Select sparsebundle in subdirectory on TC

My Time Capsule died so I got a new one. I transferred the old TC's data to the new one. The original TC was used for multiple computers, so the backup files for each machine are in a subdirectory of "Data" on the TC drive. In TM Preferences, it only lets me select the disc (defaulting to the "Data" directory), not a subdirectory. How to I tell TM to access the sparsebundles in the subdirectory?

Time Machine can only back up directly to "Data"....or whatever you have named the drive.
Time Machine cannot backup to a folder, disk image, or any other type of storage unit on the Time Capsule drive.

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1) JScrollPane vertical size increased: Scrolled component vertical size increases to match.
2) JScrollPane vertical size decreased: Scrolled component vertical size decreases to match.
3) JScrollPane horizontal size increased: Scrolled component horizontal size increases to match.
4) JScrollPane horizontal size decreased: Scrolled component horizontal does not change.
So the scrolled component horizontal size gets increased, but never decreased. This is odd... perhaps it is a JScrollPane bug? I'll see if I can't figure out a way around it. Overriding the scroll pane's setBounds and setSize methods didn't work, perhaps I'll target the JViewport next.
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Deleting a back-up sparsebundle while retaining other computer back ups on time capsule

I have a late 2009 2TB Time Capsule that has 3 computers backing up to it which are fine, however one of the machines I will no longer be backing up to the Time Capsule and want to delete the sparsebundle for that particular machine. However it weighs in at 900GB and i've tried with it directly connected via Ethernet on one of my other MacBooks, Wirelessly on my iMac but it sits for hours saying its immediately deleting but no luck.
I tried showing packages on the sparsebundle and remove the bands but that takes just as long regardless if i select 20 or 200 or 2000 of the bands at once to delete.
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How to quickly remove the sparsebundle using Mountain Lion and Time Capsule
1 Go to Finder and under Shared locate your time Capsule
2 Click on Time Capsule and Finder will reveal all your sparesebundles
3 Select the one you do not want and right click on this - select Show Package Contents
4 Select the folder called bands - right click and select Move to Trash
5 Watch all the bands disappear....
6 Go back to step 2 - select your sparebundle, right click and select Move to Trash
All gone. Now go back to Time Machine and start again...
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How do I migrate multiple sparsebundles from my old time capsule to my new time capsule?

My old 1tb time capsule died on me last week. I bought a new 2tb model. I have put the old disk in an enclosure and I can access the data on it.
The old time capsule was used to backup three Mac's. How do I migrate the three sparebundles to the new time capsule? I want to keep all the backup histories.
I found lots of sites with tips but they all assume that the old TC was used to backup only one Mac.
I run Lion on my main Mac and all time machines were configured to backup via wireless.

It worked. Kinda. I think.
I did the steps outlined in option 3. It took 2,5 days to do it (maybe because I had already switched to wireless).
Once the copy of the files was complete I actived time machine and selected the new time capsule as my backup. It said there was no backup history. But then it started backuping. Instead of the full disk (as I thought it would do, as it said there was no backup history) it only did about 35Gb. Which was what I had expected. I had just upgraded to Lion. After that backup it immediatly started again and did a backup of 40 Mb. (Why ???).
After that was done I started time machine and all the old backups were there (eg 2010) as a test I restored a file from Jan 2010. And it worked.
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How to delete a Sparsebundle. A Faster Way.

