Sparesbundle?

I started getting an error message when trying to use TM, the message reads that the sparsebundle could not be created (error 45) How do I fix this problem and return TM to working order?

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HT3275 Time machine error, backup disk image "/volumes/data-1/.sparesbundle " already in use. I don;t know what this means, can someone help?

My Mac mini time capsule is showing an error Time machine error, backup disk image "/volumes/data-1/.sparesbundle " already in use. I don;t know what this means, can someone help?

I had a similar problem and I solved it as follows -
In Time Machine - > I deselected time capsule Data Disk as a destination.
Then I pulled the power plug on the Time Capsule, twiddled my thumbs for 15 secs, plugged the power back in.
Went back t Time Machine -> Re-Added the Time Capsule Data Disk as destination. And then tested by selecting Backup Now.
All went well and the backup picked up from before the problem.
BTW - I also have a USB drive connected to Time Capsule that is an alternate disk for Time Machine to backup.
In Mountain Lion the GUI lets you add more than one Time Machine backup destinations very easily so I think it a good idea to have redundancy.
Hope this helps.

Cannot access computers sparesbundle.error1. Can anyone help please

When my TS attempts to back up according to the schedule it stops with the notice.
Cannot access computers sparesbundle.Error 1.
Can anyone help please?

You might find useful advice in this post: Time Machine Troubleshooting.

Cannot unmount encrypted sparesbundle

Hi,
Upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion and now each time I mount an encrypted sparesbundle and try to unmount it I get the following log:
02.08.2011 19:54:15,445 fseventsd: Events arrived for /Volumes/DEVONthink Vault after an unmount request! Re-initializing.
02.08.2011 19:54:15,445 fseventsd: creating a dls for /Volumes/DEVONthink Vault but it already has one...
02.08.2011 19:54:16,101 com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.loginwindow.secureerase) Failed to count the number of files in "/var/db/fv_secure_erase.jobs": No such file or directory
02.08.2011 19:54:16,101 com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.loginwindow.secureerase) Failed to count the number of files in "/var/db/fv_secure_erase.jobs": No such file or directory
02.08.2011 19:54:16,125 fseventsd: read_disk_log: problems with history file: /Volumes/DEVONthink Vault/.fseventsd/6365733784679597 (fd -1, errno 2 ; is_reg 0; uid 0/0 gid 0/0)
02.08.2011 19:54:16,125 fseventsd: scan_for_old_events_callback: mount point /Volumes/DEVONthink Vault appears to be gone!
02.08.2011 19:54:16,154 fseventsd: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/DEVONthink Vault/.fseventsd/63657337848efac8 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/DEVONthink Vault/.fseventsd
02.08.2011 19:54:16,154 fseventsd: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/DEVONthink Vault/.fseventsd/63657337848efac8 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/DEVONthink Vault/.fseventsd
02.08.2011 19:54:17,241 com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.loginwindow.secureerase) Failed to count the number of files in "/var/db/fv_secure_erase.jobs": No such file or directory
02.08.2011 19:54:17,241 com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.loginwindow.secureerase) Failed to count the number of files in "/var/db/fv_secure_erase.jobs": No such file or directory
02.08.2011 19:54:17,242 com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.loginwindow.secureerase) Failed to count the number of files in "/var/db/fv_secure_erase.jobs": No such file or directory
02.08.2011 19:54:17,242 com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.loginwindow.secureerase) Failed to count the number of files in "/var/db/fv_secure_erase.jobs": No such file or directory
The bottom line is that I cannot unmount the sparesbundle. Each time I try to unmount it, it does so and the system mounts the image again.
It even mounts itself on logon (even though it's not present in the login items).
The "/var/db/fv_secure_erase.jobs" file / directory indeed is not there.
Any ideas what might be wrong?

Unfortunately, I also have the same problem in Lion, at random.
Not having enough space on my MacBook Pro drive I have my iPhoto library in an encrypted sparsebundle on an external USB. After I have done work in iPhoto,
SOMETIMES, selecting the mounted sparseimage and the USB external drive containing and using Command-E to eject them together works fine and other times it leads to a stuck unmount.... Spotlight may also be part of the problem: Console shows:
1/9/12 12:54:30.443 AM fseventsd: Events arrived for /Volumes/SparseImage320 after an unmount request! Re-initializing.
1/9/12 12:54:30.443 AM fseventsd: creating a dls for /Volumes/SparseImage320 but it already has one...
1/9/12 12:54:30.588 AM fseventsd: Events arrived for /Volumes/USBDrive320 after an unmount request! Re-initializing.
1/9/12 12:54:30.588 AM fseventsd: creating a dls for /Volumes/USBDrive320 but it already has one...
1/9/12 12:54:30.865 AM _spotlight: audit warning: soft /var/audit
1/9/12 12:54:30.866 AM _spotlight: audit warning: closefile /var/audit/20120109050433.20120109055430
1/9/12 12:54:30.867 AM _spotlight: audit warning: allsoft
Imran

