Time machine keeps creating a new backup

Copy & paste the output of the command:

ls -l /Volumes/ReadyNAS

ooh something that worked!! Sphardy your a star..first response I have seen from the terminal, I know I changed my name again but the letters are exactly the same, everything else as is.
sh-3.2# ls -l /Volumes/ReadyNAS
total 32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 6148 30 Oct 01:46 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwt@ 3 root wheel 264 5 Jun 17:39 .TemporaryItems
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 19 Aug 2009 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx------@ 8 root wheel 264 30 Oct 12:01 Fred Smith office’s iMac.sparsebundle
drwx------@ 7 root wheel 264 28 Oct 16:47 Fred Smith’s MacBook Pro (2).sparsebundle
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 264 14 Nov 2009 Network Trash Folder
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 264 14 Nov 2009 Temporary Items

How have you mounted the share "ReadyNAS"? The files/folders within that share should not be owned by root which likely explains the difficulties you are encountering.

I did have it mounted yes but even if I don't have it mounted I still get the same errors and the same result when I do the ls -l /Volumes/ReadyNAS
I rebooted and made sure it wasn't mounted but still no joy.
sh-3.2# ls -l /Volumes/ReadyNAS
total 32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 6148 30 Oct 01:46 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwt@ 3 root wheel 264 5 Jun 17:39 .TemporaryItems
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 19 Aug 2009 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx------@ 8 root wheel 264 30 Oct 12:01 Fred Smith office’s iMac.sparsebundle
drwx------@ 7 root wheel 264 30 Oct 17:18 Fred Smith’s MacBook Pro (2)_2011-10-30-171758.sparsebundle
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 264 14 Nov 2009 Network Trash Folder
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 264 14 Nov 2009 Temporary Items

and if I try typing in the command to start this Time machine fix I get

sh-3.2# chflags -R nouchg /Volumes//ReadyNAS/Fred Smith office’s iMac.sparsebundle
chflags: /Volumes//ReadyNAS/Fred: No such file or directory
chflags: Smith: No such file or directory
chflags: office’s: No such file or directory
chflags: iMac.sparsebundle: No such file or directory

First, the question was HOW did you mount the share, not DID you mount the share (which you have to do to access the sparse bundles)

Second - you are still making the same error in your command:

chflags -R nouchg /Volumes//ReadyNAS/Fred Smith office’s iMac.sparsebundle

Should be:

chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/ReadyNAS/Fred\ Smith\ office\’s\ iMac.sparsebundle

dsm1212 wrote:
chflags -R nouchg Fred\ Smith\ office\’s\ iMac.sparsebundle Did you ever try this?

I didn't know this one no but I tried it and it came up with no such file or directory..

sphardy wrote:
First, the question was HOW did you mount the share, not DID you mount the share (which you have to do to access the sparse bundles) Second - you are still making the same error in your command: chflags -R nouchg /Volumes//ReadyNAS/Fred Smith office’s iMac.sparsebundle Should be: chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/ReadyNAS/Fred\ Smith\ office\’s\ iMac.sparsebundle

Sorry I didn't read the mount question properly I did mount it via the go command, but I have restarted and tried the same commands. I have the normal mounted shares of a default Readynas, i.e. it shows afp and cifs as shared computers.
yes I tried both the second just results in there terminal box doing nothing no prompt or anything, I am leaving it running in case it's working in the background but looking in activity monitor it shows nothing really intensive going on.

Thanks for all the effort Sphardy, I don't blame you if you give up on me..I ma pretty good with computers honest, but this really has got me..

PM sent

Sphardy, many many thanks for your diligence it finally worked!! it was as I noted earlier when I tried the backslash spaces you posted and left it running, when I returned terminal was showing a prompt again, so I then tried the next step
hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck /Volumes/ReadyNAS/Fred\ Smith\ office\’s\ iMac.sparsebundle
and got this!
/dev/disk2 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk2s2 Apple_HFSX

I am now rolling the rest of the instructions as fsck is running and repairing the sparse bundle. still long way to go and lots more weird Linux greek commands but at least I can access it!!
It may well have been working before I just couldn't tell, Terminal just sits there with no prompt. so if anyone else is following the same fix wait till the prompt retunes after the first volume check.

Thanks as well for the PM really really kind of you.

Well what a shame but it looks like my fix for my Time Machine backup was short lived, after a few days yet again this morning I got the error that Time machine couldn't verify the backup and I should start another :(

I am running the same fix as before detailed here http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,08,27,169,169.html
and I see the same error has occurred..

Incorrect number of file hard links
** Checking catalog hierarchy.
** Checking extended attributes file."

The repair is still running so I shall try it again but feel something else is happening to the file.

So to me I can't see how ReadyNas work with Lion, are others working OK?

ReadyNAS works with Lion, but the issue appears to be with disk images created prior to Lion.

Your only recourse is to backup the sparsebundle, allow Lion/ReadyNAS to create a new one and then restore your data from the old to the new sparsebundle.