SBlog

I had my Time Machine backup working and I used to do my backs every week or so.

After I ran out of space, I bought a new external to use as a backup volume, so I formatted the new hard drive using Disk Utility and set it to use the GUID partition scheme and HFS+.

I started time machine and it began a new backup but after some time the backup always stopped.

I retried several times, and I reformatted my external hdd multiple times, and several other solutions I found while googling but Time Machine always stopped during the backup.

I saw this knowledge base article from apple, where they advice users to use GUID, so I didn’t try anything else. Until I did, and it worked.

So my solution on how to fix Time Machine when it stops repeatedly during a backup is to use MBR and not GUID (as apple suggests). I think the SATA controller of my disk doesn’t like using GUID.