After many trials and errors, I might have found a way to erase a Sparsebundle faster without having to wipe your entire Time Capsule, or using 3rd party programs.
My Setup: I am using the latest update of OS X Lion up to date. I have a 3 TB Time Capsule to which I back up to, through a Wifi connection.
For this exercise, I connected my device (Laptop) to the Time Capsule through a data cable and not through WiFi - please note that you can also do this through a WiFi connection if you do not have a data cable.
In settings, set your device to never go to sleep in Energy Saver - this is optional - so as not to interrupt the deleting process.
Open a Finder Window, click on your device name under "Devices" in the left column.
Then in the right window, double click on Network.
Then, double click on the hard drive where the Sparsebundle is located that needs to be deleted (click your way through until you reach the window where the Sparsebundle is located - i.e. in my case it was Device Name -> Network -> Time Capsule -> Data -> [this is the spot where my Sparsebundle was located]).
Highlight the Sparsebundle (do not double click on it!).
Click on the little gear button at the top of the window -> then click on "Show Package Contents" in the dropdown box.
After a few moments, files will appear on the right side.
Double click on the "Bands" file and wait for a few seconds/minutes for the bands/files to appear in the new window (there could be as much as 75 000 lines, and more, depending on how long you have been using this Sparsebundle).
Setup to delete Bands:
1. Open up the "Force Quit Applications" window by holding down on "Command" + "Options" and the "Escape" keys simaltaniously, and drag this window to the right side of your screen (for convenience sake).
2. Decrease the size of the main Finder window that contains the bands, and drag it to the left side of the screen.
You are going to use both windows at all times.
Delete Process:
Now, right at the start, relaunch Finder in the "Force Quit Applications" window by highlighting Finder and then click on "Relaunch" at the bottom of the window.
Wait a few moments for the bands to reappear in the Finder window.
Then highlight about 5000 bands at a time and delete them (choosing less will go faster). It might take a while to count the bands and start the deleting process, but be patient.
Then, after the selected lines are deleted, (OR at any time if the process gets stuck for more than a minute), just relaunch Finder again and restart the process.
This is the trick - Relaunch Finder after every batch of bands you delete. (I do not know why, but it works!)
Relaunch Finder -> Delete bands -> Relaunch Finder -> Delete bands -> Relaunch Finder....... etc.
When you are done, do not forget to reset your Energy Saver settings in System Preferences.
By doing this, I was able to delete more than 17 000 bands in 5 minutes as opposed to waiting for 18 hours to delete 31 000 files at a time (in one batch). My original Sparsebundle of 75 000 lines took me almost 48 hours to delete in the old way. With this new way of "Relaunching Finder after every delete" the process was lighting fast in comparisson.

I tried this (well, only rm -R without the f or v) and after ten minutes nothing had happened, ie, not asking for confirmation for any files. Even something as simple as a ls command in the bands folder did not produce any results within ten minutes. (I also tried the band method but at best I was able to delete individual bands never more than one, I also tried connecting via SMB and I tried the third-party application Graveyard.)
What was much faster was to simply open up the TC, put the HDD into a HDD dock and delete the bundle with the disk mounted locally. Deletion of 1 TB consisting of almost 100 000 bands took about five minutes with an always active progress bar.
To anybody having a HDD dock (or an easily opened 3.5" HDD enclosure) I recommend this approach.

Time Machine error -1, cannot access sparsebundle (but not a NAS or WD problem)

