{"id":356,"date":"2008-06-12T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:55:48","slug":"time-machine-hangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/356","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine Hangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seems to be a bug in Mac OS X 10.5.* (Leopard). If you have the Energy Saver options set to &#8220;Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible&#8221; (obviously not the same euphemism in the States as here \ud83d\ude42 ) then Time Machine can hang in the &#8220;preparing backup&#8221; state. Forum help <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?t=432371\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread.jspa?messageID=6326929\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and another thing&mdash;backing up your VMware images using Time Machine is a good way to fill up your disk in no time. Use a separate guest O\/S backup mechanism to do them,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems to be a bug in Mac OS X 10.5.* (Leopard). If you have the Energy Saver options set to &#8220;Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible&#8221; (obviously not the same euphemism in the States as here \ud83d\ude42 ) then Time Machine can hang in the &#8220;preparing backup&#8221; state. Forum help here and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}