Sparsebundle ate my hard drive
When I noticed my iDisk showed a sync failure, I turned iDisk sync off and then on again, leaving the computer on all night. When I returned the next morning and tried to save a document, I got a message saying my 300 GB hard drive was full. It had been half full the night before. Sure enough, the Activity Monitor showed that my hard drive had only a few MB left.
Thanks to Disk Inventory X, I discovered a HUGE file (147 GB) in the following location:
(login)_idisk.sparsebundle (Macintosh HD/users/(login)/Library/FileSync
I deleted that, restarted, and got the space back.
Anyone else have this problem?
TIA, Bob
Yes, exactly the same problem here too, and I've not even tried Time Machine. Since I had gone for over two weeks prior to upgrading to Leopard without iDisk working on my iMac (fine on the laptop), I was at first thrilled to have it working again. . . until discovering that it is eating the entire drive, and grinding everything to a halt fairly constantly. (One pathetic response from .Mac help, and after five hours on the phone a promise that I had been escaled, but nothing has come of that. Still can't sync my iPhone!)
Any solutions yet? This is ridiculous!
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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. -
Found the Monster that ate my Hard Drive and kept my machine awake . . . .
. . . and got a two day education of TimeMachine that I until about an hour ago, I thought was the most worthless piece of software in the world. But then Apple has never been known for comprehensive operational instructions. I stumbled on a great very short thread that explained in several very easy steps how to completely restore from a TM Backup. And it worked like a charm. Needless to say, if I had stuck with CarbonCopy, I would have been done a couple of days ago, but now I know more of and love TM.
Anyway. . . .
After moving into an install of 10.5.2, because 10.4.11 would lock up if left idle for more than a minute or so. Apple you got your wish . . . I migrated. Once in 10.5.2 I slowly and methodically moved one application at a time as I needed them, doing all the now being assailed permissions and whatnot rituals, and giving them plenty of time to mutate. No problems. I was able to move many apps in, I link all my databases to a secure protected and severely anally backed up partition, and all was great. Then I started having Sleep problems. Time to hit the Apple Discussion Groups where I found several threads with the proverbial and over stated permission ritual that did nothing to help anyone there. Then I found one were someone asked about HP Printer software. I thought that the HP Printer software and OSX problems had been fixed, since Apple is offering HP updates in Software Update, HP has been right there with updates, and there is a Rep roaming these discussions offering help and update info. Too bad Lexmark doesn't care enough to even get their updates out within a year or two of OS updates. Anyway . . . . I have the latest, just released version of the AiO for the PS3310 and just the other day installed the HP Driver Update 1.0 that was offered by Apple Update. I uninstalled the AiO software and got sleep back, noticed that the 9+GB of space that was "missing" on the boot partition was back and that things ran smoother. Three birds with one stone. WooooHoooooo! BUT . . . .
I didn't leave it there cuz I kinda need the software to use the printer/scanner. So I installed and uninstalled five of the latest versions and got the same results each time. HP loaded, no sleep. Not loaded, sleep. Then my next thought was maybe it wasn't AiO software, but the recent HP 1.0 update. I haven't done my ritualistic CCC backups since using TimeMachine. So I looked and had a backup two days before I installed the HP 1.0 update and thought I would restore to that to see if the stand alone AiO would work. This is where my "trial by Apple" education of TM and the extra several days that it should have not taken come into play. Finally got to the install i wanted, installed AiO without the HP 1.0 Update and got the same results. +*So the Sleep Problem is the HP All-in-One Printer software, and not the AiO with the 1.0 Update.*+
So I have sleep back, but can not use our HP3310. AND now know most of the ins and outs of TimeMachine of which I now thin is pretty cool and will go in search of a User made Users Manual to see if there aren't anymore really cool features. Plus I have a couple questions of how it restores just to know of its process.
I hope this answers questions for those that I have seen scattered around the discussions.well, I also have the same insomnia problem on my Mac Pro and I can now admit I had the same reservations as you so I made a little sleep program of my own.
Feel free to test it. It uses a very simple apple script and a launch daemon to run it. The script can be converted to a shell script if somebody wants to.
