Time machine error :disk image could not be mounted

I am having the same problem.
Time Machine was great for almost a week and now I can't get access.
Is this a permissions thing?
I can't repair permissions on an external drive.
Any tips.
Thanks

On the mac that as the TM drive attached does it work if you remain logged in with the user account that has write access to the TM drive?

Matt

I was able to use the time machine program for the past week on my macbook wireless to my external 1TB hard drive hooked up to my G5 . And now I am getting the error code -6580. TM works on the G5 but I can't get it to work again on the MacBook. Any body have the same problem and how did you get it to work again?

Same thing here, time machine backups from my macbook to a different macbook running leopard server started out ok. But now it gives the error -6580 and then nothing. The time machine on the server itself works good with a backup on the same external drive.

If I browse to the server's backup in the Finder I see nice folders with timestamps. If I browse to the location of the backups made over the network (Shared Items/Backups/) I see a folder with the name of the client computer and some code and extension .sparebundle which gives an error if I try to open it: Operation not supported on socket...

Any ideas?

Dirkjan

I am also getting the 6580 error code after completing a successful backup. I am using a SMB share on a Windows Home Server with Gigabit Ethernet and jumbo frames.

All,

I found a simple solution for this.

In your Mac that generate this Error, go to shared and double click your TimeMachine folder.
Re-run TimeMachine.

This worked for me.

Ziv

Can you explain this further? If I go to shared, then navigate to the disk with the TM backup, all I get is a sparsebundle file. There is no Time Machine folder. If I double-click on this, it tells me it can't mount. No child processes, whatever that means.

Do not try to open that file. Its a OS generated file.

Jut mount the TM disk by browsing to it and try to run it.
The error should go away.

Ziv

Hi,

I seems to have fixed this as well. On your client machine browse to the network drive your backups are stored on browse to the sparseimage file. This should show up as a disk image if you're browsing from the client. Double clicking it mounts the image and you should see the familiar time machine tree. Now unmount (eject) the disk image again and manually start a time machine backup. Preparing now works, but seems to take ages as it has to recheck the whole drive (See in console: 11/18/07 12:14:35 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd\[275\] Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable| ). After this time machine seems to work again.
Good luck and let us know if it works,

Dirkjan

Hi,
I have tried the solution of mounting the disk and then unmounting it but so far without success. Still getting the same error 6580 if I try to view the backups or Disk image failed to mount if I try to manually run Time Machine. The structure of my system is that I have a MacBook Pro running 10.5.1 and a Mac Pro Server running 10.5.1.

At this point I am planning to start again but how do I get rid of the current Time Machine backup files restart the backup process from scratch?

Edward

What I did was to stop the TM in the client and just trash the backup file.
I have the same setup as you have and it works for me.

Ziv

I did the exact same thing - trashed the backup files and started fresh - its seems to be working fine!

I was encountering the same problem. I would navigate to my external drive and I would see the folder for the sparceimage and it would have a circled minus sign icon on the folder and it was not possible to mount it using DiskImageMounter. I would get a window stating the "operation not supported on socket". When I looked at the Time Machine preferences, the disk image was not available so I could confirm that it was chosen as the backup disk. However, when it became the scheduled time for Time Machine to do its scheduled backup according to the information in the Time Machine preferences pane, the disk image mounted and the backup seemed to commence. Similarly, when I went to Time Machine and asked it to "Backup Now", the disk image mounted, and the backup proceeded.

I was encountering the same problem. I would navigate to my external drive and I would see the folder for the sparceimage and it would have a circled minus sign icon on the folder and it was not possible to mount it using DiskImageMounter. I would get a window stating the "operation not supported on socket". When I looked at the Time Machine preferences, the disk image was not available so I could confirm that it was chosen as the backup disk. However, when it became the scheduled time for Time Machine to do its scheduled backup according to the information in the Time Machine preferences pane, the disk image mounted and the backup seemed to commence. Similarly, when I went to Time Machine and asked it to "Backup Now", the disk image mounted, and the backup proceeded. However, the disk image then dismounted and again it was no longer available to Time Machine. When I ran Time Machine, I could not choose the disk image and restore files from it because it was no longer mounted.