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"Sparsebundle ... is already in use."
I am using a MacMini with OSX 10.9.1, 2.3 GHz i7, and 4GB RAM. Apologies if this question has been asked frequently. I attempted to ask this question in the apple support communities here but got ...
I started seeing this as well. As a long time ReadyNAS user I've been real disappointed in the Time Machine support. I'm always nervous it's just going to stop working again.
Anyway, I started seeing this sparse bundle is in use error on one of my Mac's and all the usual things were not working. I also use this particular ReadyNAS as an iSCSI target for some VMWare VMs, so rebooting it means shutting them all down. But before I did, I thought, what might reset the connections? It uses AFP I'm pretty sure. So I just went into Frontview, went to standard file protocols, unchecked both the Advertise AFP Service over Bonjour and AFP boxes, Applied, then immediately re-checked them and hit apply. Then I went into Time Machine and re-selected my backup disk. To my surprise, this worked! The backup ran successfully. So I did not have to reboot my ReadyNAS. I'll be curious to know if it fixes it for anyone else.
I sure hope they are able to correct these inconsistencies in the Time Machine support in a future update. Otherwise, I'm going to have to pick up a Time Capsule to backup our Macs.
Matt
Anyway, I started seeing this sparse bundle is in use error on one of my Mac's and all the usual things were not working. I also use this particular ReadyNAS as an iSCSI target for some VMWare VMs, so rebooting it means shutting them all down. But before I did, I thought, what might reset the connections? It uses AFP I'm pretty sure. So I just went into Frontview, went to standard file protocols, unchecked both the Advertise AFP Service over Bonjour and AFP boxes, Applied, then immediately re-checked them and hit apply. Then I went into Time Machine and re-selected my backup disk. To my surprise, this worked! The backup ran successfully. So I did not have to reboot my ReadyNAS. I'll be curious to know if it fixes it for anyone else.
I sure hope they are able to correct these inconsistencies in the Time Machine support in a future update. Otherwise, I'm going to have to pick up a Time Capsule to backup our Macs.
Matt
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