Two macs, time capsule backup problem

I have a macbook pro and a macbook both running 10.5.2 and both using a time capsule for net. The macbook pro is using time machine on the time capsule, but trying to use the macbook results in an error message
"The backup disk image could not be created"
I was targeting the time capsule - it asked for the tc's login, the prepares and fails. I have rebooted the mac and tc and have also removed the time machine pref file. No luck..
any ideas?

I am definitely having a problem running time machine at the same time on 2 macs with the Time Capsule. If i dont get an error "The Backup Disk Could Not Be Mounted" on the iMac, I'll have the TimeMachine clock thingy spin once and then not do anything on my MacBook. It seems that the Time Capsule cannot handle 2 macs running Time Machine backups simultaneously... which *****, because i'd like to be able to use it with all of my computers and not worry about whether the other machine is running a backup whenever TM on my laptop starts up every hour/day/week/etc...
I am also trying to use it as a media server and i eventually plan to get an appletv as it's friend as well... from reading some of these other threads, it seems that TC might be a bit racist against TV's.

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Hi,
Background information,
I am using a 32 day old 2TB Time Capsule, The Computer I am using is a white Macbook early 2009 - 120 gb HD and i have USED 80 out of 120 - , it is connected via wifi to a ADSL +2. The Time Capsule I am running is connected directly via the modern to the TC using a ethernet cable. I have the latest version if OS X Lion and the latest update and firmware of TC. I am backing up directly to the TC’s drive.
The Problem,
A couple of days ago i started to do my first backup of my Macbook, I started at 8 am in the mourning in which it took till 10pm at night using wifi, i am un-bale to use ethernet cable... However this backup did not fully complete and at around 4pm that same day when I was trying to backup It said it had only "5 seconds left" until it started to increase the amount of data that the TC had to backup. It got to 10pm and fail the first backup with an error message, which I do no have, I think it is something to do with the disk being disconnected. So I tried again the next day, when it started the gage said it only had to backup initially 250mb, which i would assume this means it's completed it's first backup, as the day progressed it still was backing up, and was presenting the same issues as before, that is it said it "only had 5 seconds left", however once again it began showing that it had to backup more data, at the end of the day it had to back up 6.5 gb which it did but hadn't fully finished.
A quick side note: I have been able to successfully make a backup on a early 2010 iMac.

The first Time Machine backup of a Mac will always involve transferring a lot of data. Over Wi-Fi that means it will take a long time. I'm not sure why you say you're unable to use an Ethernet cable, but I recommend that you use one for that first backup. Connect it just before you go to bed, turn off Wi-Fi to assure that it's really using the Ethernet connection, and start the backup. It should be complete by the time you get up. At that point you can disconnect the Ethernet cable, turn Wi-Fi back on, and do all future Time Machine backups over Wi-Fi.

Time Capsule backup problem

Hello. I'm having a problem when backing up to my TC. It worked fine after 4 calls with apple care and eventually resetting it over and over. But then for some reason the Sparsebundel got corrupted and I need to start al over again. But ofcourse, it is not working, again. This is the error message on the console:
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Lars%[email protected]/data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Lars%[email protected]/data
Creating disk image /Volumes/data/jarvis.sparsebundle
GetMasterBlock: Error 6 from read; amount=-1, wanted=512
mount_hfs: Device not configured
Error 1 creating backup disk image
Failed to create disk image /Volumes/data/jarvis.sparsebundle, status: 1
Backup failed with error: 20
SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -104; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
I don't know why It doesn't work.
Kind regards,
Lars

See User Tips for Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.

Problems with Full restore using Time Capsule backup???

