HT201250 error: a disk you are backing up is case sensitive, but the backup disk is not.

Time Machine error: a disk you are backing up is case sensitive, but the backup disk is not.
How do I reformat my backup drive to backup a case sensitive hard drive?

See here, for example. Do not select MS-DOS, but use the default "Mac OS Extended".

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HT3275 Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "My Passport Studio".. A disk you are backing up is case-sensitive, but the backup disk is not.

Hi,
Time Machine won't back up files on another external hard drive as it says it is case sensitive. The other drive contains mainly music and pictures.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Lisa

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A volume you are backing up is case-sensitive... but it's not

New mac Pro Quad core. Ran Time Machine for the first time on March 12th. Loved it. Used it several times to recover small files. May 31st was my last successful Backup. Since then I only get the "A volume you are backing up is case-sensitive, but the backup volume is not" error. I have three internal drives: main - HFS+, Time Machine - HFS+, and an NTFS Drive for windows/bootcamp (but that drive is excluded from the back up.) I run VMWare, but that didn't cause any problem early on. I do mount a server drive automatically, but can't exclude that, so presume it is not included. Can't see any problems in Disk utility. Any suggestions as to what to look for or do would be appreciated.

Brad Milton wrote:
New mac Pro Quad core. Ran Time Machine for the first time on March 12th. Loved it. Used it several times to recover small files. May 31st was my last successful Backup. Since then I only get the "A volume you are backing up is case-sensitive, but the backup volume is not" error. I have three internal drives: main - HFS+, Time Machine - HFS+, and an NTFS Drive for windows/bootcamp (but that drive is excluded from the back up.) I run VMWare, but that didn't cause any problem early on. I do mount a server drive automatically, but can't exclude that, so presume it is not included. Can't see any problems in Disk utility. Any suggestions as to what to look for or do would be appreciated.
Use Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to look at each partition: the line(s) indented under each drive, showing the name shown on your desktop/Finder sidebar. Towards the bottom, the Format should be +Mac OS Exended (Journaled).+ If any are +Mac OS Extended case-sensitive (Journaled)+ or +Mac OS Extended case-sensitive,+ that's the culprit.
If they all show correctly, Click here to download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget.
It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. Copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).

10.5.5 Update Now: A volume you are backing up is case-sensitive

Since the 10.5.5 patch, Time Machine will not backup. I get the following dialog:
A volume you are backing up is case-sensitive, but the backup volume is not.
To select a different backup volume, or to chose not to backup the case sensitive volume, open System Preferences and choose Time Machine.
Here is the problem. All my drives are formatted the same way including my backup drive.
Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
In fact, I can navigate through my older Time Machine backups (both in Finder and through the Time Machine UI) and see that previous to 10.5.5 backups were case sensitive. Or, at least they are showing proper case when I manually view the filenames.
A couple of days now without any backups has me very concerned about Time Machine. Thank goodness I have a Drobo as my primary storage.
Anyone have any recommendations?

