Time Machine not recognizing full space available on NAS.

I recently purchsed and set up an Iomega Storcenter ix4-200d NAS with Time Machine support. The NAS has 8 TB storage total, with ~4.6 TB available.
I have TIme Machine support turned on in the Storcenter, assigned to a folder called "Time-Machine." In my OSX Time Machine preferences, I select the "Time-Machine" folder on my NAS as the back-up disk, and my Mac connects to it just fine.
The challenge is Time Machine returns an error saying there isn't enough space on the backup disk to complete the backup.
For some reason, Time Machine is only recognizing 536.36 GB of space available on the backup disk, even though there are ~4.6 TB available. I tried manually moving my iTunes media folder (~700 GB) to the "Time-Machine" folder on my NAS to see if the Iomega NAS was arbitrarily setting a max size to a Time Machine folder. I was able to manually move just under 1 TB of data to the same "Time-Machine" folder that Time Machine says only has 536.36 GB of space.
I tried deleting the Time-Machine store on my NAS, turning Time Machine support off, then turning it back off and creating a new "Time-Machine" folder. I did this several times and still get the same behavior.
I even tried running Time Machine piecemeal, excluding larger folders at first and running a back-up, to see if maybe Time Machine wasn't liking that large of an initial backup. This worked, and then I gradually removed some exclusions and ran back-ups again, so each back-up size was never more than 200 GBs or so. However, after several back-ups, I received the same error message saying there wasn't enough space on the backup disk when the total sparsbundle size reached 536.36 GBs.
Since I can manually move more than 536.36 GB of data to the backup disk, I'm guessing it must be something with Time Machine not recognizing the full space available on the NAS.
Any ideas? Has anyone seen this before?

Hello,
not that it helps, but I see the same on the exact same configuration. My message is also about not having enough space, ip-to exactly the same amount of room being available (only 536.36 GB available)?
I tried everything, including a full reset of the StorCenter, but to no avail. The timemachine backup used to work, however I thought that this was just because it didn't exceed the limit of one physical disk in the StorCenter (I've got 4 x 1 TB).
What is strange is that the original author has 2TB disks and still has the same problem? So it likely isn't related to the physical disk size. It seems like the maximum backup can only be 536.36 GB ??

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Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
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Thu May 3 02:58:38 2012
panic(cpu 2 caller 0x4b7c6b): "soclose: NOFDREF"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/bsd/kern/uipc_socket.c:1013
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x551e38c8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x551e38fc 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x551e3918 : 0x4b7c6b (0x5d60a4 0x9 0x0 0x18)
0x551e3978 : 0x4b7cdb (0x14337d40 0x1 0x13eb7000 0x148ec05)
0x551e3998 : 0x148edaa (0x14337d40 0x143bea00 0x551e3e07 0x496906)
0x551e3e38 : 0x148eaaa (0x143bea00 0x1 0x301 0x14337de4)
0x551e3e68 : 0x4bb4f1 (0x14337d40 0x143bea00 0x1 0x551e3ecc)
0x551e3e98 : 0x4bb58b (0x14337d40 0x14337d84 0x4ce3d9 0x58030500)
0x551e3eb8 : 0x4ce460 (0x14337d40 0x8594ab0 0x58030500 0x0)
0x551e3ee8 : 0x912271 (0x14337d40 0x8594ab0 0x58030500 0x0)
0x551e3f48 : 0x9123e7 (0x8843b50 0x9247c9c 0x551e3f68 0x1)
0x551e3f78 : 0x230235 (0x0 0x0 0x551e3fc8 0x552f8c)
0x551e3fc8 : 0x2a179c (0x863ea0 0x0 0x10 0x9286f80)
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.astrill.macproxy.kext(2.0.3)@0x1487000->0x1492fff
         at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch(2.4.2)@0x909000->0x936fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 314981098351
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There's some stuff on my time machine drive I would really, REALLY like to get. I took it in to the Apple authorized service center here, and they had no idea.
My drive does not work on other Mac computers, and does not even show up. Apparently just the fact it's plugged into one makes it boot down slower... the tech guy noticed this, anyway. When plugged into a Windows, the drive itself is recognized, but only some partitions... I'm not really clear on what the guy was implying, something along these lines though. He was pointing to various partitions which were different colors, using some Windows utility, but he couldn't make any significance or conclusions based on it.
They suggested I back everything up and reinstall my OS, or possibly bring it back Monday, since I wouldn't get it back til at least then anyway (weekend). As for the drive and the data on it, I have no idea, but I'm SURE they're related to the kernel panics. There are coicidences, and then there are coincidences.
If I can just get at the Time Machine contents for a few minutes, that would be enough. Then, obviously, figuring out wth is going on. Would appreciate anyone to help me out with this, tremendously!
Cheers,
Clarence