1. Copy and paste the following in Script Editor and save it as an application:
--read off the system sleep settings
set x to (do shell script "defaults read /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement \"Custom Profile\" | grep \"System Sleep Timer\" | awk '{print $5}' | sed -e 's/;//g'") as number
--convert to seconds
set sleep_timer to (x as number) * 60
--read off system idle time
set idle_time to (do shell script "ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | awk '/HIDIdleTime/ {print int($NF/1000000000); exit}'") as number
if idle_time > sleep_timer then
tell application "System Events" to sleep
end if
save it as an application somewhere everyone can read it (root level of your start up drive is a good place).
2. Install [lingon|http://lingon.sourceforge.net>.
3. start Lingon and create a new *Users agent*.
Set it to execute the app you saved in 1. every 60 seconds (that period can be adjusted).
4. restart.
That's it. The sleep settings are still set and changed in system preferences, so once installed you can forget about it.
One warning. As implemented, it will work so long as anybody is logged in. It won't work at the login window.
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I started my Mac Pro today and got a low HD space warning. It's a 320GB HD and my Home directory is showing 198GB used. When I check all the folders in the Home directory, I can only account for about 8-10GB of information.
Where has all the rest gone? Might there be a 190GB hidden file somewhere that I can't get to?
Please help me resolve this. I hope I don't have to start over from scratch.
thanks, john
Mac Pro 2.66GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2GB Ram, x1900xt, 320GB HD (sys)Solved. For some reason, a file that I had previously trashed became corrupt and ballooned to JUMBO size. Just needed to empty the trash. That was one BIG file (192GB). Guess I should have looked there first.
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Hard Drive on it's death bed- Confirm please
Alright I am about to call up applecare to get my drive replaced. I am pretty miffed about this, this machine has already ate two hard drives (this one is it's second one) and the one I get for replacing this Hitachi TravelcoughDeathstar hard drive will be the THIRD drive!!! Come on I really do not like Hitachi drives, and they dont like me apparently!
First Drive died on me with spin up click click click spin down and repeat that cycle indefinitely.
this drive well its on 747 hours but its throwing SMART errors and UDMA CRC Errors. a lot of them. more than my old drive! GEEESH
"=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===",
"Device Model: Hitachi HTS725050A9A362",
"Serial Number: 101218PCG420VLKWRE3C",
"Firmware Version: PC4ACB1E",
"User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes",
"Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]",
"ATA Version is: 8",
"ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6",
"Local Time is: Wed Mar 30 23:42:34 2011 CDT",
"SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.",
"SMART support is: Enabled",
"=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===",
"SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED",
"General SMART Values:",
"Offline data collection status: (0x00)\tOffline data collection activity",
"was never started.",
"Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.",
"Self-test execution status: ( 0)\tThe previous self-test routine completed",
"without error or no self-test has ever ",
"been run.",
"Total time to complete Offline ",
"data collection: \t\t ( 645) seconds.",
"Offline data collection",
"capabilities: \t\t\t (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.",
"Auto Offline data collection on/off support.",
"Suspend Offline collection upon new",
"command.",
"Offline surface scan supported.",
"Self-test supported.",
"No Conveyance Self-test supported.",
"Selective Self-test supported.",
"SMART capabilities: (0x0003)\tSaves SMART data before entering",
"power-saving mode.",
"Supports SMART auto save timer.",
"Error logging capability: (0x01)\tError logging supported.",
"General Purpose Logging supported.",
"Short self-test routine ",
"recommended polling time: \t ( 2) minutes.",
"Extended self-test routine",
"recommended polling time: \t ( 131) minutes.",
"SCT capabilities: \t (0x003d)\tSCT Status supported.",
"SCT Feature Control supported.",
"SCT Data Table supported.",
"SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16",
"Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:",
"ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE",
" 1 RawRead_ErrorRate 0x000b 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0",
" 3 SpinUpTime 0x0007 164 164 033 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 4 StartStopCount 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 413",
" 5 ReallocatedSectorCt 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 7 SeekErrorRate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 8 SeekTimePerformance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0",
" 9 PowerOnHours 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 747",
" 10 SpinRetryCount 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 12 PowerCycleCount 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 255",
"160 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"191 G-SenseErrorRate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 90194313216",
"192 Power-OffRetractCount 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 131087",
"193 LoadCycleCount 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 920",
"194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 171 171 000 Old_age Always - 32 (Lifetime Min/Max 19/43)",
"195 HardwareECCRecovered 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"196 ReallocatedEventCount 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"197 CurrentPendingSector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0",
"199 UDMACRC_ErrorCount 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 46",
"223 LoadRetryCount 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"254 FreeFallSensor 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 185",
"General Purpose Logging (GPL) feature set supported",
"ATAREAD_LOGEXT (addr=0x00:0x00, page=0, n=1) failed: 48-bit ATA commands not supported",
"Read GP Log Directory failed.",
"SMART Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]",
"SMART Log at address 0x00 has 1 sectors [Log Directory]",