Before I go on, I will say I'm not yelling at you - I'm venting in frustration. And, some of this is written tongue-in-cheek is it were, but perhaps you will get my meaning. All of it is factual.
I understand that much of Time Machine is smoke and mirrors until you are in the IT industry and understand what TM is doing. Trust me - it's not rocket science. Basically think of each file as your mailbox. When the file is altered, the operating system raises the mailbox flag to tell the postman (the backup application) "Hey - something is different here and this file needs to be copied". The backup application copies the modified file to a compressed file called an archive (or library) and then lowers the flag. The next time the backup application runs, it looks at all the files again to see if the archive bit (the flag) has been set (raised) and if it has ... you know the rest.
What is really frustrating is that we are growing more and more digitally dependent and we have no real reliable solution to data storage. It's not like I can send the drives back for warranty service, or even diagnostic - with all the digital information and continued identity theft. We were told that tapes were the solution, but they never work. Then CD-ROMs and DVDs were the rage and they were suppose to last a hundred years (cough cough) I mean months, (cough cough) I mean ....
And now we have TM.
Secondly, because digital data grows exponentially every year (those digital cameras aren't producing smaller images - for example) you have to grow your storage. Now Mr. Consumer is looking at 1 and 2 TB storage solutions for the home. So we need reliable storage and reliable backup. For example, I use Apple Aperture and am an amateur photographer. On my desk currently is nearly 6TB of storage. Now that may sound like a lot but I assure you it isn't. One disk is 1.5TB and is used to backup my 2TB primary disk (931GB used). A third disk was purchased as an emergency 3 weeks ago when the 2TB disk started to fail. Following instructions on Apples site, I used the DITTO command to transfer files from the original primary storage to the new storage. Unfortunately, the new storage unit had to be placed on a USB 1.0 chain. The transfer took WEEKS, yes WEEKS to complete and even then failed to apply proper user and group ownership. Just when I was about to try and clone the disk again, the latest patch came out and kicked two of the drives off the USB and placed the third into read only mode. Just like it does every time. And yes, I have turned auto update OFF and no, no one at Apple can tell my why it is automatically applying updates. They swear they are not doing a silent push.
As to the MS Windows approach of telling a user to "reinstall" their system frequently to resolve such problems - that is simply asshattery at the highest level. As an MCSE it is that kind of resolution which shifts the problem from the vendor to the client that I found unacceptable and why I moved from MS to Apple in the first place.
If I were to tell any of my customers that I'd quickly be without employment! We need to put pressure back on vendors to provide reliable solutions. I should not be expected to run verify and repair on each of my disks every time Apple comes out with a patch for some minor applications - which is what is happening.
Such actions (against TB drives) take hours to run and it's just plain unacceptable.
Luckily for me I use Drobo as my primary storage device. If it wasn't for Drobo - I would have lost all my data long ago. Through all of this, Drobo has continued to be (pretty) rock solid, despite the fact that I have to verify the volume every time there is a software patch and it takes all night. Oh, and by the way - before any of you run out and buy a Drobo for your users files (which I highly recommend) you should know that the folks over at Apple state that "the operating system does not support relocation of Users home directories" - which flies in the face of UNIX design.
In fact, the tech support rep who told me that directed me to relocate all my user files (all 931.45GB of them) back to the 150GB boot disk. I tried explaining to him that I had over 900GB of data, but he couldn't grasp that. I also explained that the reason my user directory was on an external drive was because some of the applications (when they were installed) required the files to be native in your home directory path, and my internal SATA disks were limted in size (apparently by architecture design) to 150GB. No one at Apple can explain this to me, the reasoning is also apparently quite a secret. But, I always understood that one of the reasons to migrate to SATA was that it reduced the need for the operating system to ... oh never-mind.
Now, I'm no math major but the last time I checked 931GB of data won't fit on a 150GB disk .... I could be wrong. If I am, I'm a big enough man to admit it so someone please explain it to me.
There, now that all of that is out of my system. I am truly a reasonable man. Please feel free to tell me why I'm wrong here or what I'm missing in the picture.
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I get an error message when running a back-up from my Macbook Pro: The backup disk image Macbook.sparsebundle could not be accessed (error-1) and the backup did not complete? What is the issue?

I get an error message when running a back-up from my Macbook Pro: The backup disk image Macbook.sparsebundle could not be accessed (error-1) and the backup did not complete? What is the issue?

Try Here > http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html
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HT201250 My time machine back has been working perfectly well until yesterday when it failed. The error message I get is Files can't be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only. How do I fix it?

My time machine back has been working perfectly well until yesterday when it failed. The error message I get is Files can’t be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only. How do I fix it?

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I have two Macs that won't back up to time capsule, says The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/Douglas Chalmers's iMac.sparsebundle" is already in use.

