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"Quota violation warning" & Time Machine stopped working
I've been using a ReadyNAS Ultra 4 (4.2.19) for Time Machine backups under Mac OS 10.6 and 10.7 with no problems, but today I got an alert: Disk block limit reached on volume C for user 'ReadyNAS'....
Hi there,
I had this exact set of issues / error messages in my console log a few days ago on my ReadyNAS Duo. It appeared that the sparse bundle had go to big for the space allocated and I could not increase the space allocated in front view because the required larger number was already bigger than the free space [despite of course the fact it should have known the prior figure was already available - overzealous error checking - e.g. TM max size was 180GB on a RAID-1 500GB drive setup at the point of overrun free space was listed as 179GB, given the initial 180GB was already allocated I should have been able to increase the size in front view but could not as 180 was already > the 179 free space].
The solution for me was to:
1) Stop Time Machine
2) Mount the ReadyNAS share directly in finder and copy the sparse bundle to my Mac
3) Now I had more free space I could increase the TM size in front view to 260GB
3) I increased the size of my spare bundle as well for good measure [hdiutil resize -size Xg /path/to/file]
4) I copied the sparse bundle back
5) I moved the local copy of the spare bundle on my Mac to a folder excluded from TM backups
6) Turn TM back on....everything started working for me now, no hanging, no errors in log, backup completed
7) delete the local copy of the sparse bundle to save space.
Hope that helps someone else fix their issues. Good luck all.
I had this exact set of issues / error messages in my console log a few days ago on my ReadyNAS Duo. It appeared that the sparse bundle had go to big for the space allocated and I could not increase the space allocated in front view because the required larger number was already bigger than the free space [despite of course the fact it should have known the prior figure was already available - overzealous error checking - e.g. TM max size was 180GB on a RAID-1 500GB drive setup at the point of overrun free space was listed as 179GB, given the initial 180GB was already allocated I should have been able to increase the size in front view but could not as 180 was already > the 179 free space].
The solution for me was to:
1) Stop Time Machine
2) Mount the ReadyNAS share directly in finder and copy the sparse bundle to my Mac
3) Now I had more free space I could increase the TM size in front view to 260GB
3) I increased the size of my spare bundle as well for good measure [hdiutil resize -size Xg /path/to/file]
4) I copied the sparse bundle back
5) I moved the local copy of the spare bundle on my Mac to a folder excluded from TM backups
6) Turn TM back on....everything started working for me now, no hanging, no errors in log, backup completed
7) delete the local copy of the sparse bundle to save space.
Hope that helps someone else fix their issues. Good luck all.
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