Time Machine Repair

Published 2013-10-18 @ 12:00

Tagged thoughts, osx

Turn off time machine on all involved parties, then:

% sudo chflags -R nouchg greed.sparsebundle
% sudo emacs -q -nw greed.sparsebundle/com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist

  # Setting VerificationState to 0 and removing RecoveryBackupDeclinedDate

% sudo hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck -readwrite greed.sparsebundle
% tail -f /var/log/fsck_hfs.log

  # wait for regular check to finish... if it passes, go for it, otherwise:

% sudo fsck_hfs -drfy /dev/diskXs2

  # once you're done:

% hdiutil detach  /dev/diskXs2

For me, everything fixed itself so I was able to skip the last step.

From: http://www.garth.org/archives/2010,07,16,124,fixing-time-machine-sparsebundle-network-backup-errors.html