For some reason my MacBook Pro recently crapped out completely, and I am trying to do a complete restore of the OS via a full backup I made with using Time Machine onto my Time Capsule disk, but I am running into some problems doing so and I was hoping someone might have some insight as to how I should deal with things at this point...
Here's where things get messy...
- I insert my Mac OS X 10.5 Installation DVD into my Macbook and boot from the drive, and I immediately choose the menu option to 'Restore from Time Capsule Backup'...
- After logging into my Time Capsule and then choosing the proper .sparseimage file to restore from, I click 'continue' and it brings me to the screen where I choose where I want to restore to (which in my case, is the one and only internal HD inside my Macbook Pro)
- The bottom of this window tells me that it's "Calculating space required to restore data..." but it simply hangs at the point with a spinning wheel indicating its still doing the calculating, but never actually presents me with the space required, not does it allow me to click continue to perform the restore?? I've allowed it over an hour to calculate the space required and it still just spins its status wheel...
This is where I am stuck at this point, and I have no idea how to get it to proceed to the next step to allow me to perform the restore??
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I will have no choice but to do a complete reinstall (including all apps and data) if I can't get the backup restored... Thanks!

I had the same problem when installing a new HDD in my Macbook. The solution I found was to reinstall Leopard onto the new HDD from the install CD, then reboot off the install CD once I had done this. I was then able to choose the 'Restore from Time Capsule' option and get my HDD to show up in the window.
A word of warning, once you have reinstalled Leopard and it starts asking you for all you info, as if for the first time to set up your computer, there is an option at the end of that process to restore your data from a Time Capsule backup. While this did restore all my files and so forth, it did not update any of the 'Apple' apps, i.e. iTunes, iPhoto, Quicktime, or the operating system itself, suggesting a 500Mb download via 'Software Update' to update the system. It was faster for me to reboot of the install CD and restore via the process outlines above. That way you get all your system updates included.
Not sure if this is the 'approved' method but it worked for me! The restore process took about 75 minutes for about 100Gb of data from my external backup drive connected to my Macbook via a Firewire cable.
Hope this helps!

Is a windows partition on Mac that has regular time capsule backup also backed up?

I am setting up boot camp w/ parallels desktop, and I wonder if this windows partition on my Macbook Pro will be part of the automatic time capsule backup? Or do I have to do something specific to ensure this windows partition is also backed up?

If you are asking about the Time Machine backup application.....Time Machine cannot backup Boot Camp, if you are running that on your Mac, or for that matter....a Windows partitiioned drive.
If you want to backup these files, you will need to use a Windows backup application. The simplest set up would have Boot Camp backing up to a separate hard drive connected to your Mac.
It is possible to have Boot Camp back up to the Time Capsule, but things can get mighty complicated this way, and I would not recommend this for most users.
I had some success a few years ago backing up the Windows files to a Time Capsule using an application called Genie Timeline Pro, which uses a similar concept to Time Machine, so you might want to give that a look if you want to try this.
Genie Timeline Pro | Overview | Time Machine Backup Software for ...
I have not backed up Windows files in a few years, since I only use Macs now, so you might want to wait to see if other users will post with some current recommendations.

Restoring an existing Time Capsule backup to a new HD

The hard drive on my 6 month old MacBook Pro failed inexplicably several days ago. After wasting half a day trying to repair the disk, I caved in and made an appointment at the dreaded "Genius" Bar.
They verified my suspicions; complete failure. They kept the laptop, ordered a new drive and two days later informed me it was fixed. I sat down and connected it to my Time Capsule with an ethernet cable. When I turned it on, it played through that now insufferable multicultural "welcome"-in-twenty-languages jam and I followed Apple's instructions +Restoring an existing Time Capsule backup to a new Mac+:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1177?viewlocale=en_US
My favorite step is #12: +Your Mac will check the Time Machine backup for a period of time.+ When that period was clearly going to be a while, I went on a run, came back 40 minutes later and...it had returned me to the initial post-willkommen-bienvenido-etc. screen where I get to choose a language. Okay, my bad for leaving it unattended. I started over at #2, and this time it only took about half an hour. It showed the folders on the Time Capsule, I selected all of them, and clicked Transfer.
Almost immediately, it dove back into the welcome song! Now, for the third time, I'm at step #12. It's been over half an hour, and still no sign of hope. Just the progress bar checking for backups.
Would they have installed Snow Leopard on my Leopard machine? I definitely told them what I had been running, but it seems like a plausible reason for the hang-ups.
Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks!

