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rjwhite

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 3, 2010
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Here's the problem if you guys can help?:

i've been successfully backing up wirelessly to a Sparse bundle on a USB hard drive connected to an AEBS.

I recently restored to a prior configuration using TM that eventually meant i had to reinstall OSX (it would not boot)

Now everything is fine EXCEPT Time Machine. I can view Time Machine, I can copy files from previous backups but I cannot write to this sparsebundle. Applecare have had me plug another drive in via USB and complete a full TM backup which is fine, then delete the PLIST file for Time Machine. All that happens is Time Machine prepares 800,000+ files then skips to cleanup without any actual backup. This will go on in a loop indefinitely.

Applecare advice is ' we do not support this method' and are suggesting i just reformat the original drive and start again. I'd rather not do this if anyone else has a solution?
 
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