Time Machine not doing backup

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Time Machine not doing backup

Hello,

Last week my TC not doing a backup by saying a message "The time capsule is not available".

I did power-cycle to TC and reboot to iMac. Nothing. I removed TC from the list of available disks for backup and now is not appearing to select it.

I follow the option "Select backup disk" but unfortunately TC is not at the list anymore.

The only option is to set up a TC that is not listed here. I choose my TC but is visible and green light is on. I can't select an option to put it in the list of available disks.

By the way with airport utillity I am making any change I like so it's obvious that is visible and ready.

Any help?

Thanks in advance

Harris

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 7, 2014 10:56 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 7, 2014 3:15 PM in response to oromenon

Typical Mavericks.

Manually mount the TC disk.

Firstly factory reset the TC.. change all the names to SMB type .. That means...

short, 2-20 characters

No spaces.

No strange characters eg apostrophe.

So Apple name via the wizard will come out..

Fred Blog's Airport Time Capsule

This is hopelessly wrong.

It is over long, it has spaces and it is not pure alphanumeric.

So new name for the TC.

TCgenx

Whatever you like.. as long as it conforms.

Wireless name..

TC24ghz

And TC5ghz

By default the disk share name is Data.. which is fine.

Now in Finder use Go>Connect to Server.

Type in the address

AFP://TCname.local

Obviously using your new compliant name in place of TCname (you also need domain which by default is local)

Now you have some hope of TM working for more than 12hours.

Reset TM and see how it goes.

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Answer 2

oromenon Author

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Feb 17, 2014 1:02 PM in response to LaPastenague

Hi,

Finally I was wrong because I had disabled file sharing from the menu "disks" in the airport utillity.

Unfortunately I removed the "data" from there and it has to back up again everything.

Is there any idea how to "show" to iMac the last back up that is stored in TC ?

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Answer 3

Feb 17, 2014 1:14 PM in response to oromenon

As soon as you redirect the TM back to the TC it should be able to pickup the existing TM backup.

If you have issues.. delete the TM settings and start over.

See A4 and B6 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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