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Time Capsule wont back up after upgrade
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I had this problem initially I just put it down to the drive needing to be woken up again,
Can you see the time capsule in finder, if so just click on the data/drive..should then hear it spin into life
Open time machine preferences, back up now, select drive and should be ok it took a while to backup obviously as its a new OS.
Can you see the time capsule in finder, if so just click on the data/drive..should then hear it spin into life
Open time machine preferences, back up now, select drive and should be ok it took a while to backup obviously as its a new OS.
I had the same problem, switched the Time machine off, then I chose a different drive for backup, then switched back to the original backup drive and now it works.
Yep, similar issue.
First, after going into Time Machine Preferences after the ML install, there wasn't any indication of when the last and next backups were/are, or any usage info. I repointed Time Machine to my Time Capsule, which initially seemed to work. But when going into Time Machine recovery I couldn't see any of my previous backups.
So I decided to start over - create a new, encrypted backup (previous one from Lion was unencrypted). Turns out this requires deleted the old backup (which susprised me since I though multiple machines could back up to the same Time Capsule, and I assumed this meant there wouldn't be an issue with the same machine having multiple backups.) Deleted the old backup failed though. I couldn't delete the backup file directly through Finder either - it just sat there forever, no error, but no completion to the task. I couldn't reboot the iMac because of this - no reboots allowed during a Finder action, turns out. Rebooting the Time Capsule fixed this, at which point I just shut down the iMac and went to bed.
Next up this afternoon when I get home from work - try to delete the old backup file manually and establish a new encrypted backup.
My theory - something about the ML upgrade doesn't close down the Time Machine backup file. Turning Time Machine off then back on seems to reinitialize things properly - just repointing TM to the Time Capsule disk doesn't do the trick. (Unfortunately for me, I didn't try the off/on thing until after I had tried establishing a new backup. Cross my fingers my HDD doesn't crash or get corrupted between now and when I can establish a new full backup.
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First, after going into Time Machine Preferences after the ML install, there wasn't any indication of when the last and next backups were/are, or any usage info. I repointed Time Machine to my Time Capsule, which initially seemed to work. But when going into Time Machine recovery I couldn't see any of my previous backups.
So I decided to start over - create a new, encrypted backup (previous one from Lion was unencrypted). Turns out this requires deleted the old backup (which susprised me since I though multiple machines could back up to the same Time Capsule, and I assumed this meant there wouldn't be an issue with the same machine having multiple backups.) Deleted the old backup failed though. I couldn't delete the backup file directly through Finder either - it just sat there forever, no error, but no completion to the task. I couldn't reboot the iMac because of this - no reboots allowed during a Finder action, turns out. Rebooting the Time Capsule fixed this, at which point I just shut down the iMac and went to bed.
Next up this afternoon when I get home from work - try to delete the old backup file manually and establish a new encrypted backup.
My theory - something about the ML upgrade doesn't close down the Time Machine backup file. Turning Time Machine off then back on seems to reinitialize things properly - just repointing TM to the Time Capsule disk doesn't do the trick. (Unfortunately for me, I didn't try the off/on thing until after I had tried establishing a new backup. Cross my fingers my HDD doesn't crash or get corrupted between now and when I can establish a new full backup.
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Update and possible fix: The problem only seems to occur when the Time Capsule is configured to be added to an existing network (in my case, my broadband provider's wifi router). When the Time Capsule is configured to create its own wifi network, and the MacBook connected to that, Time Machine connectivity is much more reliable.
I was unable to delete the old sparsebundle file off the TC disk, so I ended up telling the TC to reformat it. (Actually, I did a one-pass of zeros.) After that, TM has been working very well and fast. Not an ideal solution, but at least I have a valid backup now. <shrug>
I wonder if the way that ML handles sparsebundle files differs from Lion?
I wonder if the way that ML handles sparsebundle files differs from Lion?