Cannot Backup to Time Capsule
Hi everyone,
I have not have been able to back up to my 2 year old Time Capsule for the past 3 weeks.
I brought it into the Apple store today and the Genius tried resetting, reformatting, and trying everything to try to get it to back up. Everything failed. He said that the Time Capsule hard drive is failing and the only other thing I could try is to zero out erase the time capsule. I brought it home and tried several things, tried erasing, and then tried to zero out erasing, it got to about half way and it stops and gives me an error. So i try doing a quick erase and it preforms fine. So it is erased and clean, and I try backing up, well all of a sudden it starts backing up, I was so happy, Then at about 500mb backed up it just closes, gone, quit. I was like, okay. So I tried backing up again, it says making back up disk available and gives me error 22, back up disk not available. Then I tried opening the sparsebundle my self, then my finder freezes doesn't open the sparsebundle, I opened the force quit window and relaunched the finder. The finder closes but doesn't relaunch, I try opening the finder myself and it gives me error, finder could not be opened error 10810. I rebooted my macbook, once up and running, I deleted the sparsebundle and reformatted the time capsule disk AGAIN. After erasing, I tried backing up again, gives me error 1, back up disk could not be created. WHAT IS GOING ON!!!! ANYONE, PLEASE HELP!! I have tried everything except replacing the HDD. I am going to buy a new hard drive tomorrow and see if that is it,
chester4444 wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have not have been able to back up to my 2 year old Time Capsule for the past 3 weeks.
I brought it into the Apple store today and the Genius tried resetting, reformatting, and trying everything to try to get it to back up. Everything failed. He said that the Time Capsule hard drive is failing
Apparently he was right.
If you have AppleCare on a Mac, purchased within two years of the TC, the TC is covered, too.
If not, call AppleCare (800-694-7466 if you're in the U.S. or Canada). Tell them what's been going on, and ask very nicely what they can do for you. They've replaced a number of them in such circumstances.
Otherwise, your options are to get a new one, or open it up and replace the hard drive yourself.
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I have had no problem with wireless backup to Time Capsule until recently when I would consistently get a kernel panic during the backup. Is it a corrupt file? How would I isolate it? Or could it be a directory problem that DiskWarrior would fix? I can mount the backup image on my desktop OK.
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Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the page that opens.
Select the System keychain in the list of keychains in the sidebar of the window. If you don't see the list, click the down-arrow icon below the sidebar.
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Quit Keychain Access and try again to back up.
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