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A whole lot about Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.
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Error on extend an internal table, but the required space was not available

Hi All,
I am trying to retrieve cost data from COVP tables, as well as the quantity, cost centre, and price unit fields from MSEG / BSEG tables. Thing is, if the AWTYP value in COVP table = 'MKPF', i have to get the data from MSEG, otherwise, I need to get it from BSEG table.
I kept getting this error message:
<i>You attempted to extend an internal table, but the required space was not available.</i>
Anyone have any idea how to make my codes more efficient?
Please help. Thanks!
Regards,
Cecilia
REPORT ZMISCY004.
TABLES : COVP, BSIS, BSEG, MSEG, MAKT, CSKU.
PARAMETERS :
P_FILE(300) DEFAULT '\sapdcdatasaprptoh.txt' LOWER CASE.
DATA MSG_TEXT(50).
DATA :
XKOKRS LIKE COVP-KOKRS,
XBELNR LIKE COVP-BELNR,
XBUZEI LIKE COVP-BUZEI,
XGJAHR LIKE COVP-GJAHR,
XPERIO LIKE COVP-PERIO,
XWKGBTR LIKE COVP-WKGBTR,
XWTGBTR LIKE COVP-WTGBTR,
XREFBN LIKE COVP-REFBN,
XREFBZ LIKE COVP-REFBZ,
XKSTAR LIKE COVP-KSTAR,
XBEKNZ LIKE COVP-BEKNZ,
XMATNR LIKE COVP-MATNR,
XBUKRS LIKE COVP-BUKRS,
XREFGJ LIKE COVP-REFGJ,
XREFBK LIKE COVP-REFBK,
XLTEXT LIKE CSKU-LTEXT,
XMAKTX LIKE MAKT-MAKTX,
XAWTYP LIKE COVP-AWTYP,
XTWAER LIKE COVP-TWAER,
XSGTXT LIKE COVP-SGTXT,
BSEG_KOSTL LIKE BSEG-KOSTL,
BSEG_MEINS LIKE BSEG-MEINS,
BSEG_MENGE LIKE BSEG-MENGE,
MSEG_KOSTL LIKE MSEG-KOSTL,
MSEG_MENGE LIKE MSEG-MENGE,
MSEG_MEINS LIKE MSEG-MEINS.
DATA : BEGIN OF ITAB_COVP OCCURS 10,
KOKRS LIKE COVP-KOKRS,
BELNR LIKE COVP-BELNR,
BUZEI LIKE COVP-BUZEI,
GJAHR LIKE COVP-GJAHR,
PERIO LIKE COVP-PERIO,
WKGBTR(15) TYPE C,
WTGBTR(15) TYPE C,
REFBN LIKE COVP-REFBN,
REFBZ(3) TYPE C,
KSTAR LIKE COVP-KSTAR,
BEKNZ LIKE COVP-BEKNZ,
MATNR LIKE COVP-MATNR,
BUKRS LIKE COVP-BUKRS,
REFGJ LIKE COVP-REFGJ,
REFBK LIKE COVP-REFBK,
LTEXT LIKE CSKU-LTEXT,
MAKTX LIKE MAKT-MAKTX,
AWTYP LIKE COVP-AWTYP,
TWAER LIKE COVP-TWAER,
SGTXT LIKE COVP-SGTXT,
BSIS_WRBTR(13) TYPE C,
BSEG_KOSTL LIKE BSEG-KOSTL,
BSEG_MEINS LIKE BSEG-MEINS,
BSEG_MENGE LIKE BSEG-MENGE,
MSEG_KOSTL LIKE MSEG-KOSTL,
MSEG_MENGE LIKE MSEG-MENGE,
MSEG_MEINS LIKE MSEG-MEINS.
DATA : END OF ITAB_COVP.
SELECT M1~KOKRS
       M1~BELNR
       M1~BUZEI
       M1~GJAHR
       M1~PERIO
       M1~WKGBTR
       M1~WTGBTR
       M1~REFBN
       M1~REFBZ
       M1~KSTAR
       M1~BEKNZ
       M1~MATNR
       M1~BUKRS
       M1~REFGJ
