[[Mathias Chauvin]] - IT stuff

This worked! Thank you!

Thanks so much. I had the same problem and your solution fixed it.

Works perfectly, thanks

Thank you very much. It worked like a charm. Now if only Apple would fix this.

Yes, this did fix it... temporarily. Unfortunately it seems I have to do this almost ever other day! Have any permanent solutions?

Thanks for the help

Thanks! That helped a lot!

Worked perfectly!! Thanks a lot!!!

Worked like a charm!

Fantastic tip, thanks! As for your comment @Danny: I think the cause of the problem is the backup being prematurely stopped. My system backs up one an hour, and if while it is backing up, I close my laptop, it seems to make the next backup have this problem. I presume that the backup volume thinks it's still connected and so when the backup tries to get access, it tells it it is already in use.

And what are you doing when you have an apple server?????

@Christian

You mean that you have an external USB drive attached to an Apple server?

No, when you are backing up to an Apple Server?!!

Thanks,

@Christian,

Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac OS X server on my home network to run a test... but if you want to contribute ;-) Just kidding ;-)
More seriously, you do have the exact same message when running Time Machine against a Mac OS X server?

Thanks! This was a huge tip and worked perfectly. IN the future, I'll just make sure my time machine is not running when I close my laptop - so I can avoid having to do this all the time. Thanks again.

Awesome! It worked. Thanks!!

wauw, is was looking for a simple and good solution to fix the same problem.
on most of websites and forums i found complex methodes, but this is... simple and the best, it works like before :) thanx!

worked perfectly! thanks!

p.s.: problem occured after breaking a back-up – but now it is back to normal (= time machine automatic back up)

paul

Thank you! That worked and saved a whole lot of further frustration.

so i did everything and it seems like the problem has ceased, but when i enter time machine it seems as if i've lost all my previous back-ups. any ideas?

thank you! saved me from backing up 800gb of data again

Thank you for sharing.

Another route which doesn't require unplugging the disk from the Airport, is to select the Airport Extreme in Airport Utility, then go to the menu bar "Base Station" then "Restart".

The upside is that you don't need to walk over to the base station and unplug thing / wait for a few seconds / plug back in. The downside is that anyone connecting to the base station via wireless (or at all, if this is acting as your router) will lose access to the internet / network for a few seconds while it reboots. Assuming you have everything set up to remember that base station network everything will just reconnect a few seconds later, and unless there is a download or Hulu stream going on you probably won't even notice :)

Thanks...it worked for me too!!!!

Great, that worked for me! Thanks for sharing this useful info

Worked awesome... THANKS A MILLION!!!!!

Thanks times 1,000!!

Thanks! Best solution to this problem!

Saved my ass.
Thank you.

Thanks for an excellent tip -- it truly saved me a huge amount of time today!

thanks for the excellent tip! i think my recent update to "lion" is the culprit in having to do this in the first place. this had never happened with "snow leopard" but in the few days since i updated i've had to do this three times! i even had to force use of unsupported disks again (because i don't have apples 'time capsule', just an airport and a usb hard drive) if anyone is wondering how to do that, just use this command in terminal: [defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1] (not including the brackets) then time machine should recognize any disk plugged into the airport as acceptable for "time capsule" use.
anyway... thanks again! your tip really helped!

Thank you!! I just updated to Lion last night and my time machine backups stopped immediately. I got the error message The backup disk image “XX” is already in use. This fixed it! Thank you for the great post. Just saved me hours and hours of my life.

It worked! Thank you so much!!

Getting this all the time, once upgraded to Lion. I have to restart the Airport Extreme every single time and it's annoying. Can anyone confirm if OS X 10.7.1 update fixes this?

Thanks. How hard could it be for Apple to fix this?

Another easy way is to mount the budle as a disk and delete *.inProgress file inside the Backups.backupdb/[computername]/ directory.

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Just wanted to leave another thank you. I was having this problem too.

Thanks it worked perfectly and I learnt of the cause too. Whenever you kill a backup, you always need to do disconnect and turn off your external drive.

Thank you so much!!!! On a previous occasion I had to delete and reinstall the sparsebundle, losing all previous time machine functionality. Now thanks to you everything is back to normal!!!!

Thank you so very much!
This still works. And is still needed, it seems.

WORKS IN 2012 #YOUTHEMAN

Saved my bacon with 5 computers on a 2TB time capsule.

thanks for taking the time!

This worked perfectly! Airport Utility may have changed its interface for Lion, but disconnecting the drive, powering it off, and reconnecting it fixed the problem for me.

Totally works. Airport Utility is different on OS X Lion but same concept applies. Just need to turn Time Machine backups off temporarily, manually disconnect drive from Airport, plug back in, and turn Time Machine back on with selected drive.

Same problem. Any idea how to fix it with the new airport utility program in Lion

Still works (and is needed) in June 2012!

UPDATE NOTE:
If you are using a newer version of Airport Utility there is no "disconnect all users" button.
Solution: Manually disconnect users (turn off access with each machine.) For us this just meant turning off wi-fi on each machine since we're on a time capsule.

Then just unplug the time capsule (or disc.) Wait a bit and plug back in.

Worked great! Thanks!!!

Thank you so much! This worked great!

Brilliant! Thank you.

The following simple method posted above, by "Tom Dibble," worked perfect for me:

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Posted by Tom Dibble -

Another route which doesn't require unplugging the disk from the Airport, is to select the Airport Extreme in Airport Utility, then go to the menu bar "Base Station" then "Restart".

The upside is that you don't need to walk over to the base station and unplug thing / wait for a few seconds / plug back in. The downside is that anyone connecting to the base station via wireless (or at all, if this is acting as your router) will lose access to the internet / network for a few seconds while it reboots. Assuming you have everything set up to remember that base station network everything will just reconnect a few seconds later, and unless there is a download or Hulu stream going on you probably won't even notice :)

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This option no longer works in the new Airport version as apple removed the disconnect all users button; however, the concept still works. I unplugged my Airport Extreme and then my disk. Turned them back on (router first) and everything worked - thanks.

thank u so very much.works in 2012.......youtheman