Sparsebundle band

OK...I screwed up...big time. This may even be too much of a challenge for The Great Pondini.
For a number of reasons, I downgraded my intel dual core iMac from ML back to SN.
My TM backups were done while the iMac was operating in ML.
I successfully performed the backgrade, using my SL disk, and following some Apple Support Community suggestions.
Once back in SL, I was unable to open the ML TM backups.
I migrated the sparsebundle from my MBP TM backup to the iMac.
Everything worked fine, but the last MBP backup I used to migrate was one year old, so is missing many recent emails and addresses.
I saved the 21 GB iMac ML sparsebundle, but cannot get the data out of it.
Double cicking on it says disk image could not be opened - reason - not recognized
Control clicking and showing package contents shows disk contains just bands folder, nothing else.
Bands folder contains many files which info tells me are unix executable files.
What I'd like to recover is addresses and saved emails from the last year.
Is this possible, or is this file useless?
I've read thru Pondini's excellent FAQ's, but they are not encouraging.
Thanks for any responses.

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How to mount sparsebundle?

Can someone please explain how to mount a sparsebundle? When I click on the file in finder I get an error "operation not supported on socket."
Here is what happened: I had a user account with Firevault enabled. I deleted this account and chose the option to save the account as a disk image. The file was created not as a .dmg but as a sparsebundle. But now I can't access the files within the sparsebundle, because I can't get it to mount.
Thanks.

ctc1 wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I'm still stuck. The first part worked:
enter the following in terminal (copy and paste please)
sudo chown -R `id -un`:`id -gn`
DO NOTR press enter yet. press space. drag the sparse bundle to the terminal window. the result will look like this
sudo chown -R `id -un`:`id -gn` /Users/Deleted\ Users/username.sparsebundle
The second command didn't work. it returned the following: chmod: /Users/Deleted Users/test.sparsebundle: Operation not permitted
chmod: /Users/Deleted Users/test.sparsebundle/bands: Permission denied
chmod: /Users/Deleted Users/test.sparsebundle/Info.bckup: Permission denied
chmod: /Users/Deleted Users/test.sparsebundle/Info.plist: Permission denied
chmod: /Users/Deleted Users/test.sparsebundle/token: Permission denied
chmod: /Users/Deleted Users/test.sparsebundle: Permission denied
that would indicate that the first command didn't succeed. if it did the second command would have worked too. did the first command give any feedback? is your admin password by any chance blank?
here username should be the name of the sparsebundle.
press enter in terminal. you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal. then enter the following terminal command
chmod -R ar,X /Users/Deleted\ Users/username.sparsebundle
again, the username will be the name of teh sprse bundle. when all is done try mounting the bundle again.

What's the best way to use Time Capsule through Extended Wireless Network?

I am operating four computers, three Apples and a PC. All the Apples use Snow Leopard. I have a large house where the cable company's modem and internet access is located downstairs at the far back of the house. That is where I have a 2Tb 802.11n Time Capsule (TC) connected to the modem by ethernet cable. My iMac is there, connected to the TC by ethernet cable. In the middle of the house, also downstairs, I have an Airport Extreme (802.11n) operating as a wireless bridge. Upstairs in the front of the house (very far from the TC and closer but not very close to the AE) I have a home office. That is where my other two Apples--a MacBook Pro and a MacBook Air--are usually located. The PC is located in a bedroom directly above the TC and wirelessly connects to it. At all locations, I get four radio signal strength bars. However, I am not sure that the AE is doing anything, because I get four bars regardless of whether the AE is plugged in, or not. When it is turned on, Airport Utility on all computers shows both the TC and the AE, but I have not been able to find which Airport ID I am actually connected to.
From my home office I do temporarily lose my internet connection from time to time each day, but the connection recovers usually within seconds. I assume this reflects occasional interference or other loss of wireless signal in the distant home office, although I do not see the radio bars diminish to less than the four bars.
All three Apples are set up to use the same TC for backup into Time Machine. However, I have been getting errors on the laptops operating in the home office (a long way from the TC and perhaps connecting directly over wireless or perhaps wirelessly through the AE bridge. Some messages are to the effect of being unable to backup, and others more recently report errors. I think that either due to connection interruptions or merely by suspending or turning off the computer while in the middle of backing up, errors in the Time Machine files were created. I have been unable to delete more than a few of the 8Mb sparsebundle bands so that I can completely get rid of one of the sparsebundles for the MacBook Pro. I was able to get rid of the other sparsebundle for that computer and also the sparsebundle for the MacBook Air. I am reluctant to erase the entire TC, because it has been working for the directly connected (by ethernet cable) iMac sitting right next to the TC.
So, I am wondering what is the experience of others who are trying to use TC successfully from computers located a long distance from the TC with either a direct wireless connection or a bridged wireless connection through an AE or other bridge.
And does anyone have good ideas about how to delete the sparsebundles effectively? I read the various questions and answers in the support community, but so far nothing that I have tried based on those messages seems to work. It seems that when all the Time Machines are set to "Off" and the sparsebundles are expanded to show the individual bands, we ought to be able to delete them fairly expeditiously. Sometimes, I can delete one band fairly quickly, but then the second band will hang forever. More often, I can't even delete the first band.

