Time Machine - Can't Explore Previous Backups, Can't Open Image!
I have a two-fold problem with my Time Machine.
1. I plugged in my USB hard drive into my Macbook Pro, and let it backup. Then, I plugged it into an Airport Extreme n (Fast Ethernet) and it resumed the backups successfully. But, regardless of whether I had it plugged in through USB or wirelessly, I could not see on the Time Machine program any previous backups (i.e. flip through past times).
I had previously been able to see older backups, before all the time machine updates, and when the hard drive had been plugged in through USB only. But after all the updates, my time machine backup failed to recognize, and I deleted the whole thing.
One difference I noticed with the backups with prior to and after the updates, was that before, it would have a backup folder, whereas now, it uses an image format. Which brings me to:
2. When time machine is doing a backup, I am able to see the image loaded. I can browse through it and see all the backups through the finder.
When Time Machine is not backing up anymore, however, I can no longer see the image. When clicking on the “sparsebundle,” I get the following error:
The following disk images failed to mount
Image: Macbook Pro_001b….
Reason: Operation not supported on socket
Anybody know why these two issues occur?
Thank you for your help!
2.2Ghz 15" Macbook Pro
OS 10.5.2 (all updates installed)
The backup can be corrupt.. you are on Lion so this is no surprise. Are you backing up over wireless.. it would be much less of a surprise.
http://pondini.org/TM/D3.html
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