Can Sam (or anyone) advise? I haven't tried your sparsebudle fix yet because I want to make a backup for my computer first. I want to use an old Time capsule that I used to use in the past and make a new backup for my computer. I don't want to use the TC's network / Air facilities, and I want to erase the old backups from my computer that must still be on the old Time Capsule. I plan to simply connect the Time Capsule using the LAN socket on the TC via an ethernet cable to my iMac.
On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:08:58 UTC+1, Phil Tomlinson wrote: > > Can anyone advise? Recently my Time Machine backup to a WD MyBook Live > drive has gone disastrously wrong. I accidentally interrupted a backup just > before it finished and this caused warning messages from Time Machine > telling me that it would no longer make backups until a completely new > backup was undertaken. (I hadn’t realised that this meant it would erase > all my old backups!!!) > Since then I have attempted to carry out this big backup but the process > (which has taken a couple of days) halted without completing. I received no > message but perhaps the following may help those of you with the technical > knowledge to understand: This message appeared once:- > - “backup disk image “/volumes/Time Machine/Phil iMac.sparsebundle is > already in use” > My question is how can I correct either Time Machine? or WD My Book? to > stop it thinking that a backup is already happening? (This is what I take > to be the meaning of “already in use”). I have turned the WDMB off and then > on again a couple of times, without success. Backups begin and go on for > hours then cease without finishing… > > Phil T -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
