When I went to the Time Machine preference pane within the System Preferences, there was the usual red circle information icon.Ĭlicking on the red information icon launched an “amazingly informative” description of the error. Then, I started getting alerts saying that the Time Machine backup had failed. For quite a while, Time Machine was just chugging along, doing its thing. (Hint: if you don’t care about how I figured this out and just want the fix, skip to the end of the article.) The Time Machine Error & Getting Details On It There may be some other Time Machine errors that you encounter in the process that you can identify and fix as well. This Fix-It article tells you how to find the logs that may be showing the specific error and then use that information to correct it. But it took a while to figure out what was exactly causing it. This How-To article is a bit more specific.
There are some good troubleshooting tips in that Fix-It article, so if what you find in this article doesn’t help, I encourage you to look at that one as it has more general approaches to fixing Time Machine errors. Back in 2019, I was getting Error Type 11 issues with my backup.
I’m actually not a stranger to Time Machine errors. It turns out, in my case, Microsoft OneDrive and Apple Time Machine were not playing nicely together. After some digging around, I found the easy fix to this Time Machine error, and it hasn’t occurred since I corrected the problem. That is until you get a cryptic error like “An error has occurred while copying files.” Huh?! Ok, tell me more, Time Machine! But, part of “keeping things simple” means hiding away the details of what is causing a Time Machine error. You plug in an external hard drive, and magically it will create backups and snapshots in the background. I love the simplicity of using Apple’s Time Machine for doing backups.
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