Howdy.
Joan, the Screen Shot of your SysPref>Time Machine items to exclude
shows the LaCie drive, both partitions.
So you have it in the list of drives to NOT backup with Time Machine.
You can remove it by selecting with a click and then clicking the minus
sign below.
I'd do that first, then restart your Mac, check the available free
space on the LaCie unit (enough?) and then try a Time Machine backup
and see what happens.
As a separate and next step, turn off FileVault and let it go through
the time to un-encrypt your boot drive. Depending on how much is
encrypted it could take some time to finish.
Then attempt another Time Machine backup as a test. Tell the group
what happens.
Note: There are valid reasons to exclude some drives from a Time
Machine backup. I exclude a RAID enclosures drives because they are
backed up with CarbonCopyCloner. Note that I use the CCC backup
feature and not the CCC clone part.
I have a set of drives in a RAID and they are backed up to another set
of drives in a different RAID. I exclude the 2nd RAID's drives from
being indexed by Spotlight (see SysPrefs>Spotlight>Privacy tab.
Good luck!
Denver Dan
On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:33:28 -0500, Joan Sax via Groups.Io wrote:
Below is a screen shot of both my Time Machine Options window and of
my LaCie drive showing its capacity. Filevault is turned on. Before I
do anything, are you saying that I should turn Filevault off? Also,
the LaCie Drive isn¡¯t the only one stating "Time Machine couldn¡¯t
complete the backup to ¡°Joan¡¯s AirPort Extreme.local¡± There are no
disks to back up This can happen if all available disks are in the Do
not backup list. Click Options to edit the list.¡± And as you can see
from the screen shot, my iMac time machine drive is not listed under
the Exclude these items from backup.
So are you suggesting that I turn off Filevault and also reformat my
LaCie drive without the LACIE Share section? I do have a SuperDuper
backup of my drive on the LaCie Drive and I will not make sure I have
one on the Airport Extreme connected drive using Super Duper.
I will wait for further instructions before I do either turning off
Filevault and/or reformatting the LaCie drive
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