Hello, this is my first post here, so I'll try to make it a good one!
I've been wrestling with this problem ever since I bought my Core i7 iMac (SSD + 1TB HD) over a year ago. I have not gotten Time Machine to work during that whole time. Well, I got it to work backing up directly to my internal HD, but that was just a test; it's not what I want. So let me describe this in the most clear and consise way I can:
I want the Time Machine disk to be my Synology NAS. I've configured a share on it correctly. I have an older iMac running SnowLeopard backing up to the same share on the NAS with TimeMachine successfully. But, my iMac won't do it. Whether I create the sparsebundle manually, or I let TimeMachine create it, it always gives the same "error -1". I wrote a more detailed account of my symptoms here (my message is the reply), when I thought this was a NAS-specific issue.
New development: This is not a NAS issue. I found that out by trying an experiment:
First, I tried to back up my SSD using Time Machine to my internal 1TB disk - I selected the "1 TB Secondary Disk" as the Time Machine disk. I initiated the backup, and it worked fine, putting the time machine backup in the "Backups.backupsdb" directory structure at the root of the drive. I then turned off Time Machine and "removed" the 1TB as my backup disk.
Then, I created a sparsebundle at the root of the drive using this command:
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Now, I have the console log entries that were written during the Time Machine backup attempt:
1/1/13 12:53:59.511 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: Starting manual backup
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1/1/13 12:55:03.378 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: Resizing backup disk image from 161.06 GB to 999.76 GB
1/1/13 12:55:06.013 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
1/1/13 12:56:06.619 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: Resizing backup disk image from 161.06 GB to 999.76 GB
1/1/13 12:56:09.255 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: Giving up after 3 retries.
1/1/13 12:56:19.263 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: Backup failed with error: 21
1/1/13 12:56:19.265 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: [SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef] FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
1/1/13 12:56:19.265 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: 0; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
1/1/13 12:56:19.265 PM com.apple.backupd[4460]: Failed to eject Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/1 TB Secondary Disk/iMac.sparsebundle
So, here I see it tries to resize the sparsebundle to the full volume size, and fails. I don't think I want it to do this resize, because I don't want it to fill up my whole NAS share. I searched and found this post, which specifies how to set the permissions in the sparsebundle such that it won't be resized. I followed those instructions with a new sparsebundle, and see the same problem... tries to resize, and fails.
I do not have Western Digital software installed and never have.
I've tried everything on this page.
It seems like the attempt to resize is corrupting the sparsebundle. Before starting the backup, I can mount the sparsebundle and manually copy files to it. After attempting the backup, I can mount the sparsebundle, but I cannot copy anything to it manually. Note that I can mount the sparsebundle that the MacBook Pro uses for Time Machine, and manually copy files to and from it (in other words, the correct SnowLeopard configuration does allow manual copying).
I have tried repairing the sparsebundle using the Disk Utility, which restores the ability to manually copy files to it, but Time Machine once again renders it unwriteable when it attempts to back up.
Anyone know of anything else I can try? Thank you so much!
Dan

Yeah, sorry about the broken link. I noticed that link wasn't working after I replied, then I edited my earlier reply. Also, yes, copying the files was just meant as a test; I created new clean sparsebundles for other tries.
Anyway, I'm not too worried about the resizing for now; first things first, let's just get Time Machine working with a sparsebundle at all.
I don't know how to make Time Machine create its own sparsebundle on my local drive; if there isn't a manually created sparsebundle at the root, it just puts everything in the "Backups.backupsdb" directory structure without a sparsebundle. However, it of course does create its own sparsebundle when I point it to my NAS share (as I understand it, Time Machine knows the NAS filesystem doesn't support everything it needs, so it creates the sparsebundle to emulate the correct filesystem). As I have always gotten the same "error -1" when using the NAS share as I did when using the local sparsebundle, I was assuming the same problem was happening in both cases... but now I've checked the console log after doing a backup attempt on the NAS share, and I see different stuff:
1/2/13 9:21:12.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/TM Backups, pid 9615
1/2/13 9:21:12.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount : succeeded on volume 0xffffff8148d5b008 /Volumes/TM Backups (error = 0, retval = 0)
1/2/13 9:21:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/TM Backups, flags 0, pid 9624
1/2/13 9:21:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : We are the last mnt/sbmnt using volume /Volumes/TM Backups 0xffffff8148d5b008
1/2/13 9:21:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : We are the last volume using socket /Volumes/TM Backups 0xffffff8148d5b008
1/2/13 9:21:49.647 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Starting manual backup
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1/2/13 9:22:00.060 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/TM Backups using URL: afp://[email protected]/TM%20Backups
1/2/13 9:22:00.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/TM Backups, pid 9630
1/2/13 9:22:00.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount : succeeded on volume 0xffffff8148ffb008 /Volumes/TM Backups (error = 0, retval = 0)
1/2/13 9:22:15.323 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Creating disk image /Volumes/TM Backups/iMac.sparsebundle
1/2/13 9:22:46.397 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Failed to hide extension on /Volumes/TM Backups/iMac.sparsebundle, error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "The file “iMac.sparsebundle” doesn’t exist." UserInfo=0x7fe881407700 {NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/TM%20Backups/iMac.sparsebundle/, NSFilePath=/Volumes/TM Backups/iMac.sparsebundle, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fe8814073c0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory"}.
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1/2/13 9:23:10.210 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
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1/2/13 9:24:56.305 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
1/2/13 9:25:56.326 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TM Backups
1/2/13 9:26:40.171 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Failed to eject volume /Volumes/TM Backups (FSVolumeRefNum: -153; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
1/2/13 9:26:40.171 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Giving up after 3 retries.
1/2/13 9:26:50.177 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Backup failed with error: 21
1/2/13 9:26:50.178 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: [SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef] FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
1/2/13 9:26:50.178 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: 0; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
1/2/13 9:26:50.178 PM com.apple.backupd[9623]: Failed to eject Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TM Backups/iMac.sparsebundle
So... looking through this, it does some mounting, which all works fine, then it does a create sparsebundle, which appears to work fine, but then it tries to "hide extension", but it can't because it can't find the sparsebundle that it supposedly created. Then it tries three times to eject the NAS share ('TM Backups'), and fails, and gives up. At this time I get the "error -1" pop up on my monitor, and check the NAS share (using the disk utility on the NAS managment page), and sure enough there is the sparsebundle "iMac.sparsebundle". So why does it create it, but then not be able to use it?
Skiing tomorrow, must sleep now. :-)

