Problem with Time Capsule and Time Machine

I am using a terabyte Time Capsule with firmware 7.3.2 and I've having problems entering Time Machine. When I try, I get the dialog window which informs me that it is attempting to connect to my Time Capsule. I went to take a shower and when I got back to my laptop, it still had not connected. I was able to connect to the Time Capsule from within the Finder. And so I tried rebooting both my laptop and the Time Capsule, by restarting from AirPort Utility, unplugging the power, and using a pen to hit the reset button as well. I use my Time Capsule for a wireless router and I have had no problems with my internet connection and AirPort utility. Thanks in advance for any help.

Looking through the system logs, I find some message which look potentially interesting:

Oct 5 00:12:06 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3066]: Stopping backup.
Oct 5 00:12:07 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3066]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Volumes/LaCie/.00112475c484 to /Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-09-30-225504.inProgress/8EFC7B96-0C36-40D4-8AF5-1FDCC10F70F8/LaCi e
Oct 5 00:12:07 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3066]: Copied 0 files (0 bytes) from volume LaCie.
Oct 5 00:12:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3066]: Error: (5) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-08-25-001236
Oct 5 00:12:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3066]: Error: (5) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotContainer path:/Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-08-25-001236
Oct 5 00:12:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3066]: Error: (5) getxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-09-01-155311

Quite a few of these getxattr related error messages. Also, the following:

Oct 5 01:55:04 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: LaCie
Oct 5 01:55:41 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Error: (-36) Applying backup protections to /Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-09-30-225504.inProgress/066E0D78-6E11-4A85-94AA-43BE44641404
Oct 5 01:55:41 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotStartDate path:/Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-09-30-225504.inProgress/066E0D78-6E11-4A85-94AA-43BE44641404 size:17
Oct 5 01:55:41 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-09-30-225504.inProgress/066E0D78-6E11-4A85-94AA-43BE44641404 size:2
Oct 5 01:55:42 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/LaCie reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|

As well as:

Oct 5 02:07:16 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotVolumeUUID path:/Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-09-30-225504.inProgress/066E0D78-6E11-4A85-94AA-43BE44641404/LaCi e size:37
Oct 5 02:07:16 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Stopping backup.
Oct 5 02:07:16 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Volumes/LaCie/.00112475c484 to /Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer/Backups.backupdb/Damien Kick’s Computer/2008-09-30-225504.inProgress/066E0D78-6E11-4A85-94AA-43BE44641404/LaCi e
Oct 5 02:07:16 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Copied 0 files (0 bytes) from volume LaCie.

Also:

Oct 5 02:07:22 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Backup canceled.
Oct 5 02:07:29 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3272]: Attempt to eject diskimage failed with status: -47, dissenting pid: 0
Oct 5 02:54:40 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3380]: Starting standard backup
Oct 5 02:54:40 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3380]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Damien Kick's Time Capsule
Oct 5 02:54:43 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[3380]: Disk image /Volumes/Damien Kick's Time Capsule/Damien Kick’s Computer_00112475c484.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Damien Kick’s Computer

After having reset the Time Capsule:

Oct 5 17:26:23 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd-wake[308]): Exited with exit code: 1
Oct 5 17:34:40 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[203]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Damien Kick's Time Capsule/Damien Kick’s Computer_00112475c484.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 109)
Oct 5 17:34:40 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[203]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Oct 5 17:35:56 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[203]: FSMatchAliasBulk returned -35 while resolving alias to backup target

PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 5, 2008 3:55 PM

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