"SMART Log at address 0x01 has 1 sectors [Summary SMART error log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x02 has 1 sectors [Comprehensive SMART error log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x06 has 1 sectors [SMART self-test log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x09 has 1 sectors [Selective self-test log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x80 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x81 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x82 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x83 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x84 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x85 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x86 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x87 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x88 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x89 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8a has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8b has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8c has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8d has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8e has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8f has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x90 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x91 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x92 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x93 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x94 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x95 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x96 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x97 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x98 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x99 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9a has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9b has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9c has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9d has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9e has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9f has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0xa2 has 1 sectors [Device vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0xe0 has 1 sectors [SCT Command/Status]",
"SMART Log at address 0xe1 has 1 sectors [SCT Data Transfer]",
"SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log (GP Log 0x03) not supported",
"SMART Error Log Version: 1",
"ATA Error Count: 3",
"CR = Command Register [HEX]",
"FR = Features Register [HEX]",
"SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]",
"SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]",
"CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]",
"CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]",
"DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]",
"DC = Device Command Register [HEX]",
"ER = Error register [HEX]",
"ST = Status register [HEX]",
"PoweredUpTime is measured from power on, and printed as",
"DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,",
"SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It \"wraps\" after 49.710 days.",
"Error 3 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 747 hours (31 days + 3 hours)",
" When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.",
" After command completion occurred, registers were:",
" ER ST SC SN CL CH DH",
" 84 51 90 a0 be 62 4c",
" Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:",
" CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC PoweredUpTime Command/Feature_Name",
" 61 00 98 30 c4 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.500 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 90 30 bc 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.500 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 88 30 b4 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 80 30 ac 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 78 30 a4 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
"Error 2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 716 hours (29 days + 20 hours)",
" When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.",
" After command completion occurred, registers were:",
" ER ST SC SN CL CH DH",
" 84 51 61 47 11 61 49",
" Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:",
" CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC PoweredUpTime Command/Feature_Name",
" 61 00 d8 a8 16 61 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 d0 a8 0e 61 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 c8 a8 06 61 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 c0 a8 fe 60 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 b8 a8 f6 60 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
"Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 521 hours (21 days + 17 hours)",
" When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.",
" After command completion occurred, registers were:",
" ER ST SC SN CL CH DH",
" 84 51 01 10 00 00 00 Error: ABRT",
" Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:",
" CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC PoweredUpTime Command/Feature_Name",
" 2f 00 01 10 00 00 00 00 00:35:29.400 READ LOG EXT",
" 61 10 b0 88 7d 4d 40 00 00:35:29.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 10 a8 c8 6f 4d 40 00 00:35:29.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 10 a0 38 6b 4d 40 00 00:35:29.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 10 98 48 50 4d 40 00 00:35:29.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
"SMART Extended Self-test Log (GP Log 0x07) not supported",
"SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1",
"Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBAof_firsterror",
"# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 724 -",
"# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 720 -",
"# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 687 -",
"# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 567 -",
"# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 523 -",
"# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 278 -",
"# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 245 -",
"# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 228 -",
"# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 163 -",
"#10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 151 -",
"#11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 28 -",
"SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1",
" SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENTTESTSTATUS",
" 1 0 0 Not_testing",
" 2 0 0 Not_testing",
" 3 0 0 Not_testing",
" 4 0 0 Not_testing",
" 5 0 0 Not_testing",
"Selective self-test flags (0x0):",
" After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.",
"If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.",
"SCT Status Version: 3",
"SCT Version (vendor specific): 256 (0x0100)",
"SCT Support Level: 1",
"Device State: Active (0)",
"Current Temperature: 32 Celsius",
"Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature: 31/41 Celsius",
"Lifetime Min/Max Temperature: 19/43 Celsius",
"Lifetime Average Temperature: 33 Celsius",
"Under/Over Temperature Limit Count: 0/0",
"SCT Temperature History Version: 2",
"Temperature Sampling Period: 1 minute",
"Temperature Logging Interval: 1 minute",
"Min/Max recommended Temperature: 5/60 Celsius",
"Min/Max Temperature Limit: -40/65 Celsius",
"Temperature History Size (Index): 478 (369)",
"Index Estimated Time Temperature Celsius",
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"SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11) not supported"
What to do people. what to do..
