Time Machine Not Compacting SparseBundle on Time Capsule
Hi
I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and have a time capsule to hold my iTunes Library and act as my Time Machine repository.
I'm experiencing the problem where Time Machine has filled up my 1TB Time Capsule, and will not back up any more.
I can see that Time Machine has tried to delete some old backups in order to create space - in fact it's deleted ALL my old back ups bar one, probably due to the fact that in deleting each old back up has not released any more space on the Time Capsule as the Sparse Bundle is still massive.
I have done some research and can see that other people were having this issue back in 2008 - so I thought it would have been resolved by now! I thought Time Machine was supposed to compact the sparse bundle image once it had deleted an image these days - but it doesn't seem to have happened.
Can someone tell me if there is some setting I need to select?
I might as well delete the current sparsebundle and just start again - so I don't want to find myself in the same situation in X months time!
Many thanks
Darren
Ok here is the log from last night :
Last message before I read the forums looking for answers:
Starting standard backup
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data-1
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/Darren MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Starting pre-backup thinning: 72.04 GB requested (including padding), 41.95 GB available
No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Backup Failed: unable to free 72.04 GB needed space
Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Rebooted machine and started Time Machine :
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Darren%[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Darren%[email protected]/Data
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/Darren MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Compacting storage: 72.04 GB requested (including padding), 41.95 GB available before compacting
Stopping backup.
Backup canceled.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Compacting backup disk image to recover free space
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data-1
The next back up was sucessful!!! :
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Darren%[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Darren%[email protected]/Data
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data/Darren MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 72.05 GB requested (including padding), 300.83 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Copied 27.5 GB of 57.9 GB, 4205 of 4205 items
Copied 57.0 GB of 57.9 GB, 7796 of 7796 items
Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Copied 8157 files (57.9 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 2.85 GB requested (including padding), 244.19 GB available
Copied 598 files (7 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
I can't get back to some of the earlier logs as the widget crashes and takes down the whole dashboard with it! However I think I remember seeing some messages that stated that it couldn't compact the drive as it was already mounted.
I do use the drive to store my iTunes library as well - so perhaps I had mounted the drive when it ran out of space, and hence it's decision to try and remove all the previous backups.
Perhaps this is a good time to think about creating a disk image on the TC for TM to use so I can keep the backups separate from the other data.
Should I create a disk image and store all the iTunes data in it and let TM use the standard TC or vice versa and create an image for TM to use and then use the native TC for data - or does it not make any difference at all?
Cheers for your help
Darren
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