Amenity wrote:
Almost immediately, it dove back into the welcome song! Now, for the third time, I'm at step #12. It's been over half an hour, and still no sign of hope. Just the progress bar checking for backups.
Connect to your Time Capsule via Ethernet if at all possible.
After booting from your Leopard Install disc and selecting Utilities, select +Disk Utility+ and see if it can find the +sparse bundle+ containing your backups on your Time Capsule. You may have to join the network, etc., via the Airport icon in the menubar. If you can get the sparse bundle to appear in Disk Utility's sidebar, select it and do a +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions) on it.
Would they have installed Snow Leopard on my Leopard machine? I definitely told them what I had been running, but it seems like a plausible reason for the hang-ups.
That's fairly likely; it happens a lot, probably because most folks have upgraded and installing SL has become a habit. But it shouldn't matter -- as long as you're using your Leopard Install disc, it should work fine. Once the restore actually starts, the first thing that happens is your internal HD is erased, and everything is restored from your backups.
It's also possible that whatever was going wrong on your internal HD corrupted something critical in your installation of OSX, and the corrupted stuff was backed-up, and that's what's giving TM a problem. If nothing else seems to help, try restoring from a previous backup.

Can't Connect to My Time Capsule Backups, Please Help!!!

I have been using Time Machine/Time Capsule to back my data up for over a year. I bought a new MacBook Pro this morning. I did not want to use Migration Assistant to transfer everything over because there were many bugs and corruptions on my old disk and was scared that would all be transferred to my new machine. It was time for a fresh start.
I set up my new computer and transferred most of the files I needed via a flash drive. I am now trying to set up my MacBook Pro to connect to my Time Capsule backup disk via Time Machine, but once I enter Time Machine it does not allow me to go "back in time" to see all of my previous backups and restore points. There are some really important files I am trying to get to, but this computer isnt connecting to the Time Capsule backups. The old computer has already been completely reformatted, but it is still able to access the Time Capsule backups.
I have done some internet research and learned that Time Machine uses a computer's ethernet MAC address to allow access. There are some codes posted on various websites that allow to alter what Time Machine thinks you MAC address is so that you can access your backups with a new computer/different logic board. None of these Terminal workarounds worked for me. The Genius Bar and Apple Care couldn't help either.
I am hoping somebody can help me out. I understand I can use my old computer to get into Time Machine and retrieve what I need then transfer those to the new machine. But there must be a way to allow a new computer to fully access Time Capsule backups, but curiously, I can't find it. I rather have my new computer have full access because I am selling the old laptop and so I wont be able to use it to access my backups any longer.
Sorry for the long explanation, but I hope that gives someone all the facts required to both understand what I am saying and help me fix the problem.
-Amir

Right now it is just empty because I have unmounted and disconnected my Time Capsule. I'm trying a low-tech work around to see if this works, but much rather do it the "right way."
What I am doing is this:
(1) Use Migration Assistant to copy everything from the Time Capsule to the new machine (this is exactly what I was trying to avoid initially). Migration Assistant has been copying files for about 5 hours now (still not sure what is going to happen).
(2) Create a full backup on Time Capsule with my MacBook Pro now that it has everything from the Time Capsule on it.
(3) Do a fresh install of Snow Leopard.
(4) Hopefully, have the fresh start on my machine I wanted, but still have access to at least one archived copy of my old computer and files/folders.
Does this make sense? Basically, the new machine does not allow me to access the old backups. So I am handicapping the machine now by reverting to my old settings via Migration Assistant, will back that up, then start all over from scratch again but hopefully have the peace of mind that my files are not gone because I will at least have that one copy of all my old copies in a Time Capsule backup that the new machine can access.

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First, restart the computer and the Time Capsule. In most of the cases, this solve the problem.
If it doesn't work, see > http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html

New Macbook does not recognize Time Capsule backup from old macbook

I just purchased a late 2013 13" macbook pro. I have a mid 2009 macbook pro running Mavericks. The new macbook will not recognize the time capsule backup from my old macbook. I am trying to migrate all data over, but the new mac does not ever acknowledge the external drive that contains the backup. I've tried two different external drives with the same result each time. Both computers are running Mavericks.

