Error -1 Time Machine Cannot Backup
Hello,
I keep gettign the following error when trying to do a time machine back up after the first few back ups
The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data-1/xxxxxxxxx.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1).
Everytime I need to find the old back up and delete it and then run teh whole process from the bengining. This kind of defeats the whole purpose of the time machine back up system.
My other macbook pro (retina) laptop has no issues in backing up, its only my imac that does this.
Thanks
It is a standard issue that has been around since forever.
See Q17 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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