removed [code] tags those dont work here!
Woops, Toshiba Travelstar, I mean't Hitachi!
Message was edited by: alin0steglinskiThere sure seem to be lots of people with this problem and no answers that I could find on this forum. I found a possible solution elsewhere that I would like to share. If the lens on your dvd drive is dirty it may contribute to this problem. I followed someone's advise of using a thin card such as a credit card or better yet a driver's license (it's thinner since it doesn't have the raised numbers) and a piece of that thin cloth that comes with your eye glasses for cleaning. Fold the cloth over the card and carefully slide it in on the left side of the drive a couple times. This will rub the cloth on the lens and remove the dirt. This worked for me, hopefully it may work for others.
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I have several machines in the office using Time Machine over a network to back up to a partitioned hard drive on our network. The size of the partition for each machines backup is ~3x the size of the data being backed up. Everthing hums along fine until the backup disk is almost full. Some of the Tme Machine backups sieze up because they almost completely run out of room on the target disk. There is so little room that even if I can mount the backup disk, there doesn't seem to be enough room to delete the older backups. Isn't Time Machine supposed to be smart enough to ditch the old backup first to avoid this problem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated regarding 1. How to make the siezed up backups work again; and 2. How to keep this from happening in the future.
Many thanks in advance!Here's my old bookmark for User Tips.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/user_tips_library_documents?view=overvie w
I haven't played, to any extent, with the new search function; that's about number one hundred on my list of things to learn to use in this new abomination of a forum. Might be easier to just do a Google search using pondini + whatever terms come to mind + site:discussions.apple.com -
How to move an iTunes library from the internal hard drive to another bootable disk.
I got two Mac OS X installations on my i Mac system. One on the internal hard drive (320 Gb), that has been there since the iMac was bought 3 years ago, upgraded to Lion on 2 August. (call that INT) . I have a USB external drive, and recently bought a firewire Lacie external drive (2Tb), so to boot from there when I can, with hard drive space getting tight this year. I successfully installed another copy of Lion on LACIE.
Then I went to work to transfer my iTunes library, which the media files were optioned to store on the USB drive. Intending to transfer both the music and video files, and the megadata ( playlists, ratings, playcounts ) I found the media files and the iTunes library file and the .xml document in my iTunes folder from INT. I made a new folder in the USB drive, and copied the contents from the old iTunes folder to that new folder. I re-started in LACIE, and found my empty iTunes folder. I copied over to the new iTunes folder, then opened iTunes. My eyes saw the music library to the same number of items, with the playlists etc showing.
However, I tried to sync an iPod Nano, and a window came up saying 100 songs could not be copied to the iPod because they could not be found. After ejecting the iPod I tried to play a song from iTunes, and the screen filled with exclamation points. A small window came up, asking for a password to open "sparsebundle" and my name. I entered my password for the administrator's log-in and it said try again with the password. Without knowing what password to put in, I clicked Cancel, and got another small window asking to locate the file. Then clicked Cancel again, not knowing where to search. All the media folders were showing after quitting iTunes and opening Finder .
I re-booted into INT, and opened iTunes. The library was still there. I synced my iPod again, ejected it, played 3 songs on the iPod, synced again, ejected it again, and opened the playlist "Recently Played". It showed up okay with no problems. So my iTunes library in INT is alright.
Has anyone got any idea how to make the transfer into LACIE and get it running alright, or what went wrong with what I did ?