Thank you, Bob. I followed the procedure you stated. My AE is working. I did register its BSSID when I put my laptop next to it. This is also the BBSID I am getting when in my home office at the far end of the house from the TC. This means I am using the extended bridge AE when working and trying to use the automated backup feature in Time Machine. Do you think I should turn off Time Machine on these laptops when they are in the home office, and bring them into the room with the TC occasionally to have a better connection (wireless to TC or by connecting an ethernet cable) when trying to make Time Machine backups for them?
Interestingly (in contrast to the exact match of BBSID's for my AE), when I compared the BSSID for my TC in Airport Utility to the BBSID of the TC using the option key and the fan shaped Airport icon, the BBSID's matched except for the last two digits. In Airport Utility, they are 2F. In the fan shaped Airport icon they are 30.
Also, the AE signal, being centrally located on the first floor of the house, seems to be the one most in use. When I walked my laptop away from the AE all the way back to the TC, the laptop automatically switched over to the TC only once. Most of the time, the laptop is still connecting wirelessly with the AE. To switch back to the TC, I have to turn Airport off, and then turn it back on again.
I don't know how efficient or inefficient the Time Machine is when connecting to the TC indirectly through an AE bridge.

Bootstrapper Crash Need to Backup FileVault Home Folder Before Rebuilding

Bottom Line (yes repeated at the bottom ;-))
How do I mount the sparse bundle (FileVault created) from the limited resources available on the OS X install DVD so I can check the integrity of contents, or even just copy the contents unencrypted?
I may just take this into the Genius bar, assuming the correct Evil Genius is available, but if I can get help here it will save me the drive across town.
Background:
Power fault and a hard shutdown, now my iMac won't boot.
Backup of Home folder is about 3 months old using Backup utility (no lectures please, long story)
I would like to backup what I have before doing anything dramatic (like erasing the drive and starting over)
I am using FileVault, which I suspect will complicate things (albeit the backup I do have is unencrypted and in the safe) and was able to copy most (but not all) of the sparse bundle.
I.e., I believe both the system files and my home folder have issues.
I would be satisfied with even an unencrypted copy of the files in the home folder (FileVault sparse bundle), but I am having trouble backing anything up (I/O error, which may mean that a band inside the sparse bundle is corrupted as well).
Possibly Relevant Details:
Single User Mode (i.e., via Command-S) does not reach prompt
Instead I see several "disk0s2: I/O error." with the error details followed by "The system bootstrapper has crashed"
It does point to the specific file issues, but at this point I am less concerned with the system files than I am with the Users home folders (mine and the kids)
Using the OS X DVD and launching Disk Utility the repair disk does not work (even when repeated, which has worked on other disks before).
Invalid sibling link on Verify followed by Invalid node structure (fails trying to rebuilding the catalog b-tree... invalid node structure and invalid record count repeated several times followed by invalid key length, then repair gives up.
Disk Utility unmounts the volume and won't let it re-mount.
Managed to re-mount by forcing the drive to be the start-up disk (Power On with Option key) and then re-started again from the DVD.
Could not figure out how to force the mount from the Terminal.
Again, running from the DVD and then using Terminal I can see the volume (../../../Volumes/Macintosh\ HD) and what appears to be the contents.
On a whim I tried to copy the Users folder to an external drive and then saw the error message about the FileVaulted sparse bundle (file .mtkessel in Users)
Copying the kids home folders this way worked, so the only problem appears to be my home folder (which is a sparse bundle).
Specifically, the "I/O Error" reported by cp is in .mtkessel/mtkessel.sparsebundle/bands/1 and 10... all of the other bands and the related Info and token objects copy just fine. I suppose it is possible that those bands are ones slated for reclamation at the next logout, but I can't be sure.
So I suppose the question is how do I mount the sparse bundle (FileVault created) from the limited resources available on the OS X install DVD so I can check the integrity of contents, or even just copy the contents unencrypted?
Thanks in advance on this ugly problem...
mk

