Can't back up to old Time Machine from new Macbook Pro.

TM wants to copy everything to external HD, not just back up the changes as per how i did it on my older 2007 Macbook. The external 320GB HD has only 13GB left and is trying to send all 300GB from new machine to it, not just any changes i've made in last few days since getting the new Macbook Pro.

wjkelly29 wrote:
The external 320GB HD has only 13GB left and is trying to send all 300GB from new machine to it
As r8er says, Time Machine will do a full back-up of the new Mac -- you cannot prevent it.
Also, that's much too small a drive. See #1 in
Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

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I upgraded from a 2.66Gig 15 inch dual core to a 2.2GHz 15 inch quad core (MacBook Pro 8,2) - I used setup assistant to transfer files and settings form the old mac to the new one over ethernet - Everything (apps, documents, preferences) transferred fine and the new mac is a clone of the other except for being able to use time machine. On running for the first time I get an error dialog "Time machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk image "Volumes/backups/restOfPath.sparsebundle" could not be accessed(error-1).
I tried a full reset of TM (deselecting the backup drive, turning off, deleting the preferences .plist and rebooting), with the same result. The image that is created is 1.6TB (on a 1 TB Iomega Home Storage drive). The image of my old time machine reflects the drive size -I don't know if this is a problem, both images are twice the size of the respective mac's inbuilt drives).
I looked at the troubleshooting tips and installed TM buddy - the log from the new mac shows this:
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Ray%[email protected]/backups
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Ray%[email protected]/backups
Warning: Destination /Volumes/backups does not support TM Lock Stealing
Warning: Destination /Volumes/backups does not support Server Reply Cache
Error 257 looking up immutability for /Volumes/backups/Ray-Hicks-MacBook-Pro.local_c82a1408b246.sparsebundle/token
Error writing Time Machine Information file: /Volumes/backups/Ray-Hicks-MacBook-Pro.local_c82a1408b246.sparsebundle/com.appl e.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist
Running backup verification
Failed to attach to image: /Volumes/backups/Ray-Hicks-MacBook-Pro.local_c82a1408b246.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 107
Backup verification incomplete!
Failed to attach to image: /Volumes/backups/Ray-Hicks-MacBook-Pro.local_c82a1408b246.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 107
Mount failed... waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
The original mac can still use it's backup on the same disc - it gives the same warnings about Lock Stealing and Server Reply Cache, I'll append a report from TM Buddy below this one.
I'd appreciate any help that people can provide - I'm using the same username and password connecting to the backup disc from either mac so I'm presuming it's not an access privilege thing (but if it is I may need an idiots guide to changing these:))
Cheers
TM Buddy log from old MacBook follows:
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Ray%[email protected]/backups
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Ray%[email protected]/backups
Warning: Destination /Volumes/backups does not support TM Lock Stealing
Warning: Destination /Volumes/backups does not support Server Reply Cache
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/backups/Ray-Hickss-MacBook-Pro.local_109add54a619.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 803.6 MB requested (including padding), 748.74 GB available
Copied 358 files (2.8 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 800.4 MB requested (including padding), 748.74 GB available
Copied 31 files (15 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Message was edited by: RayHicks

Sorry - I totally missed this longer post you made - here are the answers to the best of my knowledge - I seem to have answered a couple accidentally in my next post, but didn't directly address what you'd asked - sorry about that I just totally missed your post before reposting an update to (what I thought was) my one-man thread!
{quote:title=Pondini wrote:}
When you set up Time Machine on that NAS, do you create the sparse bundle manually, or does the NAS do it? Is there a setting on the NAS to limit the size? (One of the disadvantages to using a 3rd-party NAS is, few folks here, or with Apple, know much about how that particular NAS interacts with OSX).
{quote}
It seems that the NAS does it automatically, sometimes wrongly (it puts the wrong MAC in occasionally, and it appends .local after the username (not sure of the relevance of this, but in the manual setup that got me limping along in the later post, it doesn't mention the .local bit and I didn't use it (maybe this is why the access is through ip address now?)
Those seem to mean your NAS isn't fully compatible with Snow Leopard. See if there's a software/firmware update for it.
I'm using the latest firmware, and it works with the other mac also running 10 6.6
also throwing the same warning but with no apparent problem (yet:P)
I'd appreciate any help that people can provide - I'm using the same username and password connecting to the backup disc from either mac so I'm presuming it's not an access privilege thing (but if it is I may need an idiots guide to changing these:))
That would be on the NAS, not OSX, so you'd need their instructions or help.
Indeed it was (fix seems to be to manually install a newly created sparsebundle)
You might try repairing the sparse bundle. Follow the instructions for a Time Capsule in #A5 of [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Thanks - I tried that I think ( I read though most of your site and tried many things:)), but with no joy - thanks for taking the time to provide this useful resource.
On a Time Capsule or AirDisk, where Time Machine creates the sparse bundle, it's actual size starts out at just a few hundred MBs (the directory structure, etc.), then grows as backups are added. It's maximum size is set at the size of the volume it's on.
That seems to be the way with this too (the actual size is a few hundred megs - though disc utility reports it to be 1.5TB which is twice the size of the Mac disc)
Thanks again for your time and input,
Ray

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I transferred from my Intel Imac which is completely up to date. Used the same Time Machine disk to transfer everything to other Macbook Pro and Air. Maybe I did something wrong, because usually all of the mail, the settings, the photos and Itune contents were transferred in one go. It was simple and complete. This time I got many files, and no email setting nor email contents, no download or document. Maybe I should reinstall from scratch and try again. I can't install and archive because I don't have all of the elements from the Time Machine backup that I wanted. I was going to migrate from Migrate Assistant directly from my Imac to the Pro but I don't have a firewire cable and wasn't able to find a way to use the ethernet cable, because I didn't see that option, even though in the user guide is says you can connect the two computers through an ethernet connection.
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