[SOLVED] TM Back Up Issues - Need a "do over"

[ShangHangin]

I am running 5.0b14.  Had set up a dedicated disk with a TM share on it. Had one MAC backing up, and all was working well for the first few days. I then decided I would add another MAC to the same share...then everything stopped working.

 

When I now try to start a back up, I get the following error:

 

Something wrong with the volume's CNID DB, using temporary CNID DB instead.Check server messages for details. Switching to read-only mode.

 

And the back-up never starts.

 

I would like to remove the two sparsebundles from the share and start over, sticking with only one MAC back up to one share. I have tried to delete via Finder with no luck as well as at the command line (rm -rf) with no luck.

 

From the command line, here is a listing:

root@HAL_9000:/mnt/disk5/Jim_TM# ls -l

total 0

drwxrws--- 4 nobody users 248 Apr 30 09:25 Brenda\ Smith\342\200\231s\ iMac.sparsebundle/

drwxrws--- 4 nobody users 304 Apr 30 05:26 Jim\ Smith\342\200\231s\ iMac.sparsebundle/

root@HAL_9000:/mnt/disk5/Jim_TM#

 

 

In Finder, they show up as:

Brenda Smith's iMac.sparsebundle

Jim Smith’s iMac.sparsebundle

 

Thanks,

 

SH

[BetaQuasi]

I'd try turning off AFP, doing a clean reboot and then "rm -r Jim_TM/" from a SSH prompt.  If running the rm command as mentioned above doesn't let you remove the folders, then something still has a lock on them.  Maybe shutting down the Macs in question would work too, and then trying to remove the folders directly from the server console.

[dgaschk]

Remove the .Apple files. Enter "ls -l" to list them.

[ShangHangin]

Did it all on the console with the system off the network. All good, can start over.