It took many hours to copy the FileVault sparsebundle (both size and device issues I suppose), but I managed to re-assemble it, including the "Rescued Items"; I just used the unix cp -R on the sparsebundle file to force the copy to report the I/O errors... about a dozen or so of the 9000+ bands are damaged.
Could not really tell if anything other than the "Rescued Items" were missing since bands can be deleted during normal use.
I then attached the sparsebundle (which is encrypted) with a shadow (i.e., this sparsebundle is not mountable)
This is the command I used from the directory containing the COPY of the sparsebundle.
hdiutil attach -encryption -noverify -ignorebadchecksums -nomount mtkessel.sparsebundle -shadow bundle.shadow
I am not entirely sure, but the shadow option allows read-only behaviors on the device to be circumvented by allowing write through the shadow...
Enter the password and then I had he "device" appeared in the dropdown menu in DW and then I was able to re-build it.
Then in Preview I was able to see a fully mounted device from which I have started copying. The damage was "easily corrected" according to DW. It may take several hours to copy as well (this time probably due to the decryption as it copies)
I am starting to experiment with the Mail import features to see if I can recover the e-mails... my first attempts of importing from both Apple mailboxes as well as mbox format did not work. And, simply copying the emlx files into the mbox destinations does not work... The items simply don't show up in Mail... I am sure I will figure it out eventually, but any advice on importing the emlx files would be much appreciated!
mk

Time Machine running on Linksys WRT600n with external drive.

Hey Folks,
After searching the internet for the answer on how to setup OS X Time Machine on my Linksys WRT600n with storage link, and finding nothing or only parts of what I needed, I finally got it to work. Hopefully this will help you in your setup.(this should work for any linksys routers with storage link.)
1) First you will need to attach your external USB drive to the Linksys Router, and format it using the linksys utility. This will format the drive as fat32 so it can be access by the mac and the router.
2) You now need to create a share on the drive using the Linksys utility (I called mine "TimeMachine") and grant R&W permission to it. I found and article that said you have to create a group called "root" and a user called "root" within that group, then grant the group R&W access to you share. I did this but I am not sure if its required. you may be able to edit the default "admin" account.
3) Once you have the share created you should be able to access the share from your mac by logging into it using your (Linksys) "root" account and password. Make sure you can save a file here. You maybe able to create a folder but make sure you can save a file (.doc for example).
4) Apple has blocked the use of unsupported drives in Time machine so you will have to make a change for this to work. open a terminal window and type the following in one line:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Hit enter, and close terminal.
5) For some reason Time Machine will have issues creating the .sparse bundle Disk required for the backup over the network. So you will have to create it yourself. Safely unplug the USB drive from the router and plug it into your mac. Open disk utility (applications > utilities > disk utility) and create one the same size as your external drive.
parameters:
- Volume name: "Time Machine" (has to be this to work)
- Mac OS Extended (Journaled);
- No partition map
- sparse bundle disk image
Make sure the sparse bundle is in the share folder. If Time Machine had created this sparse bundle it would named it after your machine. You will have to rename it accordingly. This is the required format 'computername'_'mac address without colons'.sparsebundle
(eg. "joe's MacBook Pro_000000000000.sparsebundle")
6) Once all the above is complete you can reattach the drive to the router, and attach to the share again from your mac. Open Time Machine and you should see your share. Setup Time Machine to use this drive. You may want to be connected using Ethernet for the first backup as it may take a while.
I have found the wireless backup to take a bit of time to prepare and run but it seams to work nonetheless. The slowness could be caused by the difference in mac addresses from wired to wireless. So you may want to change the sparse bundle file name depending on how you are accessing time machine.
Hopefully this will work for you as it did for me.

