Sparsebundle corrupt but can see its contents? TimeMachine restore not working... : (
Hi - this may be old hat, but I didn't see this specific case covered in prior threads:
- My (friend's) TimeMachine backup sparsebundle is corrupt (or at least, not mountable)
-- Meaning that when I try to use DiskUtility to repair the disk, no go
-- fsck_hfs doesn't work
- Finder tells me the Macintosh.sparsebundle is about 43GB
- I can still see the bundle's content through OSX command line (see below)
- The sparsebundles are outside of the Backups.backupdb folder (see below)
- I can cat all of the files inside the sparsebundle (although I haven't checked all of the band files... not sure if that would error on a corrupt band file, anyway)
Some background:
- The original TimeMachine files were created on a NAS
- We're now accessing the files on a USB-attached device
- The original machine - a MacBook Air - was running Lion OSX Server (don't ask...)
- Said MBA was stolen & is not available
- So.... this is a perfect storm of events - any help is much appreciated.
Wondering if there's any way to create a sparsebundle volume & then copy all of these files that I can see to the new sparsebundle volume.
I have yet to try any Mac-specific recovery tools.
Here is some possibly relevant terminal info:
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:TimeMachine jeffme$ ls -la
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 12 jeffme staff 476 Nov 7 18:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 jeffme staff 272 Nov 13 13:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 jeffme staff 408 Nov 7 13:35 .AppleDB
drwxr-xr-x 2 jeffme staff 102 Nov 7 13:35 .AppleDesktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 jeffme staff 170 Nov 7 13:35 .AppleDouble
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 12292 Nov 2 18:13 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 4 jeffme staff 136 Nov 7 18:20 .TemporaryItems
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 0 Sep 10 20:29 .backup
drwxr-xr-x 3 jeffme staff 102 Nov 7 17:23 Backups.backupdb
drwxr-xr-x 4 jeffme staff 204 Nov 7 18:20 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 4 jeffme staff 374 Nov 7 17:23 Macintosh.sparsebundle
drwxr-xr-x 3 jeffme staff 102 Nov 7 18:20 Network Trash Folder
drwxr-xr-x 3 jeffme staff 102 Nov 7 13:35 Temporary Items
drwxr-xr-x 4 jeffme staff 238 Nov 7 17:23 lori’s MacBook Air.tmp.sparsebundle
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:TimeMachine jeffme$ ls -la Macintosh.sparsebundle/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 4 jeffme staff 374 Nov 7 17:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 jeffme staff 476 Nov 7 18:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 jeffme staff 340 Nov 7 13:35 .AppleDouble
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 500 Oct 9 15:51 Info.bckup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 500 Oct 9 15:51 Info.plist
drwxr-xr-x 2 jeffme staff 352512 Nov 7 17:23 bands
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 445 Nov 1 17:23 com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.bckup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 445 Nov 1 17:23 com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 1512 Nov 1 16:32 com.apple.TimeMachine.Results.plist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 7002 Nov 1 16:32 com.apple.TimeMachine.SnapshotHistory.plist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeffme staff 0 Oct 9 15:51 token
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:TimeMachine jeffme$ hdiutil attach -noverify -nomount Macintosh.sparsebundle/
/dev/disk2
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:TimeMachine jeffme$
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:TimeMachine jeffme$
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:TimeMachine jeffme$ mount /dev/disk2
mount: /dev/disk2: unknown special file or file system.
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:TimeMachine jeffme$ diskutil info /dev/disk2
Device Identifier: disk2
Device Node: /dev/disk2
Part of Whole: disk2
Device / Media Name: Apple sparse bundle disk image Media
Volume Name: Not applicable (no file system)
Mounted: Not applicable (no file system)
File System: None
Content (IOContent): None
OS Can Be Installed: No
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: Disk Image
SMART Status: Not Supported
Total Size: 2.0 TB (1987941040128 Bytes) (exactly 3882697344 512-Byte-Blocks)
Volume Free Space: Not applicable (no file system)
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
Read-Only Media: No
Read-Only Volume: Not applicable (no file system)
Ejectable: Yes
Whole: Yes
Internal: No
OS 9 Drivers: No
Low Level Format: Not supported
Thanks in advance for any help!
- Jeff
Hi SKS -
Thanks for that link - I actually referenced some of the steps in that page without mentioning its URL.
The key problem there is that this step:
chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/{name of your network share}/{name of}.sparsebundle
yields nothing - no response.
Then, the next step:
hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck /Volumes/{name of your network share/{name of}.sparsebundle
Gives me:
/dev/diskx
Instead of something like this:
/dev/diskx Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/diskxs1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/diskxs2 Apple_HFSX
So... it's definitely a little crazy messed up.
instead of:
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