       M1~REFBK
       M1~AWTYP
       M1~TWAER
       M1~SGTXT
       M4~KOSTL
       M4~MENGE
       M4~MEINS
INTO (XKOKRS,
      XBELNR,
      XBUZEI,
      XGJAHR,
      XPERIO,
      XWKGBTR,
      XWTGBTR,
      XREFBN,
      XREFBZ,
      XKSTAR,
      XBEKNZ,
      XMATNR,
      XBUKRS,
      XREFGJ,
      XREFBK,
      XAWTYP,
      XTWAER,
      XSGTXT,
      MSEG_KOSTL,
      MSEG_MENGE,
      MSEG_MEINS
FROM COVP AS M1
LEFT OUTER JOIN MSEG AS M4
ON M1~REFBN = M4~MBLNR AND M1~REFBZ = M4~ZEILE AND M1~REFGJ = M4~MJAHR
WHERE M1~SCOPE = 'OCOST' AND M1~AWTYP = 'BKPF'
OR M1~SCOPE = 'OCOST' AND M1~AWTYP = 'MKPF'
OR M1~KSTAR = '972022'.
IF XAWTYP = 'BKPF'.
SELECT KOSTL MENGE MEINS INTO (BSEG_KOSTL, BSEG_MENGE, BSEG_MEINS) FROM
BSEG WHERE BELNR = XREFBN AND BUZEI = XREFBZ AND GJAHR = XREFGJ AND
BUKRS = XREFBK.
ENDSELECT.
MOVE BSEG-KOSTL TO BSEG_KOSTL.
MOVE BSEG-MEINS TO BSEG_MEINS.
MOVE BSEG-MENGE TO BSEG_MENGE.
ELSE.
MOVE ' ' TO BSEG_KOSTL.
MOVE ' ' TO BSEG_MEINS.
MOVE ' ' TO BSEG_MENGE.
ENDIF.
*GET LTEST
SELECT LTEXT INTO XLTEXT
FROM CSKU
WHERE KTOPL = 'COAA' AND SPRAS = 'EN'.
*GET MAKTX
IF XMATNR <> ' '.
SELECT SINGLE * FROM MAKT WHERE MATNR = XMATNR.
MOVE MAKT-MAKTX TO XMAKTX.
ELSE.
MOVE ' ' TO XMAKTX.
ENDIF.
MOVE : XKOKRS TO ITAB_COVP-KOKRS,
       XBELNR TO ITAB_COVP-BELNR,
       XBUZEI TO ITAB_COVP-BUZEI,
       XGJAHR TO ITAB_COVP-GJAHR,
       XPERIO TO ITAB_COVP-PERIO,
       XWKGBTR TO ITAB_COVP-WKGBTR,
       XWTGBTR TO ITAB_COVP-WTGBTR,
       XREFBN TO ITAB_COVP-REFBN,
       XREFBZ TO ITAB_COVP-REFBZ,
       XKSTAR TO ITAB_COVP-KSTAR,
       XBEKNZ TO ITAB_COVP-BEKNZ,
       XMATNR TO ITAB_COVP-MATNR,
       XBUKRS TO ITAB_COVP-BUKRS,
       XREFGJ TO ITAB_COVP-REFGJ,
       XREFBK TO ITAB_COVP-REFBK,
       XLTEXT TO ITAB_COVP-LTEXT,
       XMAKTX TO ITAB_COVP-MAKTX,
       XAWTYP TO ITAB_COVP-AWTYP,
       XTWAER TO ITAB_COVP-TWAER,
       XSGTXT TO ITAB_COVP-SGTXT,
       BSEG_KOSTL TO ITAB_COVP-BSEG_KOSTL,
       BSEG_MEINS TO ITAB_COVP-BSEG_MEINS,
       BSEG_MENGE TO ITAB_COVP-BSEG_MENGE,
       MSEG_KOSTL TO ITAB_COVP-MSEG_KOSTL,
       MSEG_MENGE TO ITAB_COVP-MSEG_MENGE,
       MSEG_MEINS TO ITAB_COVP-MSEG_MEINS.
APPEND ITAB_COVP.
CLEAR ITAB_COVP.
ENDSELECT.
ENDSELECT.
OPEN DATASET P_FILE FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE.
IF SY-SUBRC NE 0.
   WRITE: 'File cannot be opened. Reason:', MSG_TEXT.
   EXIT.
ENDIF.
LOOP AT ITAB_COVP.
TRANSFER ITAB_COVP TO P_FILE.
ENDLOOP.
CLOSE DATASET P_FILE.