Time Capsule sparsebundle corruption help please

Hi
I went away for a week and when I came back I found that the Time Capsule was not backing up. Apparently, my family tells me there was a power outage during my absence and, therefore, this might be the cause of the problems.
I have a Time Capsule acting as our Time Machine drive which is accessed wirelessly from a MacBook.
Double clicking on the sparsebundle got me a message that 'Resource not available' and some searching of this forum makes me think the bundle is corrupted. I followed some advice to use the Terminal to force a mount of the bundle into Disk Utility and this is what appeared in the Terminal window:
<pre>
2010-03-28 23:58:21.207 hdiutil[474:c0b] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2010-03-28 23:58:21.210 hdiutil[474:c0b] Cannot find function pointer VRPreviewCFPlugInFactory for factory 20D1C6B2-6A02-11D7-B5A6-000393D45566 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x419ab0 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
2010-03-28 23:58:21.387 diskimages-helper[477:1603] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2010-03-28 23:58:21.388 diskimages-helper[477:1603] Cannot find function pointer VRPreviewCFPlugInFactory for factory 20D1C6B2-6A02-11D7-B5A6-000393D45566 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x522d60 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
hdiutil: attach failed - Resource temporarily unavailable
</pre>
I am no Unix guru and I have no intention of using the Terminal except with explicit guidance as I really have no idea what I'm doing with it. As a result, I have no idea what the output means, but it doesn't look good. However I am generally technologically savvy.
As you may imagine, I would like to try to save the back ups contained in the bundle if at all possible before I hook up the laptop via ethernet to the TC and start everything again.
Right now, I have stopped further TM backups. I have already tried switching off TM, rebooting and then reselecting the TC but to no avail.
Any/all help will be so gratefully received.
Thanks in advance
Graeme

Please don't post messages this way. They are difficult to read. For problems with Time Machine I would suggest
you start here: User Tips for Time Machine.
Note that if you cannot mount the sparsebundle in order to repair it using Disk Utility, then the sparsebundle is beyond
help. Erase the backup drive and start over. For a Time Capsule open Airport Utility, click on the Manual Update button.
Select Airport Utility Help from the Help menu and search for "erase." This will get you the help file on how to erase a
TC drive.

How to link individual picker view selections to download an individual file from a website or other location such as dropbox using Xcode?

Alright, the question I have has to deal with how to link an app to a website to download files. How, or is it even possible to link individual picker view selections to download an individual file from a website or other location such as dropbox using xcode. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but if anyone can help or can send a link to a place that can, I would greatly appreciate it!