HELP .sparesbundle

I had (still have) my time machine through my Airport Extrema kind of Time Capsule, i bought my own separate HHD (1TB). I decided to delete everything on my Mac "MacBook aluminium 2.4 GHz" and remove the HDD from the Airport Extreme and transfer everything from the HDD to my Mac. When I did my first my Back Up and it created a xxxxx.sparesbundle that mounts as a disk (when I was connected) now that i try to mount it i wont work neither from the Airport or my mac i to scared of loosing information. Please HELP me I know the information is still there, but i don't know hot to acces it. PLEASE

Chucleskill wrote:
Yes everything was ok, but i still can't open the sparsebundle
Then you're down to only bad options:
A 3rd-party heavy-duty disk repair utility, such as +Disk Warrior.+ It costs about $100, and there's no guarantee it will work. It's probably a good investment for the future, though.
Install OSX from your Snow Leopard disk. When your Mac starts up afterward, try to use +Setup Assistant+ to transfer your data over. It's unlikely to recognize your backups, but worth a try. See #19 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum. If it does work, then download and install the "combo" update to get back to 10.6.2. Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959 Be sure to do a +Repair Permissions+ via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.
If +Setup Assistant+ doesn't recognize your backups, set up a user account. When your Mac restarts, install the "combo" as above. Try the Time Machine +Star Wars+ display; if it recognizes your backups, selectively restore what you can.
If the +Star Wars+ display won't recognize your backups, open them via the Finder and drag and drop what you need (from the last backup). That will be very tedious, and you may have permissions issues with the copied files.

Rescuing files on a time machine sparesbundle image

I have a Time Machine backup on a Time Capsule that is obviously corrupt -- when Time Machine runs, deletes a previous backup and then stops and ejects the time machine disk image. I ran Disk Utility on it for over 12 hours, and it definitely found problems, but the repair process never ended.
I think I should start with a new sparebundle image (Time Machine was using one that I had created manually to limit the maximum size), but I'd like to try to copy the files from the old sparseimage file to the new one. Is this possible? Since the two files would have the same name (Nameofbackupmachine_ethernetaddress.sparsebundle), I would have to copy the old image to my desktop and then copy its contents using Disk Utility to the Time Capsule, right?

Pondini wrote:
odysseus wrote:
I'd like to try to copy the files from the old sparseimage file to the new one. Is this possible?
Probably not. And you really don't want to, anyway.
The Finder won't copy everything properly for the new backups to work with TM, because of the unusual structure of TM backups, using "multi-links." You can use the Restore tab of Disk Utility to duplicate a partition from one disk to another, but that won't work on a Time Capsule.
Ah, I was hoping that Disk Utility could do the duplication.
Even if it would, it would copy whatever is corrupted (or fail when it encountered it), and you'd be no better off.
Unless you think your TC is failing, Your best bet is to use Airport Utility to erase it and let TM start over.
Wait a second. The spareimage file is certainly corrupt, but why do I need to erase the entire TM? I have other stuff there as I use it as a file server.

Safe to use Terminal to delete a sparesbundle?

I have a 600GB+ sparsebundle that I want to delete from Time Capsule (old machine backup and I have other backups on TC so do not want to reformat). Deleting via Finder seems to stall (the delete window has been their>2 hours). I will wait until tomorrow morning to see if the process completes, but if not, will deleting from Terminal work and is this safe!

I managed to delete the sparse bundle successfully using Terminal, here is how:
1) I went to the Time Capsule Volume and went to the bands directory (within the sparsebundle directory)
2) When I tried to delete all the bands I received the following "Argument list too long"
3) I deleted all the bands using the following process (took a few seconds for each deletion step):
MiniMe:bands tony$ rm 1*
MiniMe:bands tony$ rm 2*
MiniMe:bands tony$ rm 3*
etc.....
4) Once all the bands are deleted (check using ls) go back to the Finder and delete the sparsebundle
This seemed to work and has given me over 600GB back!
Thanks for everyone's input on this.

Sparesbundle in use when backing up MB to iMac external HDD

Hi all,
I have found the solution to this in regards to using a Time Capsule, but not for my situation.
I am backing up my MacBook Air using Time Machine to an external shared HD attached to my iMac, all done over the network wirelessly.
The first backup completed sucessfully.
The second backup comes up with "The backup disk image “/Volumes/Time Machine MacBook Air-1/Stuart’s MacBook Air.sparsebundle” is already in use."
The external HD is formatted in journal extended, split into 2 partitions (one for the MB and one for the iMac).
Any ideas?
Apologies if it's already been answered, struggling to find it in the search.
Many thanks,
Stuart.

