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enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. This discussion is locked whateverwerks Level 1 (15 points) Q: Time Machine error: backup disk image could not be created Iet up my new time capsule day and it's working great. Now that I've got
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everything sorted out, I'm ready to do the initial time machine back up on it. I went time machine sparsebundle could not be created (error (null)) into preferences, changed the backup location to my TC and clicked 'back up now'. Very quickly I get a message that the backup failed: "Time Machine time machine (error (null)) Error - The backup disk image could not be created".I've searched the apple support area but haven't been able to figure this one out. Can anyone help, please? This is an initial backup. (FYI, it worked great on my old external drive.)Many thanks Macbook air, Mac OS X (10.5.2) Posted on Mar 1, 2008 8:36 PM I have this question too Close Q: Time Machine error: backup disk image could not be created All replies Helpful answers Page 1 of 3 last Next by Dena, Dena Mar 3, 2008 6:50 PM in response to whateverwerks Level 1 (25 points) Mar 3, 2008 6:50 PM in response to whateverwerks I am having the very same problem. Anyone know how to take care of this? Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by syd-music, syd-music Mar 5, 2008 12:44 PM in response to whateverwerks Level 1 (0 points) Mar 5, 2008 12:44 PM in response to whateverwerks same here. I called apple support and they told me I was the first one to call with the problem and I'd have to talk to a product specialist with UP TO AN HOUR of wait time. I have to go to work so I couldn't do that, I'll try to call back tomorrow and report back if anything is discovered. But basically erasing the disk using airport utility didn't help, restoring to factory default didn't help, everything else works great, but I get that error every time. If anyone does take the time to go through to a product specialist and work this one out PLEASE let us know what the solution was.s Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by syd-music, syd-music Mar 5, 2008 2:35 PM in response to syd-music Level 1 (0 points) Mar 5, 2008 2:35 PM in response to syd-music update: my second laptop is able to make backups. But them that laptop is only backing up 50gig, whereas my main computer was trying to back up 179gig, and the first error I got before I got the disk image error was that there wasn't enough space on the time capsule, that there was only 120gig available (which is just simply not true)so, no real progress, but at least one of my computers is getting backed up... Helpful (0) Rep
Top level of indirection About Me Index Catch CATCH Forum Appearances Login Subscribe level of indirection RSS Twitter « Stackoverflow DevDays London | Main | Code formatting in C++ Part Two » SaturdayOct102009 Using a networked drive for Time Machine backups (on aMac) Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:13PM You'll find similar information to this around the web, but I find it fiddly enough to piece together reliably, and I need it often enough, that I thought I'd blog about it. That way it at least gives me a single place to look. Maybe it will help others too. Much of https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1422065?tstart=0 the specifcs, especially the hdiutil command line and the ifconfig trick, I sourced from this thread in the ReadyNAS forums. Note that the advice is by no means specific to ReadyNAS drives (I have a Thecus NAS myself). Many thanks to btaroli in that thread for the insight. Time Machine Time Machine is Apple's easy-to-use backup system, baked into OS X (as of Leopard). Unfortunately it doesn't allow you to http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2009/10/10/using-a-networked-drive-for-time-machine-backups-on-a-mac.html back-up to a networked drive out of the box. Enabling this ability is pretty easy. Early on there were some reliability issues - which were largely due to the fact that Time Machine created a disk image (more specifically, a sparse bundle) on the network drive, and this was prone to corruption if the network connection was disrupted during a backup. I don't know if all the issues here have been entirely resolved now, but it does seem more reliable. Apple's own Time Capsule, which has been specifically designed to work with Time Machine, uses this same method, so it is no longer an entirely unsupported technique. Enabling Time Machine for network drives So how do you enable backing up to network drives? Open a terminal window and paste the following in (then hit return, of course): defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 Mounted network drives will then show up in the list of destinations available for storing backups. Getting a working disk image Unfortunately this is not always enough. Often, after doing this, Time Machine will appear to start preparing a backup then fail with a cryptic error code. The error I have seen is: Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk image "/Volumes/backups-1/Wall-E.sparsebundle"
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