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Timemachine ignoring old backups (Lion)
Hi,
I have a ReadyNAS Duo with 2x 2TB hard drives installed and the stable 4.1.8 build of RAIDiator installed.
All seems to work fine except my Time Machine (10.7.1) won't see the older backups. The Sparse bundle dates back to May according to the TM dialog box on OS X, however when i enter timemachine, it only shows dates back to when I re-selected the readynas drive in TM prefs after installed 4.1.8.
OS X seems to understand that the sparse bundle on the drive 'belongs' to my MBP as it only did a small incremental backup to it rather than start a new sparse bundle with a full backup of the disk after I reselected the drive. But despite this, TM will only let me go back in time, to the last time I selected the disk, although OS X acknowledges the sparse bundle itself pre dates the reselection of the drive.
Is there something corrupt in this bundle? Do you think its best if i stop TM on OSX and remove the bundle from the ReadyNAS and start again? If so, what's the best way to clean the backup history off the ReadyNAS and OS X?
I have a ReadyNAS Duo with 2x 2TB hard drives installed and the stable 4.1.8 build of RAIDiator installed.
All seems to work fine except my Time Machine (10.7.1) won't see the older backups. The Sparse bundle dates back to May according to the TM dialog box on OS X, however when i enter timemachine, it only shows dates back to when I re-selected the readynas drive in TM prefs after installed 4.1.8.
OS X seems to understand that the sparse bundle on the drive 'belongs' to my MBP as it only did a small incremental backup to it rather than start a new sparse bundle with a full backup of the disk after I reselected the drive. But despite this, TM will only let me go back in time, to the last time I selected the disk, although OS X acknowledges the sparse bundle itself pre dates the reselection of the drive.
Is there something corrupt in this bundle? Do you think its best if i stop TM on OSX and remove the bundle from the ReadyNAS and start again? If so, what's the best way to clean the backup history off the ReadyNAS and OS X?
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- Interesting, It seems we have similar problems. Or different problems with similar symptoms.
Can you SSH to the ReadyNAS and check if you have two TM folders, one ".timemachine" and one ".Timemachine"?
I haven't had an answer yet on my issue: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=57035 but it seems the new firmware, 4.1.8, created this new folder ".Timemachine" (with capital T) and put the old junk from my old backups in it.
BR/P
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