TC Backup Volume Structure - Folder Based or Disk Image?

Hi,
Is the backup volume in TC folder based (which is used on drives connected via USB or FW) or Disk Image-based (used when you 'force-enable' the wireless backup support for TM)? I'm quite curious 'coz what I noticed with the Disk Image-based backup volume is that it crashes the TM's 'disk handling' software when the image bloats to about 14Gb in size. If the TC's backup volume uses disk image as well, then there could be a possibility that the software will crash when mounting huge dmgs.
thanks,
zurc

yikes! pls do let us know what happens if the sparse image goes to about 14GB... my Airport Extreme's disk-handling software crashes when I try to mount a volume with that size... which actually is the size of TM's 'unofficially' supported backup sparseimage.
thanks!
zurc
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Disk Utility reports "resource busy" and can't create an disk image

HI,
Just succesfully updated to Mountain Lion on my MBA and iMac. No problems. A very smooth proces.
But, on my iMac the Disk Utility are not able to create new images at all! I'm not sure if this relates directly to the update, as
DU works fine on the MBA.
I have tried to create a simple disk image from a folder, sparse bundle disk images and sparse disk images - with and without encryption.
They al gave this output from DU: "Unable to create "MYDiskImage.sparsebundle." (Resource busy).
I understand from other postings on the web that others have experienced the same message from time to time, but have not seen a fix for it anywhere.
I can see the "disk iamge" in the DU window (left pane) but are not able to locate it with Finder or on the computer anywhere, but are even able to "repair the
disk image with DU, but then there is actually no disk image when trying to locate it. Very strange.
Any help?
The DU log has this info:
1. Creating a sparsebundle
2012-08-01 07:46:16 +0200: Creating Image “MyDiskImage.sparsebundle”
2012-08-01 07:46:16 +0200: Initializing…
2012-08-01 07:46:16 +0200: Creating…
2012-08-01 07:46:27 +0200: Formatting…
2012-08-01 07:46:28 +0200: Finishing…
2012-08-01 07:46:29 +0200: Unable to create “MyDiskImage.sparsebundle.” (Resource busy)
2012-08-01 07:46:29 +0200:
2012-08-01 07:47:01 +0200: Verify and Repair volume “disk3s2”
2012-08-01 07:47:01 +0200: Starting repair tool:
2012-08-01 07:47:01 +0200: Checking file system2012-08-01 07:47:01 +0200: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2. Creating a disk image from a folder
2012-08-01 07:59:10 +0200: Creating Image “Parallels køb juli 2012.dmg”
2012-08-01 07:59:10 +0200: Initializing…
2012-08-01 07:59:11 +0200: Creating…
2012-08-01 07:59:20 +0200: Finishing…
2012-08-01 07:59:21 +0200: Unable to create “Parallels køb juli 2012.” (Resource busy)
2012-08-01 07:59:21 +0200:

Hi Darth,
Thanks for the suggestion. Somehow I managed to solve the issue (the question was posted in July), I think I restarted the computer a couple of times, but it's interesting that you mention Drive Genius and Drive Pulse, as I also had that app running!
Maybe Drive Pulse was also turned of here in my process and helped to solve the issue.
Anyhow, thanks.

Disk Image/CD-R Confusion

I'm trying to figure out how to do one simple thing, or at least I hope it's more simple than what I know so far. I want to burn a copy of my Quicken data file to the same CD-R two or three times a month as backup. I've created a disk image of the folder where I put a copy of the latest file for backup. Do I have to create a disk image of that folder every time I want to add the latest file, or can I use the exising image? If I have to create a new image each time, then I end up with a bunch of images on the CD, and they all show up in the Finder when I insert the CD. Is there a way to add the files to the CD using the same image?
Thanks,
Dave

Just to clarify. While you will be able to add recent files to the Disk Image if you save it as a CD/DVD Master, you will not be able to keep burning again and again to the CD-R unless you make it appendable. Even with this, after the CD-R is filled you can't erase it and reuse.
An easier solution is to buy a CD-RW, which can be erased and reused. You wouldn't even have to worry about Disk Images -unless you're using them for security protection. You could just burn the files to the CD-RW and then erase before burning new files to it.
However, the easiest by far, is to buy a USB Drive. You can find these at BestBuy, Comp USA, etc. They are extremely easy for backups like you are talking about. I'm not familiar with Quicken, so I don't know how big the files are, but you can get a 1GB USB Drives. It great for other things too. An almost necesity for todays living...especially as a high school student like myself.

