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When Time Machine asks you to delete your backups and start over, ignore it. Run this and then start a backup again.
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#!/bin/bash -x | |
# Generally based on ideas found at: | |
# http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,08,27,169,fix-time-machine-sparsebundle-nas-based-backup-errors.html | |
# | |
# Reduced the ideas there down to their essentials. | |
# 1. Unlock the image. | |
# 2. Reset the saved failure in the backup metadata. | |
# 3. Verify/fix the filesystem. | |
# Take the arg. You did provide an arg, right? | |
IMAGE="$1" | |
if [ -z "$IMAGE" ]; then echo "usage: $0 image_path"; exit; fi | |
# Repair the stupid file lock. | |
chflags -v nouchg "$IMAGE" | |
chflags -v nouchg "$IMAGE/token" | |
chflags -v nouchg "$IMAGE/bands" | |
# Fix the plists | |
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Delete :RecoveryBackupDeclinedDate" "$IMAGE/com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist" | |
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :VerificationState 0" "$IMAGE/com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist" | |
# Start bailing on errors (can't set earlier due to PlistBuddy) | |
set -e | |
# Attach the image. | |
DEV=`hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck "$IMAGE" | awk '/HFS/ {print $1}'` | |
echo "$IMAGE -> $DEV" | |
# Fix the FS. | |
fsck_hfs -fy -c 8gb "$DEV" | |
# Detach it. | |
hdiutil detach "$DEV" |
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