In the meantime I will empty my LACIE iTunes library folder's contents to the trash, and securily empty the trash .Solved the issue without using the trash . I tried to consolidate the library in LACIE, then clicked on any exclamation-mark song and tried to locate the file. Repeating those steps 3 or 4 times cleared it up. That was confirmed when I synced the entire library on a iPod Classic, and showed up no problems after syncing the Nano.
What went wrong was perhaps to fail to consolidate the library at first . -
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I plugged in an external HD to my AirPort Extreme (gigabit) base station today and started a Time Machine backup to it. After about 8 hours, I had transferred only 12 gigs of my 46 and ended up stopping it. I realize only the initial backup should take forever, but I am afraid that running the MacBook Pro hard drive constantly for hours could damage it. Are the portable hard drives capable of running for hours on end? What's the risk of damaging it?
I didn't notice any major heat issues with the Penryn MacBook Pro while doing this, but I didn't want the hard drive to break either. Plus, the wireless backup just takes way too long. I can't run an N only network because I have older AirPort expresses (WDS), older G clients in the house, and some iPhones that need to get online. I understand that 802.11g is slower than N, but it's way too slow for wireless backups.Connecting a USB HDD to an Extreme can be used for Time Machine backups, but it is not officially supported by Apple. You will have to start a new TM backup if you are using the Extreme as TM backups to a NAS (vs. local disks) will backup as a sparsebundle (vs. your current folder format). The same goes for backup to a Time Capsule.
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Can I associate an existing TM backup with a new replacement hard drive?
Hi all. I have a Mac Pro and just added a new, larger and faster hard drive as my primary system drive. I used Super Duper to clone the original over to the new. All is working fine on that front.
My question is as follows. I was using a Time Capsule to back up the original hard drive. Time Machine sees my new hard drive as an entirely new backup set (for which there is not sufficient space on the TC), rather than a continuation/clone of my existing backup set. Is there a way to tell Time Machine that it should use the existing sparsebundle as the base from which to make further incremental backups, rather than starting from scratch? I would strongly prefer this over deleting the existing sparsebundle and losing the month or two of existing incremental backups, should I need to pluck some file from the past.
I found a tip on the Mac OS X Hints web site that involved using Terminal to force Time Machine to use my new drive's UUID, but I simply couldn't get it to work. Any suggestions out there? It seems like it shouldn't be as rare a need as my extensive searches seem to suggest.
Thanks!!!Hello Barty,
is your library referenced or managed?
If your Aperture Library is managed, then you can simply copy it to your new external drive using the Finder. Make a backup of your old library and convince yourself that the backup is working.
If your library is referenced, then use Aperture to relocate your master image files to the external drive (select all images, then File -> Relocate Master), then copy your Library to the external drive using the Finder.
To point Aperture to the new library location, double click the new Aperture Library to open Aperture with it. Test it thoroughly, before you delete the original library.
You might consider only to relocate the master images to your external drive and to leave the then much smaller Aperure Library on your system drive. That way Aperture will work faster, and you will be able to browse and share your images, even when our external drive is not connected.
Regards
Léonie -
How do I move data from old hard drive to the time capsule?
Hi ,
I got the Time Capsule a couple days ago and have been backing up my Macbook pro's data. I have an old Lacie 160G external hard drive with data I'd like to put into the time capsule. The only way it can do that now seems like I have to transfer the data from the Lacie to my mac ...then backs it up automatically to the Time Capsule.
However, my 256G of space on my mac is about to be full !
The time machine automatically puts my Lacie hard drive as excluded from being backed up and the button - (to remove it) doesn't work when an external hard drive is connected to the Macbook. Right now, my trust in the time capsule is not superb. I've tried intentionally to delete a video file on my Macbook and then see if I could retrieve it . I've had one fail/error and one success. Since one failed I have not dared to delete anything.
So..the plan is to delete files on my Macbook and then import data from my Lacie to my Macbook...and pray the time capsule will save everything?
Can anyone with experience tell me how to use the time capsule correctly?
Thanks in advance!
KaiThe TM should be able to include the LaCie if it is formatted HFS+. If it isn't then no .. TM cannot backup.
