Time Machine duplicating backups for no apparent reason
Hello all. I am attempting to use Time Machine with a hard drive ("AirDisk") attached to an Airport Extreme Base Station. I am aware that this is not officially supported, and I expect I will just end up having to go back to doing SneakerNet backups. I thought that it was worth trying to find out if anyone knew what might be going wrong before I threw in the towel.
I had been using it without incident for about a week, when suddenly, the day before yesterday, it started wanting to make a whole new backup. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the backup that is already there -- I can go into "Star Wars" and browse it without issue, and I have verified it with DiskUtility. It doesn't do it every time, and sometimes will run a normal incremental backup without incident. In particular, if I stop the huge full backup, delete the extra sparsebundle it's just made, and then run a backup again right afterward, it will run a normal incremental backup.
Here's the log of its most recent full backup, at least up to where it is now (it's currently in the middle of the long, long process of re-backing up every darned thing). Is there anything there that gives anyone an idea why it's doing this? As you can see, it's made a "Polythene Pam 1.sparsebundle" despite there already being a seemingly fine "Polythene Pam.sparsebundle" on the disk.
Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide.
Here's the system log so far:
9/11/10 9:29:05 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Starting standard backup
9/11/10 9:29:05 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Heather%20Kendrick@Rabbit's%20Rest.afpovertcp.tcp.local/Rabbit%20Hole
9/11/10 9:29:05 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Heather%20Kendrick@Rabbit's%20Rest.afpovertcp.tcp.local/Rabbit%20Hole
9/11/10 9:29:06 PM kernel AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/Rabbit Hole-1, pid 1837
9/11/10 9:29:11 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Creating disk image /Volumes/Rabbit Hole-1/Polythene Pam 1.sparsebundle
9/11/10 9:29:13 PM hdiejectd[1844] running
9/11/10 9:29:23 PM hdiejectd[1844] quitCheck: calling exit(0)
9/11/10 9:30:05 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[1837]) Exited with exit code: 255
9/11/10 9:30:11 PM kernel hfs: Initializing the journal (joffset 0x73d000 sz 0x1800000)...
9/11/10 9:30:14 PM hdiejectd[1857] running
9/11/10 9:30:15 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
9/11/10 9:30:16 PM fseventsd[41] could not open <</Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd/fseventsd-uuid>> (No such file or directory)
9/11/10 9:30:16 PM fseventsd[41] log dir: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd getting new uuid: C103E1D4-7802-4793-9251-FD2D3E6BC542
9/11/10 9:30:17 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Disk image /Volumes/Rabbit Hole-1/Polythene Pam 1.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
9/11/10 9:30:17 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
9/11/10 9:30:17 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
9/11/10 9:30:34 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Backup content size: 63.5 GB excluded items size: 13.6 GB for volume Rocky Raccoon
9/11/10 9:30:34 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] No pre-backup thinning needed: 59.83 GB requested (including padding), 182.11 GB available
9/11/10 9:30:34 PM com.apple.backupd[1716] Waiting for index to be ready (101)
9/11/10 9:30:35 PM mds[36] (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Oddly enough, the size/format of some names can make odd things happen with network Time Machine backups, and at least one of yours may be involved. See #C9 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Do your self a favor, though. Even if you get this working, do not depend on these backups 100%. There's a reason Apple doesn't support it -- it's not reliable.
There are any number of threads here and in the Airport Extreme forum similar to this one: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2483045
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