Thanks for your bloc, it solved my problem.
The description ist very clear and simple. Perhaps to write the file name with spaces was a little complicated in my case. I’m not an experienced UNIX user and I didn’t know I’ve to use \ for file names.
Your instructions saved my backup, donated + thanks a million! 🙂 One suggestion: In the first time I did things over wifi, since I noticed the comment about using ethernet instead of wifi only after reading and executing everything else. I might be safer to mention that in the very beginning.
Thank you very much. I think my sparsebundle got currupted while shutting down the synology NAS. Your instructions were very helpful, and now everythings works smoothly.
Thanks, Garth, you’ve just saved my year’s work backup.
It took 3 cycles to get the sparsebundle repaired, and I needed a cross-link LAN cable to get my NAS disk connected directly, but it worked in the end.
Thanks for a awesome tutorial! Not that it was absolute necessary for me to get my sparsebundle back, but it was nice to not have to start backing up from the beginning – again.
Enjoy your coffee or beer, or whatever you would like to spend these money in!
Best, Christoffer Henriksson
Good job. This is the second time that I have done this, using your instructions and it worked like clockwork. Which is why I donated. It saved me a lot of time and frustration and definitely worth the $2.
Keep up the good work – and if you can script this, it would be a whole lot better…
Excellent. Somehow methinks that a trip to the Apple Store with my Time Capsule under my arm would NOT have been as expeditious as this post. Many, many thanks.
Hi Garth – great instructions; very helpful and fixed my problem. My sparsebundle is called “Jim Strong’s iMac” I found that I could not get it recognised by enclosing the path in quotes, so I had to do what someone in the comments did, which was to rename it as a one-word name and then rename it back again when complete.
I also wasted a fair bit of time due to this as the Terminal just showed a chevron – “>” and I thought it was doing something, but it was just not recognising the name! 🙂
Folks, if you can “see” the volume on your desktop and the terminal window you can just drag the volume to the terminal window (make sure you’ve typed the commend right up to the point before you type the volume word) and voila! Mac OS provides the right path even if you are using voodoo script and spaces in the volume name.
After having needed this guide twice already, I decided to donate, thank you very much for providing instructions to fix something that shouldn’t break (that easily) in the first place.
Hopefully one day Apple addresses this problem themselves.
Regards,
Thijs Elferink
Hi Garth, thank you very much for these instructions. Very helpful indeed. When I go through the procedure (usually at step 2 or 3) I often have to wait for a long time without any feedback. Hence, I am not sure if it is still running. There is not prompt to add any instructions either. When I wait, the prompt comes back, but sometimes I need to open a new Terminal browser and continue somehow. If there is a hint regarding that issue, please let me know.
I want to get a gigabit router. Maybe that helps.
Thank you for saving my backup. Best wishes, Daniel
Thank you so much! This saved me!
Thanks for your bloc, it solved my problem.
The description ist very clear and simple. Perhaps to write the file name with spaces was a little complicated in my case. I’m not an experienced UNIX user and I didn’t know I’ve to use \ for file names.
Greetings – Marcel
Your instructions saved my backup, donated + thanks a million! 🙂 One suggestion: In the first time I did things over wifi, since I noticed the comment about using ethernet instead of wifi only after reading and executing everything else. I might be safer to mention that in the very beginning.
I just like to say: Thank you very much!
Thank you very much. I think my sparsebundle got currupted while shutting down the synology NAS. Your instructions were very helpful, and now everythings works smoothly.
Thanks so much for the Timemachine fix on my Synology: second time it did save me in the last 12 months.
Great job, thanks for sharing.
Bruno
How do I donate more? Great fix, thank you.
Great ! Thanks so much…
Thanks, Garth, you’ve just saved my year’s work backup.
It took 3 cycles to get the sparsebundle repaired, and I needed a cross-link LAN cable to get my NAS disk connected directly, but it worked in the end.
Thanks for a awesome tutorial! Not that it was absolute necessary for me to get my sparsebundle back, but it was nice to not have to start backing up from the beginning – again.
Enjoy your coffee or beer, or whatever you would like to spend these money in!
Best, Christoffer Henriksson
The Time Machine fix is great. Thanks for your efforts!
Hi Garth,
Thank you for this tutorial, it helped me so much.
Kind regards, Danil.
Thank you so much for the TimeMachine fix on my QNAP!
Good job. This is the second time that I have done this, using your instructions and it worked like clockwork. Which is why I donated. It saved me a lot of time and frustration and definitely worth the $2.
Keep up the good work – and if you can script this, it would be a whole lot better…
NL
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Excellent. Somehow methinks that a trip to the Apple Store with my Time Capsule under my arm would NOT have been as expeditious as this post. Many, many thanks.
-Lyle
Thanks for the research, really nice to know there is a solution and it works!
— Owen
Excellent guide, wish I had found it earlier and darn Apple for not including these ops in the TimeMachine code.
Hi Garth – great instructions; very helpful and fixed my problem. My sparsebundle is called “Jim Strong’s iMac” I found that I could not get it recognised by enclosing the path in quotes, so I had to do what someone in the comments did, which was to rename it as a one-word name and then rename it back again when complete.
I also wasted a fair bit of time due to this as the Terminal just showed a chevron – “>” and I thought it was doing something, but it was just not recognising the name! 🙂
Anyway – thanks again
Jim
Folks, if you can “see” the volume on your desktop and the terminal window you can just drag the volume to the terminal window (make sure you’ve typed the commend right up to the point before you type the volume word) and voila! Mac OS provides the right path even if you are using voodoo script and spaces in the volume name.
Hi Garth,
I have happily donated after your “How To – TimeMachine” saved my day (and night…). Great Blog, great explanation.
Thanks again
Mat
After having needed this guide twice already, I decided to donate, thank you very much for providing instructions to fix something that shouldn’t break (that easily) in the first place.
Hopefully one day Apple addresses this problem themselves.
Regards,
Thijs Elferink
I was referring to the guide for fixing Time Machine errors located at:
http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,08,27,169,fix-time-machine-sparsebundle-nas-based-backup-errors.html
Hi Garth, thank you very much for these instructions. Very helpful indeed. When I go through the procedure (usually at step 2 or 3) I often have to wait for a long time without any feedback. Hence, I am not sure if it is still running. There is not prompt to add any instructions either. When I wait, the prompt comes back, but sometimes I need to open a new Terminal browser and continue somehow. If there is a hint regarding that issue, please let me know.
I want to get a gigabit router. Maybe that helps.
Thank you for saving my backup. Best wishes, Daniel