Cecilia - I think your problemn is a nested select:
*GET LTEST
SELECT ltext INTO xltext
FROM csku
WHERE ktopl = 'COAA' AND spras = 'EN'.
*GET MAKTX
    IF xmatnr <> ' '.
      SELECT SINGLE * FROM makt WHERE matnr = xmatnr.
      MOVE makt-maktx TO xmaktx.
    ELSE.
      MOVE ' ' TO xmaktx.
    ENDIF.
    MOVE : xkokrs TO itab_covp-kokrs,
                 etc.
          mseg_meins TO itab_covp-mseg_meins.
    APPEND itab_covp.
    CLEAR itab_covp.
ENDSELECT.
Do you need to do the inner select for every cost element text?
Rob

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My Time Machine has failed again with this message:
The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Shirley’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is already in use.
How do I fix it?

Pull the power cord from the back of the Time Capsule
Wait 60 seconds
Plug the power cord back in
This simple reset will fix this error 98% of the time. If you need more help, see this troubleshooting information:
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Trying to back up iPad to external hard drive, "iTunes library file cannot be saved. The disk you are attempting to use is full."

This issue is somewhat complex so I will try to explain it as clearly as I can. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
It all began when I kept getting popups from my iPad saying that I had not backed up since May. I realized that was pretty dangerous so I decided to finally try syncing it to iTunes, though I had avoided doing so for so long because I knew that when I tried there was no room on the computer. I then remembered that I have an external hard drive with plenty of storage space, so I got that out and set it up with a folder to move iTunes and the backup into.
On iTunes I went to the Advanced Preferences and changed iTunes Media Folder Location to the G: folder, with the keep organized box checked. I also copied the previous backups from the original C: drive to G: so that I could delete the ones on C:.
I used Junction Link Magic to link my now empty MobileSync backup on C: to a new (JLM would not work unless it was empty) backup folder on external hard drive G:.
I plugged in my iPad to iTunes to sync it, and while it was backing up I checked the new folder on G: to make sure that the backup was being put there. It was.
However, about halfway through I got the message "iTunes library file cannot be saved. The disk you are attempting to use is full."
My question is Why? If it is being made in a 1.5 terabyte hard drive now, and not the computer, why is there no disk space? My guess is that it must still somehow be saving to the computer. But how? And how can I get it to save solely on the G: drive where there is enough room?
I am running Windows XP and the latest version of iTunes.
An additional but not as crucial issue:
Much of my music has been lost, with the being displayed next to the songs in the iTunes library, and only 50 (purchased) songs remain on my iPad. This was because those missing songs were stored on a different external hard drive ( I:). However, I copied many of the music folders on I: over to G: so that everything could be together. I am wondering if it is possible for me to get these songs back onto my iPad. But this is not my most important issue right now, because I believe that once I get the first issue solved I can simply plug in I: and G: at the same time while syncing the iPad, and get the songs back.
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Short term, free up some disk space. Long term, move the library to a bigger drive.
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