Time Capsule problem; Disk Image cannot be mounted?

Try looking in finder and maually disconnecting your TM drive and then try to back up and have TM mount the drive again.

It means you have 839.8GB left to use up on the drive and 71Gb have been used so far.

 

Is this the initial backup? That's usually the only time the Time Machine app takes a Real Long Time to complete its work. If it is, I'd advise you to erase/reformat the Time Capsule drive, and start over. Who knows what corruption got written when the power failed.

It's possible to use Disk Utility to repair a Time Capsule's contents, but better safe than sorry.

Also, you can connect it to your Mac via Ethernet, and that will allow faster transfers, if your Mac has Gigabit Ethernet.

If your machine gets hosed, and the Time Capsule's contents are solid, all you need to do is tell Time Machine to restore it from the TC. However, you have to boot your hosed machine from something that has 10.5 and Time Machine on it, in order to do this; you can't restore the system on the disk you're booted from (anything else, no problem, but not the OS). You can boot from the optical disk 10.5 came on, but I'm not sure whether Time Machine will run from it; I'd guess it will, but I've never looked.

Good luck!
Tom

 

To restore to factory settings there shoould be something in the menu when you use airport utility to connect to it.

As for the types of erasing. Quick erase is just pretty much just deleting the item and its still on your hd technically untill something else writes over it.

To Zero something out it deletes the files and then writes over the sector with bits of data.

And everything else after that. That says X amount of passes. Is zeroing out that spot the X amount of times.

I would just factory restore and just quick delete the sparse bundle.


Also like said above i would connect it to ethernet. and try not to let the computer sleep. sometimes it causes problems when it sleeps on the inital back up.