup disk selection (especially if it is the disk you were just erasing), and re-select the external WD disk you just did First Aid on as your backup disk.
Let the first backup complete. Wait for a while to confirm that subsequent backups have also completed successfully. I waited 24 hours and when I went into TimeMachine there were about 20 successful hourly backups waiting for me.
Assuming yes, WD Backup has to not only copy the files to the external
drive, but create the structure for tracking status of changes to files.
Mine, and many others, have run overnight to complete the initial
backup. Once that completes, Backup will follow the times you select and
check the files you selected. Please let it complete the initial backup.
Also, you may notice that the used space on the external drive is at
near double that of PC files.
I'm having the same issues and then when I plugged my backup Apple Passport to retrieve my photos, Dropbox started to back it up and then it added it to my Mac and I ran out of memory on a terabit - ugh....
Hannah, I just had the same issue. I don't want Passport backing up into my Dropbox. I received a notice as to that was what it was doing. I checked automatic backups and listed last back up as of January. Confused> why did I get a notice?
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If you have a valid U.S. passport and you meet several additional requirements, you may be eligible to apply for a second U.S. passport book. If eligible, the second passport will be valid for four years or less, and will display the exact same personal information on the photo ID page as seen in your other passport.
In most cases when applying for a second passport, you will need to complete a Renewal Application (Form DS-82). You may apply for a second passport using Form DS-82 if you can submit your full-validity, 10 year passport and you meet the other requirements to renew. You may renew your second passport but you must submit your second passport with your application. We will invalidate it so it cannot be used for international travel.
While customers rarely have two passport books, they commonly have both a passport book and a passport card. The passport book is valid for all types of travel. The passport card cannot be used for international air travel. The card can be used for land and sea travel when returning to the United States from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and several Caribbean countries and for domestic air travel.
You must mail in Forms DS-82 and DS-5504 yourself. Mailing Forms DS-82 and DS-5504 can be confusing since some post offices are also passport acceptance facilities. However, postal employees should never review these forms or supporting documents before you mail them. We recommend you ask USPS to send your forms and supporting documents using a trackable delivery method.
Yes. When you receive your second passport book, the number on the document will be different from the number on your primary passport book. Make sure to update any DHS Trusted Traveler account information with your second passport book information.
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I don't understand why I keep getting this message. I thought there was something wrong with my old Passport so I bought a new one and I get the same error. The Passport drive work fine on initial backup but fails thereafter on each automatic backup. The only workaround I have found is to unplug the drive and plug it back in and perform a backup then.
Disk Utility says it passed. So the message I get states, "Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "My Passport for Mac"., followed by, "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder."
I have a WD Passport that I want to use to back up two separate Mac laptops. One unit has Big Sur v 11.4 and the other has High Sierra v 10.13.6. I formatted the drive using the unit that has Big Sur and was able to perform the Time Capsule backup. When attempting to use the Passport for a Time Capsule back up on the High Sierra laptop I am getting a message indicating I need to reformat the Passport. Can I use the WD Passport to back up multiple laptops? Is there a backward compatibility issue w/ using a Big Sur formatted device on a High Sierra device for a Time Capsule back up? Is there a work around or solution to make my approach work?
I connected the drive to my Big Sur laptop and set it up as a destination for Time Machine backups. With no prompting, Time Machine automatically configured the WD Drive in APFS (Case Sensitive) and then backed up the contents of my Mac. About 150 GB was backed up in about 2 hours. Not bad.
When the backup was done, I ejected the drive and connected it back to my laptop. When I did this, two hard drive icons appeared on the my laptop's desktop.......WD 500 GB and Backups of (my wife's name) iMac.
The reason......Apple changed the format of the internal disk on Macs that are running Big Sur to a new type of format called APFS. So, the Big Sur Mac backs up to a hard drive formatted as APFS automatically on the first backup to match up the format of the Mac's hard drive with the backup drive.
Older Macs used a format called Mac OS Extended (Journaled), also known as HFS+, so Time Machine backups on older Macs were automatically formatted correctly for Macs at the time.
IF......you had already been backing up your High Sierra Mac to the WD Drive......then......Time Machine on the Big Sur Mac would have likely gone ahead and set up the Big Sur backups using the older Mac or HFS+ format.
Not recommended though, since the Big Sur backups would be stored on a hard drive that is formatted differently than the internal hard drive on the Big Sur Mac. That's bound to result in a conflict at some point with future updates to Big Sur.
If I were gong to do this, I would set up two separate partitions on the WD drive and format both the same way in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or HFS+. The High Sierra Mac will back up automatically to the partition that you choose, and the Big Sur Mac will automatically reformat the other partition as part of the initial back up process. You don't really have to do anything.....let Big Sur / Time Machine set up the backups automatically.
It may take until tomorrow to know the results, but I'll try to set up a spare WD drive here as a single APFS device, make a Time Machine backup of one Big Sur Mac and then try to switch the drive over to another Big Sur Mac to see what happens when I try to back up that other Mac.
Once you have both Big Sur Macs backing up reliably to the WD Drive, then you may want to go ahead and erase the old High Sierra backups on the old hard drive, unless you are in the habit of going back weeks, months, etc to pick up an old file. Few of us ever need that capability.
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