I am not getting anywhere with deploying my application or
applet.
I have set up my bc4j project. It contains all my VO info,
links, application module. (proj a)
I then have another project with DbInfo in it(has all my rowset
info), Multiple Frames, and my Applet.java file.
Actually I have an Applet.java file and a Application.java file
because I was seeing if both/either worked. Anyway they seem the
same, except for that extra window that comes up when you run the
applet.
I follow the steps in the oracle directions (from earlier post).
And all seems ok. But at ---->
[*] Select the subdirectory under myhtml where your applet's HTML
file
is located, and enter the directory path of the 'staging'
directory you
created in step 3 above, if different from the default.</li>
[*]Select the HTML files that JDeveloper created to run your
applet.</li>
[*]Select all of the Java source files in your project that make
up the
applet.</li>
I have no HTML file associated with my applet, at least that I
know of.
So do I need to create one, or should it of been done
automatically.
Also, I trying to figure out what will be the best way to deploy
my project. Applet or stand alone application is what my first
choices have been so far. I have read that there is some issues
with applets being served from a different server than the
database. So a stand alone application was my front runner, but
I haven't gotten either way to work yet.

Strange error trying to restore from time machine sparsebundle

I had my iMac hard drive go bad, so I replaced it, powered the unit back up and booted into the Snow Leopard install disk.
I got to the step where I'm trying to restore from my Time Machine .sparsebundle and I selected the date and time of the backup I wanted to restore. When I click Next to go the next screen (Select a Destination) the utility gets stuck "Searching for Disks," and below that a warning icon says
"This disk does not have enough space to restore your system."
This sounds scary, and as the Time Machine drive now has the sole copy of my data I'm reluctant to do anything to it.
Does anyone know what's going on?
Thanks in advance,
Dan.

Are you sure the new drive is formatted properly?
Check it via Disk Utility (you can get there from the same Utilities menu where you selected +Restore from backups).+
Select the top line of the drive (with size and make). Be sure the *Partition Map Scheme* at the bottom says +GUID Partition Table.+
Then select the next line, with the name you gave it, and be sure the Format shown towards the lower left is +Mac OS Extended (Journaled),+ unless you made it +Mac OS Extended (Case-Sensitive, journaled),+
Also see how much space it shows for Available to the right.

I can't migrate from a time machine Back up. I select my TC and it says "some backups can't be opened." My HD failed and I'm Trying to get everything back... Can anyone make a suggestion?

I can't migrate from a time machine Back up. I select my TC and it says "some backups can't be opened. Make sure that all of your network devices are connected and turned on. It appears that some backups are already in use. If you don't see the backup you need, make sure it is not currently mounted by another machine and try again."
My HD failed and i installed a new one... I'm Trying to get everything back... Can anyone make a suggestion?

Read the section E about restore issues.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
But you should be able to mount the sparsebundle and backup the major items if they are not damaged. You might also do a disk verify to see if the corruption can be repaired.
Have a look here also for restore of selected items.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

Time Machine Not Compacting SparseBundle on Time Capsule

Hi
I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and have a time capsule to hold my iTunes Library and act as my Time Machine repository.
I'm experiencing the problem where Time Machine has filled up my 1TB Time Capsule, and will not back up any more.
I can see that Time Machine has tried to delete some old backups in order to create space - in fact it's deleted ALL my old back ups bar one, probably due to the fact that in deleting each old back up has not released any more space on the Time Capsule as the Sparse Bundle is still massive.
I have done some research and can see that other people were having this issue back in 2008 - so I thought it would have been resolved by now! I thought Time Machine was supposed to compact the sparse bundle image once it had deleted an image these days - but it doesn't seem to have happened.
Can someone tell me if there is some setting I need to select?
I might as well delete the current sparsebundle and just start again - so I don't want to find myself in the same situation in X months time!
Many thanks
Darren