I am afraid I have to pour some cold water on your enthusiasm.
Yes, what you say can get TimeMachine working, but there is a nasty snag:
WRT600N uses FAT32 for its external harddrives and (regretably) understands nothing else. FAT32 has two restrictions:
1) Maximum file size is 4GB
2) (a lesser-known one) Maximum number of files in a directory of 65,535.
The first restriction isn't really a problem because Time Machine organizes its data in 8MB "bands", which are files within your sparsebundle directory.
The second restriction, however, will cause Time Machine to eventually hit a brick wall: The sparsebundle bands are given a sequence number in hexadecimal and there isn't really a limit to how many you can have. If you run Time Machine on a large harddrive attached to the WRT600N, you will eventually run into a situation where you are hitting the 65,535-files-in-a-directory limit. Time Machine will, therefore, run for a while and then suddenly fail for no apparent reason.
Given the parameters of Time Machine, you can't run Time Machine reliably on a WRT600N with an external harddrive larger than 8MB * 65535 = 512GB. If that's good enough for you, then great. If not, you can do one of two things:
1) Get something that doesn't format its harddrive in FAT32.
2) Install DD-WRT on your router (thus voiding its warranty), fight with it for a while in order to get SAMBA running on it, and gain the ability to format your harddrive in Ext2.
I hope this helps somebody.

Huge mirror file

Hello,
After installing Leopard I noticed a really huge file labeled Users/myname/Library/Mirrors/0016cb.......9/myname.dmg. Almost 10 GB in size. Do I need it? I'd like to erase it or move to the external HD.
Then, I have about 50 files all 8 MO in size in Users/myname/Library/FileSync/0016cb...9/myname_iDisk.sparsebundle/bands/number . Same thing, do I need it?
At last, after installing Leopard I have every half an hour an error message poping out saying "PubSubAgent quit". Apparently, causes no specific problems, but is annoying. Somebody knows about it?
Thanks for any help, I see there is much more serious problems you guys have.
Alex

Alec312 wrote:
At last, after installing Leopard I have every half an hour an error message poping out saying "PubSubAgent quit". Apparently, causes no specific problems, but is annoying. Somebody knows about it?
This is a new function in Leopard which, from the feedback about it, has some problems. Apple introduced an RSS reader in the mail.app Mail application. Plus in the Mail application preferences it mentions RSS feeds.
Try this:
In Mail go to preferences - menu Mail | Preferences. Then go to the "RSS" tab. Check what it says is the "Default RSS Reader". Change the "Check for updates:" from "Every 30 minutes" to "Manually".
Let us know if this solves this issue for you.

Lost disk space

Hi, I've just noticed that the hard drive on my iMac has lost hundreds of GB of space in a few days.
I used "WhatSize" to find out there is 336 GB in a file called xxxxiDisk.sparsebundle/bands which is in the Library of my Home folder.
How do I get this space back? Because its in the iDisk will I lose the contents there?
Appreciate help. Thanks

The first thing you need to do is backup your data as my FAQ* explains someplace separate from the iDisk:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Once you do, post in the .Mac Sync forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=957
As someone there would be more able to tell you how to turn it off without losing data.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

