How to resolve the failed Time machine backup with read only in macbook

Posted by Herry Martin on March 28th, 2018

Easy to use backup system is time machine holding nice collection of active features that takes it to reach to the backup system for the Mac users. But similar to all the applications associated to the backup creation, time machine is even a subject to error and issues that can crawl in and become the reason of tension regarding backups. One of the most common problems that the user can come across is that the time machine is unable to easily access the “backup disk”. You will generally come across notification like "The backup volume is read only".

One of the good news or the user is that their backup files are generally working in healthy condition and there is no tension of data loss. Along with good news, there exist a bad news and that is user cannot create any backup of new data to the respective Mac’s time machine drive till the problem is resolved. The reason behind the error notification completely depends over certain factors and in every condition the Mac decides that the drive holds the permission changed to be like read only. In this situation try resetting the permission as it won’t be better for you. In place of that you can proceed over the listed steps:

Turning off of the Time Machine:

For turning off the time machine smoothly, you can proceed further over easy steps:

•          Launching the system preferences and then choose the “time machine preference pane”.
•          Then step ahead for moving the slider to off.

Repairing the “time machine drive”:

If the respective time machine is not an external thing that is connected to the Mac directly then there exist chances that there can be issue related to disk and that needs to be repaired as soon as possible. So for correcting the problem, follow defined steps below:

•          In the very first move, turn off the time machine.
•          Then further use the “disk utility’s ability for repairing the minor drive problem for correcting the issue of read-only.
•          You can use Repair Your Mac's Drives with Disk Utility's First Aid or Using Disk Utility to Repair Hard Drives and Disk Permissions.
•          Once you are done with the repairing of drive, turn on the time machine again. It should be able now to use properly the drive.

Repairing the “Time Capsule”

If you own a time capsule, then you can proceed to follow the basic instructions for repairing the drive:

•          In the initial step, mount the time capsule on the MacBook.
•          Then open the “finder window” and locate the time capsule in the sidebar of the finder window.
•          Double tap over the time capsule for opening it in the finder window.
•          Open up the backups folder from the time capsule window.
•          You will come across a file tagged with ending word as sparsebundle in the backup folder.
•          Easily drag the sparsebundle to the file located in the sidebar of disk utility.
•          Tap on the tab of first aid.
•          Then further tap over the repair disk option.
•          Once you are done with the repairing process, you are free to close down the disk utility.
•          Then further turn on the time machine again. So now you might be able to use the time machine back again.

Till the reoccurrence of the error, your respective drive of time machine will be running better. However, if you are again facing the trouble in using it then you can call up to the Apple MacBook Support namely liveapplesupport.com by dialing MacBook Customer service number or MacBook customer service number 24 Hours.
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