Game over! All three sparsebundles in place and all three Macbooks set for backup and working fine.
I now have a spare 1TB drive which I know will be useful in the future. Thanks again for everyones help (especially Carlo for "iChatting" into my Macbook and Ronni too for many responses) for this issue I had here. Regards Pete. On 10/09/2012, at 6:31 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: > Righto, so the two 'good' sparsebundles copied off ok, then the Time Capsule > erase. Using Airport Utility, I was presented with 4 options of how to erase > the TC - Quick Erase, All Zeros, All Zeroes 3 times, All Zeros 7 times. I > chose "All Zeros" initially and the process started ok and got to around 15% > where it never got past - I left it for the whole weekend! Not sure why this > was but after some learned advice from Dad, I interrupted it and did the > Quick Erase which was complete in minutes which resulted in 929.45 GB free > from the 1TB. All good. > > Started shaking with anticipation at this point and got Tim's (9yo) MacBook, > checked the naming was ok and set it off.......... Well it just set about > doing a normal first time backup (49GB) which was completed within 3 hours - > success! > > Just got to reinstate the two other sparsebundles now and get it all sorted. > > It's been a lengthy process with lots of help from many, for which I am > grateful, but this issue is almost completed now. > > Regards > > Pete > > On 20/08/2012, at 8:28 PM, "wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au" > <wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au> wrote: > >> Well done Peter! The new drive will help you sort things out for you Time >> Capsule and besides will be useful afterwards for future upgrades when you >> want to make a clone. >> >> You are exactly right about the formatting. Make sure you use a GUID >> partition table and the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. >> >> Good luck! >> Carlo >> >> >> --- >> Carlo Margio >> Real World Computing >> >> mob: +61 404 296 965 >> i...@realworldcomputing.com.au >> www.realworldcomputing.com.au >> >> On 20/08/2012, at 5:04 PM, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> >>> Ok, thanks again for this Carlo. I've ebay'd a 1TB external drive so I have >>> the space to do the operations below. It will probably arrive with FAT >>> formatting. I presume I will need to reformat the new drive to OS Journaled >>> so it can accomodate the sparsebundle files (>4GB). Is this right? >>> >>> >>> The rest should be straight forward. >>> >>> I'll revert either way with success or otherwise. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Pete >>> >>> On 08/08/2012, at 9:04 AM, "wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au" >>> <wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au> wrote: >>> >>>> The nice formatting of the previous was removed at the news group server >>>> so I will repost just the bullet points of the previous email... >>>> >>>> >>>> * Obtain an external drive with enough space to store the two sparse >>>> bundles you wish to keep. >>>> >>>> * Turn off all Time Machine back up from al the computers in your house. >>>> >>>> * Move the two good sparse bundles to an external drive for safe keeping. >>>> >>>> * Erase the Time Capsule using Airport Utility ( knowledge base article >>>> link >>>> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4522?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US ) >>>> >>>> * At this point try to backup the new install of your 9yo's computer to >>>> Time Capsule. There should be nothing stopping it now. >>>> >>>> (post back if it does not work) >>>> >>>> * Copy back the other two sparse bundles to Time Capsule >>>> >>>> * Check that the existing computers are still associated with their newly >>>> reinstate sparse bundle >>>> >>>> (if not post back) >>>> >>>> >>>> C >>>> >>>> On 08/08/2012, at 8:57 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Pete, >>>>> >>>>> Just to wrap up this thread I'll summarise where we left things. It seems >>>>> the existing Time Capsule sparse bundle associated with you 9yo's MacBook >>>>> refuses to budge. In the end Time Capsule is an independent computer with >>>>> its own permissions and accounts. 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