User profile taking 26GB space, can't see any files

A friend of mine gave me her laptop to retrieve her data as the MacOS got corrupt and I think everything broke on the partition map. Once I coaxed the drive to mount after many runs of disk repair I got to the user folder and it had the no biggie, just copy and redo permissions right?
Copied the user folder to my drive:
ran chmod -Rf 755 26GBEmptyUserFolder/
ran chown tonystark:staff -R 26GBEmptyUserFolder/ (just in case for anything weird)
After that the went away the folder is completely empty to the GUI and CLI
Running rsync on the user folder gives me this cryptic sparse file list instead of files inside the user folder.
Users/.Hawkeye/Hawkeye.sparsebundle/token
               122880 100%    6.51MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#4, to-check=3195/3202)
Users/.Hawkeye/Hawkeye.sparsebundle/bands/0
          8388608 100%    1.26MB/s    0:00:06 (xfer#5, to-check=3193/3202)
Users/.Hawkeye/Hawkete.sparsebundle/bands/290
     8388608 100%    1.60MB/s    0:00:05 (xfer#127, to-check=3071/3202)
What is going on? Is the home folder encrypted?

You could have a bad install. There's a thread/threads around here talking about the viewer being all white due to a bad install of the program or a corrupt user. I've also heard it manifest with a black screen instead of white.
Quickest thing to check. Create a new user account. Log in there, and open Motion. If Motion opens fine, then you have a problem with your normal user account.
Andy

Mac space issue

Can someone please explain to me why it shows I have 360GB of 372GB free for my home directory, but the Macintosh HD shows 173Gb of 186Gb free? I am new to macs so I may not fully understand whats going on
i am using OmniDiskSweeper but the sizes are just not adding up.
Also my HD is journaled if that means anything
I also noticed a folder of something called sparsebundle bands, what is this and can it be moved?

Hi jonm10;
The best anyone can say at this point it a definite maybe.
If you are able to get FileVault turned off and if that is the only problem with your disk space then the chances are good the lost space will return. With the given information I unable say more then that.
If it were my system, one of the first things I would do after turning off FV is to boot from the install DVD and run Disk Utility to repair the disk. With everything that has happened here it is likely that your disk is suffering from file corruption which should be repaired ASAP.
Allan

Where can I find this corrupt file? I can't find it anywhere.

It's driving me nuts because I keep seeing it whenever I run my anti-virus scan. Whenever I search for the thing, I can't seem to find it anywhere. This can't be possible. I don't know if I need to give you my exact username for this computer, but as a stand-in for that, I'll just type [ANONYMOUS]. The corrupt file is named as follows-
/Users/.[ANONYMOUS]/[ANONYMOUS].sparsebundle/bands/33f
Is there any idea where I can find this?
And if possible, is there a way to recover it or do I just have to delete it? I've found a couple of corrupted google chrome files that I've taken care of so far.
One last question. Is this file's corruption a symptom of hacking? It's a long story. Just curious...

Looked at what they do and how they do it, antivirus tools are arguably difficult to distinguish from the malware itself, and problems with the tools can sometimes manifest themselves with corruptions and crashes.
While thomas_r. points to the mv rename command (which will work — just be very careful to include exactly two spaces in that entire command, don't add additional spaces within the directory names), that rename operation might mess up the antivirus — I'm guessing that file is part of that package — and I'd start out with something like the following commands to look around at that .yourshortname directory:
ls -aled@ /Users/.yourshortname
ls -ale@ /Users/.yourshortname
The first looks at the settings and attributes of the directory file itself, and the second looks at the settings and attributes of any files stored in the directory.
If you're encountering corrupt files, that can imply a software or hardware problem is lurking. As a first step, I'd remove the antivirus tools — again, these tools are very close to being malware, in terms of what can happen when they go wrong — and see if the corruptions persist. I'd also verify you have current backups at all times, on the off chance that this is a hardware problem — that's your path back from both software and hardware errors. A failing disk can also cause file corruptions, and that doesn't usually end well.
Full disclosure: I'm somewhat skeptical around the value of antivirus on OS X for most users. Antivirus chews up a non-trivial amount of resources and can itself cause problems and false positives. There are very few bits of malware around that are specifically targetting OS X, and shuting off or removing or plugin-blocking Adobe Flash Player and Oracle Java, and disabling features such as Safari's habit of automatically opening safe downloads, then the integrated features of Gatekeeper and XProtect and OS X security should keep you fairly secure. This all assuming you're reasonably skeptical around what you click on and what packages you install and particularly if you're not off looking to load cracked software from the torrents, and are not installing and running stuff (anything that you didn't go looking for yourself) found from random places around the 'net or from random mail messages sent to you. Even the best antivirus around isn't entirely proof against any of those sorts of attacks, either. If you do decide to use antivirus (and that's entirely your call), then please do not assume it will effectively protect you; you'll still want to avoid loading anything that might reasonably be malware. Expect it to toss false positives, and to potentially cause flaky behavior and — as has happened with various malware tools, and sometimes successfully — to itself be targeted for attack or used as a backdoor.