On Yosemite the simple fact is TM is working poorly.. we are awaiting a patch or 6 to fix some of the issues.. but it is being extra flakey.
This is just a very personal opinion but I purchased Carbon Copy Cloner a couple of years ago.. very good purchase.. Easy to use.. reliable.. can backup network drives and disks that are not HFS+ formatted.. plus it can make a bootable clone.. It can backup separately your internal drive and your external drive to different sparsebundles on the TC.. I reckon for $40.. it is well worth it.
Otherwise you are stuck with the Yosemite / TM bugs.. good luck with those..
And more so the fact that TM is simply limited in its ability.
At least create a disk image on the TC and copy manually the files from the external drive into it. You do not need to copy the files to the Mac to do this..
But I think I would be buying another decent sized external drive.. 160GB drives.. sounds ancient..
How to use data and backups properly on a TC.
Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html -
HT5096 How can I move my Time Capsule Backup to an External Hard Drive?
Hi
I have run out of space on my Time Capsule so have decided to change my backup drive to an external hard drive of 4TB. I moved the Sparse Disk Image Bundle from the Time Capsule to the new drive and then changed Time Machine preferences to use the new drive as my Time Machine location. Backups work fine but I am still getting Disk Full messages as it seems that the backups are limited to the original 494Gb disk image size.
When I double click on the sparsebundle it mounts the Time Machine Backups Disk Image revealing the Backups.backudb folder but if try to drag that to the External Hard Drive I get the error message "The volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup."
Any clues how I get this sorted
Cheers
SteveSee Pondini's TM FAQs, for starters.
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Can I transfer Time Machine data from two separate hard drives into one new one?
I'm using a MacBook Pro as my primary computer. My 500 gig Time Capsule filled up a year or so ago, so I stopped using it with Time Machine for awhile so I could keep the data from those old back-ups. There were a number of things I deleted from my computer's very limited hard drive after they were backed up to the Time Capsule. I got a 1T external USB drive last year to use as my "filing Cabinet" to store files I didn't necessarily need all the time or that were filling up my small laptop hard drive--including my iTunes library--all organized in a way that made it relatively easy for me to find what I needed, even if I didn't remember exactly when I'd filed it or what I'd called it. I got another 1 terabyte external (portable) drive last July and dedicated it to TimeMachine backups and labeled it "TimeMachine".
Over the last couple of weeks, my friend has been helping me upgrade to Yosemite and clean up my laptop hard drive. Last week he cloned my laptop hard drive to a new 1T hard drive and I exchanged it for my old drive in my computer today. All good.
Here's the issue. We replaced my Time Capsule hard drive with a 1 terabyte drive with the idea of transferring the data from the old Time Capsule (500G) drive and the newer USB 1T "TimeMachine" compact drive to the new 1T Time Capsule drive and beginning using the latter for my Time Machine backups going forward. Originally he thought we could copy everything from each of my external drives (the old 500gig drive from my Time Capsule, the USB "TimeMachine" drive I've been using since July, and the "file cabinet" files) to my computer in their own folders and then start regular TimeMachine backups to the new Time Capsule drive, thus preserving all my old data and making regular backups going forward. The "file cabinet" data was no problem at all, but when I tried to copy my USB "TimeMachine" data to my computer, I was unable to. My friend found instructions for transferring old TimeMachine data to a new TimeCapsule, but I don't know if I can transfer the data from two separate disks to the new TimeCapsule drive. I'm afraid that one set of data will supersede the other and either my newer backups or my old ones will be lost if I try to transfer both.
Are my fears justified or is there a way to insure that no such problem will occur? Of course, my data will still be on those two older drives, but that won't do me a lot of good if I can't access it when I need to. Also, the 1T drive now belongs to my friend; he used a brand new drive he'd bought for himself for my new internal hard drive and plans to take my 1T "TimeCapsule" drive in exchange, once the data has been transferred, so he will, of course, erase that drive.Should we be able to bring up the old (500G) Time Capsule Drive to rename it using a SATA to FireWire harness and then copy the whole thing to the new Time Capsule drive?
You can copy a whole sparsebundle from one drive to another. That is not a problem. Whether you can access the sparsebundle is something you should test before you even start though.
If it's on the Desktop and I don't tell Time Machine to exclude it from backups, will it just automatically back it up?