Installing Classic onto a disk image

Hi.
I have a Classic 'System Folder', together with a few legacy classic apps, on an external hard drive. I would much rather have them bundled together nicely in one single disk image which I could mount as and when I require classic -- which is very rarely, but I can't quite take the chance of getting rid completely yet.
I tried copying the system folder and the apps into a Sparse Disk Image and at first the Classic preference pane recognised the system folder and would launch Classic from it. But once I quit Classic and un-mounted the disk image, further attempt to launch Classic from the (re-mounted) disk Image proved fruitless. The Classic prefs pane would not see the System Folder on the disk image.
As far as I can see, drag and drop is the only way to get the System Folder onto the disk image because installing Classic direct from the Tiger Installer disc will mean booting from the installer disc, and I don't think that one can create or mount disk images whilst in that state.
Is what I am trying to do impossible? It seems to me that it should be possible to treat a Classic system folder located on a disk image just the same as a system folder located on a physical external drive, provided that the disk image is mounted as a volume.
BTW, the obvious question, I guess, is "Why don't you just leave your working System Folder where it is and stop all this dicking about with disk images. The answer is simply that I like to have as few 'things' about as possible, and having the Classic System Folder and the OS9 Apps nicely out of the way on a disk image just seems like a tidier option, if it can be done. I'm just finicky, I guess.
Help, anyone?

Cool, thanks, I was kind of thinking along those lines, but couldn't quite put my finger on it/figure it out, that makes sense, appreciate it.
Thanks again for quick reply,
Stuart

Time Machine can't use the disk image because it can't be written to.

Time Machine can't use the disk image because it can't be written to. help!

VictorSMiller wrote:
I just started getting the same message. I'm using a Western Digital My Book 3TB disk. Normally I have the backups done with the disk attached to Airport Extreme.
I hate to have to tell you this, but backing-up that way is unreliable and not supported by Apple. See: Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk.
Backup failed with error: The target disk image volume is read-only.
Most likely, you got this message before all this started:
What that doesn't explicity say is, the backups failed the verification. When that happens, Time Machine marks the sparse bundle as damaged and won't back up to it anymore (even if Repair Disk can't find the problem). See #C13 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for details.

Making encrypted disk image takes hours?!

Before I made a Time Machine backup, I wanted to use Disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image on an external hard drive. This way, my computer backup is password protected.
So I set the file for 200G at 128 bit encryption.
That was 12 hours ago. According to the progress bar, Disk Utility is still only one-quarter done with creating the disk image.
Is it normal for Disk Utility to take a full day (possibly two) to create a disk image of this size? Is there any way to create a password-protected disk image quicker? (And, for what it's worth, the external drive is formatted for Mac OS Extended, Journaled.)
Thanks for any advice on this...

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
I'm not quite sure just what you're trying to do.
Are you planning to have Time Machine back-up to that encrypted disk image? If so, that's not going to work. When you start Time Machine, it will create a Backups.backupdb folder on whatever drive or partition you select, then place it's backups in that folder, not in a disk image.
If you want to encrypt your whole home folder, you can use File Vault (System Preferences > Security > File Vault). That will encrypt your entire home folder. But that's almost certainly vast overkill, and has many complications of it's own. Read up on it thoroughly before deciding to do it.
If you have a few files that you want to encrypt, create a (smaller) encrypted disk image on your internal HD, in your home folder. Then copy the documents into it, and securely-delete the originals.
Then TM can back-up your entire system "as is" -- without the overhead of encrypting OSX, your apps, configuration, and everything else in your home folder, but the disk image (and it's backup copy) will still be encrypted.

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