Turn off file sharing on the iMac, confirming that you want to disconnect all users. Then turn it back on and try again.

Can't rename my computer and start new TM backup

Three techs at Apple have not been able to help me.
I have been backing up a PowerBook G4 and MacBook to a TC wirelessly, and now the MacBook BU stopped working but the PB continues OK. The sparsebundles are different sizes; PB 115 GB, MB 151 GB. After many gyrations with my MB sparsebundle, all unsuccessful, the tech suggested I start fresh with new computer name for my MB (the old name was firstname lastname's computer). So my new computer name is firstnameMacBook. After preparing to do a backup for more than an hour I get the error message "The backup disk image could not be mounted". Same error message I had when my MB BU stopped working. So a name change had no effect. Should I change the name of the existing old sparesbundle? Should I delete it? How? What?
What to do?
Bruce

Sorry. I should have been clearer. I was just wondering if it was ok to do so.
I had taken my partners computer. Re-installed Leopard, then when I went to do the time machine backup it just started using the original sparse bundle that was technically my partners. I wasn't sure how to get it to start another and wanted to check first if it was ok the rename a sparse bundle?
For interest sake. I did rename the original bundle and this forced the Macbook to start a new sparse bundle.
I wanted to keep the original sparse bundle that was my partners in case we had any trouble with my partners new computer set up and migration.
Hope that all makes sense now.
Thanks

How to copy a networked TimeMachine backup to a USB drive and restore from it?

Hi,
I backup my MacBook Air with TimeMachine to my QNAP NAS which offers a TimeMachine backup service and I can restore data from it OK.
Working in IT, and being a bit paranoid about important data loss, I am concerned that if I was robbed or my house burnt down I would most likely lose both the MacBook and the TimeMachine Backup on my NAS :-(
To protect against this I have backup my (linux based) NAS to an external drive that I keep offsite. This drive is encrypted to keep my data secure with a Linux form of encryption (cryptsetup) and hence can't be plugged into a MacBook to try and restore from it - I doubt this would work either as the TimeMachine data is not located in the root of the drive.
So what I have done to test my restore process is to mount the encrypted NAS backup that include the TimeMachine backup folders on a Linux machine and then copy the TimeMachine data to the root of an HFS+ formatted external USB drive.
But, now I am stuck as how to try and restore something from this to my MacBook to see if the copy of the TimeMachine backup is good. If I press the Alt key on the TimeMachine icon, I can select an alternate backup device and when I enter TimeMachine to browse the data, I can browse the structure but there is no option to go back in time !! It seems like it is not possible to restore from this copy of the TimeMachine backup.
Does anyone know if this should be possible, and if so, what am I doing wrong here?
Rgds
Gary

For anyone else that may be in a similar situation, I can confirm that this does actually work.
I am unsure why I was not able to mount the original sparseimage that I copied to the USB drive before, but I have gone through the entire process again and I could successfully mount the TM sparseimage onto my MacBook and restore files from within it using TimeMachine to my Mac.
This is a Disaster Recovery solution only needed for if both my NAS and Macbook get stolen or damaged so I am happy with this solution for now.
I will try the restore process several more times from my monthly backups to reassure myself that the first failure to mount the sparse image was an anomaly.
This is the process that I have tested:
Configure MacBook to backup to TimeMachine Service running on QNAP NAS device.
Perform regular backup of QNAP NAS Device (Linux) including the TimeMachine backup data to an external USB drive with encryption enabled and store this device safely off-site
In time of loss of both NAS and MacBook, Time Machine data can be recovered to another Mac without the need of the NAS using the following process:
Mount the external drive containing the backup of the NAS filesystem (ext4) which is encrypted onto a Linux host so it is readable - use the cryptsetup luksOpen options to access the encrypted filesystem then mount it.
Mount a n empty HFS+ formatted USB drive on the Linux host
Use Rsync to copy the sparsebundle from the external NAS drive backup disk to the root of the USB Drive
Insert the HFS+ formatted USB containing the sparesbundle into the Mac's USB port
Double click the sparsebundle to mount it onto the Mac as a Volume
Using Alt button and the TimeMachine icon, select use alternative backup disk and you should see the TM backup in the sparsebundle
Enter TimeMachine and you should be able to restore any/all files
Hope that helps someone else and thanks to LaPastenague for pointing me in the direction of some of the answers I needed.
Rgds
Gary