Can't stop applications automatically starting in user account

I created accounts for each kid.
Parental control is active, but no restrictions on which applications they can use; just website restrictions and time limits.
Allowed them to modify the dock.
Each time they log in various applications automatically start and removing them from the startup list does not seem to solve the problem, and one is not even on the list.
The "re-open windows" check box is NOT selected when they log out and I watched them quit the applications before logging out.
Example: for one account iTunes Helper always shows up on the startup list... I try to remove it in their account and it just pops back up... this appears to cause iTunes to autostart each time the log in... annoying.
Example: same account, the System Preferences always start up... fortunately it is locked so the kid can modify anything. But again, annoying.
I propagated read/write permissions through their account folders (thinking maybe some settings are not being recorded)... but no luck...
I may just try to re-create their accounts but was hoping to find the answer to this most perplexing issue.
Thanks,
mk

Aha! Even though they had permission to read/write their files, apparently the ownership was not theirs on all of the files, this must have restricted the mods to their account.
Thanks for the "jog".
Background:
This permission state stemmed from a full re-build/re-store I did about a year ago when the hard drive crashed (with encrypted files in the my account, no less)... The backups were out of date (long story) and it took about a week to recover and re-assemble the sparsebundle bands from the broken drive (I only lost 12 pictures!... Disk Warrior really helped with that one!)... anyway I managed to install a new drive and re-stored all of the accounts, but apparently some of the library states had me as the owner... If I think long enough I probably remember how that happened.
Again, thanks for "remembering" for me ;-)
mk

Does os x server create inconsistent local backups of files created as a result of a client's time machine backup?

some definitions for clarity:
"TM Server" means the Network Service by which clients back up their files to the server.
"TM Client" means the local Time Machine backup process that saves the server's files to a USB drive
If I have a Server "A", and clients, "B" and "C".
"A" offers itself as a TM Server backup destination, saving to
/Volumes/Backup1/
/Volumes/Backup2/
"B" and "C" clients rotate between Backup1 and Backup2 as their backup destination, over the network, so
/Volumes/Backup1/b.sparsebundle and c.sparsebundle exist (as well as in Backup2)
"A" backs itself up through its TM Client to a USB3-attached drive at
/Volumes/USB1
Which has the usual .backupdb files.
A's backups include the data on the "Backup1" and "Backup2", which have the sparsebundles.
The question is:
1. Is A's TM Client aware of the TM Server, so only saves the .sparsebundle bands to the .backupdb once the TM Server has finished accepting a client backup
OR
2. does the TM Client run concurrently with the TM Server such that it writes the .sparsebundle bands to the .backupdb in an inconsistent state:
Ex:
Server and Client have copies of a file. Server has a previous content with 'AA' and begins a backup.
Halfway through the server's backup, the client starts writing to the server with new content, 'BB'
Scenario 1: TM Server waits until local backup is complete:
Client:|-------------------BB[===Backup===]BB-|
Server:|-AA[===Backup===]AA-------------------|
Scenario 2: TM Server is allowed to write while backup happens
Client:|-----------BB[===Backup===]BB-|
Server:|------AA[===Backup===]AB------|
Scenario 2 obviously leaves the local backup in an inconsistent state.
DOES OS X SERVER CREATE INCONSISTENT LOCAL BACKUPS OF FILES CREATED AS A RESULT OF A CLIENT'S TIME MACHINE BACKUP?

