What is Pro.Sparse bundle?

I am getting an erros message saying the time capsule back up failed becaise the pro.sparse bundle is already in sue. What is this and how do I correct?

The sparse bundle is the container your backups are stored in (when made over a network).
See #C12 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.

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I get this error message when I try to back up my laptop: Time machine could not complete the backup. The backup disc image "/Volumes/Data/Lou Ann Buesing's Mac Book Pro. sparse bundle is already in use. Anyone know how to fix it?

I get this error message when I try to back up my laptop:
' Time machine could not complete the backup. The backup disc image "/Volumes/Data/Lou Ann Buesing's Mac Book Pro. sparse bundle' is already in use. "
Anyone know how to fix it?

Reboot the TC.. Sometimes you need to reboot the whole network.
This is what comes of Lion and then made worse in Mountain Lion of Apple not spending enough time to fix the bugs.
Read C12 in pondini.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
C17 can be related I think.

Time couldn't back up my macbook as pro sparse bundle is already in use

My Macbook Pro will not back up to Time Capsule as it says the Pro-Sparse bundle is already in use.

Restart your MacBook Pro and the Time Capsule. In most of the cases, this should solve that problem.
See > http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html

Why won't my MacBook Pro backup to Time Machine (on my 1TB Time Capsule) when I'm running Lion OSX 10.7.5.? What does it mean when this error pops up: MacBook Pro.sparse bundle could not be assessed (error - 1).???? Please help me fix this!

Apparently I am not the only person having this problem as I have seen many threads about it. If ANYONE OUT THERE CAN HELP ME, I WOULD SINCERELY APPRECIATE IT.
I try and run my backup as I always have, but it HAS NEVER COMPLETED SINCE I UPGRADED TO LION. As many mentions, I updated from 10.7.4 to 10.7.5 hoping that would fix my issue and it didn't help at all. I also unistalled WD SmartWare to no avail. It's really starting to annoy me since I have as much money invested in my MacBook Pro and Time Capsule as I do in my car....
I have more than enough space on the Time Capsule, but Time Machine is still failing and coming up with an error message: MacBook Pro.sparsebundle could not be assessed (error - 1).
Someone, anyone, please help!

. . . sparse bundle could not be accessed (error -1)

HT4413 what is a macbook pro.sparse bundle password?

I forgot my password for the encrypted backup on my time machine. What do I do to retrieve the information?

As to the externals you want to look at the Thunderbolt types/models as that is the fastest connection. USB 3 will be OK but thunderbolt is the way to go.
As for the Mac notebook you buy get the fastest CPU with the most RAM and the biggest flash storage you can afford.

HT3275 I am received an error on my Time Capsule which states the backup disk image "Volumes/Data/MacBook Pro. sparse bundle? is already in use. so time machine couldn't complete the backup to time capsule - any suggestion

I've received an error message Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to Time Capsule, the backup disk image /Volumes/Date/....MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" is already in use. Any suggestions as to what I can do to fix it?

I've got mine working again by deleting a partial backup that was on the Time Capsule.
I mounted the backup sparsebundle, and then browsed the content and found a filestucture named <timstamp>.inProgress. I removed that and the followed the tip to disconnect described above. That did the trick for me.

What is a sparse bundle?

I purchased the AirPort Time Capsule and a new iMac. I also have 2 old MacBooks (the white ones) that are about 8 years old with old operating systems. I created a network using the Airport Time Capsule, and now I am trying to access the content from the backup of one of the old MacBooks using the new iMac. I thought I could access my photos and documents and copy them to my new computer. I see something called Michael Long’s MacBook_001ff3d72d99.sparsebundle. What is that and how do I access the content in it?

See Q14-17 in Pondini
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Try particularly Q15
If you have issues the name is far far too long.. see C9 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Time Capsule error - "Pro.sparse bundle could not be accessed. Error -1

"Pro.sparsebundle could not be accessed. Error -1 "
I continue to receive this error. I have updated the software and firmware.
Any ideas?

See #C17 in Time Machine guru Pondini's excellent support document Time Machine -- FAQ
http://Pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

I keep getting this error message: Time Capsule could not complete the backup. The backup disk image "/Volumes/Time Capsule/Karla Laura Smith's MacBook Pro. sparse bundle" could not be assessed (error -1). Tried restarting etc. Please help.

I keep receiving this message.
Time Machine could not complete the backup.
The backup disk image "/Volumes/Time Capsule/Karla Laura Smith's MacBookPro.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1).
Can anyone help me clear this annoying message up? Thanks for advance....

The unplugging was of power, if you were unplugging ethernet .. that will not do anything.
The issue is explained here.
C17 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
If a restart of the TC is not adequate you maybe in the 2% that has other issues.. please try a full network restart in correct order.. with everything off.. modem.. then TC.. then clients.. with 2min gap to allow modem and TC to finish boot process.

HT3275 Time machine cannot backup due to "The backup disk image "/Volume/Data/Dave's Macbook Pro."sparse bundle" is already in use." Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it??

My time machine is sending me a message; "The backup disk image "/Volume/Data/Dave's Macbook Pro "sparse bundle" is already in use". As a result, the time machine cannot complete a backup. Any suggestions?

Look at the more like this column on the right.. this is the most common problem reported here.
You need to restart the TC.. that is all..
Pull out the power cord.. count to 10.. plug in power cord.
There are a few occasions where this fails.. see C12 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Loaded Mountain Lion and time capsule no longer works, airport utility can't be configured, back ups have stopped, sparse bundle in use errors occur, what a mess!!!!