Ok here is the log from last night :
Last message before I read the forums looking for answers:
Starting standard backup
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data-1
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/Darren MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Starting pre-backup thinning: 72.04 GB requested (including padding), 41.95 GB available
No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Backup Failed: unable to free 72.04 GB needed space
Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Rebooted machine and started Time Machine :
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Darren%[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Darren%[email protected]/Data
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/Darren MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Compacting storage: 72.04 GB requested (including padding), 41.95 GB available before compacting
Stopping backup.
Backup canceled.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Compacting backup disk image to recover free space
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data-1
The next back up was sucessful!!! :
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Darren%[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Darren%[email protected]/Data
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data/Darren MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 72.05 GB requested (including padding), 300.83 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Copied 27.5 GB of 57.9 GB, 4205 of 4205 items
Copied 57.0 GB of 57.9 GB, 7796 of 7796 items
Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Copied 8157 files (57.9 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 2.85 GB requested (including padding), 244.19 GB available
Copied 598 files (7 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
I can't get back to some of the earlier logs as the widget crashes and takes down the whole dashboard with it! However I think I remember seeing some messages that stated that it couldn't compact the drive as it was already mounted.
I do use the drive to store my iTunes library as well - so perhaps I had mounted the drive when it ran out of space, and hence it's decision to try and remove all the previous backups.
Perhaps this is a good time to think about creating a disk image on the TC for TM to use so I can keep the backups separate from the other data.
Should I create a disk image and store all the iTunes data in it and let TM use the standard TC or vice versa and create an image for TM to use and then use the native TC for data - or does it not make any difference at all?
Cheers for your help
Darren

Can't see backups with sparsebundle on external hard drive?

This weekend I moved the external HDD I was using for Time Machine from my Macbook to my wife's iMac.
Previously the iMac was backing up via an AFP share on my MB. Now, Time Machine continues to back up to the iMac sparsebundle on the external HDD, but selecting "Enter Time Machine" shows no backups. If I mount the sparsebundle and then option+click the TM menu and Browse other time machine disks, I can successfully find the backups. I have tried turning TM off and redoing the configuration, but that doesn't seem to change anything. I haven't tried deleting the TimeMachine plist file, however this is probably my next step.
Has anyone else encountered this?

deleting the plist won't help. this is normal. remote backups are stored inside sparse bundles but directly attached ones are not. they are stored directly on the drive in a folder. there seems to be a bug (?) that when you move a remote backup to be directly attached TM continues backing up to it. however, when you try to enter TM interface the sparse bundle is not mounted because TM does not know it should be mounted it as it is normally not required. so, your options are
1. keep doing what you've been doing. then to enter TM you'll have to always mount the sparse bundle by hand first. or
2. reformat the drive and start backups from scratch. no sparse bundle will be created and you won't have this issue anymore.
if you really want to keep the old backups you can restore the sparse bundle to a separate partition on the external drive and use that partition as the TM drive.

Sparsebundle could not be created (error 45)

I just bought my first ever Mac a little over 30 days ago and also purchased a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home network storage system. I immediately installed the GoFlex software that included a full integration into Time Machine. This worked perfectly until about 4 days ago when all of a sudden it stopped backing up. I'm getting an error that reads: Time Machine could not complete the backup "...sparsebundle could not be created (error 45)".
I can still access the drive outside of the TM program (although not the ATM folder), so the drive itself perfectly installed and connected. I tried rebooting computer and hard drive; that didn't work. I tried re-selecting the drive from within TM; that didn't work either. I'm not really sure what to do...and am pretty pi$$ed at all those "I'm a Mac vs. I'm a PC" commercials right now because this is the same kinda stuff that got me to leave the Windows based systems in the first place. UGH...so WHY is my $4,000 Mac supposed to be any better that an equivelent $2,500 PC?????? Any suggestions on a fix would be greatly appreciated.

+I'm running 10.6.7, last I checked that was later then 10.5.6.+
Try reading a little more carefully. The server has to be a Time Capsule or a Mac running 10.5.6 or later, not the client. Your NAS is neither, so your configuration is unsupported, and predictably, it doesn't work.
+Mac lends their name and brand to the Seagate product, so I must therefore assume your comments are are ill-informed.+
Apple has nothing to do with the Seagate product. Seagate, not Apple, claims that it's compatible with Time Machine, and Seagate, not Apple, is responsible for that claim. If you think the claim is misleading, you have a point, and if you can't get satisfaction from Seagate I suggest you consult a lawyer.
For the benefit of anyone finding this topic, the Seagate NAS is *not safe to use with Time Machine*.

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