All drives you plug into the Mac are excluded by default.. you must include them. So no problems there.. but I hope I am understanding the question.
Will both volumes or directories (which is the right term?) show up when I open Time Machine?
No, Time Machine will only open what it is told to open... or its backup default location.
You can force Time Machine to open alternative/old/no longer used backups by (now I have a problem as things have changed somewhat in Yosemite and I consider it alpha release software at this point in time). The old method was to right click on the TM icon and select a different TM backup. easy. Yosemite seems to have made easy stuff harder.
Here it is on my current computer.. clearly not Yosemite.. Right click on the TM icon in the dock.. select Browse Other Time Machine Disks.. And supply the info of where that is located. Easy. If you cannot figure it out one of the other posters here (with more patience than me for Yosemite) will help you.
Or will we have to partition the new drive somehow--is that even possible?
I am getting more lost as I go down the list.. but the TC disk cannot be partitioned.
If you have included all those USB drives in the new backup on a Time a Time Capsule.. you have made life rather hard because now your files are stored another layer deeper than they were.
So to open a file from a disk you need to open the sparsebundle.. then dig down to the drive in question and then dig down to the backup.. and all of this means Time Machine has to work perfectly which is Yosemite is a very big ask.
I thought you wanted to just backup your old drives to central location.. which means copying the files to a separate folder on the Time Capsule.
One correction I need to make to my post, which will make my strategy make a bit more sense: my new Time Capsule drive is 4T
It makes it much harder.. and I have to pose a real question of long term .. if you have put a 4TB drive in a Gen1 TC.. did you also replace its power supply because I can assure you the drive might be ok but the TC itself will not last forever.. and what happens when it dies. The Gen1 power supply is already well beyond its normal life span and the vast majority are dead. When the backup device is unreliable and the backups on it are made that much harder to get access to.. is this a great plan??
If you are going to consolidate all your old files on one disk.. a task I find understandable. I have done much the same albeit the usefulness of files made on emac running OS9 may be questioned. A disk lying in the bottom of a draw is a more appropriate place for them.
You want those files as easily accessible as possible (at the point of recovery) and not buried inside a sparsebundle.. particularly not a sparsebundle from the old TC disk buried inside a new sparsebundle.. keep files as accessible as possible as you can run searches.. and that is best done on a USB 3 (or faster ie thunderbolt) drive plugged into a new(ish) computer.. not network. And since the files are not being accessed on a daily/weekly or even monthly or yearly basis.. keeping them in actively running TC network storage.. I would say is a waste of space. That is only my opinion of course.. you might consider it highly important that files you will never look at are available any time of day or night when the urge comes to track down that elusive pimpernel email you sent 10 years ago... but I find it hard to justify. What the case.. the problem with TM and things like Mail is you cannot search it.. you must restore the whole library/files/program even before you can access it.. that makes file recovery out of a sparsebundle double step process.
So.. summary.
If you want to store files on the 4TB drive in the TC.. that is not a great strategy but it can work.. simply create a folder named.. OldFilesEMac for instance.. and do a simple copy and paste of all the file to that location. Do not use TM.. Since you have already used TM.. and from what I am reading you have already done the backup with the external drives included.. then you are going to end up needing to erase the TC and start over.. which you may not be prepared to do.. which is fair enough. (I am coming across as overbearing school master.. apologies).
TM is to backup your main OS and current files.. not files from 10-20years ago.
Please do read the issues involved in Pondini..
See his FAQ. I recommend you read through Q14-17 so you understand what is involved in recovery.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
I also recommend you read the first couple of articles here. http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Particularly so you understand the complexity of Time Machine.
And the articles here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
Particularly Q3 on mixing data and backups on a TC.
I wish I could spend an hour or two face to face and work it out.. the whole strategy to do this.. !! -
Hello, I have two questions on time capsule I can only have it on my external hd files and free up my internal memory to my mac I can use an external hard drive, in my case a lacie rugged as shared memory for my two computers
I have a mackbook pro and an iMac if I buy a time capsule 2tb airport, I can use it with time machine and what would be the best way to use it.