Should Airport Utility now be defunct for my time capsule because I have upgraded OS to Mountain Lion? I have tried every fix I can think of but AU will not set up. I'm also getting repeated time machine back up failures and now I have a new "sparsebundleinuse" error which is totally useless to me, I have no idea what a sparse bundle is, I have no idea what it's suddenly being used by and there's no information to say what to do about it. Apple is killing me here!!!

I've tried to but on the install for Airport Utility 6, after the download I get through the introduction then the license then I get "airport utility can't be installed on this disk. The version of Mac OS X on this volume is not supported" and that's it, no more options!?

What size to make sparse bundle?

I want to back up my Users folder to an encrypted sparse bundle, for archiving purposes. If the Users folder is, say, 40 GB, what size should I make the sparse bundle? The same size, or larger? If so, how much larger?
Also, if I make the sparse image much larger, say, 150 GB, I understand that only 40 GB will be allocated to it, but if the drive it is on only has, say, only 50 GB of free space, will I still be able to open it?
Thank you,
David

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How to deal with apparent sparse bundle corruption?

I set up Time Machine over the weekend - backing up my MacBook Pro to my Power Mac G5. It seemed to be working fine yesterday morning. When I came home from work the TM icon reported that it had failed and the sparse bundle no longer appeared as a mounted disk. I can connect to the main disk just fine but the sparse bundle seems corrupt.
I tried using Disk Utility (on my G5 - figured that would be faster) to repair the sparse bundle. That failed miserably, completing immediately, reporting no errors, but telling me the disk image was only 204 bytes. (du reports that it is 69GB.) There is still plenty of free disk space on the parent drive (129GB free).
I'm running 10.5.8 on both machines. What now? Is the sparse bundle toast?
Thanks,
Skip Montanaro

unfortunately, that's one of the main problems with Time machine - it's not sufficiently reliable for a backup application. there are all kinds of bugs and then you can have issues like your when the sparse bundle with backups can become corrupt. that's why it's a good idea to have a secondary backup using a different backup solution. many people (myself included) use CCCloner or Superduper to create bootable backups in addition to using TM.

Best approach for Time Machine / Entourage / FileVault / sparse bundle disk

I am looking to set up Time Machine belatedly on my G5 to provide hassle-free backup for me and my family. I use Entourage. I also want to provide a small amount of encrypted storage. I’ve scoured the obvious places which have plenty of ideas, but nothing which pulls it all together.
My thoughts so far have been:
1. Time Machine doesn’t work well with Entourage as Entourage uses a monolithic single file (which in my case is several GB big) – backing this up every hour will bring my machine to its knees, fill up the backup disk and will possibly give a corrupt backup as the file could be accessed by Entourage or the MS daemon process during the backup.
2. I thought of turning FileVault on which would automatically contain the Entourage file. This would mean:
a) the sparse bundle format (8 MB bands) of FileVault would limit the volume of changed Entourage data which would be backed up each time by Time Machine and
b) the backup would only occur during logout (which is fine with me) when Entourage and the MS daemon are not running so that the backup won’t be corrupt.
3. However I am not hearing good things about the reliability of FileVault (comments?) and don’t want all the data in my Home folders lost – I don’t need that much encryption anyway.
4. So I thought about setting up a couple of encrypted disk images made of sparse bundles – one for the Entourage data (symbolically linked to the right place for Entourage to pick the folder up) and the other for the other small number of files I need encrypted. This could be auto-mounted at login.
5. However I think that using disk images rather than FileVault loses the automatic backup by Time Machine at logout. Maybe there is a way to get Time Machine to automatically backup these disk images during logout.
6. Perhaps there is another way to get the disk images backed up at logout other than using Time Machine.
So my questions are:
A. What is the best overall approach to providing a low-maintenance reliable backup which deals appropriately with Entourage and provides a small amount of encrypted space?
B. Can Time Machine be made to backup disk images other than FileVault disk images at logout? (for example is there a particular location / filename format for FileVault images which I could emulate with the other disk images to fool Time Machine into backing them up?)
C. When Time Machine runs at logout, have MS Entourage and the daemon process already been shut down and the disks unmounted, to prevent corruption?
D. Is there another way of backing up the sparse image disks at logout?
C. Is this all going to get magically fixed in Snow Leopard?
D. Will MS come up with a sensible storage format for Entourage?
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

I don't know if there is a complete solution, but here are some things you could consider.
1. TM does not run automatically at logout unless FileVault is enabled.
2. You can change the backup period using third-party utilities like TimeMachineEditor - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
3. You can exclude the Microsoft User Data folder from the TM backup and back it up separately using third-party backup software.
4. You can use third-party backup software instead of TM, such as:
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
9. SilverKeeper 2.0 (Freeware)
10. Tri-Backup (Commercial)
11. Apple Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Third-party backup utilities can run backups on schedules you set up. Thus, you can schedule your backups to occur at a time when you do not use the machine such as early in the AM for example.

Time capsule sparse.bundle restore w 24 char recovery key

Mid 2012 MacBook Pro. HD failure. Replaced HD... up and running. Time Capsule (4th Gen) has back up file *.sparse.bundle. Able to log into TC with correct password. Cannot open back up file, however, despite trying multiple passwords. Have 24 character recovery key. Typed that in at the password prompt. Still no access. Was using File Vault. Had upgraded to OS 10.9.2 at time of last back up. New HD/system does not have FV turned on. What now?

Whew, see if these help...
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