See if anything in C 12 helps. Airport Utlity 5.6 will not run in Mavericks.
Time Machine Troubleshooting
Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems

Cant find system backup in Time machine disk

I use two Macs, one iMac and one Macbook Pro.
both are being backuped on the same Time Machine, but with different users.
Before changing disk on iMac I made full backup (700GB) and could see the files in the directory and I got no error messages when creating the backup.
I restarted the iMac with CmdR and I now find the Time Machine disks, one for the iMac and one for Macbook Pro. When choosing iMac (where I know there are files in the folder /timemachine imac/imac.sparsebundle/bands) it can not find any system backups and no backups to choose from! For the Macbook Pro backup I can find a lot of didfferent system backups to choose from!
Very annoying as I can see files in the backup folder for iMac in the Synology NAS 212j, Time Machine.
Please help me as I do not have access to my old disk (warranty disk from Apple)!
Greatful for all tips!
Thanks in advance!

Check Time Machine Preferences/Options to make sure nothing is being excluded.
You might want to look at D5
Time Machine Troubleshooting

Accessing ThinkCentre hard disks via StarTech USB caddy

Hi,
I have a unit that died after some years of use and abuse but the HDD seems to be OK as far as I can establish it. I have a StarTech USB caddy but when I try to access the drive, I find only what appear to be 3 small partitions rather then the whole drive contents amounting to 5% of the drive capacity, what am I missing?
Have not tried recovering drive contents before and am wondering if the 95% that is missing is hidden by a Lenovo software switch, if so how do I gain access?
Many thanks in advance,
Andy

I was having this problem with my new MacBook Air when trying to backup to a AFP share provided by Netatalk running on a Gentoo Linux server. Time Machine would begin creating a disk image (populating the "bands" directory) but would abort with "the backup disk image could not be created" and the in-progress disk image would be deleted from the server.
On a whim, I tried something that ended up working:
1. Start Time Machine backup. Wait a little.
2. On the server, make a copy (cp -r) of the in-progress disk image.
3. Let Time Machine fail and delete the image.
4. Rename (mv) the copy created earlier to the same name of the deleted Time Machine sparsebundle image.
5. (I'm not sure at all if this part was necessary:) Delete the last, incomplete "band" created by Time Machine in blah.sparsebundle/bands (the smallest and last-alphabetically one).
6. Start Time Machine again.
Files seem to be copying now. Too early to say if the backup will work completely (looks like it will take all night), but this is definitely the farthest I've gotten.

Time Machine cannot mount remote backup disk (ReadyNAS NV+)