There is no particular setup required for TM.. both computers will create their own backup sparsebundle which is like a virtual disk.. Pondini explains the whole thing if you read the reference I gave you.
and how to use time capsule airport whit other external hd to use my old lacie airport with the new time capsule
Up to you.. you can plug the external drive into the TC and enjoy really slow file transfers or you can plug it into your computer and use it as external drive.. which is faster than the TC.. and TM can include it in the backup.
Again everything is explained in the reference.. you are not reading it. -
Can I move Time Capsule hard drive to an external enclosure for faster restore (or initial back-up)?
I upgraded my Time Capsule with a 4TB hard drive. I just backed up 500GB of data from a MacBook Pro with Time Machine and it took almost an entire day over a wired gigabit connection. The next MacBook Pro I need to back up has more than 2TB of data, so I'm anticipating that the process will take nearly four days. The slow speed of the Time Capsule leaves me with two questions...
1. If I ever need to restore my entire system from the Time Capsule, can I remove the drive from the Time Capsule, install it in an external hard drive enclosure and restore from that as it will be a much faster USB 3.0 connection than through the Time Capsule itself?
2. To save the time of waiting four days for the initial Time Machine back-up, can I remove the drive from the Time Capsule, install it in an external enclosure to do the first back-up and then put it back in the Time Capsule for future back-ups?
Thank you.2. To save the time of waiting four days for the initial Time Machine back-up, can I remove the drive from the Time Capsule, install it in an external enclosure to do the first back-up and then put it back in the Time Capsule for future back-ups?
The answer to this is no.. TM backup is done differently on a local drive .. cf a network drive. The network drive must have the backup inside a sparsebundle.. you can read the backup locally and it is vaguely possible to backup files from local to sparsebundle but you are still going to find TM is pretty finicky if it finds you tampered with its internals.
I agree with Kappy .. if you want to use local backups just use USB3 drive.. it is a bit unfair to compare.. as USB3 is 5Gbps connection whilst ethernet is only 1Gbps.. you might also find the speed in the backup is limited by sheer mechanical drive performance.. figures are always quoted for single large files but when you copy heaps of small files.. a mechanical drive takes a lot of time writing file allocations.. even if the actual file write is short.. it takes a long time relative to track after track of large file copying.
Let me add a few things.. 500GB disk in the MBP is not the quickest.. they are usually the slow 5400rpm drives.. unless you replaced it.
Our experience of TC suggests a speed of around 50GB/hr average doing backups.. but it is essential that you turn off wireless.. otherwise you will slow it down.. It is also important IPv6 is set correctly to link-local only and you cannot trust auto to get that right.. you need to set it.
If you still cannot achieve average speed of around 50GB/hr something is wrong.. either you are not getting full gigabit or something is slow.. test with the single large file eg 1GB over ethernet and see.. you should manage speed of around 50MBytes/sec.. (it can vary from 30-60 however... ).
It can take a long long time to do 2TB.. if that is all internal then perhaps look at using TM for the boot drive only.. you surely have it partitioned.. or multiple disks.. and use Carbon Copy Cloner for the other partitions.. it is not that it will go any faster.. but that you can separate out the tasks easier. -
Time Capsule Hard Drive Problems
I attempted to erase the free space on our Time Capsule using disk utility. The process froze at the stage "creating secondary temporary file". At this point I force quitted disk utility and restarted both the computer and time capsule. After, I found that Time Capsule was reporting it had only 1.14gb free when it actually has 1.3tb free, and the existing backup images, although available, can be mounted but the files are not available. Moreover, when I have an image mounted from time capsule disk utility will not open, so I cannot verify the drive.
When I attempt to mount an image from Time Capsule I get the error log:
14/09/2012 16:56:05.595 com.apple.Finder: AFPFSMapIDName afpfsMapIDNameFSCTL returned -1, errno: 2
Any ideas why time machine is behaving this way? Can anyone think of some remedies? I dont want to wipe the time capsules hard drive because it has years worth of backups on it.I would try and copy the sparsebundle/s to another drive.
This will take an age 2 ages and half an age.
http://pondini.org/TM/18.html
Then erase the TC entirely from airport utility.
I would recommend you then start over.. keep the copy of the sparsebundle as archive version.
You do know you should have archived the disk before you started playing don't you!!
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