I would have posted in 10.6.8 TimeMachine area.
You might also want to have more than one backup set.
Not sure until or without some trial and error who is going to scan and see something in a profile log dump.
USB cables and power adapters and even case, things fail that is a given and just a matter of when, not if. All the eggs though in one basket some get broken.
Whether it will get worse or the drive has bad sectors and I/O errors can be investigated and learned.
Apple Support TimeMachine
Choosing a Time Machine Backup Drive
Cloning as a Backup Strategy
MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro Support

Time Machine not recognizing backup volume is the same

Hope someone can help. I'm having an odd problem with Time Machine in that it doesn't recognize that I have already done a full backup of my MacBook Pro.
A couple things to note, both computers are running Leopard 10.5.7 and the events described below took place over the course of several days (so logouts, shutdowns, etc. have occurred along the way).
On to the details:
1) Connected Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II drive directly to MacBook Pro via Firewire, selected the "+Time Machine Backup+" volume as the backup disk (the Studio drive has two partitions), and did a full backup.
2) Unmounted & disconnected the Studio drive from the MB Pro and connected it to a Mini via a Firewire port.
3) Shared the "Time Machine Backup" volume from the Mini and mount it on the MB Pro. I attach to the Mini using an Admin account, so have full access to the shared drive.
4) On the MB Pro I opened Time Machine Preferences -> Change Disk and select "+Time Machine Backup (Mini)+" from the drive list as my backup disk.
At this point TM creates a sparsebundle in the root of the backup disk with the name of the +MB Pro_<mac address>+, which is where it wants to do future backups to, and mounts it on the MB Pro. TM is ignoring the Backups.backupdb folder in the root of the backup disk which contains a folder for the MB Pro (which was created by the initial direct-connected backup).
***? I don't understand why it is creating this sparesbundle rather than simply using the drive as though it were directly connected to the MB Pro.
If I use Time Machine to Browse Other Time Machine Disks it shows me:
* "MacBook Pro" on "Backup of MacBook Pro" (the sparsebundle)
* "MacBook Pro" on "Time Machine Backup" (the direct-connected full backup)
* "Mini" on "Time Machine Backup" (the Mini's backup)
so, TM does recognize that there is a backup "disk" for the MacBook Pro already on the drive in this instance BUT not when I select the disk as a backup target.
One last piece of information:
On the MB Pro desktop I am currently seeing five drives mounted. The internal hard disk partition 1, int. hard disk partition 2, the +Time Machine Backup+ volume shared from the Mini, another attached volume shared by the Mini (also located on the Studio drive), and the +Backup of MacBook Pro+ sparesbundle.
If I open Terminal and look in /Volumes I see these same drives PLUS +Time Machine Backup-1+
I have no idea where that came from.
I don't want to run into this same situation when I set up Time Machine on my wife's MB Pro. I'll want to do the initial backup of her machine with the Studio drive directly connected too becuase otherwise it will take forever to go over our wireless network.
Does anyone know what is going on here, and more importantly how I can fix it?

boulderguy wrote:
Thanks for the info, Pondini
Wow... That seems like a really bad design.
I can only assume there was a good reason for it. I don't think they did it just to annoy us.
When you backup to a directly attached drive, Time machine copies individual files to (what appears to be) a standard folder structure. If a file is corrupted, you lose one file.
When you backup over a network (one system has a wireless connection the other is connected with an ethernet cable) it creates a disk image containing the file and folder structure. If the disk image file is corrupted you lose your backup.
Is there any flaw to my logic here? On the surface it seems like a dumb decision to put everything in one file.
Only the top few levels (down to the one with a date and time) are normal folders. Everything else is not. What appear to be files and folders are actually "multi-links" (think extra-fancy aliases) to the actual backup copies. That's how every TM backup looks like a full one.
For more details on how it works: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/12/roadto_mac_os_x_leopard_timemachine.html
and: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/14
But neither you nor I, nor anybody else on this forum, can change it. If you want to complain to Apple, here's the place: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Time Machine not recognizing seagate back up plus external hard drive