Time Machine Disk Locations

I have been using an external hard drive connected to my airport extreme for my time machine backups. Due to issues with the network I have decided to move the hard disk to a direct USB connection with my iMac. Having done that, time machine has created a new sparesbundle file appending a 1 to the name of the iMac. This means that when I enter time machine it now only takes me to the backups that have started from today. Is there a way I get time machine to continue using the original file with the disk in the new location.
Thanks
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Waddo1 wrote:
Is there a way I get time machine to continue using the original file with the disk in the new location.
not easily. see this user tip: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/18.html.
JGG

Time machine fails backing up with a "backup disk not found" error after upgrade to Lion 10.7.2

Time machine fails backing up with a "backup disk not found" error after upgrade to Lion 10.7.2. I've erased and reformatted the drive; reconnected Time Machine(it saw it) and began a new backup. The backup starts again but fails before completing with backup drive not found error. I used the 10.7.2 combo update. Any help on how to fix this problem would be appreciated.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
After waiting since October for a fix, I have now upgraded the firmware on the Time Capsule and installed the new Airport Utility, released yesterday, and the situation is even worse.
Up until now, the Airport Utility had an option to disconnect all drives manually and the Time Capsule would then work until the next reboot – a temporary (?) work-around.
Now that option does not exist in the new-look Airport Utility. And the Airport Utility installation can’t be rolled back and the old utility won’t restore.
The sparesbundle is still not accessible. Anyone worked out a work-around in the new environment yet?
I have another Time Machine backup working fine to a trusty old Lacie Drive so erased the one on my Time Capsule to see if that works. I have renamed the Capsule and the Time Capsule Drive. But to build another full backup will take at least two days and I shall be away from tomorrow and am reluctant to leave the Capsule and computer up and running for a week. And I’ll bet the sparsbundle will still be nowhere to be found.
How can Apple screw up so badly when they are to become the richest company in the entire world and – soon – will have more cash in the bank than the entire United States? Can’t they afford someone who really can sort this out? Especially when a Firewire connected hard drive – my trusty and simple LaCie – works fine.
Words, almost, fail me.

Time Machine v western digital my book live fail second backup

HI I am using iMac 27 inch, running Lion.
I used Western Digital Mybook live as my time machine backup.
I follow the instrustion step by step, its work fine.
However, when I restarted my mac. Then its start fail to do continues backup.
I can't do any backup anymore. Its always show fail.
Anyone have idea how to deal with this?
Thanks.

Sorry, no answer from me.
I seem to have a similar problem with an WD drive.
TM says it cannot connect to the drive eventhough I can acces the drive and see the sparesbundles.
The problem started when using Mavericks.
i think I will set up another way to make back ups from my Mac's.

After system restore: why no more write permission with TM on TC?

Hi.
Last week I did a little mistake on my Macintosh HD by assigning user rights to all subfolders. I recognized my failure - but after confirming the warning advice...
After that procedure (with a lot of failure advices) the system did not run any more. No problem - I'm using the 1TB time capsule and do have backups from the same day. So I restored my hole system by using the boot dvd and so on. Everything works fine so far.
BUT:
2 days later I recognized, that TM doesn't work since I restored my system. When I opened the TM configuration, it says that I need to asign a backup volume. OK - so I tried to asign the data file from the TC that I used before. I could see and confirm the file, but then there comes the advice (analogous):
You don't have permission to write an that external network device.
Log in as other user or contact your network administrator.
I'M THE ADMIN!
I tried all the hints I found in the web: repair the sparesbundle, reset TC, repair permissions in HD, create an new user with admin permissions,...
Nothing helps.
Only after I installed BatCHmod, chose the "old" data-file and marking the option "unlocking", TM works as before. The next backup needs a lot of time, because it backups the hole HD.
Why did TM not work after the backup? How could it happen that there are major permission problems after using original Apple hard- and software?
Why do I need a app from the web to run my system??
Thanks so far,
captain.nick

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When I playback a movie stored on Time Capsule to my Mac Book Pro the time Capsule eject 3 or 4 times during playback

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ilw-00 wrote:
How can I do this? How can I find the sparesbundle? What is the best way to mount the time capsule internal disk?
Open a Finder window. If you see your Time Capsule in the "Shared" section of the sidebar, clicking on it should show the "Data" volume (or whatever you named it) in the main part of the window. Double-click on it to mount the "Data" volume.
If you don't see your Time Capsule in the Finder sidebar, you may not have enabled "disk sharing" in AirPort Utility. In AirPort Utility do a "manual setup of your Time Capsule, then select the Disks panel, then the "File Sharing" tab, then check "Enable file sharing", select a security method (I use "With a disk password"), fill in the remaining options as desired, then update the Time Capsule. Once it restarts, try again to see your Time Capsule in the Finder's sidebar.

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