Hello,
I own a ReadyNAS NV+ which I use as an external backup. It has a "Time Machine" backup daemon, so the iMac see's it over network. I used it for a couple of months without issues.
A couple of days ago I had to change the physical location of ReadyNAS. Now there are 2 switches between my iMac and the readyNAS.
Since I changed the physical position of the ReadyNAS I try to backup using time machine but it's not possible. Time machine hangs up when trying to up at "Making Backup Disk Available". Using the terminal I can clearly see that AFP has issues mounting the disk:
afp_4pcsta0oyhi62C4wJd3Bx6yh-1.2e00000b on /Volumes/ReadyNAS (afpfs, nobrowse)
angel:log root# dmesg
6a800!
jnl: disk3s2: journal_open: Error replaying the journal!
hfs: early jnl init: failed to open/create the journal (retval 0).
disk3s2: 0x5 (UNDEFINED).
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 2] [LBlkNum 2] [FSLogMsgID 1814855696] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode devfs] [MountPt /dev] [Path /dev/disk3s2] [FSLogMsgID 1814855696] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/ReadyNAS, flags 524288, pid 285
AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/ReadyNAS, pid 872
jnl: disk4s2: replay_journal: from: 8247296 to: 4564992 (joffset 0x962000)
ASP_TCP dothreadread: no reqInfo found for reqID 5
ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0xa258660
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Volumes/ReadyNAS prevTrigger 0 currTrigger 1
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 22 error 89 reqID 3256 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0x3D so 0xa258660
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 23 error 89 reqID 3257 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0x22 so 0xa258660
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 24 error 89 reqID 3258 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0x22 so 0xa258660
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 25 error 89 reqID 3259 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0x22 so 0xa258660
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 26 error 89 reqID 3260 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0x22 so 0xa258660
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 27 error 89 reqID 3261 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0xB so 0xa258660
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 28 error 89 reqID 3262 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0x22 so 0xa258660
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 29 error 89 reqID 3263 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0x22 so 0xa258660
0 [Level 5] [com.apple.message.domain com.apple.afpfs.reconnect] [com.apple.message.signature Reconnect failed - socket failed to start reconnect] [com.apple.message.value 1297443679] [Message afpfs_DoReconnect: socket failed to start reconnect 61 /Volumes/ReadyNAS
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEA to unmount /Volumes/ReadyNAS
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 6] [IOType Write] [PBlkNum 8] [LBlkNum 8] [FSLogMsgID 1662666978] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode afp_4pcsta0oyhi62C4wJd3Bx6yh-1.2e00000a] [MountPt /Volumes/ReadyNAS] [Path /Volumes/ReadyNAS/angel.sparsebundle/bands/0] [FSLogMsgID 1662666978] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
disk4s2: 0x5 (UNDEFINED).
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 11744] [LBlkNum 11744] [FSLogMsgID 1726805554] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode devfs] [MountPt /dev] [Path /dev/disk4s2] [FSLogMsgID 1726805554] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
jnl: disk4s2: updatefsblock: error reading fs block # 11744! (ret 5)
disk4s2: 0x5 (UNDEFINED).
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 27379] [LBlkNum 27379] [FSLogMsgID 1933006271] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode devfs] [MountPt /dev] [Path /dev/disk4s2] [FSLogMsgID 1933006271] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
jnl: disk4s2: dojnlio: strategy err 0x5
jnl: disk4s2: replay_journal: Could not read journal entry data @ offset 0x46a800!
jnl: disk4s2: journal_open: Error replaying the journal!
hfs: early jnl init: failed to open/create the journal (retval 0).
disk4s2: 0x5 (UNDEFINED).
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 2] [LBlkNum 2] [FSLogMsgID 800265459] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode devfs] [MountPt /dev] [Path /dev/disk4s2] [FSLogMsgID 800265459] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/ReadyNAS, flags 524288, pid 285
AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/ReadyNAS, pid 933
jnl: disk5s2: replay_journal: from: 8247296 to: 4564992 (joffset 0x962000)
angel:log root#
Finally Time Machine exists with error "Backup disk cannot be accessed. error 109".
Can someone give me a hint or two on how to solve this issue?
regards

Not a NAS-specific issue. The OS is trying to read a block of the sparse disk image, and the read is failing. Basically, the sparse bundle is damaged. You'll need to rename it and then try backing up again to a clean sparse bundle.
That said, make sure you're running a version of the ReadyNAS firmware that actually supports Time Machine. There are several AFP commands that were added for Time Machine that *must* be supported for correct operation, and older AFP implementations did not implement them. The reconnect errors suggest to me that maybe the firmware you are running doesn't support the Reconnect UAM, in which case it probably also doesn't support the replay cache, etc. If that's the case, then things probably won't work correctly without a firmware update even after you fix the corrupted sparse bundle.
Edit: actually, on further searching, it might be a NAS-specific issue. Certain buggy network switches do not properly support jumbo frames in mixed networks, which can cause read errors similar to what you are seeing when working with AFP. (This might have been your post on the other board.) In the Network prefs pane, choose Ethernet, click "Advanced", click the Ethernet tab, change Configure to Manually, and set the MTU to Standard (1500).

Sparsebundle band

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