mds: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume

mds[89]: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume

I get the above message in my system.log every time I use Time Machine.

I'm backuping on a time capsule, which is networked by Ethernet.

I don't seem to have any issue with the backup itself, which is performing Ok and from which I can retrieve files.

I've issue with

1) it is polluting my log and i always fear i got a backup issue i haven't detected

2) I have an issue with searching my backups

a) if I enter Time Machine (the UI with stars everywhere), I get unreliable results by searching for a file (present when search performed from a directory, absent when performed from the parent directory)

b) I cannot enter Time Machine from a search window in the finder (see an example here http://mac101.net/content/tips-tricks/tips-tricks-doing-a-spotlight-search-in-ti me-machine/ ) which prevents me from doing a exact search on file name for example)

This may be related to a permission issue.

I've setup Time Capsule to allow for file sharing, based on peripheric password (from Airport Utility/MyCapsule/disks)

When I look at my Time capsule from finder,

a) I see MyCapsule on the network. I choose it

b) I can mount MyCapsuleDisk in MyCapsule (by connecting to it in finder).

It has a weird permission state : (unknown) with read & write, everyone : forbidden access. No group.

From terminal (from ls -l) I see "drwx------ 1 hugome hugome" permission

> this is when I get the

mds[89]: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume

> most of the time I have a second error (which sems apple file sharing related

mds[89]: ERROR: _MDSChannelInitForAFP: AFPSendSpotLightRPC failed -1

> i wonder wether the cause is the permission issue above, that prevents indexing (mds is not accessing the backup disk), and that I haven't been able to solve

c) I can see the MyMac.sparsebundle with permission

"drwxr-xr-x 7 hugome hugome" from terminal

hugome read & write, "fetching" read, everyone read from finder

d) if I click on it backups.backupdb,

drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root staff

e) and inside dated backups with same permissions

drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root hugome

f) and inside the hierarchy of my backups

MyOSDisk drwxr-xr-x@ 14 root wheel

MyMediaDisk drwxrwxr-x@ 8 hugome staff

My guess is that:

i) I had a group permission issue related to my hugome account. the group I was associated was my username, which did not exist. This is documented and linked to Apple migration bug from Tiger OS.

- I solved it yesterday on my home folder on MyOSDisk by creating a staff group, following the advice here http://www.fixkb.com/2011/08/reset-home-folder-permissions.html

- I solved it yesterday on MyMediaDisk by a chown cmd

- this can be traced in my older Time Machine backups as these changes are only visible on today's backups

ii) I believe the problem is still present on my Time Capsule (see b)

> as said, i wonder wether the cause of mds errors is the permission issue, that prevents indexing (mds is not accessing the backup disk)

> i haven't been able neither through chmod or chgrp to change permissions on MyCapsuleDisk. Any idea ?

iii) same permission problem on c), and same lack of solution

iv) surprise on d) to see a staff group above a root user

v) bigger surprise on e) to see a hugome group

vi) this seems OK

Any advice greatly appreciated (please note that I have only very basic notions of unix)

Thanks