Disk can't be found
This morning I saw the Time Machine icon in the menu bar it had an exclamation mark. So I click on the icon and a message appear saying: "Your Time Machine backup disk can’t be found."
I open a Finder window and click on Shared>Time Capsule>Data and there is Spare Disk Image Bundle and it has 469.16 GB on it.
Now what? Do I have to start all over again with a new backup? Is there a way for Time Machine to use this file again?
Blue skies!
Jerry
See if you can repair the backups, per #A5 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
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Salient points:
* No configuration has changed since the time it was working fine - that includes passwords, network settings etc.
* When trying to back up, an error pops up saying: "The backup disk could not be found. Make sure the backup disk is connected or open Time Machine preferences to select a different backup disk."
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Extend a wireless network to another apple router is different and much better configuration.
There is no magic bullet to the problem.
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Thanks
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What OS is the computer running? Is it clean installed or upgrade? This is important for wireless in particular as Mountain Lion does not work properly on lots of computers with upgrade installs.
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How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
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http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
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Error Dialogue: "Time Machine Backup Disk Can't be Found"
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I am trying to "Enter Time Machine" (which is on a Time Capsule); but when I try this, I am met by the error message "Your Time Machine Backup Disk Can't be Found" with the option given to "Set up My Time Machine".
Needless to say, my Time Machine has been set up for months. When I look in the preferences, it clearly shows the disk I'm connected to (here's a screenshot of the error dialogue alongside my Time Machine preferences: http://cl.ly/1HGk).
Any idea what the best course of action is here.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: notice from the screenshot that Time Machine thinks the earliest backup is only 1 day prior. This is also strange as I have said I've had Time Machine working on this Time Capsule for months. I called Apple about this and was told that a software update had gone out yesterday that reformatted the drives and started the backups all over again. While completely fishy - I don't remember agreeing to any software update dialogue about erasing my Time Capsule - I took them at their word. Not sure if this is related, but thought I should mention it.
Thanks Crew!MattLat wrote:
Hello -
I am trying to "Enter Time Machine" (which is on a Time Capsule); but when I try this, I am met by the error message "Your Time Machine Backup Disk Can't be Found" with the option given to "Set up My Time Machine".
Needless to say, my Time Machine has been set up for months. When I look in the preferences, it clearly shows the disk I'm connected to (here's a screenshot of the error dialogue alongside my Time Machine preferences: http://cl.ly/1HGk).
Any idea what the best course of action is here.
The +sparse bundle+ containing your backups may be corrupted. Repair it, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
If that doesn't help, try a "full reset" of Time Machine, per #A4 there.
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*5. When the password prompt appears, MAKE SURE THE NAME IS THE NAME OF THE AIRPORT BASESTATION, and not the name of your Mac.
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Some contextual info:
I am on Snow Leopard with an Apple Time Capsule
last back up was on 30th July (which was the day we left to go on holiday for 4 wks, when I took the recommended action of shutting down)
Time machne button is clicked to onmaybe your TC hiccupped a bit on repower.
First Aid
Power off of the TC
Power off all other network participants
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Rejoin the other network participants one after the other, giving each device a little time to establish all connections.
If that doesnt fix your hustle, report back with any error message and eventually any information about your setup you think it may be useful.
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System Image Restore Fails "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found"
Greetings
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Two 2008 R2 servers. Both do a nightly "Windows Server Backup" of Bare Metal Recovery, System State, C:, System Reserved partition, to another storage hard drive on the same machine as the source. Active Directory is on the C: The much larger D: data
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Server A good.
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The destination drive is Not "Excluded".
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Server B SRP 100MB C: 102GB on Seagate ST3500418AS 465.76GB Microsoft driver 6.1.7600.16385 write cache off
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http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7repair/thread/e855ee43-186d-4200-a032-23d214d3d524 Some people report success after diskpart clean, but not us.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/31595afd-396f-4084-b5fc-f80b6f40dbeb
"If your destination disk has a lower capacity than the source disk, you need to go into the disk manager and shrink each partition on the source disk before restoring." Doesnt apply here.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=439&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=4
for 0x80042403 says "The solution is really quite simple: the destination drive is of a lower capacity than the image's source drive." I cant see that here.
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2. Make sure that the new boot disk is attached as the First Boot disk in hardware (IDE/SATA port 0/master) and is the first disk in boot order priority.
3. In Windows Recovery Env (WinRE) check the Boot disk using: Cmd prompt -> Diskpart.exe -> Select Disk = System. This will show the disk where OS restore will be attempted. If the disk is different than the intended 2 TB disk then swap the disks in
correct order in the hardware.
4. Please make sure that the OS is always recovered to the System disk. (Due to an issue: BMR might recover the OS to some other disk if System disk is small in size. Here the OS won't boot. If you belive this is the case, then you should attach the
bigger sized disk as System disk and/or exclude other disks from recovery). Disk exclusion is provided in System Image Restore/Complete PC Restore UI/cmdline.
5. Make sure that Number and Size of disks during restore match the backup config. Apart from boot volumes, some other volumes are also considered critical if there are services/roles installed on them. These disks will be marked critical for recovery and
should be present with minimum size requirement.
6. Some other requirements are discussed in following newsgroup threads:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/871a0216-fbaf-4a0c-83aa-1e02ae90dbe4
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/9a082b90-bd7c-46f8-9eb3-9581f9d5efdd
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/11d8c552-a841-49ac-ab2e-445e6f95e704
Regards,
Vikas Ranjan [MSFT]
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