Mount Point Problem (Time Machine and External Drive)
My TM backups failed awhile ago (Read Only access) and I spent some time repairing the drive so that the sparsebundle could be used/accessed. The drive could not be repaired using Disk Utility but I eventually managed to get the backup to mount and used Disk Warrior to fix it.
Backing up wirelessly to my drive via the Airport Extreme Base Station kind of works now - there is only one problem; I now have two mount points for the drive (Drivename and Drivename-1).
If I reboot my machine and try to enter Time Machine then I only get to see the backup information for Today and Now. If I don't enter Time Machine and let a back up take place it seems to work but again I only see Today and Now when I enter Time Machine afterwards.
However, if I exit Time Machine, and try again, my full time machine backup is available and subsequent backups work as expected.
On the other hand, if I mount the drive manually in the Finder before entering Time Machine (or allowing a backup to take place) then everything works smoothly first time (including subsequent backups).
This is a bit of a pain as I need to remember to manually mount the drive so that I can be sure that Time Machine will work properly.
I'm sure this problem is related to the duplicate mount points but have been unable to delete the redundant one. Similarly, I'm not sure which mount point is redundant! If I mount the drive manually and go to "/Volumes" both aliases are here - if I unmount the drive then "Drivename-1" remains.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.4), 4Gb RAM, 120Gb HD