Please somebody save me!!! My computer was running really slow and decided to take in to the Apple store. They recommended that i needed a new a hard drive. I've beeen using the Seagate back up plus model srd0sd0 3tb drive and before i disconnected the drive i checked time machine and it said it was backed up within the last 15 minutes. disconnected and went to the store. At the apple store i told them to transfer over everything from the hard drive to the new one even though i backed it up. Well they didnt (waiting to see if they can get the drive back) they figured it was back up and so did I. Well i've tried connecting the seagate to my imac and it does not recognize the external drive. i have 10.6.8 snow leopard and tried to reboot it using the install disk. that didnt work. was on the phone with apple support and they could not get it to recognize the drive. tried connecting the drive to a windows laptop and it did not recognize it either. the drive powers on and we are wondering if it's the usb card that's faulty (heading to the store to get a new one) I hope that's it but i'm looking ahead and seeing what other ways i can get it to work. He mentioned that i could replace the outer casing not sure how that works. I did notice that the bottom of the seagate where the usb connects detaches. could that be replace? just trying to find out how to save my drive. I have all of my family photos, videos etc. you know the priceless memories. sorry for the long message. just trying to provide as much info as possible. Thanks in advance!

The genuis was probably referring to a hard disk enclosure…
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/MISC/3.5USB2ENCL/
Enclosures can fail, but the disk can be OK. It is usually possible to take the disk out and fit it into another case.
I'd suggest you take the disk, it's power supply & the USB cable with you the genius may be willing check it on another Mac it could be as simple as a bad cable. Swapping the disk can be delicate, have someone help you if you don't know how to use a screwdriver. Sometimes you can find a guide on the internet if you search for the model and 'take apart', most are simple enough not to need it.
I can't see how the iMac's USB card would effect a Windows laptop, has the Windows laptop ever shown the contents of the TM disk? I don't think they allow Apple formatted disks to mount without extra software?
Good luck with the Store, let us know if they resolve it for you.

Restore from Time Machine not recognizing External Drive

Hi all,
I woke up the other day to a black screen and a frozen macbook pro (4 months old). It wouldn't boot up past the gray screen, so I tried to repair the drive with the install disc. It said that there are no errors (liar!), so I wiped it and tried to restore from my latest Time Machine backup (should be the day prior).
However, when trying to restore through the install disks, I only see a backup from April (5 months ago). Even if I try to restore from that one, it says that I don't have enough disk space and won't do anything for me.
Migration assistant in OSX doesn't see my external drive, even though I can access it through finder.
I just want my system back to what it looked like prior to my crash. Shouldnt Time Machine have this capability?
Thank you for any help.

Robin Ryan wrote:
Hi all,
I woke up the other day to a black screen and a frozen macbook pro (4 months old). It wouldn't boot up past the gray screen, so I tried to repair the drive with the install disc. It said that there are no errors (liar!), so I wiped it and tried to restore from my latest Time Machine backup (should be the day prior).
However, when trying to restore through the install disks, I only see a backup from April (5 months ago). Even if I try to restore from that one, it says that I don't have enough disk space and won't do anything for me.
Migration assistant in OSX doesn't see my external drive, even though I can access it through finder.
I just want my system back to what it looked like prior to my crash. Shouldnt Time Machine have this capability?
Thank you for any help.
You should take your question to the Time Machine forum. More experts there on TM than you can ever imagine.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1342

Time Machine Not Recognizing Old Backups after getting hard drive replaced

Hello! I have a 13' Black Macbook pro which had a faulty hard drive so I had it replaced. Ever since then, all my old backups in Time Machine have been grayed out. I have no idea how to fix this and have tried almost everything on the web.
The only folder that allows me to "go back in time" is my Macintosh HD folder which I know I can access everything but it's a huge nuisance to not be able to click on a folder and go back in time in the same folder.
I just want things the way they used to be! Thanks for the help!

