Backed up to sparse image on Airdisk, but now can't select it again

[cbrandt]

THat is the name of the time capsule which appears in my
Finder under SHARED. THere is also another item called cindys-time-cap which comes and goes. Clicking on it gets "Connection Failed". I have wondered about this but didn't know who or what to ask about it.

[dnanian]

I don't know what that might be, Cindy. Certainly, if you tell SuperDuper! to not remember drives (preferences) it won't prompt for that at startup.

You don't get that when loading settings, right?

[cbrandt]

You are correct. If you change the preference to not remember the drives it does not give me the error msg. BUt that doesn't solve my problem since the backup either from the scheduled copies dialog or loaded onto the SUperDuper! dialog still gets the "failed to mount idisk monthly backup" and doesn't work.

I will have to research this on apple's support site with the time capsule experts. I don't have any problem accessing any of my other external drives. I even now have my imac and air using another external drive connected to the TC for time machine so my MBP can have the whole TC 1TB for itself. I don't really care about the idisk backups anymore. I was just using them as a test to find the problem because they are so small and are finished backing up in 1 minutes or less. This mbp SD backup is the important backup and that can take an hour so it is hard to test that one.

It occurred to me that since I can get often this to work if I just do my Finder trick and open that external drive to show the sparse image files before I run SD, that maybe I could use a copy script or something to access the files at the start of the scheduled backup. I have 0 experience with scripts but would this work? THat is what I unsuccessfully tried to do with automater.

[dnanian]

Try pointing to the *mounted* (open) volume instead, rather to the image file.

[cbrandt]

It might be because it is late and I am tired, but I don't know what you mean.

[cbrandt]

I don't know if this is what you meant, but I tried just opening cindy's Time Capsule which shows all the attached ext drives but not opening the actual drive to show the image files and that made no difference. WHen I did open the ext drive to show the sparse images it did work. I do notice that the cindys-time-cap is not there either time so maybe this doesn't matter.

I also just ran SD on my mbp for the full SD backup and it failed the first time until I did my Finder trick and showed the sparse image files.

[dnanian]

No. What I mean is that, in Finder, double-click the image so it opens. That will show a volume (the 'virtual disk' from the image) in Finder (and in SuperDuper). Select that as the destination for the backup rather than the image file.