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Time Machine not working after 10.7.2. upgrade

Since I upgraded to Lion 10.7.2, I am unable to make Time Machine backups to my Time Capsule.


The Time Machine applet in the Menu Bar spins, and when I click on it, I see "Looking for backup disk" is grayed out. I open Time Machine in System Preferences, and I see the barber pole is spinning next to "Backing up", but under it, it just says "Looking for backup disk".


After a while, I get an error message saying "Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk image "/Volumes/TC/2010 MacBook Pro.sparesebundle" could not be accessed (error -1)."


This happens every time.


I've tried deleting it and re-installing it ... I've tried powering it down and powering it back up ... nothing seems to get it working again.


In addition to using it for Time Machine backups, I had moved a whole bunch of old files to that Time Capsule for archiving ... now I see no trace of them when I try to access the Time Caosule in Finder. All I see are the Time Machine backups.


Is this a 10.7.2 problem? And does anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

MacBookPro (Intel), Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 7:13 PM

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Oct 14, 2011 1:36 AM in response to Roger Barre

"I open Time Machine in System Preferences, and I see the barber pole is spinning next to "Backing up", but under it, it just says "Looking for backup disk"."


Looks as though it might be a 10.7.2 problem as it was working perfectly before.


I get a tad further than you with the barber pole spinning and "Preparing backup...".


Added later...


Maybe not a problem after all. Mine sat spinning for around 10 minutes and now, it is suddenly backing up.

Oct 14, 2011 6:56 AM in response to Roger Barre

So I have had the same problem, try this fix for Airport Extreme/Time Capsule .


Airport Utility > Select the Extreme/Time Capsule in question > Disks > Disconnect All Users


Reboot the Extreme/Time Capsule in question > once back online > goto Finder > Shared > Reconnect Drive

> Open Time Machine Preferences > Select Disk > Use Backup disk > Backup Now


Good Luck

Oct 15, 2011 12:59 AM in response to Laurie Hoffman

Hi Laurie,

the procedure in the post above worked perfect in my case that seems to be of the same nature as yours.

After setting the Time Capsule again as backup all works again fine. I can only guess that this issue is caused by the fact that with the recent update the possibility to backup in the icloud was added.

I can only recommend the steps that were told by the support to use you Time Capsule again.

Oct 15, 2011 1:27 PM in response to DaManni

If you read carefully, DaManni, you will see that I said

I have not found a solution as I do not use Time Capsule,


I found an easy, if slightly costly, solution. I bought a new 1Tb external drive yesterday and it worked just fine. I could enter Time Machine on my original drive and see and use all the old backups, just not make a new one. So the solution must lie therein - that 10.7.2 won't let some people make new backups on their original Time Machine file.

Oct 18, 2011 12:06 AM in response to Roger Barre

Same problem here. I use a 4th generation Time Capsule 2TB and it was working fine until 10.7.2 came out. I thought it was my device but nope! Now i know many other people are having this issue. I think we will have to wait until the next update comes out =/ By the way, i tried deactivating Time Machine, but it keep´s backing up or making those annoying messages pop up out of my desketop. Any ideas how to completely disable this? :S

Time Machine not working after 10.7.2. upgrade

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