Do you see the drive in Disk Utility?
If yes, run Repair Permissions then restart the drive.
1. Open Disk Utility in your Applications/Utility folder.
2. Click on the First Aid tab and select Repair Permissions
3. Click on the icon for your boot volume.
4. Click the repair permissions button.
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Sync a 2nd computer from main computer's time capsule backup

I have a mac mini and a mac book. Time capsule backups the mac mini. The mac book was synced from the mac mini when I bought it. Now the two computers are no longer synced. I would like to re-sync/restore the mac book home directory from the time capsule backup of the 'same' home directory on the mac mini. I don't want to backup both computers. I would like to sync the macbook every now and then from the backups of the mac mini. Is that possible using time machine? Both computers are on the same network and can see the same time capsule in principle. But I don't see how to configure time machine to use the backups of the mac mini -- the source I would like to be primary. Any ideas?

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HT1175 Can an Airport Time Capsule backup more then one MacBook Pro (one at a time ) ?

Can an Airport Time Capsule backup two different MacBooks at two differnet times?

The title and the text questions are different.
But you can backup multiple computers to the TC at the same time.. the only problem is wireless has limited bandwidth.. so the speed of the backup will be seriously affected as well as browsing or internet usage.
For a first backup use ethernet.. but if your TM is doing normal incremental backups which are fairly small it is no problem at all.

How can I have two different Time Machine backups in Lion?

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I currently have an older EHD with my back up data on it, and a newer one that I have been backing up to for the past couple of weeks. When I hook up the older EHD, Time Machine does not recognize the old backup data (ie. oldest backup and latest backup say "None").

Hey mrssqueegy,
Thanks for the question. The feature you are searching for was introduced with OS X Mountain Lion. If your computer is compatible, I would definitely recommend upgrading to take advantage of this great feature:
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
OS X Mountain Lion and later let you:
- Encrypt AirPort Time Capsule backups and network backup.
- Select multiple backup destinations that Time Machine will rotate through for backup cycles.
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Time Capsule backup for multiple users

I have my iMac setup so that each member of my family has their own account. I am the administrator. When I run a time capsule backup is it backing up their files as well or do I need to create a backup for their accounts.
If I create individual backups for their accounts will it backup the shared files like the applications or just files specific to their accounts? Is this something I need to control by selecting what files to exclude in the preferences
Time capsule seems great for simple backups but concerns me if I ever have a HD crash. It seems very difficult to restore a backup to a new mac if I ever have to do that. Does anyone else have this concern? I am considering buying another external drive and use SuperDuper to create full bootable backups at least once every 6 months or so.
Thanks,
Gil

It is much harder to check what Time Machine has backed up.. you can assume that everything currently needed to reproduce the same setup on another computer is there.
To double check you must spend a bit of time understanding both how Time Machine works and how to restore from it.
Read up a bit from Pondini's excellent KnowledgeBase of articles.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Q7-9 are highly relevant.
Also go back to the main page and read the main articles on how TM works.
I must also say at the moment, on Yosemite in particular, I would not fully trust Time Machine.
I encourage people to make a bootable clone using Carbon Copy Cloner for example to a USB drive. You do not need to do it continually but the clone makes for a much easier return to normal.. since you can simply change boot disks. It costs $40 and is excellent value.. there are others you can buy.. and I am not connected to CCC in any way.. other than I use it and been amazed at what a great piece of software it is.

Is it possible to recover the contents of a "Sent Mail" folder that was accidentally deleted? We have complete Time Capsule backups.

We lost the contents of a "Sent Mail" folder when our ISP asked us to delete and re-create the account in an attempt to solve a connection problem.
Is there any way to re-create these messages from stuff in the Library or from a Time Capsule backup?
Thank you.

Yes.
Open the Sent folder in Mail.
Go to the menu bar and ask to Enter Time Machine.
Go back in time until you find the messages you want.
Restore them.
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All the gory details here:
Restore items backed up with Time Machine
charlie

Attempting to use Migration Assistant to restore a Time Capsule backup to a mounted partitioned drive?

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I am not sure, never had to go there, I have multiple bootable clones of the system online and off, and a couple 1500VA/900W UPS units powering everything.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
http://www.recovermymac.co.uk/data-recovery/time-capsule-data-recovery/
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion#/?tagSet=1468

Two macs, time capsule backup problem

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