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Hello. I'd lost connection to the TimeMachine backup on the Mac OS X Server. I reconnected/authenticated, and it wants to do another new full backup. There's no history of my past backups. Any suggestions?
I've restarted the server. -Same result.
I restarted the client. -Same result.
I removed the backup disk and reconnected. -Same result.
Thank you in advance.
It has happened to me a few times as well. Those times I have been told by the client that somethings gone wrong with the backup and that the verification doesn't add up and therefore a new full backup needs to be done. I have found no other way than doing a new baseline. On the other hand I haven't digged too deep into the matter.
Looks like we're in the same boat. 😐
I had this issue once at 30+ clients after somebody from staff disconnected the TMB storage from the server by mistake.
I inherited their backups and after that all backups where fine again
http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html:
First read the whole article! Or at least the green box and then the blue box.
Best
Thanks T! The link you'd provided was very helpful and helped to resolve my issue. I am totally stoked right now. There were a lot of days being backed up. It would have been a shame to have to start all over.
I read the whole thing, then started at the Green Box to step #3, then the Blue Box, and done. The "sudo tmutil inherit backup" worked for me.
The only hitch I had was that I had an "Invalid Target" at the Terminal command line -which I figured out that you'll have to use the same account that you'd used to connect to the authenticated disk/volume.
Thanks again!!! 😎
Server 4.0: TimeMachine Backup Disconnected