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
The problem is, you have a different HD. Even if it has the same name and contents as the old one, it's still a different HD, and Time Machine treats it as a different one.
There's no way to fool it into thinking it's not.
Technically, it has a different UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier); that's what OSX uses to keep track of drives, not their names.
As you do new backups, you'll be able to access them just as you did with the old drive.

Time Machine not recognizing my Link Station LS CHL

I have updated mac os 10.6.8 with mac os Moutain Lion 10.8.3 and i cannot save and recover with time machine from my Buffalo Link Station LS CHL.
I have the following message
What shoudl I do ?
merci
Marc

I tried what I understood from the forum and added this "printer" but without success.
What is strange and that I have apparently access to my saveguards from Time Machien but I cannot saveguard anything new. And I have no access to the Link Station form the network.
Since I am a very poor computer / network man I do not understand why apparently there is now an AFP problem.
In fact the message that's appear trying to safeguard with Time Machine is:
Le disque de sauvegarde réseau ne prend pas en charge les fonctionnalités AFP requises.
I could translate this by:
The Network Safeguard Disk does not take into account the required AFP functionality.
What does it mean ?
How to solve that.
Thanks
Marc

Why is Time Machine not recognizing my same old external hard drive?

Have been using an Iomega eGo portable external hard drive for a couple years now and am recently getting a pop-up that says it's not formatted, but I've used it regularly in the past and it does in fact hold all previous back ups, so not sure what has changed. The attachment shows TM turned off but I'm getting the same message with it turned on as well as after unplugging it all and restarting. Still in Mavericks 10.9.5 as not ready to switch to Yosemite til this is done. Thank you for all help!

Due to NAS issues, when I started a new time machine backup it did not have the old backups available. My question is do I need to delete them or will time machine automatically reclaim the space? Only one Sparse Bundle, same name.

Due to NAS issues, when I started a new time machine backup it did not have the old backups available. My question is do I need to delete them or will time machine automatically reclaim the space? There is only one sparse bundle but when I enter time machine I don't see my historic backups. I use a synology DS212 for my time machine. Started a new backup which is 218gb but it says 618 gb is occupied therefore it looks like 2 or 3 backups are still on the disk. Before my NAS issues the last backup was in 2014. As you can see there is a second sparse bundle from 2012. Not sure what that is.

This is an old message now, but what happened to me similarly was:
I had a major computer crash and through complicated pathways ended up reinstalling (Mavericks) as a new user (long story).
At least I had good Time Machine backups on an NAS drive (Synology DS212j), or so I thought - when I started Time Machine up again, the old backup file was gone, replaced by a new one using my "new computer" name. The old file was gone both by directly mounting the NAS drive and by clicking "Enter Time Machine".
It's like I had {OldShareName}.sparsebundle and then it was replaced by {NewShareName}.sparsebundle, all of the old info vanished.
(I have spent a week finding old files elsewhere and have completed a satisfactory self-restore. It pays to "archive" [my own variation of] as well as "back-up".)
My belief is that if this were a wired-netword-drive, e.g. plugged right into my iMac with a USB cable, then the old file would have remained.
But this is an NAS drive, connected directly to my Airport wireless router, and I don't know the significance of the fact that it stores its Time Machine backups as "sparsebundle" files rather than simply as plain(er) files.
As usual when things get complicated with computers (not just Apple computers) there was never a warning message. Something like "YOU'RE ABOUT TO DELETE A TIME MACHINE BACK-UP FILE!!!" would have made my life a lot simpler.
BTW, I did try a "restore from Time Machine" option the first thing I had my "new computer" (old hardware, 2009 iMac) up and running, using Migration Assistant, and it ran for many hours and then failed in the wee hours - what that has to do with anything I'm not sure.
I'm not sure that I have a question about this other than "why do these things happen to me?", but it's a warning. Apart from that I've been very happy with the stability and reliability (but not the cost or set-up complexity) of NAS vs. directly-cabled external drives.
Charles

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