LMS Backup - Cannot create or back up tar file

Hello,
We have LMS 3.2 installed and the backup is failing with the following message
"Cannot create or back up tar file. Backup cancelled. Verify that you have write-access to this directory."
I have removed Cygwin and also the set the backup to offline yet the same result. Please assist on this issue.
Thanks.

Hi Dedra,
I will not give you as much help as Joseph, but will provide you an idea for possible problem explanation.
Just following your sentence:
I removed all traces of mentioned line but still the same problem. Backup failed with the following message. I have noticed that all these backup fail after writing 4GB of data into the backup directory.
Are you sure you don't generate any file bigger than 4GB on a FAT32 file system support, which cannot be possible (external USB storage) ?
It could be the reason for such a error message returned from your tar.exe process....
D:/CiscoWorks_Backup/0/upm/filebackup.tarC:\PROGRA~1\CSCOpx\bin\tar.exe: Write error: No space left on device would be the error message returned code from this situation oversizing file maximum size.
Any simple solution would be to format your USB storage to NTFS or change backup destination to NTFS partition somewhere else for test and eliminate this supposition.
regard,
andré

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I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem when setting up Time Machine with a NAS. I'm using a Thecus N4100 Pro mounted via AFP. I've enabled Time Machine on unsupported disks so that I can select one of my NAS shares as the backup destination. So far so good. Time Machine attempts to create a backup and ultimately fails because it cannot create the backup disk image. Any idea what's going on?
I just set up a Time Capsule for my parents and it worked very well. I've thought about replacing my AirPort Extreme with a TC if I cannot get Time Machine working with my NAS. However, I'd rather use the NAS for obvious reasons (like, I already own it!).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or will this not work?
Thanks!
-Rob

A little searching of the forums answered my questions on setting up Time Machine to work with my NAS. However, I still have one question I hope someone can answer.
The instructions I found describe creating a sparsebundle and copying it to the NAS before Time Machine will work. To create the bundle, one must use the Ethernet ID of the computer. So, what if one is using two network interfaces (ie: WiFi and wired Ethernet)? I prefer wired Ethernet, but use WiFi as well when I'm on the couch, etc.
If I set up the sparsebundle using the WiFi Ethernet ID, will that prevent me from backing up when connected via wired? Or vice-versa? How does Time Capsule handle this?
Thanks,
Rob

Backing up iPad - 'Backup cannot be stored on this computer'

Hi all
Decided today to upgrade to iOS 4 on my iPad, running Snow Lepoard and latest version of iTunes. When I try to update it, after a few minutes, it says that the backup cannot be saved to this computer, so I cannot update it. I read that a solution to this is to delete the backup from iTunes Device Preferences.. and I have done this, but I got the same problem again. When I went back into iTunes Device Preferences, the backup is still there... i've tried deleting it many times and it just won't work
Any help either deleting the backup of preferably helping to get my iPad updated is greatly appreciated

With iTunes closed trying deleting (I would move vise delete) the backup using finder. You can find the location of the file in the following under About Syncing and Backups.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4079
I would also try repairing permissions via the Disk Utility.

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